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: Ruben A. Segura
Favourite Club: Newcastle United, Barcelona, Celtic and Roma
Job Title: QA Technician
Job Description: Assigning incoming bugs from external testers. Reproducing high priority bugs. Testing bug fixes for the programmers. Verifying fixed bugs. Helping on the forums. Helping to improve the overall testing process.
History: Joined the back of the dole line after leaving the University of East Anglia in 2001. Spent a lot of time trying to get into the games industry as a junior programmer. Spent a year in a very bad job as a multimedia developer/web designer. Once again spent a lot of time trying to get a job in the games industry. Got a Microsoft Certification in Windows 2000, which bizarrely got me my next job. Joined Codemasters as a temporary tester to work on Colin McRae Rally and Club Football. Started working at BGS in 2005.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Versatility
Favourite Pastime: Watching sport, watching comedy, computer games, philanthropist by day, crime fighter by night :)
Name: Tim Ward
Favourite Club: Tottenham Hotspur, Season Ticket holder (Shelf Side)
Job Title: Head of Database Development
Job Description: Looking after the databases and front-end tools and helping everyone get the most out of them.
History: I just worked it out and feel very old. I worked on my first database over twenty years ago when I looked after a social club’s membership system. Since then been working towards getting my job at BGS. I was the 1st employee of BGS and am very proud of the database we’ve built.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: If there was a ‘clumsy lunging’ stat, it’d be high. I had to stop playing as I kept hurting people by mistake. Maybe adaptability?
Favourite Pastime: Hanging out with my daughter, she’s just over 1 1/2 and very funny. I spend a lot of time supporting Spurs but am not sure if it’s a favourite pastime or an obsessive dependency.
Name: Richard Green
Favourite Club: Manchester United
Job Title: Head of Research.
Job Description:Getting real football stuff into the game, getting Ricky Gervais podcasts for Chris, and nursing Ian King’s genius.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Stats? Do you mean attributes? My highest might well be 100…
Favourite Pastime: Football stuff
Name: Ian King
Favourite Club: Manchester United
Job Title: Junior Researcher
Job Description: I look after Chile, Mexico, Portugal and Sweden among other things.
History: I started doing data for the Atari St and Amiga back in the late 80’s and then went on to do Games for the PC in the middle 90’s and have continued to do data since. I have also provided data for football books, plus I have provided data for the RSSSF website since 2000 and I have been a member since 2002. I also have my own website.
Highest champ man stat: Harassing barmaids.
Favourite past time: I spend my freetime helping to run Welsh Tavern FC and drinking down the Welsh and being told off by Claire.
Name: Luke Didd
Favourite Club: Chelsea and England
Job Title: Producer
Job Description: Most of what I do is about planning and reviewing features that are added to each game. This is actually quite a lot of work as it involves knowing where the strengths and weaknesses are with the game and making sure we have enough time to get everything added to the game to a good standard. To do this successfully I need to have a good grip on everything that is being added to the game. I gather much of this information by reviewing design, code implementation and then the bugs that testing has thrown up with each feature. I also try to read all the feedback from the forums to make sure we are making a game that you’ll all like to play!
History: My history in the games industry started in the QA department at Eidos (for anyone want to get into game this is a good starting point). Whilst at Eidos I was mainly used as a tester specialising in Championship Manager and was on the testing teams for both CM99/00 and then CM00/01 (my personal favourite version). I then moved on to pastures new at EA and ended up being promoted to an Assistant Producer for TCM03 (Total Club Manager), I was then offered the chance to join BGS to work on the development for CM5, CM2006 and beyond.
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Loyalty – I love the challenge of working on CM :)
Favourite Pastime: Spending time with my family :), after that playing and watching football is another fav of mine, followed then by playing my Xbox 360 and Xbox live (my gamertag is Diddie if anyone fancies a game of Pro Evo).
Name: Ian France
Favourite Club: Manchester City
Job Title: Senior Programmer
Job Description: Programming
If you had champ man stats – what would your highest be: Depth.
Favourite Pastime:Driving.