Games and Grog, once a month

Scott Kirsner mentions the Boston Post Mortem in an article in today’s Boston Globe Business section about entrepreneurship in hard times.

We had a great Post Mortem last night. Thanks again to our sponsors, GamerDNA, and our speaker Jon Radoff (their CEO). They have kindly posted their slides for all to see! There is some great data in there on the way players are engaging with games.
Attendance was about 140 and I think it’s safe to [...]

This just in: due to some travel cancellations, GET and Autodesk are no longer running their 4pm-7pm event on Wednesday.
Do not go to The Skellig at 4PM. Do, however, go at 7PM!
The regular Post Mortem meeting from 7pm-10pm will still be happening, and the lovely folks at Great Eastern Technology have been kind enough to [...]

The Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) program at WPI has been running a weekly speaker series for the past few years, open to the public.
Recently, they began to video record the talks, and they post them online.
And if you have something interesting to talk about, they are always looking for speakers. You can get [...]

Inspired by Kent’s Boston game company graph, I decided to re-render it in Prefuse, mostly because I like its force-directed graph layout function better. Since Kent graciously provided the source for the graph in Graphviz format, I was able to cram it into Excel and generate a GraphML file that Prefuse [...]

This [pdf] [large png] is an improved version of the chart I displayed today at my talk at the Powering Up session at Northeastern University. Powering Up was a discussion of the game industry from the point of view of Boston, and how academics, game industry, and government can cooperate to further the growth of [...]

We held PM to Boston this month. Please take a moment to tell us how you feel about the change of venue.

[ February 26, 2007; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Every year at SIGGRAPH, they put together a video for the Electronic Theater containing the best and most technically advanced computer graphics of the year. That video is being screened at the SIGGRAPH/Boston meeting at Northeastern. If you like graphics, it’s a real opportunity to see the state of the art.

We’ve got a new job on the jobs page, from Tilted Mill.
The jobs page is a bit of a pain to maintain. I have a little helper app that gives me a form to fill out, and then I can cut and paste from the resulting text into the XHTML file that contains the job [...]

As we threatened last month, we’ve switched over to WordPress for managing this site. There’s still quite a bit of work left to do, but it’s already close to being better than it was.
These changes will allow a few useful things:

Easier site management for the committee — in particular, it will provide a way for [...]