Go see Hecker, Neuse and Blow speak at UC Santa Cruz next week

by Ben Gilbert on May 18th 2011 7:30PM

Between Jonathan Blow, Chris Hecker and Alex Neuse, the University of California Santa Cruz panel being held next week should be chock full of interesting, honest discussion from the trio of all-star indie developers. The group is being gathered to speak for UCSC's "Foundations of Interactive Game Design" class on May 26, though the panel is open to the public. The discussion is being moderated by associate professor Noah Wardrip-Fruin.

As for what's being discussed, your guess is as good as ours. Hecker describes it as "an open panel discussion" and notes that his game SpyParty unfortunately won't be on-hand for attendees. Blow separately confirmed to us that he doesn't plan on having his studio's next game, The Witness, at the event either. Bit.Trip series co-developer Alex Neuse didn't get back to us before this post was run, but it stands to reason that his next game, Laserlife, won't make an appearance either.

That isn't to say you should miss the talk, which will assuredly be thought provoking. And hey, if you're that worried about getting a chance to play SpyParty, why not sign up for the beta? That worked out pretty well with you and Minecraft, right?

What: Indie panel at University of California Santa Cruz
When: 12:00PM PST, Thursday, May 26, 2011
Where: UC Santa Cruz campus, Media Theater (TM M110)

Via: SpyParty blog
Source: UCSC

Tags: alex-neuse, chris-hecker, d6, gaijin-games, jonathan-blow, laserlife, noah-wardrip-fruin, number-none, spyparty, the-witness, ucsc, university-of-california, university-of-california-santa-cruz

Reader Comments (3)

I can smell the pretentiousness all the way from here.

I'm in this class. They've had some pretty good guest speakers like John Davison (currently at GameSpot) and Kate Compton from Maxis. I think that this guest panel was originally going to have Team Meat or at least one of them since they're based in Santa Cruz, but I'm not sure what happened to that. I know they came last year to CMPS 80K.