Game Career Seminar 
September 17th, 2008
Austin Convention Center
Keynote Announced:
Keynote Speaker:
Harvey Smith,
Game Director
(Arkane Studios)
Smith is a game designer and producer who has been making games
professionally since 1993. At Ion Storm, he was lead designer of the
award winning game Deus Ex, which received a BAFTA in 2000, and
project director of Deus Ex: Invisible War. He has also worked at
Midway Games (Austin) as studio creative director, Multitude as lead
designer of Fireteam, and Origin Systems. Smith has spoken at various
game conferences and won the Game Design Challenge at GDC 2006 with
his concept "Peace Bomb," a game aimed at winning the Nobel Peace
Prize. In his most recent venture with Raphael Colantonio at Arkane
Studios, Smith has moved back into independent development and is
working on an unannounced project.
"Game developers are some of the luckiest people
alive, says Harvey Smith, especially if they're entering the field
now."
Session: Luckiest People Alive
Date: Wednesday, September 17
Description:
In this session, Smith will discuss what he sees as an imminent
explosion of change, creativity, and possibility within the
interactive medium. The session will list emerging cultural and
technological trends driving this potential revolution and will
discuss the creative and collaborative values that will aid new
developers the most in terms of capitalizing on the coming period of
vital change. "The work of the next decade will be fascinating," Smith
says.
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Past Events
Game Career Seminar at GDC 2008:
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Game Career Seminar at
Austin GDC 2007:
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