Jun 22 2009
Time to talk games and feed your face again! Come with us for a lighthearted evening of game talk, the usual networking and chapter planning and assured world domination. On the evening of Wednesday, June 24 please join the Silicon Valley IGDA folks for an evening out at Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View at 7:30 pm. Location details here.
Jun 10 2009
Here is a video of the first ever Game Project Connection night. The turnout was amazing. The enthusiasm awesome!
This event was the first of it’s kind and came out of a “vote on this idea” planning night suggestion made out of awareness of the economy and peoples end desires to make great games in spite of it (or perhaps even because of it). I guess it just goes to show the skeptics that when people are given an opportunity to design their own event and get to participate in making their own future, apathy is left at home. We all look forward to seeing the games and hearing the adventures along the way. Here’s to everyone!
Jun 10 2009
On our Game Project Connection Night we were graced by an incredible speech by Noah Falstein. There are several portions to this with something for everybody and an extremely informative Q&A at the end. The whole speech in it’s entirety is here. Enjoy!
The speech will be archived here.
Jun 10 2009
Noah Falstein and Game Project Connection Night Videos are up!
Take a look, these are great. Many thanks to Ken Humphries and Andrey Fedin for the video tapes and to Liran Nuna for formatting.
Jun 08 2009
Time to talk games and feed your face again! Come with us for a lighthearted evening of game talk, the usual networking and chapter planning and assured world domination. On the evening of Wednesday, June 24 please join the Silicon Valley IGDA folks for an evening out at Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View at 7:30 pm. Location details here.
Apr 24 2009
Great news!
Noah Falstein is scheduled to come and speak at our Project Connection event! Noah Falstein is among the premier game designers in the world. He is also an industry veteran from the arcade industry and Lucas Arts as well as Dreamworks Interactive. If you feel like times are tough now, talk to him about the collapse of the arcade industry and perhaps your perspective will be shifted. This is a lifetime innovator, his recent work includes implementing groundbreaking techniques. What others dream about, Noah does. If you are into game design at all, or serious games, this one is for you. So come already!
Noah will among other things talk about his recent work on serious games on the the Cisco Mind Share game and a glimpse of a new Mata Hari game in the works. There will also be a question and answer session at the end for Noah, after which we will have time for people to walk around and be inspired to connect, gasp, face to face and not electronically, on Game Project Connection Night described below. Directions here
Apr 16 2009
What: Game Project Connection Night. This is an event where people who would like to find others to join projects as either employees, contract, sweat equity or unpaid/hobby/pre-contract can connect. We will have tables set up. People will be able to casually walk around and chat with each other about game projects in a low pressure environment. If you have a project current or future that you are looking for more people for or if you are looking to join a game project now or in the future, this event is for you.
When: Monday May 18th at approximately 7pm
Where: Dragon’s Den auditorium at Cogswell
Why: Because at the SV IGDA last meeting this idea was voted by you as most wanted event in the immediate future.
Qualifications: This event if free and open to the general public. RSVP for table space is optional
RSVP: Please RSVP if you think you would either like to talk to people about joining your project or invite them to brainstorm about your idea or simply attend looking for a project. We would like to get an idea of the tables needed so please send me a quick email especially if you are interested in presenting and I will try to reserve a space for you, although we would also like to know if you are planning on attending as a “looking for interesting project” person too.
Mar 24 2009
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Members-Only Party
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There’s over 1650 members RSVPd for the party, taking place at the SF Westin on Tuesday night (8pm-1am). For full details, a map, list of who’s going, etc, jump to:
http://www.igda.org/gdc09/rsvp_gdcparty_09.php
Folks heading to the party are encouraged to pick up their entrance wristband at the IGDA booth on Monday or Tuesday (before 5pm) to speed up entry at the party.
Note that we will not turn away any IGDA members (well, unless we completely fill up), and folks can sign up to be a member at the booth and/or party entrance.
Mar 21 2009
There is an interesting upcoming local event in San Jose that National University has requested the SV IGDA profesional designers and developers as well as potential design students know about and be invited to. It is a weekend long Video Game Design at the San Jose campus. The designs can be for whatever technologies you find most interesting. For their website on the event go to http://getinfo.nu.edu/GAME/videogaming.html Their poster states 18 years and older to participate. Additional info and poster here
Mar 04 2009
Join in on the fun for a Bay Area Game Jam April 4-5. The Wild Pockets Bay Area Game Jam event is two days of intense creativity where teams of game developers compete to create the best games while using the new free Wild Pockets 3D game engine and platform. 24 hours after you start, you and your team will have the chance to submit your game and have it judged by a panel of industry experts. Details here and an update
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