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AI Wars: Behind the Scenes of My Latest Game

What if you could test your response to a disruptive innovation, like AI —before it hits your industry? The latest game I’m working on with Cranfield University is one that allows executive clients to test their methodologies for reacting to disruptive innovation in their sector. The Health Sector is the first sector that I am…
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AI – love it or hate it, it’s here to stay

It may come as a surprise that as a game designer, I actually enjoy using AI in my work. It hasn’t replaced my creativity – it has amplified my potential. AI has increased the speed with which I can iterate the design of certain things and enables me to be a better creative writer by…
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I Love Talking About Games

Cabaret of Ideas I recently presented at the Milton Keynes’ International Festival, Cabaret of Ideas with my fellow game designer and founder of Little Spark Games, Nicci – to share how games can benefit people of any age, in any group. The style of the day was described as ‘speed dating, but with ideas’. We…
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Top 5 Things Learned From My First Board Game

Race to Your Rocket is a game I’m co-creating with Little Spark Games for children aged 7–11, with one big goal: to encourage communication, build friendships, and spark meaningful connection. Designing for this age group is incredibly rewarding — and also full of surprises. Kids are honest, playful, and wildly creative. But to really make…
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What I Look For in My Work Computer

Choosing the Right Computer for Creative Grunt Work Computers evolve so quickly — and if you’re not careful, you suddenly find yourself clinging to a 15-year-old gaming laptop, politely waiting for every click to register and watching your rendering times creep up minute by painful minute. That was me. For far too long. Eventually, I…
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What I learned from designing my first game

My first creative passion was designing and editing music videos. It was explorative, challenging, and involved a lot of charity shopping for costumes, but who knew that it would lead me into building a multiplayer detective games with international appeal? After studying Multimedia and Videography at college, my love for animation slowly overtook my love…