Beautiful Game Studio
Beautiful Games Studios, the team behind the latest Championship Manager games, are based in north London. The studio employs over 30+ avid CM and football fans with over 100 years cumulative development experience and 90+ published titles.
You've played the game, now is your chance to meet part of the team behind Championship Manager!.
Name: Kelvin Ward
Favourite Club: England
Job Title: Programmer
Job Description: Working on tools to get content such as mail messages into the game. Improving the front end interface and maintaining it. Adding new screens and hassling designers for more details about what we want.
History: Finished a degree in philosophy and then decided thinking alone can't get one a job. Thinking and tapping a keyboard on the other hand has lots of possibilities. Studied computing and got my first job working on the game Stolen for a year, before coming to BGS.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Preferred Foot (middle).
Favourite Pastime: Internal martial arts like Taiji, Pakua & Wudan. Now read something useful.
Name: Krzysztof Cyluk
Favourite Club: Jagiellonia Bialystok and Wisla Krakow – both from Poland.
Job Title: Researcher and Assistant Producer
Job Description: I am researching players from the following leagues: Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Greece, Ukraine and Russia. In addition I provide data on the structure and dates of their domestic competitions.
History: After spells in the games industry in Poland and Czech Republic, Krzysztof Cyluk signed an XXX-years contract with BGS before 2005/2006 season. Both player and the studio refused to comment on the length of the contract and financial conditions.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be:Versatility – I am equally good/bad wherever I play.
Favourite Pastime: Travelling. Anywhere, it takes no more than 30 minutes walk/drive/flight to find an exciting place.
Name: Liam Hill
Favourite Club: Luton Town
Job Title: Assistant Producer
Job Description: My main job is organising the testers here and ensuring code gets delivered to Eidos. I spend a lot of time in our bug database making sure that the right bugs get to the right programmers and I write reports on the bugs in database (i.e. how many we have and of which severity). Other than that I spend my time arguing with Troy about football (him being a scumbag Watford supporter ?.), discussing the relative tactical merits of playing a man ‘in-the-hole’ in CM 2006, winning the European Champions Cup with Luton and playing a ‘Gerrard-esque’ box-to-box role in the BGS five-a-side team.
History: I started in the games industry over four years ago as games tester at Eidos. I worked on many games including CM in it’s previous incarnations, I joined BGS in August 2004 and have since become an assistant producer.
Highest champ man stat: Versatility
Favourite past time: My Xbox 360
Name: Derren Toussaint
Favourite Club: Spurs
Job Title: Assistant Producer
Job Description: To provide help and direction on all fronts to the dev team. Basically helping make shit happen!
History: I have managed to work on all of Eidos' Premier titles, providing QA on some and consultation on others. These titles range from Championship Manager, the industry's number one football manager sim; Project Snowblind, Eidos' first online title, Timesplitters 1&2, still the number one first person shooter on the PS2; Tombraider, Eidos' biggest brand and selling game, to Shellshock and Lego Star Wars, two of Eidos' biggest selling titles in the last year or so.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Feinting, anticipation and flair.
Favourite Pastime: Drinking, eating, sleeping.
Name: Paul Overy
Favourite Club: Banbury United
Job Title: Programmer
Job Description: Front end programmer
History: I’ve only worked in the games industry, last job was working at Anco.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Length!
Favourite Pastime: Sleeping