Public Speaking

Conference schedule poster with sessions on game development and Chinese language titles.

In 2018 I represented Freejam by presenting on stage, on the subjects of UGC and Lean methodolgy, at the Tencent Game Developers Conference in Shenzhen. The same presentation was given at EGX in Birmingham that year.

“Booty”

A wooden table with playing instructions written on yellow sticky notes at the top, and several white cards with colored dots (red, green, yellow, blue) arranged in groups below. There is also a black circular item and some white paper in the top right corner.

In 2012 I attended a game design workshop hosted by Alex Trowers at Animex Game in Middlesborough. In that workshop I, and a group we formed that day, created the simply tabletop card game “Booty - a game you will always treasure.” We were voted the best game of the day and my team kindly nominated for me to keep the game, and the chocolate buttons we had been awarded as a prize.

One of my team-mates, Michael Lojko, later made that game into a playable Android game which can be found at his website https://michaellojko.com/2013/03/java-android-booty/

Hobbies

A bowl of white rice, tofu with ground meat and chopped green onions, and a side of cucumber and bok choy on a decorative placemat.

Like most people I enjoy a variety of hobbies, including cooking, Sci-Fi, military history and board games.