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Digital Entertainment Conference 2012
The 2012 Digital Entertainment Conference is coming Saturday, April 28th to UMBC. Every year, the UMBC Game Developer's Club invites speakers from the videogames industry to come in and discuss important topics in the games industry. This year, the conference is sponsored by Zynga, and will feature speakers from Zynga, Firaxis, Mythic Entertainment, and Pure Bang Games. The conference will be taking place in the Biological Sciences Building, LH 1, starting at 10 am. The schedule of speakers is as follows:
10 am - Barry Caudill, Director of Gameplay Development at Firaxis
11 am - Tim Train, Studio Manager at Zynga East
12 pm - Lunch Break
1 pm - Eric Jordan, Programmer at Firaxis
2 pm - Ben Walsh, CEO of Pure Bang Games
3 pm - Brian Johnson, Director of Online Operations at Mythic Entertainment
Admission is free and the conference is open to anyone, so come out and take advantage of this amazing opportunity!
If you are looking to know more about us please contact morijo1@umbc.edu or check out our myUMBC group at http://my.umbc.edu/groups/gdc/ (you can also click on MyUMBC menu asset to your left but you have to have a MyUMBC account to view).