Renowned Game Designer, Brian Upton, will give a talk about how to pitch games. Having worked as senior game designer for Sony Playstation, Brian now manages his own consulting business and has also written books on game design including ‘The Aesthetic of Play’ (MIT Press 2015), a book about games design and meaning-making.
Brian Upton is a freelance game design consultant based in Los Angeles. At his company Game On The Rails he advises worldwide clients on pitching, prototyping, design, narrative, and production. He specializes in creative problem-solving, helping teams ship their games under tight time or budget pressure. For 14 years he worked as a senior game designer at Sony’s Santa Monica Studio where he collaborated with external teams on titles such as Fat Princess, Warhawk, Sorcery, Everybody Has Gone to the Rapture, Bound and Here They Lie. Prior to joining Sony, he was the creative director at Red Storm Entertainment where he pioneered the tactical shooter genre as the lead designer of Rainbow Six and Ghost Recon. He has served on the advisory boards of the game design programs at UC Santa Cruz, NYU, and University of Limerick. He is also the author of The Aesthetic of Play (MIT Press 2015), a book about game design and meaning-making.
Tickets for the half day Seminar are €10 and can be booked through EVENTBRITE. For any further details, please contact the Galway Film Centre on admin@galwayfilmcentre.ie or call 091 770748.