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Roundtable Podcast - Phil Carlisle, Alex Scarborough, Jon Jorajuria and you?

by Rob Sandbach · 01/31/2007 (2:40 pm) · 1 comments

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Join us in the IGaT Podcasting Roundtable Premier Episode

First a help request, taken from the Indie Games and Tech Podcast feed :

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We are establishing a regular, informed roundtable podcast, aimed at discussing developments from across the indie game development scene. Produced fortnightly, the should be a fun, yet informative way to hear about the lastest game development news. As it is produced primarily by members of the Garage Games community, no doubt in its first few episodes news and discussion will be a little biased towards GG developments, but we hope that in time, and with help from the audience we will be able to aggregate and discuss news from all communities.
Our panel currently consists of:

Phil Carlisle
Phil is a professional game programmer and lecturer. He has been programming games for 20+ years, with several published games behind him. He has at various times specialised in Networking, AI and General Game Programming and has a soft spot for 3D gfx.

Jon Jorajuria
Jon Jorajuria's primary talents center around music and sound effects. Jon has been a professional guitarist for the past 16 years with a total 27 years of playing experience. Jon has also been a sound and recording engineer for 12 years, working with various developers on many titles.

Rob Sandbach
Rob runs an independent game studio, Urban Games; which is currently in talks with various publishers about it's first commercial release - chainWorks. Designing and developing games for 5 years, his interests lie in innovative game design and production of Casual titles.

Alex Scarborough
A die hard coder, with a specialty in rendering and graphics pipelines. Alex is a self taught OpenGL programmer with 2 years experience in general OpenGL programming and six months experience with advanced OpenGL features such as GLSL shaders, framebuffer objects, and vertex buffer objects.

You?
There are still a couple of spots left on the panel (1 - 2), if you are interested in joining us, and are available on Friday February 12th at 11pm GMT for recording, then please send me us an email with your name and brief background.

Likely topics of discussion for our premier episode are Josh Ritter's announced MMO kit, the results of Dreamer's 90 day competition and Torque X's impact on us indies. If you want to help us out, send me an email. You don't have to be high and mighty (hey, i'm the only non associate on there - come support the GG low-lifes!!), just have a good grip of indie development, the english language and Skype!

Casual Connect in Amsterdam
I managed to get a free pass to Casual Connect (saving $450) to attend as a press member for the podcast. Besides meeting up with Phil, Jay Moore and others, I'll be interviewing anyone I can get my hands on from the casual games industry. I've even got access to the press reviews so I might be recording a few of those If I'm allowed :).

The results of these interviews will all go up on the podcast once I get back and clear them all up. Another request for you - If you have any questions you'd like me to ask to anyone there either post here or again drop me an email. Details on whose attending are here. I really need some inspiration for questions and information developers would like to find out!

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01/31/2007 (3:16 pm)
good luck with that man, you know how to contact me if you need my help on anything ;)