When: Thursday Nov 8th, 7pm

Where: NYU-Poly's Game Innovation Lab, 5 Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY

Babycastles & The Game Innovation Lab at NYU-Poly present a lecture series spotlighting developers and game designers with insights on games and technology. The series is hosted by Andy Nealen.

In this talk Ivan Safrin will take a look at the motivation behind writing a cross-platform development framework from scratch, discuss why open source tools are key to the future of independent game development, attempt to answer once and for all if it's a really good or a really terrible idea to spend years reinventing the wheel and give a demonstration of his own open-source cross-platform development framework.

Series produced by Ida Benedetto. Graphic design by Colin Snyder.