Young to Serve as Research Director, Board Member of Triangle Game Industry Group

R. Michael Young (pictured), associate professor in Computer Science, has been named Research Director for the Triangle Game Initiative (TGI), a non-profit trade association for the Raleigh-Durham, NC interactive entertainment industry. Young is also a member of the organization’s board of directors. The Triangle Game Initiative promotes the Triangle region’s interactive entertainment industry, including immersive technologies, video game development and publishing and game media, through brochures, newsletters, conferences, tradeshows, summits and other promotional activities aimed at attracting other game companies and employees to North Carolina. TGI aims to create a community of industry professionals within the Triangle that can share best practices and develop a hub of knowledge that can attract the best talent and companies.  To that end, they organize and sponsor the Triangle Games Conference, an annual industry conference bringing together game developers and students from across the nation to discuss best practices and new trends in the game industry.

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