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Congratulations Jason

06 March 2008 by Administrator

This years GDC was especially inspirational. There were some great talks (including one from our good friends Sam and Graeme), and a sense across the event that the industry is beginning to realise just what a powerful thing we can become in this century.

Someone who has long-held such beliefs is Jason Della Rocca, the Executive Director of the International Game Developers Association. Jason was an unsung hero of our industry, working extremely passionately across many areas including the quality of life for developers, the liaison with academic and educational sectors, and the ongoing battle against censorship of what we do.

I say was unsung, because at the annual Game Developers Choice Awards, Jason was handed the inaugural Ambassador Award for his support to the industry. It's well-deserved and will hopefully raise awareness of what the IGDA continue to do so well.

You can read his acceptance speech over on his blog.

Sincere congratulations to Jason from all at Evolution Studios

\Matt

1 Comments:

09 March 2008 @ 00:46mipac says:

I loved all the proper developer talks this year at GDC, especially the one the Bioshock guys did about keeping people interested in the story.

What I HATED about GDC was companies like Microsoft using it as an excuse to announce and hype up Gears Of War 2, resulting in very little attention to the talks the conference was supposed to be about. It is called Game DEVELOPERS Conference for a reason, people. Even Dennis Dyak, from Silicon Knights, who are making a 360 exclusive game, blasted Microsoft for doing so much damage to the purpose of the conference. Leave this stuff for E3, I want GDC to be what it always was supposed to be. A conference for developers.

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