Monday, September 10th at 3pm PDT (6pm EDT): Learn more about what it takes to create great games, from development to modding. Featuring Xfire inventor Chris Kirmse, Charlie Cleveland, Tara Teich, Max McGuire and Jordan Toor.
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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 participate in great events like these!
Special Guests
Chris Kirmse
Chris Kirmse is the VP of Engineering at Xfire and is in charge of product development. Chris was previously a Senior Engineer of Yahoo Games. At Yahoo!, he also built the Yahoo FIFA system handling 400,000 simultaneous users. Prior to Yahoo!, Chris created Meridian 59, the first 3D MMORPG game in the world. Chris is an avid gamer, and he insists that Guild Wars is the best game on Xfire.
Charlie is a video game designer and programmer and has been working on his own PC games and professionally for other companies for the past ten years. His most recent game is Natural Selection, an online action/strategy game set in a sci-fi universe. Charlie has recently founded Unknown Worlds Entertainment in downtown San Francisco, where he hopes to continue making games in the NS universe. His long-term goal is simple: to unite, excite and enlighten the world through play.In his spare time, Charlie enjoys cooking, working out and enjoying the beauty found everywhere in San Francisco.
Tara Teich has been working in the game industry since 2000. She is currently the lead AI Engineer on LucasArts' Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. She's worked on a variety of games including Empire Earth II and Dungeon Siege: Legends of Aranna. When she isn't busy dreaming up diabolic ways to destroy the players of her games, she can be found staring at her dusty guitar, pulling a book off of a towering stack of unread titles, and maybe even playing a little trading card game called WoW.
Max is the Technical Director and founding partner at Unknown Worlds Entertainment in San Francisco. Previously, he was the first employee and Lead Engine Programmer at Iron Lore Entertainment, where he developed the tech and tools behind Titan Quest and Titan Quest: Immortal Throne. Now he is creating the dynamic infestation, tools and most everything else needed for Natural Selection 2. When not building next-gen prototypes on weekend benders, he cooks, juggles 6.5 clubs and enjoys local rock bands.
Jordan "gammasts" Toor is the Head Developer of Xfire Plus!, the #1 plugin site for the Xfire program. Check out the Xfire Plus: Music Plugin, a program that displays your currently playing music (from 11 different music players) in your Xfire status.
