Articles Posted in the Members Category
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Q&A with IGDA Executive Director, Kate Edwards
Q: Kate, you spent 13 years with Microsoft as a geographer and even created and led the Geopolitical Strategy Team. Where does the passion come from to imagine that you can create change from within a large company like Microsoft? When I entered Microsoft as a cartographer on Encarta Encyclopedia, interrupting my Ph.D progress to do [...]
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Member Benefit: Pearson
InformIT is the online presence of the family of information technology publishers and brands of Pearson, the world’s largest learning company. The Pearson User Group Program is proud to support IGDA and the spirit of community learning with trusted content and resources from the authors, creators, innovators, and leaders of technology and business. Visit www.informit.com/igda for information on new game [...]
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Call for Proposals: IGDA Summit
The 2013 Summit Call for Proposals is open until 10 May!http://www.igda.org/2013SummitCFP For 2013, the IGDA is looking for great sessions and speakers across a wide range of topics. We are open to receiving proposals on any topic relevant to the art and craft of game development, so if you have a great idea, please send a proposal! [...]
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Member Discount: Selfpubd
Selfpubd, the game publishing and business tool platform for every developer, is proud be a partner member of the IGDA! We’re so confident in what the IGDA represents – great developers like you – that we’re making a unique offer to all member game developers and studios. You can join Selfpubd at a full 40% [...]
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Donate Appreciated Stock to the IGDA Foundation
You can now easily donate shares of stock to the IGDA Foundation. As a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charity the IGDA Foundation can sell the stock without paying capital gains tax while you receive full-credit for the market value of shares at the time of the donation, regardless of your cost basis. This allows the Foundation to [...]
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Game Design Aspect of the Month: Ambiguous Morality, Kohlberg, and The Witcher
The following article first appeared on the blog, Game Design Aspect of the Month (http://gamedesignaspect.blogspot.com), also known as GDAM, introducing the topic of Mature Games. GDAM is currently edited by Sande Chen, founding member of the IGDA Game Design SIG. When I played The Witcher last year, I was struck by how morally ambiguous the [...]
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Update: Member Discounts
Get Your Discounts Here! IGDA Members often get special access to discounts for conferences, software, etc. Below are just a few of the discounts available (or soon-to-be available) to IGDA Members: Apps World North America (details below!) When: 7-8 February 2013 Where: San Francisco, US What: 20% discount on registration Gaming Connect @ TV Connect [...]
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IGDA Scholars Program
We are delighted to announce that the 2013 IGDA Scholarships Program is now accepting applications for the Game Developers Conference. The program is open to all students and recent graduates in fields relating to game development. Applications should be submitted by January 11th 2013, please see http://www.igda.org/scholars/2013-info/how-to-apply/ for further information. The IGDA Scholarships are awarded to the [...]
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Member Spotlight June 2011
Know of a superlative IGDA member? Nominate them for our Member Spotlight by emailing the IGDA Community Manager, Ryan Arndt, at ryan@igda.org. Nicolas Leymonerie After time growing up in France, working in the game industry and attending meetings with IGDA Paris, Nicolas moved to Vietnam. There was no chapter there at the time, so Nicolas [...]
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Heard Around the IGDA, June 2011
Highlights from the IGDA on Facebook & Twitter: What is a game? What is not a game? A game is this thing that makes you understand you’ve been invited to play. The essential element is, hence, that you accept the invitation. –Altug Isigan What does the IGDA mean to you? networking and cool people! — [...]
