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Career for the Kid in You EDWARDS ALUMNUS WORKS IN DIGITAL GAMING INDUSTRY
BY J E S S I C A S T E WA R T
How would your 12-year-old self feel about what you’re
doing now? For Edwards alumnus Ryan Holowaty (B.Comm. 2008), the answer is easy: ecstatic. Since 2012, Ryan has been the head of marketing and business development at the Saskatoon-based gaming studio Noodlecake. He says all 17 people at the company (all U of S grads) were into gaming as kids, which prepared them for their careers.
“When you’re running a business it’s so important to know the industry. Little did I know I was doing 25 years of industry research,” he laughs. And since Noodlecake not only develops its own games, but also helps small developers get their games published, Ryan spends part of every day playing games. “My inbox is flooded with games from developers, so we have a vetting process,” he says. “I install new games every morning and
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