After studying computer science at Sheffield Hallam university, Thomas Crofts knew he wanted to work in games, but not precisely how. He ended up doing a Master's degree in video game animation ("[It] seemed like the fun one," he says), which helped when he and some friends entered the Dare to be Digital contest in 2010.
Crofts, with three others from Sheffield Hallam, made a game for the competition in two months. Called Grr! it was, "A family friendly RTS like a simple Dota. We'd spent a lot of time integrating the Wiimote." Grr! missed out on the main prize, but won the Adult Swim award ("which as the animator of the team, I was quite chuffed with") for innovation and creativity; and Crofts and his team featured in the Channel 4 documentary on that year's event.
After leaving university, and honing his skills on a fan project Duke Nukem remake and by making entries for the 11 Second Club competition - where each month animators are challenged to provide an animation to match an 11 second audio clip - he landed his first job with TT Games...making a TV show.
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BITING BACK
The tooth is out there in adventure TEETH OF GLASS
SMOKE ALARM
THE INVISIBLE SMOKE FACTORY is back in a Flash
MECH ME OVER
Move over Mario, here's mech-based platforming in ARMORED SHELL NIGHTJAR
"I like Pillars of Eternity better than Baldur's Gate III"
PILLARS OF ETERNITY deserves a bigger space in the CRPG pantheon
"A harrowing dark fantasy about hapless, bright-eyed children"
Spelunking into hell with MADE IN ABYSS: BINARY STAR FALLING INTO DARKNESS
THE IMMORTAL LOCK
A massive, meaty game in a single horrific Quake map.
NEW MANOEUVRES
Building a dedicated sim racing space in an average family house
OVERWATCH 2
Save me space girl.
REET GOOD TIME
THANK GOODNESS YOU'RE HERE is a riotous recreation of Yorkshire
THE PLUCKY SQUIRE
How many games let you make friends with a MtG card?