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Return from GDC 2010
Mar 15th
I’ve just gotten back from the Game Developer’s Conference in San Francisco, and it was pretty amazing. I shall resume my tutorial series tomorrow (March 16th) so be welcome to post feedback and what I can do to make it better around here. I will post more about GDC as well when I am feeling a bit better as I caught some sort of sore throat during my time in San Francisco. Until then, happy development!
Long time no activity
Dec 31st
Killing Floor
Oct 27th
Recently on Steam, Killing Floor was updated with some new content along with allowing everyone to download and play free for the entire weekend (which is something that happens on Steam quite frequently with other games).
Killing Floor is an UT2K4 mod made by Tripwire Interactive, creators of Source Mod Red Orchestra.
When Killing Floor was first released, I figured it was just a Left 4 Dead clone and even though I was thinking about buying it, I ultimately decided not to (as I found Left 4 Dead to be very repetitive and didn’t want to go through that again).
I decided to pick it up during the free weekend, and well, I haven’t stopped playing since. I bought it for $14.99 21 minutes before the free weekend was over, as I did not want to interrupt my game play.
I have logged more than 30+ hours playing this game in the last 3 days. Seriously.
I will create a more in-depth review later, but my opinion is BUY BUY BUY.
IGDA Orange County Chapter Meeting
Oct 24th
Tuesday 20th, the Orange County Chapter of IGDA had one of their first meetings in an attempt to bring independent game developers from around Orange County and even from Los Angeles together to meet and greet eachother while taking the first steps to becoming charted with IGDA. The meeting was held at the Motion Capture Lab at Obsidian Entertainment in Irvine, with guest speaker Feargus Urquhart, CEO of Obsidian Entertainment. Urquhart made a very informative presentation about Contracts and Agreements, which I found to be very helpful in many of my current agreements with developers and publishers I am currently dealing with.
Next meeting is to be held on November 17th, which the group will start the running for board positions.
After I acquire the pictures Estill took during the meeting (including a few shots of me sitting in the front row literally 2 feet away from CEO Feargus Urquhart), I will update this post accordingly.
Heres a pic of me and Johnnie Estill, photographer of the event and brilliant instructor at The Art Institute of Orange County.
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