Game Designer/Director Neill Glancy talk

NEILL GLANCY, Creative Director - New IP, Aspyr Media
Thursday, April 12 • 7-8 pm • CMB 2.102

presented by Denius-Sams Gaming Academy Distinguished Speaker Series

 
Neill will be talking about his career as a game director and designer and presenting Torn, a dark-science fiction mystery inspired by The Twilight Zone and Black Mirror, coming to PSVR, Oculus, and Vive this spring.

Neill has over 32 years of Creative Direction experience in the video games industry working with some of the biggest intellectual properties on the planet including Batman, Mickey Mouse, South Park, Doom and Halo. Neill has also worked closely with the US Army on special projects as well as the University of Texas here in Austin to provide a creative vision of the future of educational experiences leveraging VR, AR, Photogrammetry and mobile computing solutions. Neill has given talks at GDC, The Milan International Film Festival and also worked in the enterprise sector specializing in large data set visualizations with a focus on engagement, usability and fictionalization and is a certified Disney patent inventor.

Neill’s latest project “Torn” is a VR mystery in the style of Black Mirror or The Twilight Zone and will be available soon for Oculus, Vive and PlayStation VR.