Kieran Cooksley

I'm Kieran and I'm a Graduate Technical Designer, achieving a 1st Class Hons in Computer Games Design at Staffordshire University.

I have a strong passion for technical design because it allows me to use my methodical way of thinking to approach and solve many different types of problems and challenges. Whether it's gameplay systems not behaving, an AI that just doesn't want to do what you tell it to, or coming up with a creative technical solution to a design problem, I get immense satisfaction and pride looking at a functional mechanic and thinking "Yeah, I did that."

I like to focus my technical design skills the most into the development and implementation of AI systems. All of my favourite games utilise AI for different purposes, whether it's blasting enemy ships in Assassin's Creed: Black Flag & Sea of Thieves, using stealth to outwit and eliminate targets in Dishonored, or bringing glory to the empire in Rome: Total War. AI is the particular area of game development I find immensely interesting and engaging.