I recently went to the Eurogamer Expo to take part in the BAFTA Young Game Designer workshops. BAFTA YGD is a competition for 12-16 year olds who have the chance to submit their own game idea, or game prototype to a panel of judges and be in the running to winning a bafta, and have their game made.
These workshop hope to encourage young people to considering entering the competition by teaching about games design, platform, and games engines and having them pitch an idea to a panel of judges.
I had already taken part in a huge BAFTA YGD workshop in July, which took place in Hull. That workshop in particular saw about 300 children taking part. Luckily, the workshops at Eurogamer were slightly calmer! I did a few presentations about what game engines are good for new game developers and then helped various groups of young people with their ideas.
On my downtime, I got to see the expo and play upcoming games such as Devil May Cry, Tokyo Jungle and Wii U games (where I got filmed by Nintendo!)
These workshop hope to encourage young people to considering entering the competition by teaching about games design, platform, and games engines and having them pitch an idea to a panel of judges.
I had already taken part in a huge BAFTA YGD workshop in July, which took place in Hull. That workshop in particular saw about 300 children taking part. Luckily, the workshops at Eurogamer were slightly calmer! I did a few presentations about what game engines are good for new game developers and then helped various groups of young people with their ideas.
On my downtime, I got to see the expo and play upcoming games such as Devil May Cry, Tokyo Jungle and Wii U games (where I got filmed by Nintendo!)
