Kian Jackson Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Carlisle, England, United Kingdom

In 2021 I began working at Poly Fruit Studios LTD. I was a game designer in charge of creating concepts for hypercasual mobile games and rapid prototyping and development. I had weekly meetings with my supervisor to update on progress of the current prototype, talk about issues I had ran into and set some new tasks for the week, as well as daily meeting.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

During my final year of university I was a lead designer in the collaborative games development module. The role included the duties of coordinating communications between different teams such as art and tech. I was also heavily involved in Facilitating meetings for the team leads and delegating tasks for the junior designers to do, alongside giving them.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

Participated in Jamfuzer as part of a 5-person team to create Froggy Friday, a Unity based dating game. As Lead Designer I wrote the scripts for each level, created the opening video and worked closely with the artists to create the characters and their personalities. The game came 2nd overall and is available to play via the link below.

Stoke-on-Trent, England, United Kingdom

As a junior designer I created blocked out concepts for the level of our game, I also created UI features and elements. I was also tasked with creating the dialogue mechanic so that the player could interact with the NPC(s) placed around the map.

Bsc (Hons) Computer Games Design, Games Design, 2:1

Extended Diploma, It (Qcf), Triple Distinction* Distinction* Distinction