Who makes video games? People make video games. The invisible heroes behind the titles you love.
#TCRSpotlight celebrates one of our studio members every month, in a form of a post about them!
This month, please meet our beloved Senior Project Manager
Karin Kunrath 👱♀️🦎🐈🥰
Karin's journey to games has been a fascinating one. A Czech born in Germany, her first work gig was as a receptionist in Ibiza. Can only imagine the stories! She then worked as a hotel animator in the Canaries, played floorball (a kind of indoor hockey) in Switzerland, and was employed by a hostel in Portugal before moving to the UK 10 years ago. What a life!
Here she joined American Express and after 8 years of self-admittedly "climbing the corporate career ladder", she craved a change of environment and industry. Coincidently, she came across a posting for a Project Manager at TCR, and since she has always enjoyed games from a young age it seemed like an interesting career change. We're lucky to have her! Now she resides with a little menagerie of a cat, lizard, fish in the pond, and cheeky robins.
What career advice can Karin give? "Don't be intimidated by not having game industry experience. There are a lot of transferable skills in Project and Product Management and it's always good to get a fresh set of eyes on things that have “always been done this way”." Very true!
What's Karin up to outside of work? A lot - exercise classes, squash, table tennis. Outdoor activities such as hiking, kayaking, and wildlife photography. And whenever she can squeeze it in - travel travel travel. 🧳🏖🏂
Re: games - she says she recently enjoyed The Maquette and STRAY.
Other favourites are The Witness Game, The Witcher, and Diablo.
A song that relaxes Karin?
Ingrid Michaelson – Keep Breathing. Dreamy!
Huge thanks to Karin for participating in #TCRSpotlight, it's so cool to read people's stories on how they end up in games and their journey here thus far.
