Wednesday, December 09, 2020

STEM careers: How do I become a video game developer? | The STEM Project - Evening Standard

Jason Deans, Evening Standard inform, Nathan John took physics, further maths and computing at A-level, then studied for a Master of Engineering in Computer Science at Bristol University.  
 
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After university he went into the games industry, working as a programmer at several companies and setting up his own games studio.   
 
Nathan is currently in the middle of a four-year PhD course at the EPSRC Centre for Doctoral Training in Intelligent Games and Game Intelligence (IGGI), a collaboration between York, Queen Mary, Goldsmiths and Essex universities. He is researching using machine learning for testing and debugging game AI systems.