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Hello everyone. Episode 6, wut-wut. I’m not even going to describe this one (now with 100% more Oprah):
As always, thanks for listening!
Mike Geig is a Technical Evangelist for Unity Technologies where he develops and delivers recorded, live, and onsite learning content. He enjoys loitering and accordions. A gamer at heart, Mike works to make game development fun and accessible for all skill sets. Rumor has it he also wrote a book called “Unity Game Development in 24 Hours”. Mike was once set on fire and has over a million “likes” on Facebook.
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Mike Wu has embarked on a second career as an indie developer and budding VR enthusiast. As a designer, artist, and leader, he’s enjoyed working in some of the most popular sci-fi worlds including Star Wars, Halo, and Dead Space. When not tinkering incessantly in Unity, despite a woeful lack of expertise, this Mike has enjoyed teaching game design at the Cleveland Institute of Art and traveling. He now has a gigantic photographic library of reference material that he’s never used, thanks to Google. His anecdotes from working within great development teams are getting old, so enjoy them while they’re fresh!
I see how you solicited answers from the listeners so that we can feel that we own a tiny part of this podcast. Crafty, crafty…
Regarding game conferences, I have only ever been to one. I went to the Ohio Game Developers Expo in 2014. It was fun! But it was 3 hours away and I made a day trip of it, which didn’t leave much time for the unscheduled socialization that Mike mentions as being the best part of conferences. I also had a bad wisdom tooth headache the whole time. =P
The reason I went to the conference was to discover cool game development goings-on in Ohio. So it was a bit disappointing when the keynote speaker was a guy who used to live in Ohio but moved to California to do game dev, and whose speech was mostly about how Ohio needs to become more like California in order to ever be relevant. Thanks guy. -__-
Re: backing kickstarter projects, I only ever backed two of them. Sir, You Are Being Hunted was the first one, which I backed because it was Jim Rossignol’s game and I spent about 25 hours a day reading Rock Paper Shotgun back then so it felt like a good exchange. That was a successful project but curiously I never played it for more than a few minutes. It’s been forever on my “play this next” list but always gets bumped by something that seems a little bit less nerve-wracking. The second thing I backed was Gnilley because it seemed hilarious, but that did not hit its funding goal, which is ultimately a good thing for the vocal chords. I also bought Spacebase DF-9 in early access, which turned out to certainly be a thing. =P More recently I’ve kind of stopped paying attention to games until they’re finished (not because of Spacebase though — that was just a spontaneous fluke after I had already decided I wasn’t an Early Access kind of person) and now I rarely even read previews, which I suppose is just a function of free time versus number of new games available.
We may be crafty, but we still didn’t get ya to ask a question 🙂
Thanks for the comment!