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Develop : Star ‘Mobile Game of the Year’

What an honour it was for Old School RuneScape to pick up another prestigious award! This time it was the ‘Mobile Game of the Year’ at the Develop : Star Awards. Admittedly, I was a little frustrated I had the…
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BAFTA ‘EE Mobile Game Of The Year’ (VOTED FOR BY THE PUBLIC) – Old School RuneScape

Firstly, I have to apologise to anyone who may have spoken to me in the 2-3 hours after that got announced … Stunned. Chuffed. Proud. Speechless. Literally: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJR6H_lJll8 Phil accepted it (as shocked and stunned as all of us, but…
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Old School RuneScape is LIVE on Mobile Platforms!

So much work has gone into this from the team and we finally reached the day we threw it out there for everyone to properly enjoy (cross platform on PC / Android / Apple). Huge gratz to everyone I had…
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GI Biz 100, Rezzed, Animex, Uni Profile and other stuff!

It’s been a while since I’ve found a little time to sit down and blog stuff! Between now and the last time a lot has happened. The first was having the honour of being included in the GI.Biz 100 Future…
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BAFTA’s, Rezzed / UKIE Talk & Macmillan Academy Alumni Profile

It’s been a while since I’ve done a post! I’ve been trying to get involved in STEM as well! I’ve got a couple of personal things going on that has my attention which is almost coming to head! Good Things….
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Teesside University Careers Fair & “The Game Making Game” talk

As usual, I was asked to represent Jagex at the Teesside University careers fair. I always love doing this event, as it was the first place that I met Peter Lovell (our current Talent Recruitment Director) and began my road…
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UKIE Student Conference North (The Game Making Game)

On Wednesday I was given the opportunity to deliver my “The Game Making Game : For Graduating Game Makers” talk to students at Staffordshire University which I was more than happy to do. As always, I was massively anxious and…
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Macmillan Academy Guest of Honor @ Annual Awards Evening

Well, this was definitely a first for me… but definitely a first that I loved doing! After my engagement with my old college via the stem ambassador program, I was approached to return to Macmillan Academy as one of their…
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Stem / VGA Ambassador Workshops @ Macmillan Academy

I’ve been so excited about going back to my old college to do two talks to Sixth form students about the games industry, careers and education. It was made possible through the Stem / Video Game Ambassador program. The college…
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BAFTA YGD Judging

It was such an honour to be asked to do some judging for the BAFTA Young Game Designers award. I was really scared about doing the actual judging… but there were a couple of BAFTA crew also representing in the…
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