{"id":105651,"date":"2019-12-16T20:53:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/355781"},"modified":"2019-12-16T20:53:00","modified_gmt":"2019-12-16T20:53:00","slug":"undead-labs-setting-up-new-studio-game-development-academy-in-new-orleans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/12\/16\/undead-labs-setting-up-new-studio-game-development-academy-in-new-orleans\/","title":{"rendered":"Undead Labs setting up new studio, game development academy in New Orleans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief: <\/strong><em>State of Decay<\/em> developer Undead Labs is opening up a new studio in New Orleans, an expansion that aims to double as a \u201cmultidiscipline game development academy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is spearheaded by Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain, and backed by Undead-parent Microsoft. A <a href=\"https:\/\/undeadlabs.com\/2019\/12\/news\/announcement-from-undead-labs\/?cn-reloaded=1\">brief announcement<\/a> from the studio notes that Strain will remain on board as overall studio head while setting up the new outfit, but wants to use the offshoot to build &#8220;opportunities to bring in people who might not otherwise consider a career in the game industry.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: State of Decay developer Undead Labs is opening up a new studio in New Orleans, an expansion that aims to double as a \u201cmultidiscipline game development academy.\u201d The initiative is spearheaded by Undead Labs founder Jeff Strain, and backed by Undead-parent Microsoft. A brief announcement from the studio notes that Strain will remain on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105652,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-105651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}