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The San Jose State University Game Development Club is dedicated to creating quality, innovative student video games. We are an up-and-coming student organization that needs members! If you are interested in game development send us an email at edgar86m@gmail.com and come to our next meeting (schedule on the right).


Latest Updates

Alexander Shen Presentation


Alexander Shen from Mochi Media from SJSU Game Dev on Vimeo.

Jameson Hsu Presentation


Jameson Hsu, CEO and Co-founder of Mochi Media from SJSU Game Dev on Vimeo.

8-bit challenge due dates update

Because this up coming Tuesday is a holiday, the “mini presentation” due date will be pushed back till Thursday November 13th. Here are the final presentation dates and times for the 8-bit challenge.

Mini Presentation: Thursday November 13th Student Union: Almaden room @ 8pm

Final Presentations: Tuesday November 25th Student Union: Costanoan room @ 7pm

8-bit Challenge

We are proud to present our second game challenge of the Fall 2008 Semester hereby to be referred to as the 8-bit challenge. The rules are quite simple and are as follows:

- Games must simply feel asthetically ‘retro’
- Must resurrect a classic game genre
- Games may be direct clones, slight upgrades, or variations on original titles during that time period
- Mini Presentation due Thursday, November 13th
- Final Presentation due Tuesday November 25th
- Projects may be developed for any platform
- Projects may feature newer technologies

Resource websites:
Various sprites:  http://www.spriters-resource.com/
Megaman sprites:  http://www.sprites-inc.co.uk/
Sonic/others? sprites:  http://www.themysticalforestzone.com/Sprite_section.htm

We do not have resources for game music yet; however, visit our google group and talk to your fellow members for further assistance!!!

GOOD LUCK :-D!

Cryptic Studios Comes to the Game Development Club at SJSU

Shannon Posniewski is the director of game programming at Cryptic Studios. At this meeting he is going to speak about the game development process,and his work in the MMORPG realm. Shannon has worked on City of Heroes, City of Villians and is currently working on Cryptic’s upcoming titles! This event is open to the public and completely free. Free pizza and drinks! Bring all of your friends! Don’t miss it!

When/Where:
October 28th, 2008
7:00pm - 9:00pm
(there will be time to network afterward)

San Jose State University Student Union: Ohlone Room
1 Washington Square Hall (closer to 7th or 8th street),
San Jose, CA

BY THE WAY… You could probably bring your resume…

Click here to see a larger version of the flyer.

Albert Chen Presentation Part 2


Entering the Video Game Industry Part2 from kyung lee on Vimeo.

Meeting on Tuesday October 14th, 2008

Next meeting will be in the Student Union (Guadalupe room)7pm, we will be RE-DOING the presentation, in order to get a better recording of them for the website and so people can have a bit more time to do them. We will also be having a guest speaker come in from San Francisco State University and present a 3d RTS flash game that he’s creating.

This is the format of the meeting.

Re-do game presentation
San Francisco State University Student presentation
Q and A

For the re-do of the presentations, we would like for everyone to
follow the following format…

- Talk about what how your game was going to turn out (Game design
talk, tools you were going to use)
- Present the actual game, have other people play the game
- Mini Post-mortem, talk about what went wrong, what you would have
change, etc…

This is just a suggestion, so when millions of people see the video
online, they have a better understanding of awesome your game is ;D.

Hope to see everyone at the meeting!

SJSU Student Makes Headlines

http://videogames.yahoo.com/feature/is-this-the-world-s-most-addictive-game-/1248496

Pong Soon

Pong compition winners to be announced shortly!

Albert Chen Presentation- September 2, 2008


Entering the Video Game Industry Part1 from kyung lee on Vimeo.