[ December 2, 2008; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The MIT Enterprise Forum Interactive Entertainment SIG is putting on an event on Dec 2 called "Selling the Game." It’s going to be a panel discussion on marketing and games. Their description:
OK, you’ve got the killer idea, a solid business plan, enthusiastic investors AND a top notch dev team. But who is going to [...]
We’ve finally replaced the old manual jobs page with some slick open-source job board software! The new Boston Post Mortem Job Board runs on JobberBase, and while it’s not super pretty, it is super functional!
I hope that both employers and job seekers find the new job board a lot more useful than the old page. [...]
[ November 15, 2008; 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. ] From Shota of VGO:
Saturday, November 15, 2008
6:30pm - 8:30pm
Church of the Covenant
67 Newbury St.
Boston, MA
VGO is proud to announce our upcoming concert, Another Night of Symphonic Video Game Music.
With 45 musicians + Berklee Chamber Choir Club consisting of 40 finest singers from Berklee, VGO will be performing arrangements of Chrono Trigger/Cross, Advent Rising, Blue Dragon, [...]
I just posted 15 positions open at 2K Boston and 4 new positions at 38 Studios. Check out the jobs page for more info.
[ November 21, 2008; 8:00 pm; ] You might have heard Todd Fay’s announcement at the last meeting, but Video Games Live is coming to the Wang Center in Boston on November 21st. It’s going to be a huge event, with pre- and post-show parties, and there are group discounts available for company outings. Todd will also be raffling off tickets at [...]
We just posted positions for a Game Programmer, Senior Game Programmer, and Nintendo DS Artists at Creat Studios on the jobs page.
[ November 11, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Our Boston Post Mortem for November is a special joint meeting between us and the Boston Audio Engineering Society. Boston AES is the local chapter of the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology, and we’d been meaning to do something with them for a while, so this meeting functions as both their monthly [...]
I posted on Monday about the “Video Game Gold” panel being held on November 19th in Waltham. I have one correction and two updates. The correction is that the event is from 8 AM to 10 AM, not in the evening as I previously reported.
The first update is that thanks to the organizers, Post Mortem [...]
Scott Kirsner, tech reporter for the Boston Globe, makes some good points on his blog about opening up local tech events to students. His reasoning is as follows: if we want to prevent mass exodus of our considerable local young tech talent upon graduation, we should endeavor to engage them in the tech community here.
He [...]
[ November 19, 2008; 8:00 am to 10:00 am. ] The Massachusetts Tech Leadership Council is hosting a video game related event in Waltham on November 19th called “Video Game Gold: The Prosperous Gaming Industry in MA.” This will be a great opportunity for game developers to network with more traditional software developers. There will be, from what I understand, a brief presentation from Jon [...]
