Tips on obtaining a GDC Scholarship

Applications for an IGDA scholarship to the Game Developers Conference (GDC) are due Friday!  Click here for more information on the scholarship.

For those applying, be sure to check out this post made on the IGDA forums.  Someone who evaluates scholarship applications was kind enough to explain his process for evaluation - giving great tips for those applying. 

Forum Polls

Everyone please checkout the new Polls in our forum.

3D Game Modeling Introduction

On Tuesday, December 4, 2007, Will Muto, a Digital Media grad student with numerous game projects under his belt, will be giving us an introduction into the world of 3D modeling for games, delving into the art of low-poly modeling in Blender.

Where: Campbell Auditorium (113 Stratton Hall)
When: December 4th, 2007, 6:30-8:00PM Note the Updated Time

November IGDA meeting

The November meeting of the Philly IGDA will take place on Wednesday November 28th at 7:00 PM.

The agenda for the meeting is as follows:

7:00 - 7:30: Food, refreshments and informal chat
7:30 - 7:45: Around-the-world introductions
7:45 - 8:00: Chapter business, call for volunteers and 2007 IGDA Leadership forum summary by Dan Hettrick
8:00 - 8:45: Featured speaker: Chris Jurney "A Day in the Life of an AI Programmer"
8:45 - 9:00: Margaret Chen "Imagine Cup - Microsoft's Game Programming Contest"
9:00 - 9:45: Featured Speaker: Al Vazquez "Challenges of Non-Electronic Game Design"
9:45- 10:00: Game Design Challenge Workshop (if time permits)

More info is available at the IGDA website and IGDA Forums

DGDG Related Photos

Here's a link to a Flickr album of pictures (taken by Tom) relating to the Drexel Game Developers Group.

Enjoy!

Game Design Workshop

This Wednesday, November 14, at 5 pm in University Crossings 153 the Drexel Game Developers Group will host a brief lecture on game design followed by a game design workshop.

When: November 14 @ 5 pm
Location: University Crossings 153

Great Website

This website came up repeatedly in the talks at the Video Game Expo, and I have found it to be a great source of information. I recommend everyone that has not already visited, bookmarked, and lived their lives by it to do so immediately!

http://www.gamasutra.com

Also, to subscribe to daily updates on news in the industry, go here:

http://www.gamedaily.com/news and enter your email into the field that says "Get Biz New Daily"

--Jim

RSS feed on forums

Just an FYI: We've updated the Drexel Game Developers Forums to support RSS feeds.

New Officers for 2008

Hello All

We have elected new officers for this new year. Here is a breakdown of all our current officers.


President: Tom Bennett

Vice President: Jordan Santell

Treasurer: Greta Evans

Webmaster/PR: Kris Blair and Mark Golazeski

We are looking forward to having a great memorable year. Please check back to the Blog and also go check out the Drexel Game Developer Forums at www.drexelgamedev.org/forum

Trial by Fire: Starting your own game development studio

The Drexel Game Developers Group will be a hosting a talk by Vance Souders of Firewater Games this Thursday at 5 pm in Patten Auditorium. Vance will be discussing why he formed Firewater, the challenges of running a start-up while keeping day jobs, managing risks with distributed teams and how proper scoping of a project is essential. He’ll also discuss the different development platforms Firewater Games looked at developing for, and why they chose XNA and the 360 as their first platform.

CS Major needed for multi-touch game

The following has been posted on behaf of Prof. Paul Diefenbach:

Seeking CS major to assist with Multi-point touch screen game development: Planet Diggum. See www.replay.drexel.edu/diggums.htm

for more information. If interested,

Contact Prof. Paul Diefenbach at pjdief@drexel.edu.

October Philly IGDA Meeting

The Philly IGDA will host the October meeting on October 24 at 7:00 PM in the University of Pennsylvania's Levine Hall (3330 Walnut Street) room 307. Pizza and soda will be provided.

IGDA offering GDC Scholarships

The IGDA is now taking applications for GDC scholarships. 25 scholarships will be awarded. In order to apply you must be a full time student, at least 18 years old, and be an IGDA Student Member in good standing. Visit the IGDA website for more details.

Trip to Breaking In conference

I'm looking into getting funding for us to attend the Breaking In conference of America's Video Game Expo. It's important that you let me know if you would like to go as soon as possible, so I can get paperwork through to SAFAC. As such, I need everyone to email me by Monday at 3 pm if you would like to attend.

XNA Presentation

Thursday, Oct 18, in UCROSS 149 at 5 pm, the MCS Society and Drexel Game Development Group will co-sponsor an introduction to Microsoft XNA Game Studio Express presented by Brandon Bloom, who worked on the XNA team for co-op. XNA Game Studio Express is a set of APIs and tools designed to make it easy for students, hobbyists, and independent game developers to develop games quickly and easily for Windows and Xbox 360. After a brief overview and some demos of XNA games, there will be a walkthrough of the creation of a simple game. Pizza and soda will be provided.