TechTalk: Shahid Ahmad - Life of a Bedroom Coder - Thursday 12th January 2023
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Description : Join us to hear Shahid's story of being a bedroom coder and how his career progressed. Shahid Kamal Ahmad discusses his career in video games, including writing his own, converting code for the Commodore 64, up to his current career. Shahid has been named one of Games Industry International's Top 10 Persons of the Year and 100 Top Influencers in the British Games Industry; Develop's 25 People that Changed Games; one of MCV's Brit List 100 and received Develop's Publishing Hero award for his team’s role in opening PlayStation up to developers and for commissioning No Man’s Sky, Hellblade, The Persistence, Velocity 2X, Hotline Miami, Rogue Legacy and over a hundred others. The Strategic Content initiative helped to establish countless developer and publisher success stories.
Having spent 40 years in the video games industry, Shahid leads Game Operations for DeepWell DTx, coaches developers for PlayStation Talents, scouts for Team 17, makes games (currently Chimera 2), helps others make games (Floor 13: Deep State), advises on the Starl project, podcasts on "Remaster" for Relay FM and is on the advisory board of the BGI. He is the author of the Twitter viral sensation "Code is Just". In his spare time, Shahid likes to make music.
The talk will begin at 7pm and last around 60 minutes, with the opportunity to ask questions afterwards. Summary: https://about.me/codeisjust
Twitter: @shahidkamal
email: shahid@crescentcode.com
Dancing Monkeys Newsletter: https://dancingmonkeys.shahidkamal.com
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