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GDC 2008: Are you ready?
If you're attending GDC 2008, you're not alone amongst Pittsburgh IGDA members. You'll be seeing a lot of Pittsburgh out in San Francisco, here's just a couple of ways:
Local IGDA GDC Scholarship Winner
Lisa Brown, a student at Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center, is one of 25 2008 GDC scholarship winners. Each year the IGDA awards the GDC scholarship to outstanding and promising students in game related programs. Here's what Lisa has to say:
"I'm extremely excited about the scholarship and attending GDC! I'll be hitting up the Worlds in Motion summit with my ETC project-mates (Bandology) to absorb what I can about massively multiplayer online worlds. Beyond investigating the game design and production tracks at the conference, I'm also really looking forward to the mentor program they have set up for the GDC scholars. "
Independent Games Festival
This year be sure to check out IGF Showcase to see three games that got their beginnings right here in Pittsburgh: World of Goo by 2D boy, Skyrates by Airship Studios, and Polarity by the Carnegie Mellon ETC. (Actually, all three of these games were conceived by ETC students.) All three games have also been nominated for the newly created Gleemie Award from Wizards of the Coast. The IGD Awards Ceremony will be 6:30pm Wednesday, February 20th, 2008, in the Esplanade Room in the South Hall.
Local Studio CEO Jesse Schell Speaking
Schell Games head, ETC Professor, and former IGDA Chairman Jesse Schell will be participating in a couple of events at GDC:
1. IGDA Educational Summit Tutorial (Monday-Tuesday)
2. Small Studio Survival Stories Roundtable (Wednesday-Friday)
If you know any other Pittsburgh ties to this year's GDC, please let us know by posting in the forum. Don't forget to drop by the IGDA booth to get your free tshirt, and of course, we hope you RSVP'ed for the IGDA party Tuesday night. See you in San Fran!
Posted by PittsburghIGDA on February 17, 2008 11:34 AM