A week or so ago my dance teacher friend Sami asked if I wanted to help her out on a community project that she runs every year called the Heart of Gissing Community Theatre Project. She gets kids from the local community to spend a week rehearsing for a play. This time around she was […]
Read the full article Sound of Music Auditions The 1079design website is finally finished and I’m really proud of it. Most of the work had been done by last Friday in terms of the main code and the copywriting. I then spent this week tidying up the gallery page, adding some rotating banners and finishing off the filler text. As well as making […]
Read the full article 1079design Website – Update 27/05/2015
Dave signed off on the wireframes so I’ve been working on some concepts and ideas for the layout. I based most of the ideas on the logo that he uses – it’s good for brand recognition in my opinion. I came up with three in the end, and we settled on a combination of the […]
Read the full article 1079design Website – Update 20/10/2015
So I’m sat in Waterstones with a huge coffee and a slice of cake consoling myself after the scariest interview I’ve had so far. The job sounded good when it was described to me, but when I got there it turns out they were looking for someone with a completely different skill set. That part […]
Read the full article Ups and Downs
My friend Dave has asked me to make him a website! I’m really excited because it’s the first time I’ve had a client for a long while and a paying one too ;-). Dave has his own business making graphics for people – mostly beer labels and fliers for local businesses. He had the ability […]
Read the full article 1079design Website So I’ve just heard back about the interview I went to on Thursday and I didn’t get the role. It was another job that I knew I could do but in the end, they wanted someone with more experience. I’m not sure if that’s the actual reason, or if I just didn’t get across that […]
Read the full article Another Rejection Well, the time has come. It’s the end of an era – today was my last day at Jagex! I’ve been there so long it’s going to be very strange not being in the games industry. Tomorrow I move to Norwich and there are no studios there as far as I know. I’m both excited […]
Read the full article The Big Move So, today was my first job interview this year. The only interviews I’ve had have been at Jagex and one other company. So given that I’d only experienced two kinds of interview, I wasn’t sure what to expect. I certainly wasn’t expecting to have an interview in a cafe. The SessionCam office apparently only had […]
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So it’s times like this where I really enjoy my job. I got to spend 24 hours gaming and taking part in silly activities. My gosh it was so much fun! The SpecialEffect charity were running their GameBlast 2015 event and Jagex were running the live stream for part of the event. Lots of other […]
Read the full article GamesBlast Live Stream Handed in my notice earlier today. I officially have two more months to work then, if I’ve not found something new, I’m jobless. I am absolutely crapping myself. For some context, I’m not randomly leaving the job and I’m not just making a snap decision. I’ve been thinking about this for a while, and I’ve […]
Read the full article Holy Cow, Batman