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GameDevDrinks
March 23, 2016 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Hey GDDers,
We invite all of you within or curious about our game development community to come and join us at the Pheasant Plucker on Wednesday, March 23rd for a night of good times and good cheer. This month our guest speaker is Andrew Spearin the co-founder of the original Insurgency mod, and now the Insurgency game’s Creative Director.
From 7:00-10:30 p.m., GameDevDrinks is the place for you to hang out and to hear Andrew Spearin speak about the trials and tribulations of Insurgency, as well as get a hands-on experience with their latest game “Insurgency”. Afterwards you can chat with Andrew Spearin, share your game concepts and ideas, tell and trade stories, show off game demos or just network and hang out because at GDD our goal is to create a casual and creative social environment for anyone – student, hobbyist, enthusiast and professional alike – who shares the common interest of game development of any kind.
We look forward to seeing you on the 23rd.
Regards,
Insurgency is a highly competitive and unforgivingly lethal first-person shooter, striking a balance between one-life gameplay and prolonged action. The follow-up indie game to the original Half-Life 2 mod, has reached an audience of over 2.3 million players on Steam and garners a Very Positive 92% recommended rating from over 40,500 reviews. Insurgency also received the Player’s Choice and Editor’s Choice awards for IndieDB’s 2014 Indie of the Year awards. Recently it was announced that Insurgency: Sandstorm will be released in 2017, rebuilding the game from the ground up utilizing Unreal Engine 4 and being published by Focus Home Interactive on PS4, Xbox One, and PC.
Some screenshots of our recently announced Insurgency: Sandstorm
and Insurgency on Source:
About Andrew Spearin
Andrew Spearin is the co-founder of the original Insurgency mod, and now the Insurgency game’s Creative Director. A former Canadian Army infantry soldier and bagpiper with the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders of Canada, Spearin also has a professional background as a staff photojournalist at the daily newspaper in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan and UX designer on the digital innovation team of Canada’s largest newspaper company. Andrew is from Hamilton, Canada.
About New World Interactive:
New World Interactive is an independent developer and publisher with deeply grounded roots in game development. Many core team members started as hobbyists creating the games they wanted to play. This foundation shaped itself into a unique development process which has led to the creation of New World’s debut title, Insurgency. In the wake of Insurgency’s success in reaching nearly 2 million players, New World plans to continue creating compelling, disruptive new experiences. More on the official website: http://newworldinteractive.com