An informal chat with an industry expert about their journey into, and through, the games industry.  

Steve Bromley led user research studies for many of PlayStation’s top European games including Horizon: Zero Dawn, SingStar and the PlayStation VR launch lineup. He continues to work with games and VR studios to improve the player experience of their games.  

For the last five years, Steve Bromley has run a games user research mentoring scheme, which has partnered over one hundred students with more than fifty industry professionals from top companies such as Sony, EA, Valve, Ubisoft, and Microsoft, and helped many people get their first job in games. He recently released a book, How To Be A Games User Researcher which covers many of the topics that mentees have asked as they start their games user research career.

An informal chat with an industry expert about their journey into, and through, the games industry.  

James Parker has worked in the games industry for over 20 years. He has been made redundant (and in one exciting turn of events, fired) from the pantheon of great British games developers, and has released over twenty games... most notably the PC port of movie tie-in uber-flop Catwoman, and a puzzle game based on Channel 4's Embarrassing Bodies. He currently runs boutique-Bristol-based games developer Ground Shatter, where he directs a nine-strong, hand-picked team of game developers making stylish, action-movie inspired, gaming nuggets. They just released Fights in Tight Spaces, a deck-building strategy game about smashing people's faces into things, and are currently developing RICO: London a game about kicking doors and shooting cockney gangsters.

Brought to you by Games Jobs Live (www.gamesjobs.live)

For anyone considering a future career in the UK's games industry.

Hearing from speakers at some of the UK’s most acclaimed studios, including; Creative Assembly (Total War, Alien Isolation), Ubisoft (Assassin's Creed), Tonic Games (Fall Guys), Sumo Digital (LittleBig Planet), Lucid Games (Need for Speed), Splash Damage (Gears of War), and Sumo Digital (Crackdown 3, Team Sonic Racing) as well as from amazingly supportive organisations BAFTA Guru and Tranzfuser. Each studio will tell you about their Industry Internships, Graduate Schemes and Traineeships, telling you what to prepare for and expect. 

This event is bought to you by Into Games (www.intogames.org), the UK’s non-profit skills and careers service for the games sector and Games Jobs Live (www.gamesjobs.live), and kindly sponsored by Core Games (www.coregames.com).