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Indie Games Days: 1/24 & 1/25
January 24th and 25th on Xfire
January 24th at 5pm EST (2pm PST), join Xfire for a Live Chat with independent game developers who will be online to answer your questions about game design and the trials and tribulations involved in breaking into the game industry.
Then, on January 25th at 5pm EST (2pm PST), attend the 12th meeting of the Xfire Debate Club, featuring a debate on the current state of independent games, the issues involved in the development and marketing of game, and what the future looks like for the genre of indie games.
Indie Games Q&A Live Chat: 1/24/08
This Q&A session will provide the Xfire community an opportunity to speak with successful and up-and-coming independent game developers.
Debate Club: The State of Independent Games: 1/25/08
This Debate Club meeting brings together some of the most innovative minds in independent games to discuss the issues facing the industry.
· What is the current climate in the independent gaming scene?
· Issues involved in developing independent games
· Creativity and innovation
· Where are independent games headed?
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Moderator: John Bardinelli
John Bardinelli is a freelance writer and slave to independent games. He has written for and helmed a number of gaming sites over the years, but now he hangs his hat at JayIsGames while keeping the hardcore masses informed of the indie scene over at Joystiq.
More info: www.bardinelli.com
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Jay Barnson
Jay has been a video game developer since 1994, working on such titles as Twisted Metal, Warhawk, Jet Moto, Outwars, ECW 2: Anarchy Rulz, and the soon-to-be-released MMO "Saga." In 2004, he formed the indie studio "Rampant Games," and creating his indie title, Void War. He continues mainstream game development during the day, develops indie games by night, and blogs on the indie game scene at Tales of the Rampant Coyote.
More info: www.rampantgames.com
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Geoff Benson
Geoff is the president and lead game designer for uTime Games, Inc, a tiny publisher of both olde tyme card games and of new-fangled online toys. He's been making games for fun since before he could type, even including a series of RPGs for the TI-85 graphing calculator. Currently, his efforts are focused on PseudoQuest, a humorous casual RPG that's currently in Open Beta. Well, when he's not coding the backend of the Xfire website or working on gamestats support for the Xfire client.
More info: www.utimegames.com
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Jenova Chen
Xinghan (Jenova) Chen, one of the first-generation video game design graduates from USC School of Cinematic Arts, creator behind the multi award-winning student game Cloud and flOw, co-founder of thatgamecompany. Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Jenova ventured to the US in 2003. Like what Hayao Miyazaki did to anime, Jenova wants to be one of the heroes who help to turn video games into a form of art and play that can be appreciated and enjoyed by every human being.
More info: www.jenovachen.com
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Corvus Elrod
Corvus Elrod is a storyteller with nearly twenty years experience in full-immersion improvisational performance. He began developing techniques to coax his audiences into telling their stories instead. He later abandoned his career in technology and started making plans to translate his ideas into videogames. But the more he saw of the industry, the more iconoclastic and anti-establishment he became. Now he runs Zakelro Story Studio and earns his money writing under contract for games and animation while he develops his participatory storytelling system, the HoneyComb Engine.
More info: Man Bytes Blog
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Amanda Fitch
Amanda Fitch graduated college with an English B.A. and became a technical writer. After finding nothing interesting on game store shelves, she decided to make a game that she wanted to play. Fitch knew that trying to get into a large game company like EA would be next to impossible, so she decided to start her own independent game company and make a little cash on the side. Eventually Fitch quit her day job and focused 100% of her time on games. Fitch's current game titles are Aveyond and Grimm's Hatchery.
More info: www.amaranthia.com
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Nils-Holger Henning
Nils-Holger Henning has been with Bigpoint.com since February 2006 as the Director of Business Development. Henning successfully attracted business co-operations with many of the major portals and media partners in Germany and throughout Europe with "turn-key" game solutions for their portals. Establishing the Sales and Marketing Departments at Bigpoint, he formulated a growth strategy based on internationalization and the development and publication of high quality games.
More info: www.bigpoint.net
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Mark Morris (Q&A Chat Only)
Mark Morris joined forces with Chris Delay and Thomas Arundel to found Introversion Software in 2001. Mark has used the experiences and management skills he gained from a period of work with the Ministry of Defence in London to ensure the smooth day-to-day running and operation of Introversion. Mark has been heavily involved in the successful online and retail launches of Introversion's titles, Uplink, the award-winning Darwinia and DEFCON, and is currently working on a number of exciting deals for future titles.
More info: www.introversion.co.uk
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Chris Pasley
Chris worked as the head of AdultSwim.com's gaming initiative as the site branched out into original, non-show-based games. Now the Director of Games at Kongregate.com, Chris is in charge of the site's fledgling Premium Games program that seeks to prove you can actually do something original in the Flash games space and make enough money to pay the light bill afterwards.
More info: www.kongregate.com
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Josiah Pisciotta
Josiah Pisciotta joined Chronic Logic in 2001 and took over full ownership of Chronic Logic LLC in 2005. Josiah began programming and developing games in 1990. Josiah contributed in the design, programming and production of Chronic Logic's 2003 Independent Game Festival (IGF) winner Bridge Construction Set, and Chronic Logic's 2005 IGF grand prize winner Gish. He also contributed to the development and production of Triptych, Word Peace and 2005/2007 IGF finalist "Golf?". Josiah produced and contributed in the design and development of Chronic Logic's latest game Kingdom Elemental and is currently producing and developing several new games with Chronic Logic and other developers.
More info: www.chroniclogic.com
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Indie Game Q&A Chat Jan. 24th
Indie Games Debate Jan. 25th
The Xfire Debate Club is open to all Xfire users.
What is The Two-Handed Sword?
The Xfire Debate Club is a forum for intelligent discussion on today's most pressing gaming questions. The Xfire Debate Club will bring together industry insiders, political figures and hardcore gamers in a live moderated chat.
Join the Clan!
After each debate, the Xfire team will read over the transcripts. Top debaters will be invited into the Xfire Debate Club Clan. Clan members will gain privileges at upcoming Debate Club meetings.
Up Your Rank!
Continued participation in Xfire Debate Club meetings will result in promotions (8 ranks total).
Visit the Debate Club Clan HQ!
What's Xfire?
Xfire is the ultimate tool for any PC gamer. It combines instant messaging, a server browser, peer-to-peer file downloads, in-game messaging and one of the most active gaming communities in the world into a small, simple package. Best of all, it's free!
Why you need Xfire:
With Xfire, you'll never be out of touch with your friends or the gaming world. You can join their games with just one click, get the latest game demos and trailers and keep track of your gaming stats all with one skinnable program. If you're not already one of the millions of Xfire users, register an account today and get into live online chats like this one!
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