Upcoming Talks
Just to keep people in the know, I'm giving two talks in the coming months. The first will be at Games Forum Germany (site is in German, obviously, thought the talk will be in English) on either...
View ArticleGDC Career Seminar Talk: 20 Lessons Learned
GDC is over, and my talk "From College To Industry: 20 Lessons Learned for Getting the Most out of Your Early Career" went fairly well I think. The room was packed, which was no small feat considering...
View ArticleCardboard Jam: Best Jam Ever
This weekend Boston Game Jams ran Cardboard Jam, a game jam where everyone made board or card games instead of making digital games. I have to say, I think I had way more fun at this game jam than at...
View ArticleThe Up and Coming
Update: Better late than never, my talk is now on my site. Happy New Year! For those that don't know, in May (or so) I moved from Boston to Charlottesville, VA. Thankfully, the awesome people at Fire...
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Post GDC 2012 Post
I'm back from GDC 2012, which is my 11th GDC straight, and I'm almost fully recovered. This year was certainly better than the last two for sure, but it doesn't take much to top getting minor food...
View ArticleResources from the Professional Programmer’s Panel
I got an email recently asking about the resources we went over in our GDC 2012 panel this year. I figured it would be useful to have these in one place, so here we go! Game development sites mentioned...
View ArticleThoughts on Open Offices
There's been a lot of talk on twitter lately (some of it pushed by me) about open offices, interruptions at work, and generally how to avoid being multitasked to the point of lost productivity...
View ArticleOn Air Hangout with Mike Acton
In case you haven't heard, this coming Monday, September 10th, I'm doing an On Air Hangout with Mike Acton, talking to him about his thoughts on leadership. If you can't tell from my recent blog posts,...
View ArticleThe Interruption-less Office
In a previous post, I talked a bit about why I'm not a fan of open offices, and one of the main reasons is because they are too prone to various types of interruptions that actually keep creative...
View ArticleOpen Environments in a Closed Office
I've been railing against open offices and office meetings (especially micro meetings) on my blog for the last few weeks, and I have one more thing to add to this series. I'd like to talk about...
View ArticleGDC 2013 – Programmers Panel
GDC is over, and it was fairly awesome. I'll have a quick "thoughts on GDC" post later, but I wanted to get the information for the GCS panel I participated in up as soon as possible. GDC did not...
View ArticleGCS Professional Programmers Panel is Back
Last year and the year before, we did a panel at GDC's Game Career Seminar for students (and others) to ask questions of professional programmers. We're doing it again this year, and we want your...
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