{"id":302,"date":"2021-10-04T10:40:47","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T09:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/?p=302"},"modified":"2021-11-09T09:44:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T09:44:22","slug":"getting-your-dream-job-in-the-gaming-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/10\/04\/getting-your-dream-job-in-the-gaming-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Talk and Q&amp;A with Mark Backler from Sketchbook Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Backler is the founder of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sketchbook.games\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"27\">Sketchbook Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its debut game,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/599610\/Lost_Words_Beyond_the_Page\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"28\">Lost Words: Beyond the Page<\/a>, is the winner of multiple awards and features a story written by renowned games writer\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rhiannapratchett.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"29\">Rhianna Pratchett<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The game ties the narrative into the gameplay in an unusual way \u2013 an\u00a0atmospheric narrative adventure, Lost Words: Beyond the Page is set between the pages of a diary and a fantasy story where you run on words and use them to interact with the world around you to solve puzzles.<\/p>\n<p>Mark\u2019s background is in games design and before he founded his own studio (Sketchbook Games) in 2016, he worked\u00a0at EA on Harry Potter\u00a0and the Order of the Phoenix, and at Lionhead Studios on the BAFTA award winning Fable 2.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>Mark is also the co-founder of Game Anglia, a conference to bring together game developers in the East of England and build a better game development community.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>For this year&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/ces\/empfest\/index.html\">Employability Festival<\/a> at Kent, Mark presented <b>Getting Your Dream Job in the Games Industry<\/b>, a live talk and Q&amp;A. Students were given the opportunity to ask questions about games development, free-lancing, digital story-telling, Mark\u2019s career path, or the Creative industries in general.<\/p>\n<p>Kent students can view the recorded event <a href=\"https:\/\/moodle.kent.ac.uk\/2021\/mod\/panopto\/view.php?id=341185\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Backler is the founder of\u00a0Sketchbook Games. Its debut game,\u00a0Lost Words: Beyond the Page, is the winner of multiple awards and features a story written &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/2021\/10\/04\/getting-your-dream-job-in-the-gaming-industry\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25727,"featured_media":304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25727"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302\/revisions\/322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/institute-cultural-creative-industries-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}