How to go broke making video games: The making of Journey and thatgamecompany John Edwards from thatgamecompany is speaking in the ETH CS Colloquium this coming Monday, April 7th. Awesome!! ------------------ Speaker: John Edwards, thatgamecompany (thatgamecompany) Title: How to go broke making video games: The making of Journey and thatgamecompany Place: ETH Building CAB, Room G 61, Universitätstrasse 6, 8006 Zürich Date: Monday, 7 April 2014 at 16:15 Abstract: Thatgamecompany started as a group of 4 students fresh out of school, and 7 years later stood as an entire company onstage at the Game Developer’s Choice awards to claim Game of the Year. They had also spent all their money, laid off all their employees, and very nearly ceased to exist in the process. This talk will recount the history of thatgamecompany, an independent game studio founded on the notion that games, much like books and movies, could provide an emotionally meaningful experience for everyone, not just the hardcore gamers they had previously been appealing to. It will cover the beginnings of the company at the University of Southern California School of Interactive Media, through the signing of a 3-game deal with Sony, to the culmination of that deal with the release of the award-winning PlayStation Network game, Journey, all told from the perspective of a programmer who was there from the beginning. The intended audience is anyone interested in making experimental video games, starting a software company, or simply hearing about other people’s dumb mistakes for 60 minutes. Bio: John Edwards is Lead Programmer at thatgamecompany, where he worked on PlayStation Network games flow, Flower and Journey. John has presented on technical and design topics at SIGGRAPH, the GDC, and Sonys internal tech conference. He also lived in Switzerland when he was a child, and (unfortunately) still speaks German like one. Language: English inf.ethz.ch/news-and-events/colloquium/event-detail.sp.html?eventFeedId=21705
Posted on: Wed, 02 Apr 2014 02:09:39 +0000
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