QnA with Celia Hodent, Consultant, hosted by Emma Varjo - GRUXonline
6Celia Hodent is a globally-recognised figurehead in the domain of games user experience. Through her talks, books, events, and work directly with studios, she has led a surge of awareness into the importance of ‘player centricity’ in game development. At GRUXOnline Celia will be taking your questions, moderated by conference director Emma Varjo. A superb opportunity to quiz Celia on her prior experiences as Director of UX at EPIC, on her current work raising awareness of ethics in games, or on her vision of the future of ‘putting the player first’ in gamedev. Questions were submitted via Twitter and Discord.
Celia Hodent, PhD is an expert in game UX (user experience) and cognitive psychology. She is a consultant, speaker, and acclaimed author of The Gamer’s Brain: How Neuroscience and UX can Impact Video Game Design & The Psychology of Video Games.
Emma Varjo is the UX Lead at Frozenbyte. She works hard to ensure everyone has a great experience when playing games made at Frozenbyte. This she does by using her knowledge of Human-Computer Interaction, running playtests and gathering feedback from players, and generally just taking to people a lot.