Games and Grog, once a month

The Boston Post Mortem is organizing a group trip for game developers to see Sleep No More. Sleep No More is a somewhat-interactive theater experience — essentially a theater company took over an abandoned elementary school in Brookline and did a total conversion on it, turning it into a set where a cast performs something [...]

Mia Consalvo, of Comparative Media Studies at MIT, gave a talk on December 3rd titled "Western Otaku: Games Crossing Cultures." You can view the whole video online.

From Nintendo’s first Famicom system, Japanese consoles and videogames have played a central role in the development and expansion of the digital game industry. Players globally have consumed [...]

We’ve just posted the video from the November Boston Post Mortem meeting, our artificial intelligence panel.

Special thanks to Yilmaz Kiymaz for taking the video and giving us permission to post it!

This came in from Philip Tan of the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab:

MIT will be celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2011, so the MIT Museum is running apoll to select 150 objects to represent the institute’s history. Students, faculty members, alums, staff and other interested parties may vote for up to 10 items that have been nominated [...]

[ December 7, 2009; 10:00 am to 1:00 pm. ] There’s going to be a conversation with the Governor and major tech executives about the IT industry in Massachusetts on December 7th. The topic is "How can Massachusetts seize the opportunity to become the premier technology hub?" There will be a webcast you can tune in to and even submit your questions to the moderator — [...]

[ December 19, 2009; 12:00 am to 11:00 pm. ]
We wanted to draw your attention to GP for Child’s Play (GP4CP), an event being run in Cambridge on Saturday, December 19th. For those who aren’t aware, Child’s Play is Penny Arcade’s non-profit organization that helps gamers give the gift of toys and games to sick children at over 60 hospitals worldwide.
 
The website for GP4CP, including information about time [...]

[ December 2, 2009; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] Alex Schwartz (who you might know from Post Mortem meetings) writes in with the following:

For those interested in learning about game development on the iPhone, I’ll be giving a talk next week at the Boylston St. Apple Store. This talk will be focused specifically on the use of the Unity engine to create iPhone games. [...]

[ December 8, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Our December Post Mortem meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 8th at 7pm at The Skellig in Waltham. In addition to our usual year-in-review (or Post Mortem Post Mortem), we’re honored to announce that IGDA Executive Director Joshua Caulfield is our special guest speaker! He’ll be providing an update on the IGDA in general, [...]

[ December 5, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The Video Game Orchestra will be performing again at the Berklee Performance Center on December 5th, 2009. I’m not even a huge fan of video game soundtracks, but I went to their last full orchestra concert in March and it was an amazing experience and one that I highly recommend. You can view the poster for [...]