Earlier this year, Lauren was approached by the University of Portsmouth's Creative Careers team to write a blog post documenting her experience on a self-employed placement so far, as well as give her fellow students advice on setting up their own games studio during their placement year.

We'd like to thank the Creative Careers team for allowing Lauren to talk about Dyak Studios on the university's official blog, and we hope that the insight that she has given will be useful for the next cohort of students.

You can read blog post here.

This is the 3rd devlog for our game, Rise Of The Jemhaji. In the last one we discussed our design process and the documents that we’re using to keep the project organised. In this one, we want to give you an update on where we are with the development of the game.

We are on the way to completing the first playable version of the game, and our artists are making great progress with the assets for it, from environments to NPCs to enemies.

So we've decided to start our own version of the 'Meet The Team' posts made by other companies. Meet The Tribe will be a series of blog posts introducing members of our development team. To start, it makes sense to interview Lauren, our founder and lead developer!

As a founder, not much to be honest. This is the first business I have set up but I have been known to have great leadership skills. As a developer, well my experience comes from my education. I study Computer Games Enterprise where I've focused on programming, design and business theory - so I know a majority of the components needed to build a game!

The Outlast games by Red Barrels for sure. The first game was actually what got me interested in games development in the first place, I just thought the story was incredible and I wanted to make similar experiences one day. Those games also desensitised me to gore and horror so I'm definitely a horror fan because of it as well.