My first role in the industry. The interview was a month before graduation, 2 months later the offer came in, and one month after that was my first day.

Even from the start they couldn’t decide how to classify me, so I got the title of Technical Designer and was assigned two line-managers, the lead designer and the lead programmer.

Turns out this was exactly where I most thrived: in the liminal spaces between creativity and brass tacks development.

With the team being so small, I got to work on a huge variety of different aspects of development, collaborating with every discipline:

• behaviour design

• gameplay programming

• puzzle design

• cine & animation implementation

• QTE

• pre-pro gameplay experimentation

Of course, I am a “scumbag traitor”, as they will lovingly remind me, but I visit Dlala as often as I can and have very close friends there. I’m lucky to have found them when I did (and I hope they feel vice versa!).