IGDA LV January 2026 Meeting

We will feature two speakers from our local game development community:

Nadya Riddick – “My First Credit as a Game Producer: Lessons Learned”
Nadya has served as the Lead Unity Developer at Outpost4 since 2023 and was recently credited as a Producer for the political action game Zohran’s Run, a game created in support of the NYC mayoral candidate, Zohran Mamdani. The game is now available on both itch.io and Steam. Nadya will talk about her experiences working with the team.
Paul Vela – “The Do’s and Don’ts of Running an Indie Startup”
Whim Indie Studio was founded in 2012 by three friends. They soon recognized that someone had to take care of the Business of Games: contracts, relationship management, written job descriptions, business plans, policies and procedures and even more tasks! All of these tasks are necessary in order to run a successful game studio.