ECGC is the East Coast Game Conference where members of the industry come together and talk and have informative talks about the game industry as a whole and how to get started or become a part of the industry and for indie game companies to show off games they are making and to highlight new technologies. ECGC was fun overall and had lots of good information about the game industry and meeting cool people who are a part of the industry like John Romero who worked on games like Quake and Doom. ECGC also opened up my eyes to the different types of people who work in the game industry both large and small and help give a scope of they types of work and amount of work is required to produce a game. ECGC had few downsides to it mainly being the majority of the talks that were available were of not much interest to me, but with the talks, I did go to I enjoyed thoroughly. "Selling Invisible Fun" was my favorite talk I went to and it discussed the ends and outs how to pitch your game to a company to help fund your ideas. I enjoy public speaking and persuading people to believe how I feel to back me what I like to do and this is why this talk interested me so much. The main takeaway points from the talk were that you need to have a good hook so you can make your game idea stand out from all the other game ideas and you need show why you and your team an able to do the job with the financial assistance of the publisher. Also knowing how to take problems that you might face in the development process and come forward with your concerns to show that you care about the project and want to do the best you can and not hide your problems, but while still heaving a strong idea that separates your idea for others. Before the talk I got to talk to the guy sitting next to me who was an indie developer himself who didn't look any older than a high school student and was very adamant about the game industry and how he wanted to be able to pitch this game idea that he and some friends were messing around within Unity. I enjoy all types of games both physical like sports and board games and digital like video games, but I don't feel like I would be a good fit in the game industry honestly I didn't really enjoy many of the types of people I was at ECGC and it those types of people who work in the Game industry I wouldn't work well with them and I don't want to be the person on a team that holds production back so most likely I will be trying to get another type of job involving computers because how much I love doing that stuff.
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AuthorIm a student at Durham School of the Arts Highschool in Durham North Carolina . I love playing video games and enjoy useing digital artwork as a platform to display information more efficiently, I also enjoy industrial photography and camping. Archives
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