| July 8, 2009 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
Hi folks, This month we’re back at the Skellig and we’re taking a break from the usual speaker format. We’re all about the eating, drinking, and socializing this time around. Figure it’s about time we give you chatty folks free reign! There will be the usual announcements from the audience, and we’ll do a brief update on some IGDA news, but beyond that it’s freeform. Logistics: Wednesday, July 8th @ 7pm The Skellig, Waltham (Directions) See you then!
Congratulations to Harmonix, for making #20 on Game Develoepr Magazine’s list of the top 50 developers worldwide! (You can see the full 50 in the table of contents of the full report.)
| June 16, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 9:00 pm |
The New England Games SIG is hosting a goodbye party for Henry Jenkins on Tue 6/16. Here’s all the info!
| FREE ADMISSION and space is filling up fast, REGISTER today!
Date: Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Time: 6:00 - 9:00 pm Location: Microsoft, One Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 One Memorial Drive is located on the Red Line at the Kendall Square/ MIT MBTA Stop. Driving directions and additional details can be found here:DIRECTIONS Check out the new Gaming BLOG Join the MIT Enterprise Forum New England Games and Interactive Entertainment SIG (NE Games SIG) for an evening celebrating and honoring Henry Jenkins. For more than 16 years, Henry Jenkins has graced the halls of MIT and shaped the New England games industry as we know it. An avid advocate of games culture, Henry has helped to build a deeply collaborative and creative community as Co-Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities at MIT. At the forefront of understanding the effects of participatory media, like video games, on society, politics and culture, Henry is a renowned industry figure and accomplished author/editor of twelve books. It has now come time for Henry to seek warmer pastures as he departs MIT for the University of Southern California. Join the NE Games SIG for this early summer networking event in Henry’s honor. Take part in saluting Henry Jenkins with his friends, closest colleagues and your industry peers. The night will be filled with fond farewells and warm memories as we share a collective toast, reflect on his work at MIT and wish him all the best in the road ahead. Speakers:
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| August 21, 2009 | to | August 23, 2009 |
There’s a new gaming convention running in Marlborough this year called Game Unicon. It’s not a development event but it might of interest to our community, so here’s their announcement:
Over the last 45 days we at Game Unicon have been building towards a launch date to set this Convention in stone. On May 7, 2009 we launched www.gameunicon.com , a website for our event being held at the Best Western Royal Plaza Hotel & Convention Center in Marlborough, MA on Friday August 21st-Sunday August 23rd. This Convention will feature multiple cash prizes video gaming tournaments, live concerts, free play all day and all night, vendors, celebrities, panels and much more. You have responded and as our initial pre registered gamers you may proceed to the site and get your registration on! Understand that you get the discounted Convention pass for only $30.00 if you enter into any tournament and pay that tourney fee. Non-Gamers or people who just want to watch and do free play will pay $40.00. You earned this discount. Check out the prize payouts for each game and do not hesitate to contact us and tell us your thoughts about the site and the Convention as we go forward!
Get Ready to Game All Day & Rock All Night!!
We’ve (finally!) posted up video from the April Post Mortem, which was Steve Meretzky’s big farewell. You can view the whole thing right here.
POST MORTEM: Steve Meretzky Send Off from Darius Kazemi on Vimeo.
Hi folks, I’m posting this CFP up for the GameX Industry Summit in Philadelphia this October, which is presented by the IGDA Chapters of Boston, NYC, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. (Full disclosure: I’m on the advisory board for the conference.) Boston’s own Chris Foster of Harmonix is going to be a keynote for the conference, and we’re looking to fill the rest of the schedule with some great talks!
So please consider submitting a proposal. We only need a 200 word abstract right now, and we’re looking for talks on any kind of nuts-and-bolts game development topic. Proposals are due June 15th.
Thanks,
Darius
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For those of you who couldn’t make it to the Video Game Orchestra show a few months back, you’re in luck: they’ve posted video of the show online! I’ve embedded some here, but you can see them all at the VGO official channel.
According to a joint press release, Maynard-based 38 Studios has acquired Big Huge Games. Big Huge Games is based in Maryland and is known for Rise of Nations, Rise of Legends, and Catan for XBLA. Congrats to all involved — they are both fantastic studios and we here at the Boston Post Mortem wish them the best in their partnership!
| June 16, 2009 | ||
| 6:00 pm | to | 8:00 pm |
We’ve had some questions about the June meeting pop up on the website and via email. To clarify:
The June meeting will be held on Tuesday, June 9th, at 7pm. It will be at the Hyatt Harborside Hotel in Boston, near Logan Airport. You can find directions here. It’s sponsored by the Games For Health conference, who will be providing appetizers and drink tickets. They’d like a rough headcount, so please RSVP via email to igdarsvp@gamesforhealth.org.
For more information, you can see our anchor post about the June event.
