Breaking into Indie Development

We are happy to announce our next meeting!

We will be hosting guest speaker, Mark Söderwall who will be talking about the business of indie game development and his experiences in the AAA industry!

Mark Soderwall will be explaining best production practices from both his professional AAA and Indie releases, covering applicable development practices and their surprising cross overs to help arm and equip your current career and/or Indie development pursuits!

Mark Söderwall’s Bio:

Mark Söderwall is a 20+ year AAA industry veteran. He’s directed at LucasArts, EA and ATARI and has worked on IP’s like: Star Wars, Clone Wars, LEGO, Matrix, Terminator & D&D as well as released over 41 published titles. Over the past 3 years Mark has specialized in helping define the new Indie Gaming frontier! Mark takes his successful practices of AAA development, accessibility and competitive pipelines and throws away all the inept politics, watered down innovation and annual franchising crap! This fresh application has pioneered new levels of development methodologies, techniques and competitive realization for aspiring devs, students and creative's global!

Publicly speaking worldwide, Mark guides AAA’s, Indie dev communities and individuals through the overwhelming obstacles of project start-up, team production and release strategies!

For more information about Mark please visit:

http://www.Soderwall.wix.com/GameCareerCoaching (http://www.soderwall.wix.com/GameCareerCoaching)

Follow him on twitter at @GameCreator

MEETING LOCATION:

Gaikai Inc.

65 Enterprise, Suite 200

Aliso Viejo, CA 92656

Main Number: 949.330.6850

LINK TO MAP (Gaikai is in the TechSpace Building #65):

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=65+Enterprise,+Aliso+Viejo,+CA&aq=0&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=49.978077,133.681641&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=65+Enterprise,+Aliso+Viejo,+California+92656&t=h&z=17&iwloc=r14

When you arrive, please park in the structure located across from building #65.

You will take the elevator to the 2nd floor and exit left. Our office is Suite 200.