Gabrielle Kent

Lecturer, Indie Game Development MA (Online)

Gabrielle Kent is an author, game developer, and lecturer. She started her games career in the mid 90's on Shadowman, and went on to develop titles for Acclaim, Accolade, Infogrammes and Atari. She joined Falmouth in 2025 as a supervisor on the MA Indie Game Development program. As well as teaching, she works for the Terry Pratchett Estate where she co-authored the Discworld guide: Tiffany Aching's Guide to Being a Witch with Rhianna Pratchett. Independently she has written tie-in novels for Foamsword's Double Fine Presents game: Knights and Bikes and is the author of the Alfie Bloom series, published by Scholastic, the Rani Reports series, and an upcoming series for Penguin Random House. She is currently working on several unannounced writing projects to be published 2027, in addition to two unannounced game projects.

During her career, Gabrielle spent 16 years as a Senior Lecturer in Games Development and Deputy Head of the Games Department at Teesside University, where she designed and delivered a variety of games art and design related Masters and Undergraduate courses, with a particular focus on games mechanics, game design, level and UI design. She was the founder and long time director of Animex Game, part of the Animex International Festival of Animation and Computer Games. She currently enjoys hosting and collaborating on the Konsoll Games Festival in Bergen, Norway.

External Links

Contact details

Email gabrielle.kent@falmouth.ac.uk

    Qualifications

    Qualifications

    Year Qualification Awarding body
    2005 Post Graduate Certificate of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education Teesside University
    1998 BA (Hons) Graphic Design and Illustration Teesside University

    Honors and awards

    Year Description
    2015

    Woman of the Year - Ambassador Award, MCV Magazine
    2015

    MCV Brit List: Women in Games Top 100 - MCV Magazine
    2013

    Top 100 Women in the UK Games Industry - MCV Magazine
    2006

    Top 100 Most Influential Women in the Games Industry - Next-Gen.Biz

    Professional Engagement

    Independent professional practice

    • Host and co-organiser of Konsoll games festival, Bergen - https://konsoll.org/talks/
    • Author - https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Gabrielle-Kent/author/B00VG23KP8?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_1&qid=1767922877&sr=8-1&shoppingPortalEnabled=true