Tag: IGDA
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GDC09: Pitching myAIG
GDC 2009 started off with a bang for me at the IGDA Education Summit’s Game Design Improv with Brenda Brathwaite at the helm and Ian Schreiber and Charles Shami backing her up on the floor. For two hours I had the opportunity to swap places with what I usually force my students to do, design…
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Post GGDA Meeting Follow-Up
After the break you can read the text of an email that was sent out to Clinton Lowe and the attendees of our first Athens GGDA/IGDA meeting. Overall the event was very successful. I think we came away with a core group of people interested in making the chapter a success. I think the chapter…
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Inaugural Athens Chapter GGDA/IGDA Meeting Today
The Inaugural Meeting of the Athens Chapter of Georgia Game Developers Association (which I’m hoping will be co-branded as an IGDA chapter as well) will be today, November 11th, at the Pub at Gameday. The full annoucement of the event can be found on the GGDA website. The synopsis listed on the site is: The…
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Live from SEIGE: DRM, Region Lockout, Format Wars, …
Last night’s plenary session seemed to set the benchmark for talking about the state of the videogame industry more broadly, but also in the state of GA. In part, that is what has made the conference so far a particularly interesting one it demonstrates the kinds of intersections that occur between local activity and creative…
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(Mo)bile Blogging SEIGE in ATL
Andrea and I will be heading down to Atlanta tomorrow for SEIGE at the Marrietta Hyatt. It should be a great introduction for me (and those students of mine in NMIX 4200 who are planning to head down for the event) to the GA game development scene. What I’m hoping to find is a new…