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 [...]
38 Studios Acquires Big Huge Games
A Salute to Henry Jenkins: The End of an Era at MIT
[ June 16, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] 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 [...]
June Meeting
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, [...]
May Meeting
[ May 20, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Hey everyone,
For our May meeting, we will have Dan Teasdale of Harmonix doing an updated version of his excellent GDC 2009 talk, "Dirty Deeds Done Dirty Cheap: Design Lessons Learned from ROCK BAND".
Logistics:
Wednesday, May 20th @ 7pm
The Skellig, Waltham
Additionally, Harmonix will be sponsoring drink tickets & raffling off something awesome. Bring your business cards!
Boston Indies Meetup Next Monday
[ May 18, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Boston Indies group will be meeting this coming Monday at Betahouse in Cambridge:
Boston Indies is a group started recently by Scott Macmillan and Jim Buck to bring Boston’s independent game developers together for networking, shop talk, peer reviews, and whatever else we all decide we want to do.
The Monday May 18th meeting will have [...]
Boston.com Article on Boston Game Dev
Boston.com featured a nice article the other day by Hiawatha Bray on the industry in our state, highlighting several local companies. It also talked about the two conferences we had in the area last week, the Independent Games Conference at Northeastern and the Business In Games conference at MIT.
Always good to see our community’s efforts getting [...]
Algorithms Unleashed!
[ May 9, 2009; 9:00 am to 5:00 pm. ]
Here’s an upcoming day-long seminar that is of interest to you programmers out there. Note the special GAMEDEV discount code for $30 off the list price!
A Professional Development Seminar
When: May 9, 2009
Where: MIT Tang Center, Cambridge, MA
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20% Discount for “Scrum Master for Video Game Developers” Course in Cambridge, MA May 5-6
[ May 5, 2009; May 6, 2009; ]
Mike Cohn and Clinton Keith are offering a two day "Certified Scrum Master for Video Game Developers" course in Cambridge on May 5-6. This course is the only specifically designed for the specific challenges of applying Scrum to video game development.
The cost of the two day course is $1500 per attendee. Upon completion of the [...]
Independent Game Conference East – Boston, May 7-8
[ May 7, 2009 9:00 am to May 8, 2009 5:00 pm. ] The Boston Post Mortem is helping support the Independent Game Conference East, which is coming to Boston in May! I’m especially excited because not only does the conference feature a great deal of talented local developers giving sessions, but there are also developers coming from Florida, Texas, Montreal, and many other places to share their [...]