Getting Into The Game Industry

We’ve got a new presentation up on the Interzone website that talks about some of the roles and responsibilities that you might like to take up in the Game Industry. We will be adding to it and filling out more details on paths that you might like to take to get there along with other positions you might not immediately associate with a gameco but I figure that if you know the destination you have in mind, the journey can be much simpler. In general, you need way too much education, the ability to perform under pressure, iterate quickly and work fast while staying at the top of your profession. Link.

The Art of Independence – Presentation and Notes

Here are the slides (and my personal notes) from my Free Play keynote lecture. Being the keynote, the subject for my talk was pretty simple and to the point: “The paramount importance of independent games, and how they are crucial to games development as an art form.”

It should have been easy, right? Well, consider this: how do you tell the assembled artists and indie game developers making these games that what they are doing is art and important without it being condescending or obvious?

In the end I just dove in, added some stuff about founding Interzone (which is one big indie studio) and then threw in some extra business stuff to round things off. I went this way because most independent developers struggle with the money and project management far more than the actual code.

If you click here or on the link above you can check it out. If you turn off the pics it’s actually reasonably quick to load and fits everything on the page pretty neatly.