Game Career Seminar
September 17th, 2008
Austin Convention Center

Keynote Announced:

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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.

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"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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