A SOUTH Lakeland video games artist has bagged a BAFTA as part of the team behind a critically acclaimed PlayStation game.

Daniel Purcell, 32, who grew up in Flookburgh, collected the award for 'original property' on behalf of Supermassive Games for their 2015 game 'Until Dawn'.

He took the role of lead environment artist on 'Until Dawn', designing the worlds that the characters walk and talk within.

"To win a BAFTA for our work is such an honour and everyone at Supermassive deserves it," said Mr Purcell. "We all worked so hard and it really pays to keep battling through until we arrived at what we were after.

"It was a lot of hard work because it was such a large project, but the team worked really well on it. We weren't sure how it was going to go in the market because there wasn't anything else out there like it.

"I was amazed at how it went down with the public and I felt so happy that we made something that everyone loved."

'Until Dawn' is an interactive drama survival horror game in which the player must attempt to survive the night while under attack by a 'psychopath'.

Players can alternate between eight characters as they make decisions that alter the course of the story, with thousands of different scenarios as the possible outcome depending on the choices made.

It had been in production for five years before it was made available to the public last year. Mr Purcell started working on the project after being involved with a number of others at Supermassive including 'Tumble' and 'Big Match'.

Upon its release the game garnered a great deal of positive feedback, and has an average score of 79 per cent on online review aggregator Metacritic.

To work on video games was always a dream of Mr Purcell's, who developed a keen interest in creative subjects such as art and music while he was a pupil at Flookburgh School.

Encouraged by his family and teachers to pursue his dreams, he then went to Barrow Sixth Form and studied Art and Design, IT and Maths, which led to him finding a video games art course at Leeds Metropolitan University.