Serious Games Developer

“Cultural heritage for all people across the world can be represented in a serious games format. It’s challenging and difficult to do, but I enjoy problem solving.”

— Brett Leavy

Q: Which were your favourite subjects in high school?

Technologies; Health and Physical Education; The Arts; Geography and Mathematics

Q: What further study/qualifications did you complete after high school?

Masters of Creative Industries – Immersive Technologies and Aboriginal Heritage

Q: What is the name of your STEM career?

Serious Games Developer

Q: What attracted you to this STEM career?

Virtual Songlines is the very first of it’s type, a chance to share cultural knowledge through virtual and augmented technologies, in a digital, interactive and immersive space.

Q: What do you love about your job?

Our enterprise is to build a digital toolkit that transports you to our land in the past, a rich virtual world and accurate recreation of the land that our ancestors once walked for many years. It’s a chance to make a change. It’s challenging and difficult to do, but I enjoy problem solving.

I have a great team of software developers, designers and artists and we all work together and collaborate to make what we think is a pretty amazing cultural heritage survival game.

Brett Leavy