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SUMMARY:Africa Games Week 2022
DESCRIPTION:Africa Games Week is the ultimate conference exploring the business of video games in Africa. Bringing together industry leaders from across Africa and the World\, conferences hosted include Make Games Africa\, Africa Stream Con\, and the African legs of Games 4 Change New York\, and the USA Mobile Growth Association Summit\, both running their Africa editions during AGW week. \nEach sub-event will have a variety of speakers\, panels\, workshops\, meetings and networking events during the course of the week; rounding up with a 3 day live exhibition event at Workshop17 at the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town\, parts of which will be open to the public to learn more about the gaming industry in Africa. For more information\, click here! \nIGDA members save 15% using the discount found here.
URL:https://igda.org/event/africa-games-week-2022/
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SUMMARY:IGDA Central Virginia - Game Industry Recruiting Q&A
DESCRIPTION:The IGDA is officially founded in central Virginia!! \nThis is the second of two pilot events in 2022 to gauge interest in connecting all the game developers from Charlottesville to Richmond to Virginia Beach. Our initial goal is to increase awareness of game development across the region and build our network of game industry professionals and students. \nThis event is FREE and available to members and non-members of the IGDA. \nPlease join our Discord in advance of the event to submit your questions to the Recruiters: https://discord.gg/5RbRksut \nNOTE: ERB doors are locked after hours. Join the Discord for door assistance. \nAnd follow up on Twitter: https://twitter.com/VaIgda \nCODE OF CONDUCT: \n\nTreat each other with respect\nBe mindful of your speech and behavior towards others\, especially when disagreeing\nHarassment or abuse of any form will not be tolerated\nUse appropriate profile images and names\nDo not as for unsolicited job applications or applicants\nDo not share political\, religious\, sexually explicit\, racist\, sexist\, or otherwise disturbing content unrelated to games and the game industry\nDo not disclose personal information about anyone other than yourself\nDo not advertise unless previously approved
URL:https://igda.org/event/igda-central-virginia-game-industry-recruiting-qa/
LOCATION:VCU Engineering Research Building\, 401 W. Main St.\, Richmond\, VA 23284\, 401 W. Main St.\, Richmond\, VA\, 23284\, United States
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SUMMARY:Utah Game Developers Choice Awards 2022
DESCRIPTION:An annual award show to celebrate work done by Utah game developers in the past year.  \nThe flyer is ready (Thank you Nathan Platt!) so we can start sharing this around. Take it to any libraries\, schools\, or game stores you visit\, and post the link to your social networks if you like!\nhttps://docs.google.com/document/d/1VhrJMDxd3QX8ZNpJWGEi_wjXhZ0xGRlf2S5rNRSxmT0/edit?usp=sharing
URL:https://igda.org/event/utah-game-developers-choice-awards-2022/
LOCATION:SpyHop Rooftop\, 208 W. Harvey Milk Blvd\, Salt Lake City\, UT\, 84101\, United States
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SUMMARY:Leveraging Text to Speech as a Game Dev - Clash of the Use Cases
DESCRIPTION:Register for the webinar here.\nEvent Details\nA friendly contest? Why yes! In this IGDA webinar\, three game devs will champion their use case of text to speech (TTS) in their games.\nNamely: Accessibility\, Character Voices\, and Prototyping. \nA refresher: text to speech is what it says in the name\, you write or generate a piece of text\, and almost magically\, with voice technology it synthesizes it into speech.\nA good example of that is (smart) voice assistants that roam the tech space today or some of your favorite streamers that use TTS to voice-enable chat messages i.e. when receiving donations. \nWith dynamic runtime TTS embedded in a game project\, game devs can harness that power of voice in their games and utilize it in many creative ways. \nLearn more from Jamin\, Cari\, and Conor about how they used this dynamic solution to elevate their games and processes. \n*This is webinar brought to you by IGDA in partnership with ReadSpeaker. \n  \n\nAbout the Speakers\n\nJamin Smith \nJamin Smith is the Director and Lead Designer at Superstring; a London-based game studio looking to explore new game-hybrids and abuse the boundaries of genre. The studio’s latest release\, Acolyte\, fuses natural-language dialogue with a deep detective narrative and innovative ARG features. Across nearly two-decades in the games industry\, Jamin has worked for the likes of SEGA\, Born Ready Games\, Edge Case Games and Square Enix. \n  \n \nCari Erica Watterton \nCari is the Senior Accessibility Designer at Rebellion with a background in UX and a passion for creating games for everyone\, with intuitive experiences and player-centered design at the core. She is a BAFTA Games nominee\, two-time DARE finalist and Abertay University Alumni. Outside of work she makes TTRPG dice\, has an unhealthy amount of board games and a black cat called Toothless. \n  \n \nConor Bradley\n\nConor Bradley is the founder and director of Soft Leaf Studios\, an indie game development studio based in Belfast\, Northern Ireland. Soft Leaf Studios strive to make disability-friendly game experiences by working closely with people who are blind\, deaf\, and those with other physical and mental disabilities. Their goal is to remove barriers from the games they make and to push the boundaries of what is considered possible in making games accessible. Currently\, they are developing an accessible point-and-click adventure called Stories of Blossom\, expected to release Spring of next year on Windows PC\, and Xbox Series X|S.
URL:https://igda.org/event/leveraging-text-to-speech-as-a-game-dev-clash-of-the-use-cases/
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SUMMARY:New Year\, New Developers
DESCRIPTION:The IGDA wants to provide 500 new developers (or more!) with an IGDA membership\, and we’d love your support in reaching this goal. A sponsorship from you would allow us to provide a new cohort of IGDA members with valuable networking opportunities\, access to a global community of IGDA chapters and special interest groups\, mentorship\, discounts on events and products\, and resources that help developers thrive.  \nYou can tell us how many developers you wish to support by completing this form. \nDid we mention each sponsorship tier comes with an additional perk for the sponsor?  \nFrom social media shout outs to eblasts sent to our subscriber list\, we at the IGDA want to express our gratitude for your support as we usher in the New Year and help game developers across the globe achieve a fulfilling and sustainable career in the games industry. \nCan we count on you to support 2 or more developers for our New Year\, New Developer member drive?  \nWishing you and your loved ones all the best\, \n-The IGDA Team
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