NUA Lecture - Robin Silcock

Robin Silcock has worked in a variety of roles. Currently she is working with Norwich Indie Game Developers as well as arranging the Norwich Games Festival. In the past, she has worked at Ukie (The Association for UK Interactive Entertainment) as well as studied at Norwich University of the Arts. She has come today to give advice on the industry as well as making contact with others in it.

Firstly, she talked about what you should consider when looking at a company:

• Company Size - Larger companies may have more specialised roles depending on the game type
• Company Culture - The specific job roles as well as the size of the project they're working on.

She went on to suggest taking part in Game Jams, where a team of people work in a short amount of time to produce a game.

When contacting a person, she suggested to keep in mind the following points:

• Use twitter as an in-road for more formal communication
• Keep your emails short and make sure to ask a question (try to keep to around 3 sentences)
• Minimum 24 hours to get back to someone, but make sure to at least get back to them

When creating business cards, Robin suggested to use Solopress as you will get much better quality business cards than from places like VistaPrint.

Finally, she said to get involved:

• Attend NIGD meet-ups.
• Norwich gaming festival happening in April - Norwichgamingfestival.com
• Hot source.
• UEA concrete magazine.
• Go to as many conferences as possible.

Harvard Reference: Silcock, R. (2015) NUA Lecture 29 January 2015