Viva Lewes Issue #161 February 2020

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THE PLACE TOMAKEWaves.History.Your future.FIND YOUR PLACE AT SUSSEXBOOK NOW FOR OUR MASTERS EVENTSATURDAY 7 MARCH 2020sussex.ac.uk/discover
Photo by Charlotte GannMY LEWES: SAM WATTSYou’re Director of Immersive Technologies atMake Real, in Brighton? I am. Apparently, I’mthe 12th most influential VR person in the world!Make Real is an ‘immersive content’ studio. Itwas founded by people with a background in fullflight simulators and the games industry. Todaywe focus on immersive technologies, offering aunique blend of absolute technical performanceand accuracy, coupled with the driving ethosof gaming: fun, where players are motivated bya carefully-considered design, incorporatingprogression and rewards. We also believe intechnology for good, and operate under thebanner of ‘serious fun’.The client-based work we do is about 70%enterprise and 30% entertainment – whichpleasingly (to my mind) mirrors the 7:3 ratioof the two words ‘serious fun’! We’re unusualin having a dedicated R&D team, who spendtheir time testing out new technologies. We’rerenowned for our content, and enjoy leaving little‘Easter egg’ surprises for users even in the mostserious learning contexts. Our team has grownfrom four to 25 since I joined; we’re mostly agedover 35 too, so life-work balance is prioritised.You also set up the Lewes BoardgamersClub? I moved back to Lewes (having originallygrown-up here) 12 years ago. I set up the club,partly really to kick start a social life. We meetfortnightly, on Tuesday evenings, currently inthe Elephant and Castle. We’re the nerds in thecorner, but people do wander over. The games weplay are visually appealing – intricate and madeof wood. We typically play Eurogames – the socalledgateway games, like Catan, or Carcassonneor Ticket to Ride and more complex affairstoo. There are about ten to 15 regulars (unlikethe Brighton Boardgamers, which has 3,000members!), and newcomers are always welcome.(There’s also another, newer Lewes club, thatmeets at St John sub Castro, see page 14.)Every game has a ruleset: in each case, you growskilled in understanding how to excel withinthose rules. It’s a kind of athleticism of the mindmuscle.I think adults, with all our responsibilities,can forget how to have fun.You grew up in Lewes? I did. I lived inLeicester Road, and went to Western Road,when it was in Spital Road, and Priory. ThenLewes Tertiary College (now East SussexCollege), which I dropped out of in the secondyear for family reasons. But then I went backand did an AS Level, and ended up in LeicesterDe Montfort University, on the then (in 1996)brand-new Multimedia Computing course. Aftergraduating, I moved to Brighton for ten years,met my wife, and we thought about moving toLewes so came over to visit: the first time I haddone so in a decade. Sitting in Bill’s we pickedup the Sussex Express and there, in the ‘Do youremember when?’ section was a picture of theWestern Road football team with me in it! ThisI took to be a sign…Interview by Charlotte Gann11
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