OOO MeetUp for the Gaming Industry

What are OOO Meetups?

At Frontier RTP, we are constantly growing and making connections. We developed OOO Meetups as a way of helping connect like-minded professionals, entrepreneurs, and industry insiders during our regular, weekly Out of Office “OOO” events.

With each meetup, we work with a co-host to facilitate the networking and educational session while we pour the drinks. 

Our hope is that the meetups will spark dialogue, start relationships, and make your happy hour meaningful. Did we mention there will be free craft beer from Fullsteam Brewery, wine selected by RTP Uncorked, and non-alcoholic options?

About the Meetup

Work in the gaming industry or interested to know more about it? This meetup, co-hosted by International Game Developers Association NC-Triangle Chapter, is for you! We’ll discuss the ever evolving role of games and game design principles in the tech and products we use everyday.

Game Plan

4:30 – 5:00 p.m. | Check In, Drinks & Networking

5:00 – 5:45 p.m. | Educational Session

5:45 – 6:30 p.m. | Drinks & Networking

What You’ll Learn

Cross-Cultural Game Development

In this session, you’ll learn about how game design and development processes can make use of cross-cultural collaboration to ensure authenticity in storytelling and gameplay. Examples will be shared showing what this looks like in practice including “Never Alone” and “Waves of Jeju: Diving School.”

Our Session Leader

Session Leader: Karen Stritzinger

Karen Stritzinger is a creative technologist and Founder at Old Hara Studios, a software company focused on utilizing immersive media to educate about climate science and environmental justice. Karen graduated from Clemson University with an MFA in Digital Production Arts and worked at various XR companies, most recently at Meta as a prototyper for the Oculus system software. Old Hara Studios is currently developing “Waves of Jeju: Diving School,” a game designed to help preserve traditional ecological knowledge and which received recognition from Unity for Humanity and Games for Change in 2024.

Interested in hosting your meetup during Out Of Office? Want to invite your department for some out-of-office team building? Are you holding an event in Frontier RTP the same day as Out Of Office and would like to invite your attendees to grab a beer before or after? If any of these scenarios sound like you, please reach out to our Programming Team for options and pricing to make sure we have enough beer to go around: programming@rtp.org.