What does GameX Industry Summit mean for East Coast Game Development and how is it helping us grow?
MW: I think the GameX Industry Summit has several representations for the East Coast. First, it’s the first time we’ve had such a strong social and professional interaction between 5 game development areas. Boston, New York, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Baltimore have all pooled their passion and resources to put this conference together. I think this speaks powerfully about the drive and passion of our 5 cities. What this has also done is fostered more communal cross-pollination between our cities. Philly game pros have been attending the Baltimore IGDA events run by Tronster Hartley, and New York game pros have attended Darius Kazemi’s Boston Game Loop, for example. This kind of cross-support has never happened in the North East game dev community before, and it’s absolutely wonderful! Finally, the GameX Summit is showing that the East Coast game development industry is not only a vibrant, high-quality section of the game industry (hey, we already knew that!), but that the East Coas
