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Alexander Tarvet

Alexander Tarvet

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20222022

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Alexander (Sandy) Tarvet is a BAFTA-nominated lecturer in game design and Programme Lead on the UKIE accredited BA (Hons) Game Design and Production programme. 

He is currently responsible for the delivery of DES205 Level Design & Scripting (Module Lead), co-delivery of DES207 Media Production (Alongside Kayleigh Macleod, Dayna Galloway, Ege Sezen, and Euan Dempster) and co-delivery of DES402 Critical Design Practice (Alongside Lynn Love and Mona Bozdog). He also supervises and mentors honours projects at undergraduate level.

He graduated from BA(Hons) Game Design and Production Management in 2015 with First-Class Honours. Following that, he worked in the games industry for Tag Games and Stormcloud Games on a number of original IP games and live-ops titles for notable clients.

His research interests are in the design and development of biographical games with a focus on personal health stories.

More information can be found on his Portfolio Website.

 

 

Teaching

Sandy teaches on the following modules:

  • DES205 - Level Design & Scripting (Module Lead)
  • DES207 - Media Production
  • DES402 - Critical Design Practice

Sandy supervises students on:

  • ART410 - Honours Project

Sandy has also delivered the following sunset modules:

  • DES311 - Game Design Practice (Interim Module Lead)

 

Creative Works

The Longest Walk - BAFTA Scotland (Nominated)

Forget-Me-Knot

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  • 1 Digital or Visual Products

  • The longest walk

    Tarvet, A. (Developer), 11 May 2022

    Research output: Non-textual form › Digital or Visual Products

  • The longest walk: a retrospective of biographical game design

    Tarvet, A., 7 Nov 2022, CHI PLAY '22: Extended Abstracts of the Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play. Gerling, K., Iacovides, J., Malaka, R., Bonsignore, B. & Frommel, J. (eds.). New York: Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), p. 351-356 6 p.

    Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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