Ignite Conference

The highlight of March in the middle of an endless winter quarter was the Ignite Conference co-hosted by Rice University and UC Davis.  This is just a preview of the first Bay Area tour day, which was followed by two days of speakers.  

Each founder had very different reasons and motivations for building their company but they all faced and surmounted relentless amounts of challenges.  I especially learned a lot from Nicholas Seet and Mark Randall's talks, and how a technology first approach could have drawbacks.

Best part of the entire experience was meeting like-minded and passionately bright students from Davis, Rice, Lamar, Baylor.

GDC 2018

A few photos from this year's GDC in San Francisco.  I focused on learning from lots of talks, the most memorable being by: 

Jason Rohrer, Zach Barth, Yoko Taro, and Sam Coster

Didn't get to demo as many games, but snapped a bunch of the cool-looking ones!  Not pictured here: Baba is You, definitely my favourite game of the show.

PAX Prime 2014 - Penguemic and Tournaments

 Penguemic Booth at PAX Prime!  We met so many penguin fans, and sold all of our t-shirts!

Educational Game Space with Machineers and Universe Sandbox 2

As usual, I spent half my time in the tournament room, competing in Towerfall, Tetris Attack, Tumblestone, and Diddy Kong Racing.  I made top 8 in Towerfall, and top 6 in Tumblestone!  Everyone was so good at the games.  Some Towerfall players busted out 'dodge canceling'.  It really caught me by surprise >>--->

I wish I had practiced more for Diddy Kong Racing, though.  I was embarrassingly bad at it, having not played in years.