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Come check out Simon Que's presentation on DuinoCube DuinoCube is an Arduino-based video game console. It is similar in capabilities to classic game consoles like SNES: 320x240 video mode, 18-bit color VGA output Four tiled background layers 256 independent sprites Dual-channel...

Sep 19: Game Night

Sep 12: GameMaker Tutorial

New to GameMaker? Come check out the tutorial tonight to be get you started!

Sep 5: First Game Challenge Announced!

May 2: Source Engine/Hammer Tutorial

Jared Mills, an Animation/Illustration major, and Tim Huynh, a Computer Science major, will be coming into the club to teach us about exporting Maya/Blender models into Source and then a lesson in the level editor.

Apr 25: April 25th Meeting

The games of the second game challenge are due.

Apr 18: Maya Tutorial

Jimi Youm, an Animation/Illustration major specializing in 3-D modeling, will be coming in to our club to give a tutorial on Maya. You can download the student version of Maya for free here: http://students.autodesk.com/

Apr 11: Escape Goat Talk!

The creator of Escape Goat will be coming to talk to the club! This is the very first guest presentation we've had in a while!! COME TO IT!!

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Apr 18: Maya Tutorial

Mar 14: Blender Tutorial

Gavin, our awesome VP, will be teaching the club Blender. Download the program here: http://www.blender.org/

Sep 13: Game Maker Tutorial

Our very own webmistress, Kelsey, will be teaching us how to use Game Maker!

Apr 19: Icebreaker Ninja Night!

We will play Ninja for this Game Night!

Photos and the absolutely perfect video by Kevin Hietala!

Mar 9: GDC

Carpool up and learn about video game development! Also, hopefully submit resumes!

Apr 21: Open interview with Jonathan Blow, author of Braid

Jonathan Blow, the designer of Braid, is coming to the Game Development Club on April 21st! We're going to have a discussion with him, so be sure to play Braid if you haven't (it's on steam here) and think of some scintillating questions to ask. You can check out the development blog of his current...

Award winning game designer, Craft...

May 11: Brian Urbanek of Cryptic Studios on Matching Theme and Mechanics in Game Design

We will have a guest speaker, Brian Urbanek from Cryptic Studios, talking about game design, probably. We must have a contact at Cryptic or something, this is the second time we've had someone from there to present. Brian has been working on MMO design for over ten years! He most recently worked...

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.

Mar 16: Anna Anthropy of the Internet on the Design of REDDER

Anna Anthropy will be presenting at our next meeting on Tuesday, March 16! You should come, even if you're not a part of the club. (Even if you're not a student here! (Even if you're from the Internet.)) I don't know what she'll be talking about, so I'll tell you a few miscellaneous things about...

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.

Feb 16: Albert Chen of Cogswell on Design Documents

We've asked Albert Chen (we've seen him before) to give a presentation on design documents! A design doc is basically a big document that describes a game in detail before it's been made; in big companies, it's given to all the departments and they try to make a game matching it as accurately as...

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!)

Oct 20: Jude Gomila of HeyZap on How to Make Your Game Go Viral

HeyZap will be coming. They monetize Flash games and such. They will present info on their company and their monetization tools. The tech title is "How to make your game go viral and make enormous amounts of money from it."

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.

Sep 10: Albert Chen of Cogswell on Getting into the Video Game Industry, Episode II

Albert Chen will speak.

Thanks to Albert Chen for his presentation, "Getting into the Video Game Industry: Episode II - Unemployment Strikes Back." You can view his presentation here.

Oct 28: Shannon Posniewski of Cryptic Studios on Programming in the Game Industry

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...

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

Sep 30: Jameson Hsu and Alexander Shen of Mochi Media on Flash Monetization and Distribution, and Entering the Game Industry

Mochi Media is dropping by! Pong Competition Presentations are gonna rock! Free FOOD!!!

Thanks to Mochi Media for coming! Jameson Hsu talked about monetization and distribution of Flash games, and Alexander Shen talked about different paths into the game industry.

Sep 2: Albert Chen of Cogswell on Entering the Video Game Industry

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...

Thanks to Albert Chen for coming!

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