Join us at the FREE event during RIStartup Week! NEIT students and SkillsRI / NESMaker Summer Interns will be demonstrating their newly developed games.

Steve "SCAT" Caterson, Play Designer/Sr. Producer at HASBRO. Steve “Scat” Caterson shared his career journeys through the world of games, toys, and entertainment. Digital games are big business, but it's also a way to connect with people. Steve followed his presentation with an open discussion about the business of digital game design.

Joe Granato, Founder and Director of the New 8_Bit Heroes. Joe discussed how his experiences as a videographer, filmmaker, and documentarian serve to create exciting and engaging digital games such as Mystic Searches. Digital games are big business, but it's also a way to connect with people. Joe discussed audience interests after his presentation.