Presentations

Want me to speak at your event, birthday party, or school? I’d be honored! Drop me a line: andy@andymoore.ca

Conferences and Events:

• Level Up
  Victoria, BC – 2011: An hour long intimate discussion titled “An Insider’s Perspective” providing an insider’s look into all the business dealings that go on in the flash market.

• Full Indie
  Vancouver, BC – 2011: A rapid-fire look at the funnier side of developing SteamBirds; a post-mortem compressed into 20 minutes plus jokes. Presented at the Vancouver Full Indie meetup group, twice, to a crowd of 150 people.

• Casual Connect (FGS)
  Seattle, WA – 2011: An hour-long talk titled “Keeping yourself Honest in Game Design,” which focused on the trouble developers have being honest with themselves and the mistakes they make (and also doubled as a post-mortem for the SteamBirds franchise – including Mobile, Flash, and Sequel dev).

• Flash Gaming Summit
  San Francisco, CA – 2011: An hour-long talk titled “Keeping yourself Honest in Game Design,” which focused on the trouble developers have being honest with themselves and the mistakes they make (and also doubled as a post-mortem for the SteamBirds franchise – including Mobile, Flash, and Sequel dev).

• Casual Connect
  Seattle, WA – 2010: SteamBirds post-mortem, a 30-minute quick overview of the development process of the original version of the game and it’s unique marketing practices.

• Jalloo Animation and Games Festival
  Miramachi, NB – 2010: How to make money with Flash games, a one-hour talk geared as a general overview of the Flash industry, where it’s heading, and how to monetize well within it.

• Game Developer’s Conference
  San Francisco, CA – 2010: Fantastic Contraption post-mortem II (with Colin Northway), a one-hour talk on what made FC so popular.

• Flash Gaming Summit
  San Francisco, CA – 2010: Moderated the Flash Monetization Panel (with Colin Northway, Daniel James, Tan Sian Yue, and William Stallwood), a 45 minute panel session covering various experiences with monetizing flash in different ways.

• Global Game Jam
  University of British Columbia, BC – 2010: Was a mentor to the GGJ attendees and spoke on a variety of subjects throughout.

• Game Developer’s Conference
  Austin, TX – 2009:Fantastic Contraption post-mortem (with Colin Northway), a one-hour talk on what made FC so popular.

Interviews

I’m mostly listing these so I can gaze fondly upon them from time to time:

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• Game Dev Radio
  January 2012: An hour long conversation about achievements, and a bunch of other developery things.

• Flash MindMeld
  January 2011: Submitted a “60 second reel of advice” for an audio podcast that went on to become a book. I was cited three times in the book!

• DIY Gamer Interview
  March 7th, 2011: Ambushed on the GDC expo floor and recorded on tape! Just rambling about potatoes and the future of SteamBirds.

• Eureka’s Castle
  February 28th, 2011: A short, silly interview with myself and Ryan Creighton (Untold Entertainment) at the Flash Gaming Summit.

• Infinite Ammo Podcast
  January 24th, 2011: A three-hour candid chat about game development, Steambirds, and everything else that came to mind.

• Flash Game License
  September 10th, 2010: Live Chat Event about Steambirds

• Indie GamePod
  July 22nd, 2010:Interview at Casual Connect about Steambirds

• GamaSutra
  July 15th, 2010: Making Games On The Side: Development In The Real World

• Indie Superstar
  July 6th, 2010: Indie Watercooler Part 1

• TIGRadio
  March 21st, 2010: SteamBirds and GDC radio interview

• TIGRadio
  January 17th, 2010: Radio show on Community Management

• Freelance Flash Game News
  May 18th, 2009: Interview about the Community behind Fantastic Contraption

Local Organizations

• LEVEL UP!
  Victorira, BC – Ongoing: A local organization of game developers that meet bi-weekly to discuss the industry, help each other out, etc.

• OrcaJam
  Victoria, BC – 2010: Organized and hosted a game jam in my hometown. International attendance with 60 participants; a dozen produced games!

• Global Game Jam
  Victoria, BC – 2011: The global game jam event now has a local Victoria venue!