Ian Griffiths
Ian is a Senior Lecturer in Games Design and Development at ARU as well as an Unreal Authorized Instructor (Gold) in partnership with Epic Games, and a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).
- Faculty:
- Faculty of Arts, Humanities, Education and Social Sciences
- School:
- Cambridge School of Art
- Location:
- Cambridge
- Background
Ian has previously worked on multiple projects as both a designer and programmer, having supported projects from the initial development to release. His interests are mostly in procedural generation, simulation and world centric design.
Ian has a wide range of experiences in teaching having taught at all levels from primary school to university level. Has worked on projects to get young people into teaching in conjunction with the organisation Women in Games.
- Research interests
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- Procedural generation
- Simulation games
- World centric games design
- Player centric games design
- Online virtual worlds
- Teaching
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Modules
- Player Experiences in Games
- Games Engines for Designers
- Player Centric Games Design
- Games QA and Testing
- Major Project for Games
- Qualifications
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- BA (Hons) Multiplayer Online Games Design, Staffordshire University
- PGCE Computer Science and IT, ARU
- Selected recent publications
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Griffiths, I. and Britton, G. (2023) 'An Investigation Into Developing Procedural Based Stars in Technical Art Using Procedural Generation', SSRN. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4589944
Britton, G. and Griffiths, I. (2023) 'Grid-Based City Generation for Replayability: Procedural Content Generation and Artificial Intelligence in Computer Games', SSRN. Available at: https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4513746