Claire Blackshaw Technical Director at Flammable Penguins Games
Shipping games since PS2 era, queer creative based in London, her perspective spans from assembly to stage plays. Her career working on platform PS4, PS5 and PSVR1/2 at PlayStation, Climax, and Jagex. At Sony as Senior Online Consultant for Europe, she worked closely with Strategic Content helping indies on console, and her own background includes releasing one of the early titles for XBLA. Currently Technical Director at Flammable Penguins Games, she continues leading technical work, contributing to Godot and started PlayStation Community port of Godot. Claire was recently featured in Kelly Vero’s book Breaking Through Bytes: Women Shaping the Digital World for her ongoing contributions to the games industry and VR.