
Iowa State University
Building TBA Room TBA
On Campus – Ames, IA 50011
We are meeting at Iowa State University in Building TBA Room TBA on TBA. This is an informal meeting to socialize and get to know each other. No topics or presentations are scheduled. Free pizza, soda, and chips will be provided.
Random is a free open source community directed videogame project built on Epic Game’s Unreal Engine 4.
Our community is organized under the corporation Nonprofit Videogame Development Group, Inc., which is a 501(c)(3) tax exempt organization incorporated for educational purposes in 2008 as a not-for-profit C Corporation, located in the heartland of the United States of America.
Contributors distributed around the globe are our most valuable team members. Game development is a very challenging, technical, and artistic task. Most of our members are located hundreds of miles away from each other. The internet has enabled a diverse crowd of many ethnicities and languages to come together and collectively chase their creative pursuits.
Thaddeus entered the world of hobbyist game development in 1997, with the game Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II. After working with a Half-Life mod team, whose leader lost the source code following a hard drive crash in 2006, he began to brainstorm ways to help others organize projects.
David entered the world of game design with table top gaming, now he has branched out into video game concepts and design. He loves all form of games and wants to drive new experiences into the hands of other gamers.
Rusty is a life-long PC game fan that who is tired of the games that many current development models are producing. A firm believer in the “those who can’t create, innovate” philosophy in seeing improvement and efficiency brought to game production. He believes design is a hobby and a dream.