GAME CAREER SEMINAR AT AUSTIN GDC - Friday, September 7, 2007 at the Austin Convention Center.

KEYNOTE:

A Game Industry Journeyman

Presented by:
Andy Schatz
CEO, Founder Pocketwatch Games

From his start as an intern at one of the first internet gaming portals in 1995 through his work in the big budget console world to the happy land of indie game development and the casual gaming gold rush, Andy has seen it all. Learn about how to break into the industry, and then how to break out of it.

Keynote Biography:

Host of the 2007 IGF awards, Andy Schatz founded Pocketwatch Games, creators of the acclaimed indie ecosystem-building game, Venture Arctic. After working for 7 years under the thumb of the large-scale videogame development world (where he wrote the first Xbox Live code to ship to the public), Andy decided to go 'indie'. His first title, Wildlife Tycoon: Venture Africa, was built in 10 months on a budget of $8,000 and has sold over 70,000 copies worldwide.