Games and Grog, once a month

[ February 9, 2010; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]  This month’s Boston Post Mortem will be on Tuesday, February 9th at 7pm at the Skellig in Waltham. We’re having a multi-part presentation featuring presenters from our three Massachusetts Global Game Jam sites, where just last weekend many teams built a ton of games in 48 hours. We will also have a brief talk from [...]

[ January 13, 2010; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] For the January edition of the Boston Post Mortem, Jeff Goodsill of Tencent Boston will be giving a business-oriented talk called "Planning for Success in the Chinese Game Market." Here’s a brief description:

The Chinese online game market is the largest single online market in the world yet over 70% of the games that make it [...]

[ 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, [...]

[ November 18, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] UPDATE: Video of this meeting is available online!
This month’s Boston Post-Mortem is fast approaching! We’re meeting on Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm at The Skellig in Waltham. We’re featuring an exciting panel of experienced game artificial intelligence experts!
The panel will be answering your game AI related questions that are sent in advance as well as [...]

[ October 13, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ]  Our October Post Mortem is coming up at 7pm on Tuesday the 13th. Jeff Ward of Orbus Gameworks will be giving a talk called, "I Can Slack Off, My Code’s Compiling!" Note that the meeting is not at The Skellig. It’s at Microsoft New England R&D, in Cambridge.

Here’s the abstract of Jeff’s talk:
How much time do [...]

[ September 16, 2009; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] September’s Post Mortem is being held a week later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday.
 
This month our speaker is Duncan Watt of Fastestmanintheworld Music. His talk will be an updated, adapted-for-BPM version of the talk he gave recently at IGC East.
 
Title: Music As An Element Of Game Design
 
With the advent of next-gen consoles, and faster, more [...]

[ August 11, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] For our August meeting, we will be hosting a panel discussion called "Taking Game Design to the Next Level." This is an in-depth reprise of Linda Currie’s design panel from IGC East, which was seriously one of the best design talks I’ve ever attended. The topic of discussion is the "really important things" about game [...]

[ July 8, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] 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 [...]

[ 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!
 

[ April 14, 2009; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Hey everyone,
For our April meeting, we have Steve Meretzky doing his talk, "Bring Back the Fun":

"Is game development less fun than it used to be, and if so why and what can we do about it? The answers, it turns out, lie in the birth of the American industrial revolution and the Australian wine industry. [...]