Tom Battey

Narrative designer and games scholar. Games Designer in Residence at Sheffield Hallam University. He/him.

[Lex Robots @lexicobob]

We're looking for senior programmers in UI/UX and game systems. It would be fabulous to see some women, non-binary folks or otherwise diverse candidates. If you've been around a while, apply! Even if you don't think you quite fit all the boxes! https://t.co/0F4UzSZg9S

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

Come and work with me! Sheffield Hallam University are looking to hire a Lecturer in Game Art and Game Design & Development teach on our Games courses.

It's an 18 month fixed term position, details in the link:
https://t.co/PT9CZ48s2C

[Inflection Award @inflectionaward]

🚨 Fully funded opportunity for PhD Students! 🚨

We are selecting the 30 best PhD students in the world! If you think you could be one of them, apply for the Inflection Award for a chance to win a trip to Paris, connect with global experts, and showcase your groundbreaking work!

[Andrew Walsh @englishscribe]

OPPORTUNITIES

Lead Narrative Designer - Eidos Montreal

https://t.co/b41swWijmb

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[Andrew Walsh @englishscribe]

OPPORTUNITY - Game Writer - Berlin (relocation available)

Unaffiliated, reposts welcome

https://t.co/lOA7JEknzz

[Andrew Walsh @englishscribe]

OPPORTUNITY - Junior Narrative Designer - Dune Awakening - Funcom

Not affiliated, reposts welcome!

https://t.co/3vAmcu7hiI

[Game Republic is on Bluesky @gamerepublic]

The Graduate bootcamp to get you work ready for a career in the games industry starts in October - find out more here https://t.co/4YXcG1W4KL #graduates #gamedev @YNYCombined #skillsforlife

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

Made a little game for #GMTK2024 earlier in the week. Be an atom! Be an amoeba! Be a fish! Be other things, increasing steadily in scale!

Check it out if you like:
https://t.co/hB4nW6FBj8

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@dr_d_king This is very exciting, what a cool thing to have worked on!

[Danilo Giglitto @danilo_gig]

🎉 Excited to announce that our new book "Advanced Research and Design Tools for Architectural Heritage: Unforeseen Paths" is now available for pre-order on Routledge! Release on July 31, 2024. 📚 #ArchitecturalHeritage

Use the code in the flyer for a 20% discount.

@cbmpiccoli

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@Goldblaze_SK Absolutely! Drop me a DM on here if you do have something you’d like to run by me.

[Chris Wade 🌭🐸 @chriswade__]

🚨Job Alert🚨
I'm hiring a contract role for a 3D artist to work on environments, props, and characters for Big Hops. Can you match our style?
https://t.co/NAOtSbwKWG

Would super appreciate if you could RT and pass this along to your artist friends!

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@Gweivyth @eric_lang Okay, sweet - well the experience goes the other way too, so all good!

Good luck with the kickstarter.

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@Gweivyth @eric_lang There’s a ton you can learn from physical game design that’s applicable to digital games too - it’s one of the key ways we introduce students to design principles!

So I absolutely would not worry if you’ve been working on physical games and want to develop digital ones.

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@Gweivyth @eric_lang Oh boy, that’s some truly awful advice.

Working on other people’s games can be one of the best ways to learn and practice design.

It also pushes collaboration and compromise, two super important design skills.

‘Having a sick idea’ is maybe ~5% of a designer’s role. Or less.

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

Playing the Demonschool demo, and dang. The combat is super satisfying. It’s like what if Persona had Into The Breach battles. Good as heck.

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@Goldblaze_SK Yeah I think I can comfortably never play Ubisoft games now. Same with EA, same with Activison…I’m honestly not playing much from any big western publishers any more because none of it really appeals to me.

Which is fine because there a 5 billion other games I can play instead!

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

So we’re at the point where a remake of a PS2 game now apparently requires a 6 year development cycle (Prince of Persia for context).

The AAA games industry is probably done, right? Is it time to try something else yet?

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@LazyTeaStudios Also the people making games for passion also deserve to make a profit, and the market is making that a pretty bleak prospect for lots and lots of people.

[Tom Battey @tombattey]

@LazyTeaStudios This is true, the quality of basically all indie games now is nuts - the problem is there are simply so many of them, and not enough time.

I think people could stop making games forever right now, and I would still have enough great indie games to last me until I die.