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Posted by Kent Ward on December 31st, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out, Life, Work
Tags: 2009, AFO, Anime, concerts, Dethklok, Down Right Fierce, drinking, family, full sail, Global Game Jam, manly, Mastodon, Muay Thai, Propeller Anime Club, Swords of Orlandia, Thanksgiving, Twelve Laws of True Man, Year in Review, Year of the Fighting Game •
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I must say 2009, you were a year that started off with a lot of promise and I used that to bring myself to the point I am at now. I really feel like I won this year. As the last decade was ending, I was just some punk kid with a bunch of dreams, [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on November 22nd, 2009 under Life, Work
Tags: Career, full sail •
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Since July of 2003, I have always been affilated with Full Sail University, either as a student or employee. Now, I will simply be just an alumni. Friday was my last day at the school, and I will be moving on to the next stage of my career as a professional game developer simulation scientist.
Wait, [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on August 19th, 2009 under Networking, Work
Tags: analog game design, Brenda Braithwaite, full sail, igda orlando, inspiration •
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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 [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on July 7th, 2009 under Work
Tags: full sail, summer break •
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Well I got about half of my tasks of last week done. The existence of 4th of July weekend didn’t help matters but being an American comes first. There was also some company outing that I took one of my personal days for and went to with my friend Jared. Even though I didn’t get [...]
Posted by Kent Ward on June 29th, 2009 under Work
Tags: full sail, lab assignments, summer break •
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So this week is Summer Break at Full Sail, and I am in the office at Matty-Matt’s desk. Matty-Matt is the course director for one of the classes here at Full Sail but he’s on vacation this week so I am borrowing his cubicle to try to get as much work done as possible. The [...]