Week 9 Guest Commentator – Andy Moore

Andy Moore will be joining us as a Guest Commentator in class next week. Andy is a programmer by trade (but a teacher at heart), and has helped game studios and other digital-media companies as a consultant, contractor, and specialist; focusing in the fields of rapid development, prototyping, data collection & analysis, and the “lean startup” pivot-style project management. He developed productivity-applications for ten years before going all-in on independent video game creation in 2008, opening his studio Radial Games. Within a year he produced the SteamBirds franchise, an award-winning free-to-play turn-based strategy game; and subsequently launched the critically acclaimed title Monster Loves You! on Steam. Currently, Andy is working on future games for the Steam and mobile platforms.

Having done all of this, Andy is particularly well placed to provide context and commentary to next weeks subject of “Controlling Originality”. Andy will join us for the entire class and will be adding his views throughout, in addition to a presentation in which he will stake out his initial perspectives.

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