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Time and Location

Tuesday, September 7, 2010
9:30pm – 10:30pm
Almaden Room in the Student Union, San José State University

Everything Else

If you’re new to the club, welcome, and if you’ve been here before, welcome back! This semester will be an exciting semester, I can feel it. Here’s what will happen at our first meeting:

• Hella introductions will go down. You’ll learn what the club is all about, and we’ll all learn each other’s names, so that we all feel bad when we forget them by the next meeting.
• If you’ve made a game before, bring it on your laptop or USB drive! You’ll get a few minutes to show off anything you’ve made before, and especially anything you’ve made over the summer.
• The first game challenge of the semester will be announced! We’ll help you get into groups so that you can make a game like a team. If you haven’t worked on a game before, don’t worry, that’s what we’re here for to begin with!

We look forward to seeing you there!

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Thanks to everyone who came to our first meeting!
We saw a video of last year’s awesomeness and game presentations from five different people.

SJSU Game Dev Highlight Reel from SJSU Game Dev on Vimeo.

Grid[z] and Ultimate Checkers Online from SJSU Game Dev on Vimeo.

Bryan Munro’s War and Bees from SJSU Game Dev on Vimeo.

Convenience from SJSU Game Dev on Vimeo.

First development challenge of the semester

Our first game development challenge starts in two weeks, but you need to form your teams now! For the first time ever, we will be collaborating with students at Cogswell Polytechnical College. Through collaboration, we hope to get several teams that each have dedicated programmers and artists, as well as game designers and others.

To get the teams formed for this challenge, please post on this Google group, even if you plan to work independently or already have a team planned: The Cogswell and SJSU Collaborative Game Challenge Google Group. Following the example (the readme post), please state your skills and the type of team or team members that you’d like to work with. In a week or so, participants can then go through the list to find team members.

Semester schedule

The second challenge of the semester, as well as additional guest speakers and other awesomeness, will be finalized later. For the meetings below, the rooms in the Student Union are already reserved, and the guest speakers are confirmed.

September 2nd
Student org fair tabel’n (10:00 AM – 2:00)

September 10th
7:00 – 9:30, Almaden room
Albert Chen will speak, and the Cogswell and SJSU Collaborative Game Challenge will start

September 24th
7:00 – 9:30, Almaden room

October 8th
7:00 – 9:30, Almaden room
Guest speakers from Zynga are coming, and the Collaborative Challenge will end
EDIT: Zynga needs to be rescheduled :/

October 22th
7:00 – 9:30, Almaden room
Guest speakers from HeyZap are coming

November 5th, November 19th, December 3rd
TBA

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Place: Student Union, Guadalupe Room

Time: Tuesday Sept. 2nd, 7-9pm

Special guest speaker:

Albert Chen, over 12 years of video game industry experience with credits in nearly 2 dozen PC and console games. He has worked at EA, Factor 5, The 3DO Company, and LucasArts. Is currently the Professor of Game Design and Development and head of the Game Development Program at Cogswell Polytechnical College.

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