November 16th, 2020 Embracer Group Video

Nathalie Talk: How Nathalie got into Game Development

https://youtube.com/embed/UT9iNA3WGT4?autoplay=1&start=60&end=151

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Transcript

when I was little I was bullied in school a lot but when I played games it felt like the place where I could be accepted

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it was hard to find a place where I felt like I could belong and in every quest it felt like I found my family there and at some point I actually was talking more with people in the game than I was talking with people in real life around me and I actually had my first boyfriend in everquest as well I always loved drawing and writing and making my own characters and stories but my teachers were always like you should find a real job like find something you can make money with and I didn't realize that you could you could make a living with working in games I grew up with my father and brother and my father and I shared a computer until I was 12 and on that computer we played the same games so it was an interest that we shared and that we could talk about together after school I worked as a chef in several restaurants and I did this for around five years and although I enjoyed it it was also lonely because I didn't really fit in with the men or the women there that was when I found the games education in breda in the netherlands when I saw those teachers and I saw that they were still making games but also teaching about games that was when I realized I can do this for a living I can do this as my career this was the first point in my life where I felt like- I wasn't the awkward person because everybody around me was kind of awkward and that's why we all enjoyed being together 2013 that's when I started my games education in breda I was surrounded by a lot of guys because it's still like a lot of guys in games but that's when I met hannah