RECRUITMENT Ins and Outs: Industry hires and moves
DORSHA THOMPSON has joined the Dead Good team in the UK as a PR consultant, assisting on a variety of accounts, including GameMill and THQ Nordic. As well
as being a content creator in her own time, Dorsha brings a wealth of experience from her previous role as a PR executive in the events management industry.
For those interested in the head of casual mobile games role that was going at Kwalee, the position has been filled by one CALLUM GODFREY. Callum started his career
at Codemasters, working on the likes of Colin McRae Rally and Operation Flashpoint, so having David Darling as his ultimate boss again represents something of a homecoming.
Meanwhile, bequeathing his Kwalee swivel chair is MATT SUCKLEY, who has ended two and a half years in PR at the company and scooted down the M40 to permanently don a
VR headset at Farnborough’s nDreams as its corporate communications manager.
BECKY SLAYMAKER has joined mobile specialist Team Huuuge (nee Gamelion) as its chief people officer, moving on from two and a half years as HR director at Miniclip.
Prior to Miniclip, Becky was at WH Smith and Paddy Power
Two recent hires at Just Add Water include BEN HINCHLIFFE, who joins as lead designer having spent close to 13 years at Rockstar Games, where he picked up design credits on
the likes of GTAV and Red Dead Redemption 2.
Alongside Ben is NADINE RENDELL-GREEN, who comes into the team as a junior designer, having completed a degree in Games and Interactive Media Design. Nadine will
be looking to make a splash (sorry) as the studio looks to expand into its new Leeds HQ.
Staying in Leeds, XR Games has a bunch of new hires, six in fact. First we have SIMRAN WHITHAM, who is the new marketing executive. Simram previously worked at Milky Tea Studios where he was
head of player engagement.
After studying with Escape Studios and a short stint at Story Juice, MAXIM ISAKOV has also joined the ranks of Zombieland’s finest VR game maker as a junior 3D artist on an
unannounced project.
Joining Maxim in the art corner is MAX SPURLOCK, who joins XR Games as a senior technical environment artist. Prior to XR, Max was a senior environment artist
at Bulkhead Studios and spent three years at Cloud Imperium Games before that.
Aiming to keep things running smoothly at XR Games is new IT technician TOMMIE KATE, who is taking up their first position in the games industry having joined from a Leeds-
based company that makes and sells doors. One of which certainly opened up for Tommie (again, sorry).
game director.
Before joining SockMonkey Studio as its head of art, SARA CALZADA had an already established career working with such developers as Guildford's 22Cans, TreesPlease
Games and Netflix.
Having worked part-time as a UI artist while finishing a masters in games design, LAURINDA TANG has since taken up a full-time position at XR Games as a senior UI artist. Previously
Laurinda worked in a succession of gaming and other media organisations in China
Finally at XR we have JOSEPH COOK, who has embraced a junior programmer role after a short stint as a QA tester at Codemasters. Prior to that Joseph was
at the University of Derby where he studied programming.
Also busy recruiting have been SockMonkey Studios, which has welcomed a number of new hires across multiple disciplines, including ALEX HARKIN who joins the production
team from Merge Games as a producer.
DEWI ROBERTS joins SockMonkey as head of design from Cheshire’s TT Games where, since 2007, he helped put together countless LEGO games as lead designer and associate
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