WHAT I WISH I HAD KNOWN BEFORE MAKING GAMES...

			   Trevor Stricker
		     Director of Game Development
			   QUICKHIT Sports

Making games is awesome. You can expect to solve difficult problems
and work with cutting edge technology, all while contributing to the
cannon of pop culture. You can go over to a friend's house and see
something you have made in his XBox. Modern games involve teams of
people doing things as diverse as custom programming shader code for
the PS3's graphics chip to sculpting aliens in high-end 3D modeling
packages to building out web architectures.  Modern games are also
difficult to make, and the industry is scattered with shovelware and
studios closing down. This talk is an overview of best practices in
game development. As much philosophical as technical, things that are
really specific about creating video games. They are things that I
wish somebody had told me when I was getting started.