Matthew Baxter

Past

Game Designer at Playgen
Tester at Testology Ltd
Game Designer at Playgen

Focus Tester at THQ Wireless
Game Tester at Electronic Arts
Beta Tester at Lionhead Studios
Game Tester at Sports Interactive

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Education

London South Bank University

Connections

22 connections

Industry

Computer Games

Websites

My Portfolio

Matthew Baxter’s Summary

I am a young, but experienced designer from the UK.

I have had previous experience as a game designer at a company called Playgen and at university. I have therefore spent a large amount of time collaborating with others to design games. At Playgen I created and maintained documentation not just for Playgen employees but for scientists, project investors and off-site contractors. I also liaised with these people and companies to resolve problems and plan for the future of the products we were making together. At university I have also worked on many games and continue to change them based on users play testing my work.

My 3rd year project will feature professional actors in a Source engine (Half-Life 2) mod. I have also been involved in writing and managing help text, educational information text and narrative scripts on games at Playgen.

I have previous experience working as a tester on Burnout Revenge and Burnout Legends at Criterion (Electronic Arts). I have also been a tester at THQ, Lionhead and Sports Interactive (Sega).

Matthew Baxter’s Specialties:

UnrealEd (Unreal Engine 2 and 3), Hammer (Source SDK), SG Creator, Torque Game Builder, Virtools, Word, Excel, TestTrack Pro, DevTrack, Photoshop and Fireworks. Basic Japanese.

Matthew Baxter’s Experience

Game Designer

Playgen

(Computer Games industry)

September 2008 — March 2009 (7 months)

Worked on a few interesting games.
Tester

Testology Ltd

(Computer Games industry)

July 2008 — August 2008 (2 months)

Worked at Media Molecule on LittleBigPlanet. Provided bug testing and gameplay analysis.
Game Designer

Playgen

(Computer Games industry)

May 2007 — January 2008 (9 months)

Serious games company. Worked there full-time during Summer 2007, then part-time to January 2008.
Focus Tester

THQ Wireless

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; THQI; Computer Games industry)

March 2007 — March 2007 (1 month)

Played and reviewed mobile games
Game Tester

Electronic Arts

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; ERTS; Computer Games industry)

May 2005 — August 2005 (4 months)

Worked at EA Criterion on Burnout Revenge as a software tester.
Beta Tester

Lionhead Studios

(Computer Games industry)

February 2005 — March 2005 (2 months)

Beta tested 'The Movies' and Fable on PC.
Game Tester

Sports Interactive

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Games industry)

August 2004 — December 2004 (5 months)

Worked at Sports Interactive on the first Football Manager game as a tester.