It’s hard to believe that July is coming to an end already! We hope you’ve had a fun-filled month and that you’ve recovered from the recent heatwave.
Maybe the cool content inside will help 🥁👇
Highlights⭐
🌍 Seamlessly Creating 3D Worlds with Anything World - The first of our Into Games Career Festival 2022 panels is now up on our YouTube with captions! If you missed out, make sure to check it out to learn all about the platform ‘Anything World’.
🧭 Navigating Neurodiversity in the Games Industry - To celebrate World Autism Acceptance Week, we were joined by Dominic Shaw from Ukie, Cai Jones from Cai Jones Audio and Into Games alumni, Georgie Christoforou. Catch up on this previous panel now on our YouTube!
🌊 Make sure to keep reading to see the incredible submissions for our most recent Design Workout 🧜♀️Underwater Kingdom 🧜♀️ in our ‘From the Community’ section!
Not only video games have come a long way, but also the cinematics that power these virtual worlds. Game cinematics both attract an audience and keep them hooked on gameplay.
David Pumpa, as a Lead Cinematics Animator, will join us in a talk revolving around game cinematics, how to land a job as a cinematic animator, the purpose of cinematics, and transitioning between gameplay and cinematics.
🎙️ GFD North 6-7th August, 9:00AM - 20:00PM BST, Contact Theater Space 1, Oxford Road, Manchester M15 6JA
GFD North is a game, film and design industry event to host presenters from all over the world.
For two days 16 presenters will give talks on everything from design for games, their personal processes they use for work and a behind-the-scenes look at the projects they have worked on the past few years plus advice for students breaking into the industry.
Manchester’s biggest games industry community nightlife event returns to once again take over Manchester with two whole floors of GAMING and video games for an unforgettable night.
15+ game studio headliners
Two floors of video games
Meet your favourite game developers and content creators
✨ Making 2D magic with Minute of Islands - How does an art-driven team create remarkable perspective effects in a gripping and emotional 2D puzzle game? Download the case study to find out more!
“A plethora of interesting perspectives emerged as we spoke about their road to the industry, their studios, their everydays and goals.”
☁️ A New Add-On for Working With Clouds in Blender- Boonar Studio has released AAA Clouds and Cloud Mixer, a new Blender add-on designed to greatly simplify the process of creating realistic clouds.
🎶 Game Dev Inspiration - Audio - Take a look at our game development inspiration thread dedicated to audio for your next source of inspiration, or even some handy assets to help out your game creation!
🎓 Advice For Getting Into The Games Industry As A Graduate - It’s graduate season! For all those who have recently graduated: congratulations!! 🥳 Take a look at this resource for some advice on the things you should prioritise to improve your chances of getting that industry role.
Design Workouts⭐
Last week, we saw the end of our most recent design workout:
🧜♀️Underwater Kingdom 🧜♀️
We saw so many people get involved and create some incredible pieces, make sure to keep reading to discover what they created in our ‘From the Community’ section!
If you missed out on our last workout, not to worry, we have another coming next week! Make sure tosign up to our Discord to take part!
Here's a hint for the next theme: 🎉 🎲
From The Community⭐
Soak in the amazing submissions to our most recent design workout theme:
✨ Alastair created 'Beneath the Waves'a beautiful track that uses "a combination of synth and orchestral sounds to drag the listener down from the shimmering surface to the depths of the sea".
