IGDATC Gamedev Meeting July 2025 – Andrew Williams

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/him)

TBA

Working at the intersection of game development and design history, Dr. Andrew Williams is a Professor at University of Wisconsin-Stout in the School of Art & Design. Williams’ game industry experience includes Art Director and lead environment artist on “The American Revolution Series” an episodic educational history game for middle and high school students.

Williams’ other game development experience includes 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.

Williams is the 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.uwstout.edu/directory/williamsa

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!

Agenda (approximate)

• 6:30 Youtube stream opens, meeting intro and monthly slides.

• 6:45 Presentations.
• After: we head to a nearby restaurant to get food/drinks and socialize!

Other Happenings

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