Posts Tagged ‘full sail’

The Final Day of the Decade!

Posted by Kent Ward on December 31st, 2009 under Conventions, Games, Geekin Out, Life, Work
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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, [...]

It’s been good, Full Sail University!

Posted by Kent Ward on November 22nd, 2009 under Life, Work
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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, [...]

“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 [...]

Super Smash Bros: Brawl fundraiser tournament at Full Sail University!

Posted by Kent Ward on July 9th, 2009 under Games
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2 Liter Bottle, creators of the upcoming Full Sail University Game Project game The Depths, will be holding a Super Smash Bros: Brawl tournament on Sunday, July 19th. I shall be assisting them in the tournament operations. The game will be played on the Nintendo Wii and players may bring their own controller.
There will be [...]

The results of last week!

Posted by Kent Ward on July 7th, 2009 under Work
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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 [...]

Summer Break?

Posted by Kent Ward on June 29th, 2009 under Work
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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 [...]

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 [...]