UMBC 3rd Annual Digital Entertainment Conference

First, the announcment:

UMBC’s Game Developer’s Club along with the Computer Science Department, is hosting their annual Digital Entertainment Conference on April 12 from 10:30am - 6:00pm in Lecture Hall 3 in the Administration Building. This all day event includes speakers from local video game companies like Breakaway, Big Huge Games, and Firaxis. They’ll be speaking about different aspects of the video game industry, including art, programming, and design. If you have any interest in getting into the industry or just playing games, mark your calendars and come join us on April 12!

DEC’s official web site: www.umbcgdc.org/dec/
For Facebook members, you can join the DEC event here:
www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=9446589599

This has really been a great event in the past. It is open to the public, so whether you are a UMBC student or not, if you want to find out more about what the games industry is really like, you should come.

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Will Wright on Spore

The New Yorker has a very interesting 26 minute video interview with game designer Will Wright in which he demonstrates parts of his long anticipated game Spore. Wright also discusses the art and philosophy of game design with moderator John Seabrook. The event was part of the New Yorker sponsored 2012: Stories From the Near Future conference which took place in May 2007.

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