[Event] Johannesburg Community Evening - 13 September 2016
This event happens monthly, is free to attend and anyone may speak at the meetup - just comment in the thread below to let us know!
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Tuesday 12 July
Where: Microsoft Campus Bryanston, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Johannesburg. Auditorium 2
Content
- 6:30 - 7:00 Grab food elsewhere + bonding time
- Community News (5 min)
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- Unity Tips @Stray_Train (15 min)
- AMA IRL @Elyaradine
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- Game Presentation 1 (10 min)
- Game Presentation 2 (10 min)
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- Playtest Pitchathon (if you're playtesting a game, we ask that you give a 30 second pitch to the room about what the game is, before we all break off and play things).
Bring your games and set them up inside the auditorium before and after the meetup!
Board game prototypes can and will be played so bring along your prototypes!
If you intend to attend, please indicate so on the Facebook event (Not mandatory, so don't worry if you don't have/use Facebook)
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Tuesday 12 July
Where: Microsoft Campus Bryanston, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Johannesburg. Auditorium 2
Content
- 6:30 - 7:00 Grab food elsewhere + bonding time
- Community News (5 min)
===
- Unity Tips @Stray_Train (15 min)
- AMA IRL @Elyaradine
===
- Game Presentation 1 (10 min)
- Game Presentation 2 (10 min)
===
- Playtest Pitchathon (if you're playtesting a game, we ask that you give a 30 second pitch to the room about what the game is, before we all break off and play things).
Bring your games and set them up inside the auditorium before and after the meetup!
Board game prototypes can and will be played so bring along your prototypes!
If you intend to attend, please indicate so on the Facebook event (Not mandatory, so don't worry if you don't have/use Facebook)
Comments
Also I'm not 100% sure about the venue, but I'll update that when I hear from MS.
It will be good to hear from Stray Train (I do remember he does things well!) but unfortunately I cant offer to show or teach things (because of the weird things that have changed me).
@Vince updated the post to say FB isn't mandatory ;) all are welcom irrespective of their buy into social mega-corps.
Is there perhaps someone's returning to the East Rand afterwards? It would be awesome to get a lift to my folks in Edenvale.
[edit] Sorted, thanks Ben! :)
I remember about a year ago or so, Luke did a sort of Q&A/AMA-type thing that seemed to be well-received. If there's interest, I'd be pretty happy to do a similar kind of thing.
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@ Everyone we're back in Auditorium 2 this month!
Enjoy it guys :D
Good news is everyone who came along with me enjoyed it and we might be able to make the trip more often as it is more economical :)
I have a suggestion. We should organise a Meetup page since the DeveloperUG is already meeting at the same venue. The site makes it easy to RSVP and setup recurring dates. Then we don't have to trawl the forums looking for the next forum post. Here's the link to the Dev meet for reference: http://meetup.com/DeveloperUG/
1. Was costing the organisation monthly fees (that means someone had to pay it out of their own pocket as the organisation doesn't have its own money)
2. Wasn't really reaching any new audiences it otherwise wouldn't have without the meetup page
If you're interested in attending the meetup regularly, it's simply the second tuesday of every month. There is also a Facebook page that posts the events, as well as a twitter.
Point 1 is interesting. I wasn't aware of the cost for Meetups. It might be possible to talk the sponsors of the DevUG to sponsor it, since they are already paying for one meetup. Their sponsors even give out prizes every month! Perhaps we could approach game companies to get them to cover the cost. Maybe we could talk @Fengol into getting Microsoft to sponsor the page? *wink wink nudge nudge*
Alternatively, I work for BBD and they might help. Would you like me to ask?
Point 2 is not really a worry. I just find it convenient to have Meetup mail me every month with the lineup about the talks. However, if we have sponsors paying for the page, they might actively help in marketing the talk? Is growing the audience important right now?
1: It's more admin for me, and time is finite. I'd rather put what time I've got into finding interesting talks rather than setting up more platforms.
2: MeetUp – as far as I have seen – has a very specific group of people who use it. It's mostly software devs with well paying full time jobs who have more of a cursory interest in making games, and that's kinda a specific niche to be putting effort into.