Every year, the UMBC Game Developers Club organizes a Digital Entertainment Conference (DEC) with a day of games industry veterans speaking on a variety of topics. This year's is on Saturday, April 27th, starting at 10am in the Engineering Building lecture hall on the UMBC campus.
The DEC is free, open to anyone, and features speakers from Firaxis Games, Zenimax, Pure Bang Games, Bioware Mythic, and Mindgrub. Whether you are a High School student, go to UMBC or another University, or are already working in a different industry, you are sure find interesting information about how the games industry works, how some current developers got started, and what they do. If you are a game developer, you are sure to find High School students, UMBC students and students from other Universities who are interested in jobs in the games industry.
Schedule:
10:00 | Jeremy Shopf – Lead Graphics Engineer, Firaxis |
11:00 | Ching Lau – Artist, Zenimax |
12:00 | Lunch |
1:00 | Ben Walsh – CEO, Pure Bang Games |
2:00 | Carrie Gouskos – Lead Producer, Bioware Mythic |
3:00 | Michelle Menard – Designer |
4:00 | Alex Hachey – Game Design Lead, Mindgrub |