When: Wed June 13, 2012 7:00 pm
Organization: Boston Post Mortem
Location: The Skellig, Waltham
Website: http://www.bostonpostmortem.org
This month’s Boston Post Mortem is next week, WEDNESDAY, June 13th at 7pm at The Skellig in Waltham.
We are featuring a talk by Seth Sivak of Zynga Boston:
Indiana Jones Adventure World: Making Core Gameplay for Everyone
When Zynga Boston set out to build Adventure World, they searched for a way to the bring traditional gameplay of action-adventure games to the browser. Puzzles, combat and exploration needed to be distilled so that any user could understand and navigate with only a left mouse click. In this presentation Seth Sivak, lead designer of Indiana Jones Adventure World, will present lessons learned and the challenges of bringing core game mechanics to the social genre.
Speaker bio: Seth is the lead designer at Zynga Boston, which released Indiana Jones Adventure World in September of 2011. In 2011, Seth was named one of the Top 50 game developers by Game Developer Magazine. Prior to Zynga, Seth worked at Conduit Labs as a gameplay engineer on several Facebook games including Music Pets and Super Dance. Seth has a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from Northeastern University and a Master of Entertainment Technology degree from the Carnegie Mellon Entertainment Technology Center. While in graduate school Seth worked on Winds of Orbis, which was an IGF Student Finalist in 2009.