Re: [GameDevLanka] Won the "Rapid Fire Pitch Event" of Ohio Game Dev Expo 2014

[Amila Pathirana]

Congrats Ramesh!!!!

On 29 Oct 2014 20:44, "Ramesh Maddegoda" <rames...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Happy to inform you that, I was able to win at the "Rapid Fire Pitch Event" of Ohio Game Dev Expo 2014, last weekend. It was one of the personal video game ideas I had. There was a competition to present video game ideas to a panel of game industry professionals and they selected my idea as the "best video game idea" among the ideas presented at the rapid fire pitch event :-). Also they helped with many advices to improve my game design thought process. I have won awards for game development in Sri Lanka before this, but this is the first time I won a competition outside country.

About the expo: The OGDE (https://www.ohiogamedevexpo.com/ ) is the Midwest’s premiere game centered event. This time there were participants from 10 states of USA. I participated in this conference as a personal hobby activity during weekend.

There were speakers who have worked on games such as StarWars: Knights of the Old Republic, League of Legends, Bioshock 2, Sly Cooper 4: Thieves in Time, Super Meat Boy, among many more. Speaking sessions covered Programming, Game Design, Art, Music and Audio Design, 3D Animation, Voice Acting, Games Publishing, Project Management and Law in the Video Game Industry. And participants had opportunity to try many indie games.

Also there were workshops from Unity and Microsoft, including a one session which covered developing Virtual Reality games with Oculus Rift and Unity. Also there was an exciting presentation from an experienced game developer (a former Electronics Art developer), and he used a 3D game instead of slides to deliver the speech.

In overall, it was a great experience and there were so many opportunities for knowledge seekers.

- Ramesh

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[Ramesh Maddegoda]

Thanks Amila

On Wednesday, October 29, 2014 3:05:27 PM UTC-4, rosh wrote:

Congrats Ramesh!!!!