November Post Mortem: Analytics Panel

November 5, 2011

This month’s Boston Post Mortem will be held on Wednesday, Nov 9th, at 7pm at The Skellig in Waltham (directions). This month we’re featuring a panel on analytics for games, featuring: Nick Lim, Co-Founder & CEO, Sonamine Steve Kane, Co-Founder & CEO, Lucky Labs (previously of Gamesville, then GameLogic) Jamie Hall, C0-Founder & CTO, Mocospace Matt Boch, Lead Designer of Dance [...]

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Boston Unity Group – December Meeting

November 1, 2011

Boston Unity Group – December Meeting

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Women in Games Boston – Tue 10/25

October 23, 2011

Women in Games Boston is this week: This month’s WIG Boston will be happening once again at The Asgard, 7-10pm, on Tuesday, October 25. As usual, please please please RSVP if you are going to attend! Matthew Weise is going to be speaking this month about the  gender politics in horror games, specifically in the slasher genre [...]

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Great Eastern Game Night, featuring Harmonix and Autodesk

October 21, 2011

Come learn about the Harmonix Art Department from Art Manager Jason Arnone. He will show concept art and talk about the creative process, highlighting Dance Central’s art direction. Jason will explain the unique skills and responsibilities of the various artist roles at the studio and will also share what Harmonix looks for in new artists.

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October Post Mortem: The Demoscene and the Games Industry

September 28, 2011

Tammo “kb” Hinrichs is a coder at 49Games GmbH and founding member of the demogroup Farbrausch. He will give an overview of the past and present of the demoscene, show a few demos, discuss demosceners’ work in the games industry, and describe some of the techniques used to render high-quality realtime imagery and sound, particularly in 4 kilobyte demos.

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PRACTICE: a game design conference in NYC, Oct 28-30

September 14, 2011

This isn’t a Boston-area event, but we thought local game designers would want to know about a great game design conference happening in NYC at the end of October. Speakers include brilliant and prolific board game designer Reiner Knizia, and local designer Steve Gaynor from Irrational, as well as the national coordinator for officiating NCAA football, Rogers Redding. PRACTICE: [...]

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September Post Mortem: Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer Games

September 6, 2011

September Boston Post Mortem – Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab Summer Games

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HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup: Cubic VR + Lightning Talks

August 16, 2011

(The HTML5 Game Dev meetup has been happening for about a year, but this is the first it’s been posted on this blog. Enjoy!) After a brief summer hiatus the HTML5 Game Dev meetup is back with the proverbial standards-based-vengeance. There’s one primary presentation: Al Macdonald is going to be giving a talk on CubicVR [...]

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BMUG August Meeting – 10 Minute Lightning Talks and Portfolio Reviews

August 16, 2011

BMUG August Meeting – 10 Minute Lightning Talks and Portfolio Reviews

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NEIA Summer Portfolio Show, Aug 12

August 11, 2011

Come see the work of NEIA Animation seniors as they display their demo reels and portfolios, chock full of characters, games, animations, and creativity!

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