The student community of the International Game Developers Association
Tania is a freelance environmental artist who also runs a VR company called Popoko. Before the games industry, she worked in the aerospace industry as a design engineer. Her current project as a freelancer is Undead Darlings.
This is a transcript of an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session with Tania Pavlisak, hosted by the IGDA Student SIG. If you’re interested in doing an AMA with students, you can sign up here.
Tania is a freelance environmental artist who also runs a VR company called Popoko. Before the games industry, she worked in the aerospace industry as a design engineer. Her current project as a freelancer is Undead Darlings.
Location: The IGDA Student SIG Discord Server, on the #ask-me-anything channel.
Date & Time: Thursday, February 1st at 1:00pm PST, and the event will last for one hour.
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Cassie started her career as a graphic/web designer contracting for a U.S. government agency, meanwhile making art and games during spare time with friends. Now she works at Valve. 💪 Follow her on Twitter.
This is a recording of an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session with Cassie Murphy, hosted by the IGDA Student SIG. If you’re interested in doing an AMA with students, you can sign up here.
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Cassie started her career as a graphic/web designer contracting for a U.S. government agency, meanwhile making art and games during spare time with friends. Now she works at Valve. 💪 Follow her on Twitter.
Location: The IGDA Student SIG Discord Server, on the #ask-me-anything channel for text, and the 🔊AMA-Voice channel for voice chat.
Date & Time: Friday, January 26th at 12:00pm PST, and the event will last for one hour.
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Tom is an indie game developer from Seattle, WA, USA. He’s created and shipped two mobile games, and is currently doing UI engineering at Harebrained Games. Follow Tom on Twitter
This is a transcript of an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session with Tom Hunt, hosted by the IGDA Student SIG. If you’re interested in doing an AMA with students, you can sign up here.
Tom is an indie game developer from Seattle, WA, USA. He’s created and shipped two mobile games, and is currently doing UI engineering at Harebrained Games. Follow Tom on Twitter
Location: The IGDA Student SIG Discord Server, on the #ask-me-anything channel.
Date & Time: Tuesday, January 23rd at 8:00pm PST, and the event will last for one hour.
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Terence is a concept artist working on the hit VR game Rec Room. He also likes to make alternative-controller games, and this will be his second year participating in alt.ctrl.GDC.
This is a recording of an “Ask Me Anything” (AMA) session with Terence Tolman, hosted by the IGDA Student SIG. If you’re interested in doing an AMA with students, you can sign up here.
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The IGDA Student SIG is hosting a session at the 2018 Game Developers Conference. It’s thanks to the IGDA’s partnership with GDC that we are able to host events like this.
Date: Friday, March 23rd.
Time: 10:00AM – 11:00AM
Location: South Hall, Street Level – Room 104
Description: Local game development clubs play an important role in helping students prepare for their careers in the games industry. At this roundtable, club leaders and academics will share tips with each other on how to run better student communities at their school, college, university, or other educational institution. This session is organized by the IGDA Student SIG, which manages the Academic Chapter program for the IGDA. Over the last several years, we’ve worked with dozens of student organizations to help them overcome common problems and challenges that many groups run into. These groups have achieved a great deal of success, often becoming the main hub of game development activity in their entire city or region. This is a great opportunity to learn from them and their experience. You’ll come away from this session feeling empowered to build a strong, student-run, game developer community at your school.
Terence is a concept artist working on the hit VR game Rec Room. He also likes to make alternative-controller games, and this will be his second year participating in alt.ctrl.GDC.
This AMA will be over voice chat. 🎧
Location: The IGDA Student SIG Discord Server, on the #ask-me-anything channel for text, and the 🔊General voice-chat channel.
Date & Time: Friday, January 19th at 2:00pm PST, and the event will last for one hour.
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Hey everyone!
It’s time for our first virtual roundtable of the year (and in over a year).
Global Game Jam is this month. The event itself is January 26th – 28th, and the deadline for registration was January 5th (late registration deadline is the 14th). With the event coming up, IGDA Student SIG felt it was time for another Hosting Game Jams virtual roundtable.
What do you need to know about hosting game jams? What are some lessons that your chapter learned from hosting game jams? What would you recommend to chapters who are hosting their first game jam?
Location: We’ll be hosting this roundtable on our Discord server, so prepare to join the call from a laptop or computer. When the event starts, we will send an invite via email or our social mediaaccounts, but feel free to join the Discord server now.
Date & Time: Thursday, January 11th at 10:00pm EST. The event will last 90 minutes. Other timezones are listed below for reference: