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Mag Interactive’s Violetta Palinder on how to get a job as a games artist Interview Feb 11th, 2020

Mag Interactive’s Violetta Palinder on how to get a job as a games artist

"I was always attracted to character design, environments and animation"

Kwalee head of publishing Simon Prytherch on 30 years in the games industry Interview Feb 5th, 2020

Kwalee head of publishing Simon Prytherch on 30 years in the games industry

"With hypercasual it's raw, you can’t hide behind amazing graphics or big names"

Jobs In Games: Square Enix's Lucy Shears on how to get a job as a market research analyst Interview Jan 28th, 2020

Jobs In Games: Square Enix's Lucy Shears on how to get a job as a market research analyst

"It’s awesome to be able to say I work for Square Enix"

as IronSource's Sandra Schneider on using ads to improve retention and monetisation Interview Dec 12th, 2019

IronSource's Sandra Schneider on using ads to improve retention and monetisation

"Whenever I recruit someone today, the first thing I do is give them a long list of top games to play"

A career as long as the games industry: Team 17's Max Everingham Interview Nov 26th, 2019

A career as long as the games industry: Team 17's Max Everingham

All about the people

Kiki Olofsson on building diversity and great art at Candy Crush Saga dev King Interview Nov 13th, 2019

Kiki Olofsson on building diversity and great art at Candy Crush Saga dev King

Dealing with the sweet and the sour

Outplay's Emma Turner on the importance of HR for great company culture Interview Oct 29th, 2019

Outplay's Emma Turner on the importance of HR for great company culture

Outplay HR head Emma Turner shares details of how she obtained her role

How Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin got the gig Interview Oct 23rd, 2019

How Hollow Knight composer Christopher Larkin got the gig

From film to games

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot Interview Oct 8th, 2019

Technical artist Arran Langmead on being offered a role at Epic Games on the spot

"My first job in the industry was a hodgepodge of lecturing on games art, indie development and contract work"

Zynga senior director of product Heather Houston on 'treating your career as a product' Interview Sep 11th, 2019

Zynga senior director of product Heather Houston on 'treating your career as a product'

Making sense of an incredibly dynamic industry

"Game design isn’t all about grand ideas and blue-sky visions of exciting new games" Interview Sep 3rd, 2019

"Game design isn’t all about grand ideas and blue-sky visions of exciting new games"

“The devil is in the detail”

Jobs in Games: Futureplay's Chris Wilson on going from food apps to marketing manager Interview Aug 6th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Futureplay's Chris Wilson on going from food apps to marketing manager

"Though food tech and gaming are very different industries on the face of it, there are many similarities in the foundations of app marketing"

Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist Interview Jul 23rd, 2019

Jobs in Games: Big Pixel Studios' Lorchan Trapp on how to be an environment artist

"People seem to assume there's a hidden 'make art button' in the software we use and don't understand that it actually takes a lot of time and skill to develop good art"

Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King Interview Jul 16th, 2019

Jobs in Games: Level designer Jay Foreman on going from Kent Police force to making games at King

"Suddenly I’d gone from policing the streets of Kent to policing the mean streets of Stormwind as a game master for Blizzard"

Jobs in Games: East Side Games' Elin Jonsson on the misconceptions of being a games producer Interview Jul 9th, 2019

Jobs in Games: East Side Games' Elin Jonsson on the misconceptions of being a games producer

"I know how incredibly hard it is to run a studio, and I don’t take my current job for granted"

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