Archive for the ‘Networking’ Category

Banzai Pecan needs some extra talent!

Posted by Kent Ward on August 25th, 2009 under Games, Networking
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I have talked about my friend Mike “Brotha Kyo”  Burgess on this website before when it comes to working conventions. He has been an awesome friend over the years and I would do what I can to help him. For those who don’t know, he is an independent game developer who makes games whenever he [...]

“How I dumped electricity and learned to love design”

Posted by Kent Ward on August 19th, 2009 under Networking, Work
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Tonight’s IGDA Orlando meeting at Full Sail was something inspiring. 20+ year industry veteran Brenda Brathwaite came down from SCAD to talk to us about how analog game design inspired her to love game design again. A couple years ago, she gave up playing videogames when she had noticed the lack of diversity amongst titles [...]

GDX was a blast!

Posted by Kent Ward on April 21st, 2009 under Conventions, Features, Games, Networking
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This past week, I was in Georgia on a very amazing vacation. Part of that trip including attending the Game Developers eXchange in beautiful Savannah, Georgia. It was hosted by the Savannah College of Art and Design, a school that has a very interesting Game Design program. The conference had mostly SCAD students with at [...]

Long time no see, again. I have a big roadtrip soon!

Posted by Kent Ward on April 9th, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Life, Networking
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Hey everyone, I have not posted here in a while, yet again. There’s a lot things I do want to talk about but I never make the time to do it. Life has been busy and I have been working on a new game in Abobe Flash that I hope gets done in a couple [...]

Full Sail’s 24 hour Playmine this Saturday!

Posted by Kent Ward on September 24th, 2008 under Games, Networking
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For the Full Sail Game Development students that read this website, there will be a project coming up this weekend that will test your programming skills, teamwork, creativity, mental and physical endurance, and most of all: bravery.
The 24 hour Playmine is an extra-curricular activity at Fullsail University where students in the Game Development program, coming [...]

IGDA Orlando Monthly mixer coming up!

Posted by Kent Ward on August 27th, 2008 under Networking
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Today, I had received my new IGDA membership card the mail which is great because there’s one of those meetings tomorrow for the Orlando chapter. These are always a fun time because the game development community in Orlando is slowly growing and we’re mingling more due to chapter meetings happening more often. Except, these aren’t [...]