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IGDATC Gamedev Meeting July 2025 – Andrew Williams

Name: IGDATC Gamedev Meeting July 2025 – Andrew Williams
Start: 2025-07-09T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-07-09T21:30:00-05:00
Location: 2DHQ

July 9 @ 6:30 pm - 9:30 pm CDT

Join local game devs in-person for an evening of talks and networking!

This event is open to the public! IGDA Membership not required.

Gamedev Meeting is Live and in Person @ 2DHQ

Please join us for a night of industry and community presentations! Postmortems, live demos, and talks on game design, art, marketing, audio, community, social issues, and more, given by developers from the Twin Cities and all over the world.

We also stream live on youtube.com/igdatc.

This Month: Andrew Williams (He/They)

Translating History to Videogames: Processes and Workflows

How do you develop games from historical material with a plausible degree of accuracy? In this presentation Art Director and Design Historian, Dr. Andrew Williams discusses various strategies and workflows for creating historically-themed videogames using examples of his work. This presentation will cover the development of research pillars in pre-production, gameplay design, level design and approaches to environment art and asset creation. This talk is intended for all audiences and levels of experience.

Working at the intersection of game development and design history, Andrew Williams is the Art Director for educational game developer immersionED as well as a Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Stout. Williams’ previous projects include co-Producer and lead developer for the historical videogame “Witness to the Revolution,” game and narrative designer for the interactive exhibit “Play the Past” at the Minnesota History Center, and author of the video game history textbook, History of Digital Games: Developments in Art, Design and Interaction. Williams also served as the Director for two nationally-ranked, career-focused Bachelor of Fine Arts university programs in game art and animation at the University of Wisconsin-Stout.

https://www.artstation.com/andrewwilliams5

https://www.wttrgame.com/

Announcements & Plug My Thing

At the beginning of our in-person meetings, we like to put a call out for game trailers, demo reels, and other short game development related announcements. Please come 15min early or contact us (Discord is best) beforehand if you can!