1. Salford City College
Eccles Sixth Form Centre
BTec Level 3
Extended Diploma in Creative Media Production
Games Design
Curriculum Vitae
NAME Sam Reynolds
ADDRESS 2 Schofield Street, Leigh, Lancashire, UK
TELEPHONE 07896664547 (Mobile)
EMAIL Youarea2@hotmail.com
WEBSITE
FACEBOOK / TWITTER /BLOG http://srunit13.blogspot.co.uk/
DATE OF BIRTH 29th
June 1996
EDUCATION 2007 – 2012 - Bedford High School
2012 – 2014 - Eccles College
QUALIFICATIONS GCSE Mathematics - (c)
GCSE English - (E)
GCSE Science - (D)
GCSE Music – (E)
GCSE Religious Studies – (F)
VRQ BTEC Certificate Media – (M)
VRW OCR National Awards Science – (P)
WORK EXPERIENCE
SKILLS & PERSONAL QUALITIES
• Hard working & reliable
• Good attitude towards working
• Cheerful
• Enjoys dealing with people
• Willing to train and gain further qualifications
• Huge interest in computers
• Very creative
• Good problem solver
• Very focused
• Handy
INTERESTS
• Music, all sorts of music, favorit would be jazz, swing, electric swing, and pretty much anything from the 70’s up to the 90’s
• Cinema, fan of horror movies action, sci-fi, and comedy
• Computers, I am interested in everything about computers
• Games, I am a very big fan of gaming, I mainly play FPS games, but I have an interest in all kind of games. My favourite games
are the half-life sires, portal 1 and 2, the battlefield sires, minecraft, halo 3, and my all-time favourite game is star citizen.
• Youtube videos, whenever im not working im watching youtube videos. Some of my favourite youtubers are JackFrags,
FrankOnPCIn1080p, Yogscast, Bbdouble0100, Ethoslab, SmarterEveryDay, collinferz, SgtRedPheonix, ChaBoyyHD and so much
more.
• Science, I am very interested in science, mainly things to do with space but I also take interest in to physic, biology and so on.
• Programming, I love programming and love watching people program on live streams and such.
• Airsoft, I go playing Airsoft as much as I can.
• Skateboarding, I do skateboarding every now and again and I have been doing it since I was 8 years old.
• Tech, such as phones, computers, and all other kinds if gizmos.

2. REFEREE
Ms Harry Arnold
Games Design Tutor
Salford College
Walkden Road
Worsley
Manchester
M28 7QD
0161 6727788
Harry.arnold@salfordcc.ac.uk
PERSONAL STATEMENT
I am a dedicated, hardworking and motivated BTEC student studying Games Design at Salford City
College. I want to learn how games are made and how to program my own games in the future. I
have been interested in this subject since I began to play games and being a creative person I
think I would make a very good game developer.
From all the time I have spent playing computer games, I have always wanted to know how they
were made and what the process is of making a computer game. For a long time I have wanted to
use a lot of features from game that I have played to make my own games, I have had many
different and interesting ideas.
My interest for games design stated at a young age as I use to play a board game called War
Hammer 40K, after playing that game I thought it would be a good idea to make my own board
game. Using small 1 72 scale World War 2 figures I bought and painted myself. I built boards
for them to play on. The first iteration of the game was using a drawn out grid method of
measuring distance and everything being shown on "Stat Cards" which showed the distance they
can move, shoot, health points, damage given, and what armour they had. The rules for the game,
I tried to keep simplistic, but it wasn't how I wanted it to be played. Much contemplation and
testing I came up with an idea of having a "Simple" rule system and a "Complex" rules system
which contained cover, vehicles and more realistic rules. Afterwards I spent a long time
creating a diorama that the game could be played on, I didn't want to ruin it by putting a
grid on it. After thinking of methods to make the game playable without ruining my diorama I
decided to use a tape measure to mark the distances in inches. I thought the game was quite
well balanced with no team being more powerful than the other, even though I only had 2 teams
(German and British) I think the game was a fun game to play.
I first got in to gaming via Xbox live, after that day I began to play games online and have
been doing so ever since. In 2011 I bought my first PC for gaming on, it wasn't the best.
After getting in to PC gaming I decided to get a high spec gaming PC so that I could play
every game on it, the first being my favorite game, battlefield.
During my time in high school I did an ICT course, towards the end we have made a game using
Scratch. While I was doing the project I really enjoyed doing the programming side of it and
figuring out what I need to use and how it had to be done. After i completed that course and
finishing high school I thought I'd look in to real programming, although I found it very
difficult I began to learn a couple thing about it and decide that I wanted to do programming
in my future. While I was doing a Games Design course in college we covered programming but
what everything meant. However, to take my interest further I watched a stream where someone
was doing a 7 day games challenge, while I was watching the stream I remembered how much I
enjoyed doing programming in high school and decided to learn programming from the internet. I
watch tutorials as much as I can.
During my college course we many different things such as game concept art, 3D modelling and
much more. My favourite part besides the programming was the 3D modelling and animating. I
didn't enjoy the art side of the course that much, personally I didn't like my drawing's and
could never get it to look how I wanted it to look, although my skills have improved over the
time.
I look forward to seeing you and hope to study at your university, and I feel confident that
this Computer Games Technology course is the right one for me because i am very interested and
would love to learn how to program games.
Personal Statement Guidance
Identify and then cite some examples of your technical skills, soft skills and personal interests. Be positive and include anything and
everything at this stage.
What skills do you possess now?
Carry out a skills audit of what you possess now:
• Research – investigative skills, thoroughness, reports.
• Ideas generation – ideas maps, moodboards, questionnaires, interviews.
• Presentation – pitching, negotiating, teamwork, performance.

3. • Writing – scripts and presentation documents.
• Evaluation – review and analysis of completed project work – self-criticism.
• Digital manipulation – photographic, camera and Photoshop skills.
• Digital illustration – hand-drawn and Illustrator skills.
• 2D animation – stop motion, hand-drawn and Flash.
• 3D modelling and animation – NewTek LightWave, Blender, Sketchup etc.
• 2D and 3D game engines.
• Art concept skills.
What soft, transferable skills do you possess now or need to develop and how?
Problem solving Communication Commitment
Tenacity Creativity Honesty
Efficiency Innovation Trustworthiness
Teamwork Entrepreneurship Reliability
Self-presentation Punctuality Humour
Confidence Public speaking Empathy
ICT Literacy Numeracy
What personal interests and hobbies do you have or have had in the past?
Reading
Films
Music – both playing and listening to.
Socialising
Sports
Pets
Travel
Stamp collecting