GOALS

I had a review last Monday to talk over my progression and development as a GAMES practitioner. It went well, made me reflect about the games industry as it is today and how difficult and frustrating it is to “get your foot in door” so to speak. I have set myself some essential goals to achieve next term and over the summer months…

1. Contextualize MORE! Dissect, analyse and discuss what I’m playing, reading or watching, as for purposes of study.

2. Contextualisation leads to Specialisation! Start to narrow down my areas of interest with-in a production team, make a final choice about what role I want to Specialise in.

3. On-line portfolio! At the moment I have THIS blog (the one you’re reading right now) and I feel it suits my needs and outputs… for the time being. Eventually I want to have my own dedicated address and web space, but I feel that’s all irrelevant if I don’t have a decent amount of solid work ready to showcase. I’m working on that by the way…

4. Research Project, final year. As I understand it this assignment requires me to investigate and research an area relating to digital entertainment, games. From there I devise a path of enquiry that spawns five small projects relating to that question; from these projects I will hopefully determine an answer. David Downes (the D man) is going to outline this in an upcoming lecture; perhaps the brief will become clearer then...

5. Live Client Project, final year. This venture is set between me and an actual client who requires some… stuff done... it is down to myself to find a client and secure a brief with them. I understand that the client can also be a competition.

6. Work Experience. Since March I’ve been trying to get ANY work experience possible, but so far I’ve had a no response at all or a polite ‘not interested’ (I won’t mention names). I’m finding this aspect pretty tasking… trying to get myself and how “worth while” I am across to whatever company I'm making contact with. This is something else I’m working on.

* Note to self – plenty to be getting on with…