Zuby Ahmed, Associate Professor in Games Design and Enterprise and Employability, will host a conversation with School of English alumnus Corey Brotherson about his remarkable career in the video games industry.

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We’ll find out more about Corey’s work on the ground-breaking Windrush Tales – the first game to bring the experiences of the Windrush migrants to a new generation. There will also be an opportunity for questions from the audience.

This event is being hosted by the Faculty of Arts, Design and Media, and is open to all BCU students and staff.

Corey Brotherson is an award-winning writer, editor and creative consultant who has worked in the video games industry since 2001 as a journalist, critic and content producer for over a dozen companies, including Sony PlayStation, Yahoo! and the Eurogamer Network.

He’s the co-writer of the world’s first Windrush video game – Windrush Tales – an in-development branching narrative, co-created with writer/narrative designer Chella Ramanan. Amongst other narrative based work, he guest teaches writing to junior and secondary school students, has scribed over a dozen comic book stories since 2005, including women-focused sci-fi anthology Deadlier Than…, and the critically acclaimed ongoing graphic novel series, Magic of Myths (with artist and co-creator Sergio Calvet), is the editor and social media manager of children’s book publisher Butterfly Books, and the adapting writer/line-editor for Yomi Ayeni’s non-colonial steampunk transmedia series Clockwork Watch.

In 2020, Corey was selected for the London Games Festival Ensemble exhibition, in recognition for his work in the video games industry, and became the lead narrative designer for Surgent Studios‘ African mythology action-adventure, Tales of Kenzera: ZAU. He is also a full voting member of BAFTA, and has been a judge for the BAFTA Game Awards on four occasions.

Corey is writing his debut novel and is represented by Anna Dixon of YMU.

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