Posts Tagged ‘games industry’

The seventh Women In Games invites technical and cultural business women to hear from top industry speakers around themes that include our preception of what constitutes ‘entertainment’, the affect of the recession, and the importance of gender. (more…)

We are super-pleased to announce the first of this year’s series of Leeds Girl Geek Dinners, starting on Thursday 11th February, hosted at Leeds’ hottest new waterfront hotel, the City Inn, on Granary Wharf in Holbeck Urban Village.

It will see the first in a series of collaborations between Girl Geek Dinners Scotland, Leeds Girl Geeks and supported by UKRC. Speakers for the evening will be Shanna Tellerman, Founder and CEO of Sim Ops Studios, and Kaye Elling, who has over 12 years of expertise in the games industry. The evening will be presented by Infinitus’ Nicole Mathison, nti’s Leia Bassett and Carbon Imagineering’s Imran Ali. (more…)

On Wednesday 18th November from 6pm, Geekup Leeds will be gathering web designers, web developers, and other tech-minded people, to share their knowledge and network amongst the web and technology industries finest. (more…)

On Wednesday 28 October, Charles Cecil will attend the London Games Festival as the keynote speaker at GameHorizon’s Best of British conference. Charles Cecil is the man behind the most successful console-based adventure franchise of all time, Broken Sword. Codeworks caught up with him ahead of the event to interview him about the current British games industry. (more…)

Calling all writers in Yorkshire & Humber! Would you like to learn more about the process of scripting for games from industry experts? Do you already write for TV, film or theatre - or are you a new writer who wants to find out about working in one of the fastest growing digital industries in the UK?

Game Republic in association with BAFTA present:

Writing For Games Tuesday 8th September, 6pm

3 Albion Place, Leeds LS1 6JL (more…)