Yorkshire Games Festival took over the Broadway shopping centre with exciting gameplay and activities for the whole family, including:
- Beta-test new projects from Northern developers and experience brand new games made on your doorstep
- Work as a team to try to crack the code with frantic dashing and button bashing in Codex Bash
- Pick up a pencil and start drawing pixels in our Paper Play character creation activity
- Sit back and relax or challenge your friends and family with some classic couch co-op favourites
WITH THANKS TO
Pudsey Computers / Bearmetal Gaming
Game Talks is our unique programme of talks and events featuring industry guests.
Game Talks is for industry professionals, recent graduates and those studying games-related subjects—improve your knowledge and employability, be inspired and network.
Thursday 7 March 2024
Jubilee Centre:
10.00–10.15
Welcome from Alex Earle
10.15–11.05
Rhianne Murphy, Narrative Designer – Square Enix
From Education to AAA: A Roadmap into Games
11.10–12.00
Adrienne Law, Senior Writer – Larian Studios
Writing with Character: Lenses for Crafting Compelling NPCs
12.00–13.30
Lunch
13.30–14.20
Sean Gorman, Lead Level Designer – VOID Interactive
Level Up Your Level Design
14.25–15.15
Henry Hoffman, Founder – Newfangled Games
Paper Prototyping: Mechanic-Driven Design in Paper Trail
15.15–15.25
Break
15.25–16.15
Sophie Knowles, Lead Artist – Sad Owl Studios
Photos, Plants and Cats: Behind the Art of Viewfinder
16.20–17.05
Peter Idziaszczyk, Technical Animator – Radical Forge
Video Games Animation 101: Southfield Edition
17.05–18.00
Break
18.00–19.00
Samantha Béart, Actor – Baldur's Gate 3, The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
Q&A session
De Lacy Centre:
11.10–13.10
A Step into the World of Concept Art
with Mel Cummings and Jensen Chung, Freelance Concept Artists
13.30–15.00
Shapes in Character Design
with Lucy Kyriakidou, Art Director and Character Designer
15.15–16.45
How to Get Entry Level Roles in the Games Industry + Portfolio Review
with Rosey Asquith, Playground Games
Saturday 9 March 2024
For one night only Yorkshire Games Festival took over the Alhambra Studio for an adults-only gaming event.
Attendees could grab a drink, bring some pals and play a massive range of board games, and card games and explore all things analogue with the team from Dungeons & Flagons. The D&F team was on hand to make games recommendations, help with rules and will be running taster sessions of Tabletop RPGs such as Dungeons and Dragons.
You could also experience Big Screen Gaming with exciting, weird, and wonderful multiplayer games on offer including Crawl, Heave Ho, Ultimate Chicken Horse and more.
