Game Lecture: Jade Pecorella

We are kicking off the Game Lecture Series for 2016 with Jade Pecorella talking about her experiences as a game designer in Malta. The lecture is on Tuesday 16th of February 2016 at 7:00 pm, and is held at the Institute of Digital Games.

The topic and summary of February's Game Lecture follows:

"Roadmap from fantasy to reality: The role of the designer in the game industry"

Jade Pecorella will give a background on her experience working in Malta in the video games industry. She has worked with people from Electronic Arts to Sony to Disney and much more. During the past 5 years she has worked on game genres from Free-to-Play online and mobile games to Massive Multiplayer Online games designing from desktop to mobile for a huge range of audience, as well as also mentioning her latest role on designing games for web based video slot games.

Jade describes her work experience as a game designer, adapting to the multiple responsibilities as well as describing what game design is and knowledge she has gained working in different environments such as start ups to established companies like Exient (Angry Bird’s Go).

She will also speak about the gaming culture then and now and the diversity and rapid movement and influence the game industry has taken moving forward in the past 5 years.