Quang Nguyen talks GameBoys and Collecting - 31st May 2019

Quang Nguyen talks GameBoys and Collecting - 31st May 2019

Quang Nguyen of Asobi.tech 

As part of our Made in Japan festival, Quang will talk to us about his experiences as a GameBoy programmer and his love of Japanese consoles.

Quang left university for a job coding GameBoy Color games with a small studio in 1999, after being head hunted for the games he created as part of the GameBoy Homebrew scene. Being thrown in to the deep end, he worked as the solo programmer on multiple titles tirelessly for a year, before unfortunately, burning out.

After a few years away from videogames, living the life of a Breakdancer, Quang returned in 2007 to found Asobi.tech, indie game development studio. Along with his brother Viet, doing artwork, they worked in their spare time. Re-learning and perfecting their craft. Taking part in many Game Jams along the way, managing to place and win a number of them.

To help foster a stronger indiegame developer community, Quang started GameMaker Meetup, a monthly community event, with guest speaker talks, networking and discussion on game development.

In February 2017, the Amazon UK Developer team made Quang an Amazon Appstore Hero, to help relations between developers and Amazon.

Currently Asobi.tech is working on MaoMao Castle, which was originally created for Castle Game Jam 2016, where it won 3 out of the 6 awards; Best Graphics, Best Music, and Overall Game. It was so well received that they decided to make it into a full commercial release. The spare time project of the two brothers, it has been an exciting learning experience for both of them, currently with the hope to find the time to launch MaoMao Castle real soon.

Quang will also be talking to us about his extensive collection of Japanese gaming consoles and the challenges involved in collecting obscure equipment from the other side of the world.

The talk will start at 7pm and last around 2 hours.

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Quang Nguyen talks GameBoys and Collecting - 31st May 2019






 
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