Dean Smith - Senior Mission Designer
Dean has been in video games since 1999, when he fled his early career as a tattie picker to join EA as a tester. He took a break from testing to study computing at Abertay University.
After Uni, he returned to testing for a summer job on ‘Harry Potter: Quidditch World Cup’, during which time his producer challenged him to create a Medal of Honour level in exchange for a job as a Level Designer. Dean took up the challenge and has never looked back. He stayed with Visual Science until its closure in early 2006 when he was working on an unannounced open-world arcade racer at the time.
Dean moved on to 4J Studios as Mission Scripter on ‘Star Trek: Encounters’ before joining Midway Newcastle as Senior Mission Designer on ‘Wheelman’.
Dean is now Senior Mission Designer at Ruffian Games, and is pure dead happy to be among the outstanding talent here.