Make plans to come to the 2012 UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference (DEC) on Saturday, April 28th, starting at 10am in UMBC Lecture Hall 1. This day long event is organized by the UMBC Game Developers Club, and sponsored this year by Zynga.
The DEC is open to anyone, and features an all-star lineup of speakers from Firaxis Games, Zynga East, Pure Bang, and Mythic Entertainment. Whether you are a High School student, go to UMBC or another University, or are already working in a different industry, you are sure find interesting information about how the games industry works, how some current developers got started, and what they do. If you are a game developer, you are sure to find High School students, UMBC students and students from other Universities who are interested in jobs in the games industry.
Schedule:
| 10 AM | Barry Caudill, Director of Gameplay Development at Firaxis |
| 11 AM | Tim Train, Studio Manager at Zynga East |
| 12 PM | Lunch Break |
| 1 PM | Eric Jordan, Programmer at Firaxis |
| 2 PM | Ben Walsh, CEO of Pure Bang Games |
| 3 PM | Brian Johnson, Director of Online Operations at Mythic Entertainment |
If you are unfamiliar with the UMBC campus, there’s a convenient online map. Note that permit parking spots on campus are free over the weekend, so only head like a lemming to the visitor meter spots if you like spending quarters.