[gameprogrammer] Re: Welcome new members!
- From: Jonathan Dearborn <grimfang4@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: gameprogrammer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2010 11:35:29 -0400
Oy, La Jolla to Troy? That had to be quite a change. :)
Jonny D
On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 9:32 AM, Casey O'Donnell <caseyodonnell@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> Bob...
>
> I really like the practice of welcoming new members. A while back some
> folks posted information about themselves and I never took the time to
> participate. But I am now. :)
>
> I joined the list back in 2006, when I was at a crossroads. I was
> either going to go back into the game industry "center" as a tools
> engineer or go to graduate school to study the collaborative
> interdisciplinary work of the game industry (as you'll see from the
> story below, I did the grad school thing but have since met the person
> I lost that job to, and he was better than me...). At the time, I was
> working for an Autodesk subcontractor on different parts of their
> products and also custom tool development for clients. Prior to that I
> was an engineer at a small game studio in La Jolla, CA (3D Pipeline)
> and before that I worked for Jet Propulsion Labs in Pasadena.
>
> While in graduate school I worked on several serious games (we called
> them "design tools" because at the time the NSF wouldn't get close to
> "games"... How times have changed) and eventually took up residence at
> Vicarious Visions in Troy/Menands, New York. I spent five years doing
> research at VV during the development of numerous titles, most notably
> though, Spiderman 3 for the PS2, Wii, and PSP. I've also spent time at
> the now defunct Red Octane India and several other studios in India.
>
> Now I'm at the University of Georgia teaching classes on media
> industry structure and capstone projects for students. Occasionally
> (when budgets allow) I teach introductory game design classes. I
> recently founded a small game company here in Athens with two full
> time artists and a part time engineer with myself as
> designer/producer. Our first game will be released in January.
>
> That's it. :) Welcome everyone...
>
> Cheers.
> Casey
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2010 at 11:15 AM, Bob Pendleton <bob@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > I want to welcome new members fantomschnecke, bpowell415, seg.fault.x86,
> and
> > dschoeni1. As always, I encourage you to join the discussion and to ask
> > questions. We can't have get answers without asking questions.
> >
>
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> Casey O'Donnell, Ph.D.
> Assistant Professor, Department of Telecommunications
> Grady College, University of Georgia
>
> http://www.caseyodonnell.org
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