Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms - Bolton Students

BitComposer sent out a new press release with information about a few lucky students who will be helping to make Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms. Here are the details.

Bolton Students Learn to Slay Dragons!

Final year students on the Game Design course at the University of Bolton already learn to use cutting-edge game development tools – but now they also learn how to slay dragons.

Thanks to a special arrangement with game industry consultancy International Hobo, games developer Games Farm, and games publisher bitComposer, third year students at the University of Bolton will get six weeks of work experience working on a forthcoming computer role-playing game entitled Shadows: Heretic Kingdoms, which will be published on the hugely popular PC platform Steam later this year. Students will work directly on the project, a game of dark fantasy featuring magic, undead monsters, and devastating dragons, and will learn about industry-standard Quality Assurance procedures, iterative game design practices, and practical narrative design techniques for videogames.

University of Bolton lecturer and researcher Dr. Chris Bateman, who also founded the International Hobo consultancy, is enthusiastic about what this opportunity means for both the students and the companies involved. Chris said: “The Games courses here at Bolton already provide an excellent balance of practical and theoretical skills, geared towards the commercial videogames industry. Allowing the students to work on actual game projects not only means they graduate with published game credits – invaluable in the eyes of employers – but it ensures that the games being developed will be of a superior quality.”

Daniel Krauss of the publisher bitComposer was also excited about the benefits of the University’s work experience programme: “The British game development scene has been an inspiration to the world for its creative inventiveness and amazing game series like Tomb Raider and Grand Theft Auto, which I have been playing and enjoying ever since those franchises started. We're very pleased to have the talented game design students at University of Bolton working with us on this title.”