Games and Grog, once a month

If you haven’t voted in the IGDA Board elections, please go do so!  The election ends this weekend, and we have heard that we are still only half-way to a quorum.  Your individual vote definitely matters in this election!
In the last few days, the IGDA has done three webcasts with the various candidates – if [...]

A couple quick items about the IGDA Board of Directors elections:

Elections are going on right now!  You can find candidate statements on the IGDA website.
Post Mortem chapter coordinator Scott Macmillan has written up a series of 23 profiles on each of the IGDA Board of Directors candidates.  Many of the candidates have responded to the questions he’s asked, [...]

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 [...]

[ March 20, 2010 to March 26, 2010. ] Here’s a message from WPI’s Rob Lindeman about an upcoming conference of interest:

The annual IEEE Virtual Reality conference is coming to Waltham in March 2010, just prior to PAX East. A major theme this year at the conference is how to get the gaming and VR communities to come together more. To this end, we are soliciting [...]

The November Boston Post Mortem will be held on Wednesday, November 18 at 7pm at The Skellig in Waltham. We’ll be featuring a panel of game AI experts, including former employees of Bungie, Monolith, and more. If you have any questions for this panel of local game AI gurus, feel free to e-mail them in [...]

[ 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 [...]

The following is the full text of a proclamation by Governor Deval L. Patrick:

Whereas Massachusetts, a world leader in technological innovation, is home to one of the largest and most diverse clusters of video game companies and talent in the country, generating over $3 billion in sales in 2008; and
 
Whereas In 1961, MIT students Martin [...]

[ September 24, 2009; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ]  Storytelling: Gaming, Hollywood & raising capital…
A deep dive on the story, why it matters, what part matters most, and how to deliver it in its most compelling format 

With a lively interactive panel, we’ll explore storytelling in the movies, the gaming industry and venture capital. Where does the story come into play? Is a good story [...]

Last week, Penny Arcade announced the games to be featured in the PAX 10 showcase, and it looks like two games with ties to the Boston area were chosen for the honor.
Fieldrunners is the hit iPhone tower-defense game made by Subatomic Studios. One of the lead developers, Jamie Gotch, is a local dev who gave [...]

Hi folks, I’m posting this CFP up for the GameX Industry Summit in Philadelphia this October, which is presented by the IGDA Chapters of Boston, NYC, New Jersey, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. (Full disclosure: I’m on the advisory board for the conference.) Boston’s own Chris Foster of Harmonix is going to be a keynote for the conference, [...]