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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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Zynga East studio launches FrontierVille

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: June 19, 2010
There are several ways to scare a bear. Make as much noise as possible, stand tall to present an intimidating figure, or flap your arms frantically and yell, “Hey! Hey!” The first two options may help you avoid a bear attack, but only the latter will reap you goodies like gold coins, bear pelts, and [...]
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Digital Entertainment Conference

By Gabriel Pendleton | Published: April 28, 2010
Every year the Game Developer’s Club of UMBC hosts the Digital Entertainment Conference. Speakers from video-game companies such as Big Huge Games, Firaxis and Breakaway have been present in the past, and will be here this year as well! TOM FULP from The Behemoth (Castle Crashers) and Newgrounds.com fame is coming to DEC! Speakers from [...]
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