Game Legends Will Wright And John Romero Headline First Annual Foundation Charity Dinner At IGDA Leadership Forum
SAN FRANCISO – Sept. 30, 2010 – Game Legends Will Wright and John Romero are confirmed for the First Annual Foundation Charity Dinner at the IGDA Leadership Forum, Friday, Nov. 5 at the San Francisco Airport Marriott, the final day of the IGDA Leadership Forum.
Register for the Leadership Forum
The dinner, preceded by a cocktail reception, will feature a live, on-stage discussion between John Romero and Will Wright, whose work on series such as the Sims and Sporehas helped define the game industry. Romero, a prolific game developer himself, is best known for his design and coding work on such titles as DOOM, Quake and Wolfenstein 3D. The designer-to-designer discussion is in keeping with the mission of the Romero Archives, which is dedicated to preserving the work, processes and history of game design and game designers. Romero, a passionate advocate for the preservation of game design history, has already completed design documentary discussions with Sid Meier, Bob Bates, Don Daglow, Noah Falstein and others with many more in progress.
Proceeds from the dinner will help support the various charitable projects supported by the Foundation including the Romero Archives, the Eric Dybsand Memorial Scholarship for AI Development, the Accessibility SIG "Gamers with Disabilities" Project and the other charitable works of the IGDA Foundation.
Seating is limited for this event. Register now!
Cost is $125 for Leadership Forum attendees and IGDA members and one guest each and $150 for general public (group pricing available).
The Romero Archives
The Romero Archives was founded by programmer and game designer John Romero and is dedicated to preserving the work, processes and history of game design and game designers. The mission of the Romero Archives is five-fold:
- To catalog and preserve the work of game designers.
- To catalog and preserve the design process of game designers.
- To make this work freely accessible to game historians, art historians, new media historians, academics, students of game design and game designers.
- To encourage game developers to archive their design process for future study.
- With the assistance of all the above, to make apparent the validity of game design as an art form.
Their website is www.romeroarchives.com, on twitter @romeroarchives and by email at info@romeroarchives.com.
The IGDA Foundation
The IGDA Foundation exists to further the mission of the International Game Developers Association and enhance the lives of game developers through educational, scientific and charitable works.
Their website is http://foundation.igda.org.
For more information, or sponsorship opportunities, please contact info@igda.org.
- andrewleaf's blog
- Login or join to post comments
Post to Twitter