The Limit Break mentorship scheme dedicated to supporting underrepresented and marginalised groups in the UK games industry, including esports, is back for 2024.
It has opened applications for mentors and mentees for its 2024 programme.
Entering its sixth year, Limit Break continues its mission ‘to connect people from underrepresented and marginalised backgrounds with experienced industry mentors to help foster diverse talent and creativity across the industry’.
The free scheme allows members to ‘forge connections, exchange knowledge, and support their professional growth. Through a structured six-month mentorship, mentees from diverse backgrounds and disciplines are matched with experienced mentors drawn from all corners of the industry. Monthly one-to-one meetings, coupled with access to exclusive events, resources, and guidance, empower both mentors and mentees to expand their skills and knowledge’.
Esports News UK reached out to Limit Break to ask about esports, and was told there were a few mentors and mentees in esports last year, such as ones with transferrable skills between game development and esports industries like partnership managers. However, a lot of Limit Break’s events are geared towards game development as that makes up the majority of their cohort.
Founded in 2019 with 100 members, the organisation engaged with over 1,300 mentors and mentees in 2023.
Anisa Sanusi, Founder of Limit Break, said: “We’re super passionate about how mentorship can help support and develop diverse talent in the industry, and we’re really excited to be launching for the sixth year.
“There are a lot of challenges facing our industry at the moment, but we believe mentoring can make an impact far beyond the Limit Break program, helping build long-lasting connections and supporting both mentors and mentees to grow, develop and be inspired as part of Limit Break’s awesome community.”
Mentee applications are open to anyone working for a UK-based games company that identifies as part of a marginalised or underrepresented gender, orientation, or ethnicity group, as well as neurodiverse people and those with disabilities. Prospective mentors with over three years of industry experience are encouraged to apply.
Potential mentors and mentees can apply now through the Limit Break Mentorship website. Applications are open until midnight, May 2nd 2024.
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
