Visit to Leeds

28th October I drove down to Leeds with my dad because we heard of a computer games fare which will be moving to London in the next couple of days, it was called EuroGamer and it was held and sponsored by businesses and partnerships from people both in the industry and retailer outlets from around the country, they also had a careers fare which had a lot of people from the industry there, both companies and local universities to give help and answer question of how to get into the industry.

This was their second year holding the event where they show cased this year’s latest innovative games from all major computer games producers with a special guest from NVIDIA on their 3d gaming spectacles.

They had the likes of PS3 Xbox 360, Wii, and the latest in PC gaming and much more as each company let the public get their hands on and test the latest games in development both recently released such as “Borderlands” to the new Wii game “Fairy tale adventures”. This allowed people to decide weather they wanted to purchase these new releases or weather they would stick with a different new release or settle with nothing new at all.

It felt like a lot of people had gone here for a cheap day out to play a lot of good games with the masses of people all queuing up for their chance to have a bash at them while they sat there staring at the computer screens with a glazed look over their faces transfixed to what they were playing.

The careers fare was the main reason I went to the fare to help give me an insight into the career path I wanted to pursue and also what other universities there were out there to offer me the education I wanted and future career with as many future possibilities as I can get.

At the careers fare they had:
Game republic
Leeds Metropolitan university
Team 17
Ubisoft
University of Bradford
University of Huddersfield

I found that they were incredibly helpful and kind and they all felt convincing when they spoke as opposed to when we visited Swansea university and it felt like the person speaking to us wasn’t at all bothered weather we joined onto the course or not, this has helped regain my faith in the industry as some people are bothered about new people getting a foot hold.