My name is Carola Pettinato, I am a passionate Game Designer and Extended Reality Developer from Sicily, Italy.

 

After my studies in Modern Literature at the University of Messina, I have decided to move to London, a place where the past and the future coexist in harmony. If there is one very thing that this amazing city taught me, is that you can become everything you want, and so I did.

 

In 2019,  after intensively playing The Last of Us, I decided to challenge myself with a new adventure: To be a Game Developer.

It was in 2020 that I finally decide to go back to university, I am currently enrolled in the course of (BSc) Computer Games Design at Staffordshire University London, graduating this summer 2024.

I landed my first job in the industry in 2022 as a Game Designer Intern for Criterion Games - Electronic Arts, working on the latest Need For Speed Unbound. Here I continue to work as a part-time Associate Game Designer.

I want to prove that is never too late to start again, to push your limit, to bring all your passion and unique experience into something so amazing like the game development process. To honor this, I became a Women In Games Ambassador in 2022 and a Video Games Ambassador with Ukie.

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Besides games, I spend my time going to gigs and listening to great music, reading books, I love cinema and taking pictures and, last but not least, traveling the world!

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Inspiring video games: The Last Of Us(I-II), Final Fantasy (VII, VIII, IX, X), GTA (San Andreas, Vice City, V), Red Dead Redemption (I-II), Crash Bandicoot, Spyro, Rayman, Gex, Skyrim, Medievil.