Inside the Community: Optimizing Surfaces for Low-Bandwidth Applications

# Inside the Studio: Optimizing Surfaces for Low-Bandwidth Applications

📅 Date: Wednesday, August 5
🕖 Time: 7:00 PM CDT
📍 Location: Discord - discord.gg/gdod
Join Game Developers of Dallas for another Inside the Studio session featuring Alex Magee, Director of Interactive Media at AEM Creations and founder of Aemagee Studio.
In this one-hour session, Alex will explore techniques for optimizing surfaces for low-bandwidth applications, sharing practical workflows for creating efficient, high-quality assets that perform well in bandwidth-constrained environments. Learn how to reduce data usage without sacrificing visual quality, understand common optimization tradeoffs, and discover real-world techniques used in game development.
Whether you're developing for mobile, VR, cloud streaming, or the web, you'll leave with actionable strategies to improve performance and efficiency in your own projects.

### About the Presenter

Alex Magee has been developing games since 2010 and has experience with GameMaker, Unity, Unreal Engine, Godot, Roblox Studio, Phaser, Love2D, Cordova, and more. In addition to leading interactive media projects at AEM Creations, he mentors at the annual Chillennium Game Jam at Texas A&M University and develops game development curriculum for educational programs across the Dallas area.
This event is free and open to developers, artists, designers, students, and anyone interested in learning more about game development. We hope to see you there!