Jeff Minter Keynotes IGS
Llamasoft founder makes rare North American trip to give speech on indie development.
Date: Wednesday, December 20, 2006
Author: James Fudge

Jeff Minter, a 25-year game veteran and indie gaming legend, will keynote the first annual Independent Games Summit (IGS) hosted by the CMP Game Group March 5-6 as part of the 2007 Game Developers Conference at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center.

In his keynote, indie veteran and Llamasoft founder Minter (Tempest 2000, Attack Of The Mutant Camels) will discuss his personal history in the business, his design philosophy, and his current projects, including Space Giraffe for Xbox 360 Live Arcade, in an extremely rare North American appearance for the elusive programmer.

The IGS is a two-day event dedicated to the art and science of development practices, distribution strategies, and innovative ideas in the independent gaming community, and includes lectures from major indie figures from Three Rings, Reflexive Entertainment, Telltale Games, The Behemoth, Introversion, Valve, ThatGameCompany, NinjaBee, Gamelab, and many more. You can learn more by checking out http://www.gdconf.com .

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