Planning to attend GDC, SXSW, or PAX East? Consider becoming a mentor to an IGDA Scholar!

We’re still seeking judges for our IGDA Scholars program applicants for both SXSW and PAX East, as well as mentors to advise and guide the deserving recipients. The program requires just an hour of your time at the event, and where you take your mentor/mentee relationship from there is up to you!

Please visit http://igda.org/mentor to register your interest for these events and others throughout the year, like IGDA Summit and China Joy. Thanks!

From our friends at the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab:

Everyone has that one game, you know the game…The one game that everyone loves but you kind of hate.  Do you like complaining about it?  If the answer is yes, we need you!!

On Saturday Feb 18th from noon till midnight is first annual CRAPPY GAME COMPLAINING MARATHON!  There will be twelve one hour blocks during the marathon.  During your own one hour block you will have the chance to verbally trash any game you see fit in front of an audience of your peers (or peer substitutes).  The event will be USTREAMed live to raise money for The Boys and Girls Clubs . Every $2,500 we raise will fully fund a program for one year at a Boys and Club.

So, if you wish to play/trash a game for one hour during the twelve hour marathon…

A) Give me the name of the game you want to play? And a sentence or two as to why you selected this game (for the pledge site)

B) A few preferred times during that day you could take your shift? (i.e. 3-4PM or 6-7PM)

C) Are you going to trash solo or are bringing someone to team up with during your shift? If yes, who will that be?

Please let me know by Friday January 27th, 2012.  I will contact you with your shift time on Monday January 30th.

Thanks
Gene
generoso@mit.edu

The Gallery on the Plaza at 10 Brookline Place West in Brookline, MA is seeking work by video game industry artists and animators for a gallery show to run this Spring, 2012 titled “Art Out of the Game.” The intent of the show is to feature art made OUTSIDE of your professional game work– your personal artistic pursuits and interests. Send JPEG submissions for consideration between January 15 – February 15, 2012 to JasonWiserArt@gmail.com. The show will run March-April 2012. For more information, please see the official announcement and guidelines here: http://neiasiggraph.org/game.

As a result of the holiday season catching us by surprise, this month’s Boston Post Mortem meeting will be held a week later than usual, on Wednesday, January 18 at The Skellig in Waltham.

This month’s presentation is a talk about resumes and hiring, featuring Emily Gabrian (Harmonix), Hannah Foell (Turbine), and Kevin Fanning (Cogo Labs; author of Let’s All Find Awesome Jobs). This will have great advice not just for the first-time job seeker, but for those of us who have been in the industry for quite a while — like it or not, we all have to look for jobs at some point or another!

Logistics:
Wednesday, January 18th
7pm @ The Skellig, Waltham
Directions

Sorry folks; due to a conflict we had to change our speaker and talk for this month. Sorry for the inconvenience. New information follows (also updated at the original post).

This month’s meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 13 at The Skellig in Waltham. Details on this month’s talk:

Talk Title: Fieldrunners HTML5: Bringing a Hit iOS Game to the Web

Speaker: Darius Kazemi

Just this past summer, Bocoup and Gradient Studios worked with Subatomic Studios to port their smash-hit iOS tower defense game Fieldrunners to HTML5. This post mortem will cover porting OpenGL ES to WebGL, using the Web Audio API for game audio, integrating microtransactions and DLC, and a detailed look at graphics performance.

Logistics:

Tuesday, December 13th
7pm @ The Skellig, Waltham
Directions: http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/directions/

It’s the time you’ve all been waiting for: Boston Post Mortem / IGDA Boston is preparing to hold an election to fill 3 seats on its board of directors. These individuals will supervise the business, property and affairs of the chapter. Each of these individuals will give their time and energy to move the chapter forward in the direction that they feel most represents the will of the membership and is to the benefit of the chapter.

At this time we would like to invite nominations for seats on the Board. Please take advantage of our meeting next week on December 13th to talk to the current board members about the details and process, as well as ask any additional questions you may have.

There are three requirements to be on the Board: you must be a current paid member of the IGDA (join here), you must be nominated by a member of the IGDA in good standing, and you must able to commit to attending board meetings and Boston Post Mortem meetings with regularity (details will be discussed with board members after elections).

Nominations will be accepted until 11:59 PM eastern time on December 30th, 2011. After nominations close, we will be sending out additional information about the candidates and voting process.

Please send nominations to board@bostonpostmortem.org. When nominating someone else, please be sure to include complete contact information for that person so we can obtain a candidate statement from them.

Best Regards,
The Boston Post Mortem Board of Directors

(Update: due to a conflict we had to change our speaker and talk. Sorry for the inconvenience.)

This month’s meeting will take place on Tuesday, December 13 at The Skellig in Waltham. Details on this month’s talk:

Talk Title: Fieldrunners HTML5: Bringing a Hit iOS Game to the Web

Speaker: Darius Kazemi

Just this past summer, Bocoup and Gradient Studios worked with Subatomic Studios to port their smash-hit iOS tower defense game Fieldrunners to HTML5. This post mortem will cover porting OpenGL ES to WebGL, using the Web Audio API for game audio, integrating microtransactions and DLC, and a detailed look at graphics performance.

Logistics:

Tuesday, December 13th
7pm @ The Skellig, Waltham
Directions: http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/directions/

The Autodesk Animation User’s Group Meeting will be at Neoscape on Thursday at 6:30 pm.

IronMax 3D 2011

Join the AAUGA for festive holiday music and treats, and a special 3D competition, where contestants will square off against each other in the 3rd Annual IronMax 3D event! Join the party and eat, drink, and be merry with the AAUGA.

Thursday – December 1, 2011
6:30-8:30pm
Neoscape, Inc. 330 Congress Street, Floor 2, Boston, MA 02210
http://www.aaugaboston.com | https://www.facebook.com/BostonAAUGA

The November SIGGRAPH talk will feature Pete Paquette, lead animator at 38 Studios in Rhode Island and formerly of Blue Sky Studios, having worked on the film Rio.

When: Thursday, November 17, 7pm

Where: Room 1007, Main Campus
The New England Institute of Art
10 Brookline Place West, Brookline, MA