By UOW Malaysia KDU

Double Eleven Limited, a video game development studio founded by former Rockstar Games developers, Lee Hutchinson and Matt Shepcar visited UOW Malaysia KDU Glenmarie Campus on the 18^th of May 2022. Double Eleven is responsible for popular game titles like LittleBigPlanet for PlayStation Vita, Pixel Junk, Rust, Lego Harry Potter: Years 1-4 and Minecraft Dungeons. They recently opened their Kuala Lumpur studio which was their first studio outside of the United Kingdom. For a few members of the UK team, it was their first time to Malaysia.

They were given a short tour of the UOW Malaysia KDU’s state-of-the-art game development teaching facilities and later the UK team gave a two-hour technical sharing session for UOW Malaysia KDU’s Game Development students and later had a portfolio review session for recently graduated students keen on starting their career at Double Eleven Limited.

The Double Eleven team from UK consisted of Mark South, Chief Operations Officer; Stephen McFarlane, Art Manager; Laura Brodie, Head of People and Culture; Iain Farrell, Program Manager; Paul Carruthers, Code Manager;  and Chetan Karnam, QA & Engineering Manager.