The year is 2010… what happen? Life got a little interesting and I ended up traveling the world for a bit. Delhi -> Vancouver – > Tokyo – > Dubai. Dubai is kind of its own story / project. I then taught too many classes at once. And pretty much half a year went by before I had a chance to catch my breath. Now I’m breath catching. Time for retroactive blogging!

The Game Development Club at San Jose State has been pulling guest speakers from the industry since its inception but now we are beginning a renewed focus on the indi community. We are essentially indi developers after all. The landscape is changing and I believe it doesn’t need to be all about landing a corporate job after school anymore. Well, I always believed this but having an arts background means you’ve been planning to and looking forward to being poor your whole life. With the rise of the indi however, the students are beginning to also see a non-corporate future as a viable one as well. So with new direction and ambition we are aiming to bring in big names from the world of the little guys. The first one being Anna Anthropy

Anna is well known in the indi game world as not just a developer but also a collaborator, speaker, critic, and judge. She made time in her schedule even though GDC was happening all over the place. It was a big win, sorry EPIC! win for the club to have her grace our presence. We are stoked and hopefully its just the beginning with many more speakers to come.

Further Reading
SJSU GameDev: Anna Anthropy on Guided Level Design
AuntiePixelante.com
Eegra Interview: Anna ‘Dessgeega’ Anthropy
James’ ArtGame GDC Session afterthoughts

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