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Joe Birkbeck

E-mail: joebirkbeck@gmail.com

Manchester, England, UK

Overview

 

As I have secured my MA Games Development degree I am hoping to pursue a career in all things to do with digital media. I have an educational background with many areas of design, as well as work experience within the industry. My area of expertise is creating art assets, level design, environment art and quality assurance.

Skills

 

Techniques:

 

3D Modelling - Low to Mid Poly

Unwrapping

Creating Prop Assets

2D Texture Creation

Physically Based Rendering (PBR) 

Level Design

Game Design Document creation

Basic Javascript

Basic C++

 

 

Software:

 

Maya

Unreal Engine 4

UDK

Unity

Photoshop

Illustrator

Crazybump

Languages

 

HTML

C++

Javascript

C#

 

Skills

 

Unity

UE4

Visual Studio

Photoshop

Illustrator

2010 - present

2010 - present

Work Experience​​
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TT Fusion – QA Tester
2017 - 2018
            Employed as a QA Tester, contributing to games under NDA, as well as being credited on LEGO® Worlds and LEGO Marvel Superheroes 2

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Studio One – Indie game development team
            Working in a small team to develop games for multiple platforms, primarily the mobile market but also with Virtual Reality.

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PigDog – Dare to Be Digital 2014/2015 team
            Worked in a small team of five to come up with a game concept and apply for dare to be digital 2014 and 2015.

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360 Studios – Voluntary QA
            Worked with the QA team to find bugs and write reports on the game MMA Federation ™.

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D&AW – Graphic Design
2009 – 2012
            Learning about the Graphic Design Industry, developing new skills and learning to work in an office environment.

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Turing Tap – Chef
2016
            Worked as a chef in a busy student pub kitchen for 9 months working in a small to deliver quality food at a fast rate.

Education

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University of Bolton
MA Games Development
Merit
2016 - 2017

 

University of Bolton                                                               
BSc (Hons) in Games Design
First-class honours                                                     
2013 – 2016                                                               
            Advanced Level Design                                  
            Intermediate Game Scripting                        
            Intermediate 3D for Games               
            Game Narrative                                             
            Sound For Games                                          
            Game Mechanics and Metrics

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