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 the Silicon Valley IGDA Game 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
Feb 26 2009
Relax and unwind after GDC and come with us for a lighthearted evening of planning chapter events and world domination. On the evening of Wednesday, April 1 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.
Jan 07 2009
On the evening of Wednesday, February 11 please join the Silicon Valley IGDA folks for an evening out at Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View at 7:30 pm. In addition to our pizza and chat we will be holding elections. For details on elections, please join our google group. Location details here.
Nov 14 2008
On the evening of Wednesday, December 17 please join the Silicon Valley IGDA folks for an evening out at Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View. Details here.
Oct 09 2008
On the evening of Wednesday, October 22nd, please join the Silicon Valley IGDA folks for an evening out at Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View. Details here.
Aug 27 2008
Event: Silicon Valley International Game Developers Association (SV IGDA) Game Demo Night
When: Wednesday September 24, 2008 7pm – 10pm.
Where: Cogswell Polytechnical College in the Dragons Den Auditorium
What: Game Demo Night is a evening where new and upcoming games and game tools are presented, after which the audience has a chance to interact with and give feedback to presenters and check out many of the demos. Of additional fun and benefit will be hearing about the wide range of game approaches and experiences. Developers range through creative college students, the untamed wild of small independents, to well established larger companies. Presentations are concise game and tool overviews.
Presenters:
Dave Georgeson of Gaia Online presents their upcoming flash based MMO
Simon Amarasingham of dSonic presents an adaptive music demo with Unreal Tournament
Brody Brooks of Cogswell Game Developer’s Club presents Beat Down Bob
Autodesk demonstrates their latest 3d animation tool revs
Kurt Larson of Slipgate Ironworks presents the Generative Adaptive Music System (GAMS) for MMO’s
Paul Manwell of PX interactive presents the NetDog Networking engine for MMO’s
Don McClure of Digital Element, Inc. and Rajan Singh of ToneThis present ZorkSMS on a cellphone
John Lovell and Jack Norton of East Bay University demonstrates combArt, an experimental game of Art
Brian Alexakis of UCSC will share adventures on the path from game idea to Sony PSP
Sponsors: Autodesk(refreshment sponsor), Cogswell Polytechnical College (Auditorium Sponsor)
Organizers and Volunteers — Thank you!
Bonnie Phelps– Dean Institutional Advancement Cogswell Polytechnical College
Ken Humphries — Video Camera Sorcerer, SVIGDA Advisor
Liran Nuna — Website Admin thanks for installing our new site!
Albert Chen — SVIGDA Cogswell Polytechnical College Contact
Eric Jingles, Melody Schaeffer — Publicity and Presenter Recruitment
Ray Almeda and Mathew Philips of Nelson Staffing– Publicity and Flyers at local companies thanks!
Rob Chaitin – Student Life Coordinator — Publicity flyers at Cogswell
Marvin Aragon, Evan Peebles, Andrey Fedin — Equipment Gurus at Cogswell
Rudrasen, Joline Chew– General Volunteers yay!
Ann Burkett- SVIGDA Chapter Coordinator and Event Instigator
wanna get involved in our next one? — email me and/or join our google group
Aug 27 2008
On the evening of Wednesday, August 20th, please join the Silicon Valley IGDA folks for an evening out at Kapp’s Pizza in Mountain View. Details here.
