CAREERS WASD KEYS INTO
Essentially a spiritual successor to Rezzed, the debut of WASD as part of spring’s London Games Fest was considered something of a triumph - so much so that an inaugural careers- focused spin-off event will be a feature of the coming autumn. Richie Shoemaker spoke to Roucan founder David Lilley about what we can expect
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wo events that I regret missing this year were the Women in Games Awards back in March and Roucan’s inaugural WASD event a month
later. The first was unavoidable (suspected covid) and the second I could quite easily have attended, since it fell kindly just after a deadline - a rare occurrence, as you can imagine. I’m happy to report that unless the mortal threat of covid rears its ugly head again, there’ll be no tardiness on my part when WASD Careers comes to the Farnborough International Exhibition & Conference Centre for November 17-18. Despite living there during my teens and not having
any desire to return, Farnborough is, as Roucan’s David Lilley points out, a perfect location from which to host a live event to promote the games industry to those pondering their careers. First and foremost it enjoys a central location relative to south and central England and has excellent travel links to the west and north, not least for fleets of coaches looking to dock en masse from colleges and universities across the country. For students unable to afford trains in and out of London, it’s a big deal. “We’ve done events in Excel, which is terrible for
travel,” says Lilley. “We’ve done events at Tobacco Dock, even worse. In Farnborough there’s no traffic apart from coaches, and so it’s just so much easier to do. Plus Farnborough is new and it’s a bloody amazing venue.” Famous of course for the Air Show to which Boris Johnson famously flew to escape the recent record- breaking heatwave. “It’s a really, really brilliant venue.”
THE PRICE IS RIGHT As well as being a relatively bargain bin destination, Lilley is ensuring WASD Careers will be cheap to enter. At the moment tickets start at £7.50, with a discount for group bookings. The price will inevitably creep up over the summer, but not to any eye watering amount. The aim is to give schools and colleges the opportunity to make a late booking when September comes around - assuming their local coach operators still have the capacity to get them to Farnborough, of course. “The spine of the show will be the units, which we’re
very famous for making, that we will sell to schools and colleges, but at an extremely reasonable price. It will look really professional.” Lilley is insistent that WASD Careers will be a showcase for talent equal to how the
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David Lilley, founder Roucan
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