#039 GAD BA2 - P1: Sean Miller

Today we had another guest speaker come in to talk to us, Sean Miller. He works for Sumo Digital, an independent developer based in Sheffield but with a studio in the U.S. Sumo Digital mainly develops games from the racing genera such as F1 2009, Split/Second Velocity and Race Driver 2006 but they do develop games from other genera's such as adventure and action including the following:

• Dead Space Ignition
• Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - TARDIS
• Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - Blood of the Cybermen
• Doctor Who: The Adventure Games - City of the Daleks
• Disney's A Christmas Carol
• Super Rub a Dub
• Broken Sword 4 - The Angel of Death
• Go! Sudoku
• England International Football

He talked about what Sumo Digital did in the industry as well as a basic outline of the game industry itself. Similar to what Drew Castalia said to us in his lecture, Sean said that it is important to put yourself out there along with your work on the internet (blogger, linkedin, tumblr etc...) to display your abilities as much as possible.  Sean also mentioned that gaming companies tend to like to work on franchise games that already have a fan base as it is a fairly high risk that new ideas/concepts won't generate enough interest in the gaming community.