[Event] Johannesburg Community Evening - 8th September 2015
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 8 September
Where: Microsoft Campus Bryanston, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Johannesburg. In Auditorium 2
Content
- 6:30 - 7:00 Grab food elsewhere + bonding time
- Zoe's Introductions ~5 mins
- Community News 5 min
- STASIS postmortem by @Chris_Bischoff and @bischonator (30 min?)
- Why aren't you game jamming by @SUGBOERIE (10 min?)
Focused Feedback (10 minute slots)
- 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
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
When:18:30 until around 21:30, Tuesday 8 September
Where: Microsoft Campus Bryanston, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Johannesburg. In Auditorium 2
Content
- 6:30 - 7:00 Grab food elsewhere + bonding time
- Zoe's Introductions ~5 mins
- Community News 5 min
- STASIS postmortem by @Chris_Bischoff and @bischonator (30 min?)
- Why aren't you game jamming by @SUGBOERIE (10 min?)
Focused Feedback (10 minute slots)
- 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
Comments
@francoisvn, judging by this year and last AMaze starts on the second Wednesday of September, the JHB meets are the the second Tuesday of the month. This is only this year and last, I'm not exactly sure what the future will look like.
rAge is the last weekend of the Gauteng school holidays between Q3 and Q4, so not really sure how often that can be reliably linked into the JHB meetup.
Tentative title "Why aren't you game jamming?"
Very interested to hear them.
How long would the talk take?
@garethf if you can sponsor a video camera and tripod I'll record and post the talks :p
are we just going to mission after amaze?
Out of interest what DSLR do you have? I have an issue with the video functionality on mine that limits video recording to 16-24min per take. IIRC it had something to do with the tech at the time so rather curious what the current state of cameras are.
Will that be a problem? I'll have to edit the takes together.....
AFAIK It has to do with what constitutes a video camera and what not, with licensing issues in the EU.
If someone records the talk, I can do some sound cleanup and whatnot if you guys are interested. And hopefully I'll see all of you next month. Enjoy
I made slides anyhow so I'm gonna post some (not all) of them anyway because info and lols :P
Many thanks to all the playtesters for their patience and helpfulness.
After fixing an embarrassing Meatball bug, I was able to get some very useful advice and feedback from every one.
You guys really saved me from the clutches of a dev rut there.
Sorry for leaving a bit early at the end there: had some friends coming in for AMaze who I really wanted to see. But hope to see you all at AMaze, and the meetup next month!
listen here: https://soundcloud.com/conrad-marshall-1/stasis-talk-makegamessa