When: Wednesday, April 6, 2011 - 6:00 PM
Where: Media Design School. 242 Queen St Auckland
How to find us: Come up to Level 12
At the April Game Developer's Meetup we'll:
6.00 Arrive and mingle
6.15 Showcase: Gaming projects and news happening locally.
How to Survive and Thrive at GDC
The Games Developers Conference is the premiere global event for the games industry. Danu Abeysuriya from Rush Digital and Chris Harris from NinjaKiwi will give reports, tips and holiday snaps from their trip to GDC '11 in San Francisco last month.
Cross Platform Monkeying around
Monkey is the latest games programming language from Auckland-based cult games tool maker Blitz Research. Games written in Monkey can be translated into Flash, iPhone, iPad, Android, HTML5, C#/XNA and OpenGL. Stephen Knightly was a beta tester and will show us the pros and cons of this new language for speeding up cross-platform development.
Dream, Build, Play and Ludum Dare
Michael Schaeffers will talk about the Dream.Build.Play Challenge to create a Xbox 360 game using XNA Game Studio 4.0, with the promise of fame, prizes and riches.
The next Ludum Dare 48-hour game making challenge is also happening from 29 April-2 May.
INTO online gaming?
Into is a genetically engineered hybrid of Home Brand, Gamespy and Facebook. It's no frills, its semi-social, and its all about games. You can log in, find people from your country who are Into the same games as you, get their gamertag/PSNiD, and leave. Simon Verbiest will show us the beta of this new free service for gamers.
Job vacancies galore
If you know someone wanting a fulltime Flash, iOS or Android game dev job, send them to this month's Meetup.
6.45 Desperately Seeking: Announcements about people looking for collaborators, advice or resources. (Hints: there are job vaca
7.00 Pizza, networking, group discussions
Please bring $5 for pizza and drinks.
Please let Stephen know if you'd like to showcase your work, or if you are seeking something so we can help you out.
The street-level doors lock about 6.15-6.30. If you are locked out, call Stephen on 0274 438 125.
Also: In between meetups check out www.playmaker.org.nz for more local game development community news.