Ben Naulls
Programmer - Game Designer -Producer - Teacher - Compulsive Prototyper
MeHello folks!
My name is Ben. I'm a game programmer, developer, tutor, mentor, and sometimes artist residing in Melbourne Australia. I have worked on a wide variety of games across different genres and have also spent many years teaching game design and development fundamentals as a tutor and mentor. I have a strong love for user experience within games, education through play, and procedural world generation. Please have a look around and don't forget to check out my portfolio afterwards. |
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Teacher & TutorI have 4 years+ experience teaching game design, production management, programming, and mentoring at the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) in Melbourne Australia.
After leaving AIE, I continued to tutor students online as a way to continue finding joy in watching others experiance the wonder of learning how to tell their own story through games. But instead of me telling you about me as a teacher , here are some quotes from some of my students. |
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If Ben taught me one thing, it's to burn my babies. Best advice I ever got. |
Ben teaches his students good habits and how to solve problems without needing to rely on him or other people so that we learn how to teach ourselves or where to get the information to teach from. |
Ben gives great feedback and has a knack for figuring out how to improve a game. |
Totally unfair, i didn't do any of the work and he failed me! |
Gives the best life advice - "Stare at more squirrel butts" |
Ben was one of the best teachers I've had, went above and beyond to help students and is generally a great human being, 10/10 |
Hard But Fair, Critical But Caring.
Ben pulls no punches, and he can be counted on to tell you how it is. If you're doing something that's wrong or will not fly in the industry he will tell you and for god's sake please listen to him. There will be times that you will hate him. He will also push you harder and further than any other teacher will, and he does that because he cares about seeing you make mistakes and learn from them so you can improve as a designer.
You probably will never get another teacher as committed to helping you improve, so talk to him and ask him as many questions as you can while you have the chance because you will miss him once he's gone.
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