Ben Stott

Engaged with prospective supporters through face-to-face, door-to-door fundraising campaigns. Promoted the National Deaf Children's Society's mission, services, and impact within local communities. Built rapport quickly with residents and adapted communication to different audiences.

D2D Salesperson - Surge International - Manchester

(2026-05)

• Engaged with prospective supporters through face-to-face, door-to-door fundraising campaigns.
• Promoted the National Deaf Children's Society's mission, services, and impact within local communities.
• Built rapport quickly with residents and adapted communication to different audiences.
• Explained donation options clearly and addressed questions or concerns professionally.
• Met and exceeded daily performance targets in a fast-paced, target-driven environment.
• Demonstrated resilience, confidence, and persistence while working independently outdoors.
• Accurately processed supporter sign-ups while ensuring compliance with data protection and fundraising regulations.
• Represented both Surge International and the National Deaf Children's Society with professionalism and integrity.

Technical Designer - Noctal Games - Bolton

(2025-06)

Noctal Games is an indie studio based in the North West of England with international connections currently developing The Ascendance in UE 5.6 for PC and will be developing our next project within Unity. We are a team of developers who all came from our masters. My role in this company is the technical designer but that doesn't mean i don't cover other areas, it is just my main expertise.

I also work as technical animator working with animations and even creating them, I am also a level designer who creates and helps design the various levels. As a team of developers looking to promote our product, we have exhibited at multiple events such as Games Republic and Gamebridge. We also gained important connections at the To The Moon event in Birmingham.

Kitchen Staff - McDonald's - Bolton

(2022-04)

• Mostly in the kitchen making food for customers.
• Knew every part of what needs to be done in the kitchen to make sure we had a smooth operation throughout the shift.
• Very experienced in the kitchen, so I was relied upon when doing all the cleaning jobs such as cleaning the grill, filtering and washing everything.
• Would work mostly either evening shifts or the overnight shift since it is a 24hr McDonald's.
• Didn't work only the kitchen though as sometimes when there weren't enough front staff or drive through, I would go on there to help especially during overnights where I would have to play multiple roles.

Technical Designer (Wellness Town) - Bolton - Bolton

(2024-11 - 2025-01)

In This Project We were given another client to create a game about mental wellness and in a smaller team we created a game based in a town about helping each other. My role in this project was still technical designer creating, designing gameplay mechanics. I created a quest system that would allow to quickly add new quests displaying them on a UI.

I created a dialogue system that work with the quest system. I created an interactive 3D UI for the main menu of the game that adds a layer of immersiveness.

Technical Designer - Bolton - Bolton

(2024-09 - 2024-11)

When working on getting my masters degree, as part of the course, we were to work under a client. The objective was to create a game within 8 weeks about a game about litter picking. this was a class wide project consisting of 4 programmers, 5 artists and 4 designers including myself and my role was working with programmers to desprototype and implement different tools within the project.

• I prototyped a system to assign different types of litter to different types of bins.
• I created a life system.
• I created a litter picking tool system to essentially attach a type of cleaning tool to a certain type of litter.
• I created a local leaderboard system showing your score, and you 3 highest scores in order.

Bar Back - Various places - Bolton

(2018-11 - 2022-03)

• Collected and sanitized glasses to maintain cleanliness in various bars.
• Cleared waste bins and ensured ice buckets remained filled for efficient service.
• Adapted quickly to fast-paced environments, supporting bartenders with essential tools.
• Maintained cleanliness across a range of different types of bars, contributing to positive guest experiences.

Master of Science - Game Development - University of Bolton (2024-09 - 2025-09)

Bachelor of Science - Game Design - University of Bolton (2021-09 - 2024-04)

Level 3 - Interactive Media And Games Design - Bury College (2020-09 - 2021-06)

Level 2 - Art and Design - Bury College (2018-09 - 2020-06)

GCSE's - Bolton St Catherines Academy (2013-09 - 2018-07)