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Local Job Postings for Maryland Game Designers

By Ben Baris | Published: June 27, 2011
Do you have a passion for video game design? Is your dream job to work in the gaming industry? Well, you may be in luck. With a wide variety of game studios, the east coast, and especially Maryland, is a great location for those who would love to work at a game studio. The best [...]
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IGDA Chapter Meeting at Firaxis – June 23rd

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: June 19, 2011
The IGDA Baltimore Chapter would like to invite you to our next Chapter meeting. The meeting will take place on June 23rd, 7pm at Firaxis. Joel Gonzales, Game Developer at Riot Games will be the guest speaker. Food and drinks will NOT be provided. We suggest you arrive early around 6:45. No guest will be [...]
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UMBC 2011 Digital Entertainment Conference

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: April 18, 2011
The 2011 Digital Entertainment Conference is coming Saturday, April 30th to UMBC. Every year, the UMBC Game Developer’s Club invites speakers from the videogames industry to come in and share their knowledge and experience. This year, the conference is sponsored by Zynga, and will feature speakers from Zynga, Firaxis, Pure Bang, and Dream Rock Studios. [...]
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Programmer Tronster (Firaxis Studios, Geekhouse) and Animator El Medina (Zynga) CCBC Recap

By Ben Baris | Published: March 23, 2011
Programmer Tronster (Firaxis Studios, Geekhouse) and Animator El Medina (Zynga) visited CCBC Essex’s Game Club this past Friday. They both gave an excellent presentation about their life and the game industry. They also gave brief instructions on excellent free-to-use game developing software. Both had separate demonstrations at first, but had a combined demonstration towards the [...]
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CCBC Game Development Club Invite Firaxis and Zynga East to LAN Party

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: March 11, 2011
Every semester the CCBC Game Developer’s Club invite speakers from the games industry to come in and share their knowledge and experience. On March 18th, we have invited Tronster Hartley, UI Programmer at Firaxis and El Medina 2D Animator/Artist at Zynga East to speak on a mix of game design, art and flash programming techniques.
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UMBC: Announcing the 2011 Digital Entertainment Conference

By Jonathan Moriarty | Published: March 1, 2011
Announcing the 2011 Digital Entertainment Conference. Every year, the UMBC Game Developer’s Club invites speakers from the games industry to come in and share their knowledge and experience.
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Favorite Games of 2010: Staff Picks

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: February 1, 2011
2011, one month later we decided to catch our readers up on some great games that you may have missed in 2010. Remember this list is not a top 10 or 20 best games list but our staff favorites. These games captured our attention, sucked hours out of our lives and made us play them [...]
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Tron or Tronster? The Name You Wish You Had!

By Sarah Barrett | Published: December 17, 2010
Everyone has had a nickname inspired by a favorite character, game, or Greek God. But one man took that nickname one step further in 2002 after he legally changed his name from Todd Hartley to Tronster Hartley.
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Next IGDA Baltimore Chapter Meeting – November 2nd

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: October 25, 2010
The IGDA Baltimore Chapter would like to invite you to the next IGDA Chapter meeting. The meeting will take place on November 2nd, 6:45pm at Firaxis, 10 Loveton Cir 8, Maryland 21152.
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‎2K GAMES and Firaxis Broadcasting 2 Hours of Civilization V Gameplay

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: September 13, 2010
Join 2K Greg, Community Manager, and Garrett Bittner, Producer, for a 2 hour broadcast of Civilization V gameplay! We will be taking requests for what to do in the game, as well as answering your questions about the development of the game. Click link now to RSVP http://www.ustream.tv/2kgameslive%20
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