When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Wednesday 30th October
Where: Microsoft offices, Engen building 2nd floor, Golf Park, Mowbray: https://maps.google.co.za/maps?q=-33.947185,18.4914
If you have a demo you want played, bring a station on which people can play it, and set it up before the meetup begins!
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, and eat.
- Rapid fire intros (10 min)
- Community News (5 min)
- Minimising memory churn ~ 20 min (@ChristopherM)
- 'How to find yourself on the internet': An intro to Online Marketing and SEO ~ 25 mins (@dammit)
- A detailed look at metaprogress in games ~25 mins (@nandrew)
- Focused feedback:
Broforce: New Features and Bros ~ 10 mins.
- Open Demo Floor
This event happens monthly, is free to attend, and anyone may speak at the meetup - just comment beneath to let us know! This is for anyone and everyone interested in making games of any shape, size or type. Come join us!
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
Where: Microsoft offices, Engen building 2nd floor, Golf Park, Mowbray: https://maps.google.co.za/maps?q=-33.947185,18.4914
If you have a demo you want played, bring a station on which people can play it, and set it up before the meetup begins!
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet, greet, and eat.
- Rapid fire intros (10 min)
- Community News (5 min)
- Minimising memory churn ~ 20 min (@ChristopherM)
- 'How to find yourself on the internet': An intro to Online Marketing and SEO ~ 25 mins (@dammit)
- A detailed look at metaprogress in games ~25 mins (@nandrew)
- Focused feedback:
Broforce: New Features and Bros ~ 10 mins.
- Open Demo Floor
This event happens monthly, is free to attend, and anyone may speak at the meetup - just comment beneath to let us know! This is for anyone and everyone interested in making games of any shape, size or type. Come join us!
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
Comments
I just joined the forum today and I am not a game programmer. Though I am interested in game development. I am in my third year of studying programming though. Am I allowed to join the event as well?
I'm also keen for both marketing talks. But, with the caveat that I'd like the third talk to be a talk immediately useful to those of us who don't have games that need marketing. i.e. I think a fair number of the attendees are either students (who are still working out how to make marketing worthy games) or professional contractors (who make games for other folks to market).
Hopefully someone experienced will volunteer, but in any case I'll bring mine along as well and give it a whirl.
I'll be using my father's camera, a Canon EOS 550d. I believe it's pretty decent for film-making. I have my own Tripod.
I've also convinced my friend who is a documentary maker to come along. He'll also be recording and can show me which side of the camera to point with.
Sound is probably still going to be an issue? I imagine the best solution is to record sound separately through the mic system?
I believe everything in it is essential for professional game programmers to know. There's nothing of use for non-programmers unfortunately, so I'll make extra effort to keep it short and concise.
Does anyone have anything on the art/design side that we could round out our talks with?
And maybe throwing in stuff about pacing and intensity.
I'd probably need more time to think of a slightly more focused angle. But I'll talk in this area if needed.
PR Check List [Stuff I didn't talk about]
Google User Experience Insights
Feed the Bot
To the Web
Google Adwords - For keyword Research
https://twitter.com/zootweetslive
Yep got it all on Camera, from 2 different angles! Hoping to upload next week
Also noticed last night that the community open floor was a lot less enthusiastic. Not sure why, there are tons of comp E games on the go, would have expected to see them all there. Also maybe the length of the talks had something to do with it. Also, Exams!
We started late
More talks than usual (This includes squishing stuff into the community news section which went much longer than expected)
I also think 2 Talks a meetup is the sweet-spot :)
Though, the talks were all really insightful. Thanks!
I wanted to know will there be another event in cape town before the end of the year? IT WOULD BE EPIC if there was....