and one person complained that it didn’t use enough of hte existing classes - duh - it’s a new major. Guess i’ll see if some other dept wants it. Guess we could be our own dept. Tho right now there’s just me, no we. And no message from anybody in power about when/if there will [...]
Archive > January 2008
blog post with 10 festivals to enter indie games
http://www.gamecareerguide.com/features/476/10_indie_student_game_.php
Many of them are open to student entries too - starts with the biggie the Independent Game Festival held in conjunction with the Game Developers Conference - 12 of the top winners get some money to help cover the cost of coming to the conference to present their games and get their awards
Like the game [...]
lots of blogs by developers
what a cool resource for the students (and for me) - blogs written by developers
we could use them to reach out for advice or internships, we can read about the things they’re working on, there’s lots of advice to new designers there too which is good - students always believe things other people (besides their [...]
Waiting is killing me
I kow i know - peopel have lives - but their lives are messing with mine. I put up the docs for hte new major and sent the urls to the powers that be for comments and nothing. I can’t go forward without some info. Guess I”ll email specific questions and see if that gets [...]
Got a Domain
The dean ok’d buying a domain and getting hosting for it. Actually she said to buy several domains - so I bought 4. Right now they’re all pointed to the same place
Here’s the url - http://parkgameportal.com/index.html
I picked a template with a big side graphic so I can eventually show off the students working, playing games, [...]