[Event] Cape Town Community Night - 24th June
When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Wednesday 24th June
Where: 22Seven - 60 Hout St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001
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 and greet
- Rapid fire intros (10 min)
- Community News (5 min)
- Making stuff for Non-Gamers - @Nandrew
- Discussion around Game Industry Discussion - @NickCuthbert
- Focused Feedback (10 min slots) x3
- 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!
Indicate your attendance on the Facebook event!
Where: 22Seven - 60 Hout St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8001
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 and greet
- Rapid fire intros (10 min)
- Community News (5 min)
- Making stuff for Non-Gamers - @Nandrew
- Discussion around Game Industry Discussion - @NickCuthbert
- Focused Feedback (10 min slots) x3
- 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!
Indicate your attendance on the Facebook event!
Comments
- Making stuff for Non-Gamers - @Nandrew
- Feedback on Games for Change - @MNRosa
- Discussion around Game Industry Discussion - @NickCuthbert
We had a nice chat with Robbie at EGE Expo and have offered the audience hall at Friends of Design for all upcoming community meet-ups, free of charge. We feel really strong about supporting the local game dev community and try to assist where we can. The meet-ups also blend in really nicely with our bi-annual game industry days held by Lars Espeter.
Our venue offers seating for up to 150 people, complete AV set-up with 2 interlinked projectors, wireless mic, speakers, aircon, cafe/bar for drinks and catering. Additionally our campus offers the access to classrooms for hands-on sessions or possible indy game launches (just putting some ideas out).
The venue is located very central in 186 Bree Street, with easy access to MyCity bus routes and plenty of parking after hours.
I'm attaching a picture of the venue during an event, so that you can get an idea.
Now the most pressing question: Yes we can host you next week already (in case you haven't found an alternative yet).
You can get in touch with me to check out the venue in person, if you wish. Let me know if we can help.
Cheers Philipp
http://makegamessa.com/discussion/3263/cape-town-community-evening-game-industry-education-discussion
Venue for this month has been confirmed as the Space Theatre @ 22Seven : 60 Hout St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town
We do need a Mac laptop in order to have presentations on the theatre screen - if someone could bring that through?
So yeah, maybe some other people bring theirs along as well as a precaution.
Is the Space Theatre in the tall dark-grey building on the corner of Hope and Long Street (2 buildings along from the Grand Daddy)?
Does the venue only have some proprietary Mac interface for the projector? If someone wants to show a game and has their non-Mac laptop, wouldn't they be able to do a focussed feedback with the projector? I'm not too worried about this time cause we don't have any requests for focussed feedback yet, and personally it won't really be an issue, but I could foresee it being an issue in the long term.
The hardware setup is alien as hell ;)
If Macs can hack alien motherships I think you'll be fine ;)
Another reminder to anyone else doing presentations: get it to myself or @dislekcia today before 4pm.
Also, anyone who wants to get in touch with me to do some talks at schools in future - please DM me :) Also, @NickCuthbert good on you for taking on this massive and very brave project ;) Seems like you'll have a lot of support from the community though so don't forget to make use of those resources.
I thought the last part of the night was really great. First time I've been at a meetup that's involved so much thought and discussion from everyone. So many interesting ideas and perspectives came through.
Very, very excited for your new undertaking @NickCuthbert. I get the sense many others felt just as enthused about what you're planning to do!
To follow up on the stuff I suggested you check out; here's an intro to The Love Punks and here's their game. I think the emphasis here was very much on teaching kids about the visual sides of game design (rather than coding) but I think it's a really stellar example of the power of pooling the creative energy of kids. I can imagine it's a great feeling for them, working together to make something like this, and getting an opportunity to tell their own stories in their own ways.
On the flipside, here's Marrion Walton's "Creative Code" project, which looks to be doing really great work in giving kids an introduction to programming and making their own games.
High-five again for this undertaking Nick - it's going to be great!