College roommate
by Scotto Starkey on Mar.20, 2008, under
I heard that my college roomie, Jeff Hanna, was going to be in town. He is currently working as the Technical Art Director at Volition (a computer game company). So it’s his job to oversee and direct other artists to make cool art for their games. Yes, he’s significantly boosted his geek cred during the past 20 years!
He was giving a lecture for the Computer Game Design club at Purdue, and I did dinner with the man before the lecture. It was nice catching up on old times.
I tagged along for the lecture, too. He gave a really great presentation on the computer games industry from the 90s until the modern day. He finished his lecture by telling the kids (and me) about all of the fabulous tools they have now that are FREE, which can be used for complex game design, tools like Blender, Paint.NET, Microsoft XNA and others can give someone a free game studio for just the cost of a computer. Really cool stuff.
Unfortunately I don’t have the time to do that sort of thing, realistically speaking, but it’s fun to think about and maybe tinker with.
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March 20th, 2008 on 10:24 pm
Isn’t that also where Dale works?
March 21st, 2008 on 6:33 am
“Worked” apparently. Jeff didn’t seem quite sure of the circumstances, but he moved on from there to another job.