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Skills Week - London Games Festival

Monumental will be presenting a session on Thursday 25 October during the Game Production Day focusing on the skills used throughout the multiple stages of Massivly Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) Development .

Skills Week’ consists of 5 day-long seminars open to practitioners with experience of videogames and related industries, such as design, web work, animation, film and TV. It will run from the 22nd to the 26th of October as part of the London Games Festival.

Following last year’s successful ‘The Secrets of Games Production’ Skillset now present a larger and more comprehensive series of master classes and workshops. Aimed at upskilling the games workforce and enabling those interested in transferring from other sectors, Skills Week will support all people interested in finding work in videogames.

Location: Central st. martins (Map)

Production is the key to modern game design, as it can deliver vital optimisation in an environment with multi-million pound budgets and teams of 60 -120 developers.

Thursday at Central St. Martins will offer a glimpse into the work of game producers from all parts of the games industry.

  • 10:00 Modern Console Production Techniques - Sion Lenton, Blitz Games
  • 11:00 Break
  • 11:15 Producing Viva Pinata - Steve Brand, Producer, Rare
  • 12:15 LUNCH
  • 13:00 MMO’s are a service not a game - Alan O’Dea & Paul Mayze, Monumental Games
  • 14:00 Is Agile - The silver bullet ?
  • 15:00 Break
  • 15:15 What is an assitant producer - Toby Allen, Sumo
  • 16:30 Close

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