Andrew Ghribi-King

Andrew Ghribi-King is a Senior Lecturer in Games Art at Manchester Metropolitan University's School of Digital Arts (SODA), serving as Unit Lead for Character and Environment Art in the undergraduate programme and Interdisciplinary Practice One for the Games Art MA programme.

With over twenty years of experience as a Technical Artist and Consultant specializing in tool development and pipeline optimisation, his research focuses on procedural worldbuilding through data acquisition, hard-surface asset production, simulation, and material design. His current practice examines automated iterative worldbuilding by combining modular rulesets and chaotic systems, drawing inspiration from tabletop role-playing game methodologies to develop experimental technical art applications.

His recent creative outputs demonstrate a trend of countering high-tech digital games with 'Slow Fantasy' concepts, integrating traditional print-making modernised by rapid fabrication processes and Procedural Content Generation systems. These works explore blockchain applications for decentralized game content ownership while emphasizing player-unique experiences through frame-by-frame physical-digital hybrid production.