Game Dev Club at SJSU » Speakers

Brian Urbanek on Matching Theme and Mechanics in Game Design

Kelsey — Thu, 27 May 2010 21:29:15 +0000

Thanks to Brian Urbanek (of Cryptic Studios (of Champions Online)) for giving us an idea of the things he thinks about while he’s designing! It was super fascinating and super informative.

Anna Anthropy on the Design of REDDER

Kelsey — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 06:18:22 +0000

Thanks to Anna Anthropy for presenting about the design of one room (and then of other things) in REDDER! There were like 50 attendees and we were all at the edge™ of our seats.

Albert Chen: Episode 3

Kelsey — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 07:47:43 +0000

Thanks, Albert Chen, Assistant Professor of Game Design and Development at Cogswell, alumnus of LucasArts, Factor5, EA, and 3DO, and generally awesome guy, for presenting at our club for a third time!

(He talked about design docs, you guys! So great!)

Guest Speaker: HeyZap (Summary)

Kristopher — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 06:46:43 +0000

Many thanks to Jude Gomila of HeyZap for speaking at our last meeting! It was great to learn how social networks can be used to promote games, and hear a success story from a start-up co-founder.

Winners of the Collaborative Game Challenge have been announced! Intergalactic Planetary Super Showdown tied with Nyx for first place, and Cygnus the Cutie was a close runner up.

Our next challenge is the Facebook Game Dev Challenge! The details will be posted in a separate post.

Fall 2009 Second Meeting (Summary)

Kristopher — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 07:37:37 +0000

Thanks to everyone for coming!

The collaborative game challenge has started! Rules will be posted shortly, in a different post.

Also thanks to Albert Chen for his presentation, “Getting into the Video Game Industry: Episode II – Unemployment Strikes Back.” You can view his presentation here.

Before Albert Chen’s presentation, we took a few minutes to mention a few development kits that are popular for game development, including Game Maker, which is great for people without programming experience. More info can be found on the presentation slides from this meeting.

Shannon from Cryptic Studios

marek — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 19:00:12 +0000

Thanks to Shannon Posniewski of Cryptic Studios for coming to share his presentation!

Mochi Media Presentation

marek — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 19:00:45 +0000

Thanks to Mochi Media for coming!

Albert Chen Presentation

marek — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 19:00:58 +0000

Thanks to Albert Chen for coming!