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Good times at the Austin Game Dev Con

by Donald "Yadot" Harris · 09/09/2007 (2:28 pm) · 6 comments

Well I am pooped after last week. Since I work full time during the day it was impossible for me to get time off to attend the AGDC during the day. But I did however get to hang out a bunch of after parties during the night....late at night. So what did I get from coming home at 3 in the morning 2 nights in a row? A crap ton of contacts with many different Austin companies as well some big names in the industry like Nick Jr. I also may have found my way on to TV ... finally. I bump into this guy:

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After taking this picture a camera man popped out of no where along with a lady asking me to sign a release for Spike Tv. Pretty good stuff. So after loading up my linkedin profile and hamming it up in front of the Spartan I felt pretty good.


This also got me to wondering how do others on the forums go about networking? I wont call myself a pro at networking but I would imagine I have some good advice to share. Would anyone be interested? Let me know maybe I can put something together and post it on my next blog.
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Torque Owner Simon Love
#1
09/09/2007 (4:44 pm)
I think Networking is really contextual, but I do think that articles describing your thoughts about it can definitely not hurt!
Might give other ideas on how to go about doing so.

I think LinkedIn is pretty much a necessity, nowadays. :)

Torque 3D Owner ando
#2
09/09/2007 (6:03 pm)
Did Master Chief come on his push bike? he aint that tuff :)

Torque Owner BigPapa
#3
09/09/2007 (6:21 pm)
Dang! That's a whimpy Master Chief. You can take him on Yadot.

Torque Owner Johnny Hill
#4
09/09/2007 (6:49 pm)
@ BP lol heh I was thinking the same thing, Master chief the teenage years :)

Torque 3D Owner Donald "Yadot" Harris
Marveloper
#5
09/09/2007 (8:42 pm)
@Johnny Hill and BigPapa
Yall have to remember I am 6'8' everyone is small to me.

@Simon
Cool I will get some thoughts together over the next few days and share them with everyone.

@my ego
If anyone catches this scene on spike you have to get me a copy of it.

Torque 3D Owner Donald "Yadot" Harris
Marveloper
#6
09/17/2007 (5:16 am)
Hey Simon, I have not finished the Networking part but I got something else up for you to read.

http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=13574