When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Wednesday 27th November
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)
- Treating narrative progress like Game Design - @Nandrew ~ 20 mins
- Creative Habits: living in a way that maximizes creativity - @BlackShipsFillltheSky ~ 20 mins
- Focused feedback: Wang Commander by @Merrik (10min)
- 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)
- Treating narrative progress like Game Design - @Nandrew ~ 20 mins
- Creative Habits: living in a way that maximizes creativity - @BlackShipsFillltheSky ~ 20 mins
- Focused feedback: Wang Commander by @Merrik (10min)
- 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
Speaking of talks being filmed what happened to the videos from last month?
What does everyone think?
That being said, I don't mind filming again (Last months talks will be uploaded in the next few hours)
(Not as in doodling while on the phone or acappela humming, but as in living in a way that maximizes creativity)
So damn bleak that I am missing this :(
Also, Beer House or Banana jam? I vote Beer House.
Ill even commit to bringing my hideously unready prototype I'm working on to prove you don't need be scared of showing something that's not good enough...
Who has Joust? @dislekcia?
Edit: Oh, I can bring some speakers too, but they're pretty small and crappy - anyone have some decent ones to bring along?
I wish there were more prototypes. For example I'd like to hear the music Gibbo did for the recent comp games and hear him talk about his experience. I'd like to hear from people who made Comp entries.
I like that there are some good talks that come from experience... but I'm afraid that a lot of the people attending are being very passive, and I'm not sure how much they could be getting out of it.
I'm not sure if I have a solution. I'd like for all the folks making games to at least display their work... or if that's too much effort maybe someone could make a video that rounds up the new prototypes that have been produced that month (with the prototypers' consent).
I guess I'd like the meetups to reflect what I see as the awesome bubbling creativity that's happening on these forums.
A lot of us are shy, I think, so it's sometimes a little difficult to get people talking. Having people who are good at networking and so on help/assist others is the best route :)
...Online. :P
I get uncomfortable if I'm in a group of more than ~3 people who are all chatting - even if I know everyone, even if I've known them all closely for years. Since having an introverted personality is a common thing among people of our ilk I'm sure a lot of us are the same.
One thing I can maybe think of is for people who are attending who DON'T have a game to show, to still bring any devices they're able to (laptops of course being the easiest) to provide demos of other people's games who perhaps can't or don't want to bring their PCs. Could even arrange builds in advance where Person A offers up a laptop and Person B sends them a build of their game before the meet to make sure it runs.
Was glad to see a few more prototypes in the free play section afterwards, though there probably could be more. Also I think a vid compilation could be sweet, though that should remain super easy for someone to compile. Like send them youtube links and they can download it beforehand.
An old guard problem is the latter, which is not what's happening here. Nobody is being told their work/talk/game isn't good enough because they haven't been around for long. Lots of "brand new" (to the community) teams, games and people have stood up recently and are somehow part of the "old guard" already, so it can't be a thing based on time. Thoopid, Sijo, Screwy Lightbulb.