NASSCOM ANIMATION AND GAMING SUMMIT 2009
November 7th 2009 saw the first ever 'full fledged' Indian gaming summit that took place in Hyderabad.
I was honored to be one of the speakers at this summit.
Here's a small article on my session:
Writing a Game Design Document - What the books don't teach you!
My husband (Arjun Nair) along with another colleague - Vishwas Kasat, presented a session on 'Bringing a killer console game to mobile which spoke about bringing the console game 'BioShock' to the mobile (3D and 2D).There were a lot of informative sessions that took place. All articles can be found here.
For the first time, people like us had the opportunity to interact with others in the Indian gaming industry.Otherwise GDC and other gaming summits abroad are usually attended by the CEOs or senior management staff and hence our chance to mingle and interact with others is very rare. So the NASSCOM gaming summit came as a saviour. I hope more and more local summits like this happens and enables people working in the industry to get to know each other and share knowledge!
MAAC 24FPS AWARDS
Also around the same time, i.e. on 6th November 2009, we won the Best Game Design award at the 24fps Animation Awards organized by MAAC for Movin' Maze 3D - iPhone. We shared the award with Ghajini, the game.Unfortunately, due to some miscommunication, I wasn't informed that we won the award. So, at the last moment, another studio head, Shaina Rajan went ahead and collected the award on my/our dept's behalf.
How I wish I was there to collect the award! *sigh*
Anyways cheers! :D
The complete list of winners are here.
(Indiagames is misspelled as Indian games)
Hi Purnima,
ReplyDeleteCongrats for the award! I am so happy to have bumped into your blog. I am my self an avid gamer and just DYING to jump into the industry. Trouble is being an IT project manager with MBA it becomes so tricky! LOL.
Nonetheless, I believe that your blog will impart me more and more knowledge that I need about the industry.
Keep up the good work and BTW same pinch! We happen to share the same Zodiac. LOL!
Love & Light,
Rohit
Hi Rohit,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the wishes and for commenting :)
IT Project Manager with MBA... Tricky indeed, but you know what they say, it's never too late! ;)
I myself am an IT Engineer and now a Game Designer :D
I've a colleague who is a B.Sc Chemistry graduate who is a 3D Artist... Interesting isn't it? ;)
I started this blog just to write about my experiences in the gaming industry... I'm not sure how it will help you. But if it does, I would be more than happy. :)
Lol, same pinch on the zodiac! :)
Lets see! I need to find out how to get into it somehow, I just cant sit out and watch it. Trying my hands on Doom 3. And waiting like crazy for Max Payne 3.Duh! Its taking way too long..
ReplyDeleteLove & Light,
Rohit
PS:Err.. I am a bit hesitant to ask but nonetheless I better ask rather than keeping mum. What do you think can be the way for me? he he, is there a certification that I can do or something?
ReplyDeleteLove & Light,
Rohit
Well, it actually depends where your interest and skills lie... Programming, Designing, Art, QA, Marketing, Project Manager etc...
ReplyDeleteMY husband shifted his career from journalism to gaming after 2-3 years of being a journalist...
The catch is that irrespective of your past experience (if it is not related that is), u start afresh... and so you take a hit on the pay and then try to work ur way up :)
True words indeed! Lets see ;)
ReplyDeletehii purnima!!! i wanted to know which is the best collage for game designing in india<<:
ReplyDeleteWhoa man, aint I too late to reply for this. I'm so sorry. Many things were keeping me busy!
ReplyDeleteThere are only few Game Design Schools(Colleges) in India. One I've heard more of is DSK Institute in Pune. You can check that out :)