Jason Wilson is a success story of a U of T graduate and former member of the club who broke into the games industry. He’ll be coming to give us a talk about his experience working at KOEI Canada for over a year now next week during club meeting time on Thursday September 27th, 2007 at 7pm in BA1240. Want proof? Here’s his thread on the forums. If you have any questions or things you would like him to talk about, let us know so he can prepare to answer them when he comes.

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Hey everyone,

Based on what people wrote on their sheets, we figure that the best time to meet is 7-9pm on Thursdays. I realize that there is one person who can’t attend, as well as two people who can only attend every second week, but it was the best we could do.

The rooms we are meeting in are slightly different for each week, so here’s the list of rooms I’ve booked and their respective dates, they’re all in the Bahen Centre.

SEPT 27 BA1240

OCT 4 BA2165

OCT 11 BA2195

OCT 18 BA2135

OCT 25 BA2195

- Mark

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EA Canada will also be at the job fair tomorrow! Same place and time as KOEI Canada.

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This is a bit of a short notice, but KOEI Canada will be at the U of T job fair tomorrow (Wednesday September 19th, 2007) in University College (UC), East and West halls, St. George Campus 15 King’s College Circle, NOT at the Koffler building as originally announced in the club meeting. The fair be happening from 11am to 3pm. Be sure to bring your TCards as it is required to get in.

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Here are the meeting minutes for the first meeting of this year (taken by Barry):

1. Introduction about the club and executive members.
2. Survey of the attendees and their program of study:
   • Computer Science: 10
   • Engineering: 1
   • Life Sciences: 2
   • Math: 3
   • Humanities: 1
3. Experience of attendees with game design and/or development:
   • None: 1
   • Involved in one game: 5
   • Involved in two or more games: 4
   • Participated in competitions: 5
   • Professional: 0
4. Played the name game! Everyone makes a circle and try to figure out everyone’s name
5. Everyone writes down three things they would like covered in the club and three things they want to get out of the club. (If you weren’t able to attend this meeting but would like to suggest something, email us at info@utgddc.com.
6. A little intro to Game Making Deathmatch and showed some game reels (up on the site under GMD section). Rules for this year will be much different than previous years…
7. Upcoming events (see next post(s))

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Hi Everbody!

We’ve determined a time and place for our first industry talk!

The first industry talk will be by Jackie Copland of Electronic Arts.

Time:

Thursday Sept 20th, 3:00pm - 4:00pm

Place:

BA 1170

Hope to see everyone there!

- Mark Cautillo
President: utGDDC

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Hi Everyone!

After a long and complicated adventure, involving misdirection, intruige and doubt, I’ve managed to book a room for our first meeting!

Here’s all the info that you need:

Time:

Monday Sept 17th, 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Place:

SF 3201

see: http://rrs.osm.utoronto.ca/map/

Sanford Fleming Building Room 3201 - I tried to book a room in the Bahen Center since they’re much nicer, but because it was such sort notice, I was unable to. This will not be our permanent meeting place or time, we will discuss where / when people would rather meet in the first meeting.

I will be sending an email sometime tonight to all of the people who asked for it (I forgot the email list at home :P)

I Hope everyone had a great first week, see you at the meeting!

- Mark Cautillo
President: utGDDC

PS. It looks like we’ll be having our first guest speaker on Thursday September 20th from 3-4, but I just have to double check that it’s a good time for her to come.

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Hi everyone!

I just wanted to leave an update for anyone who is new to the club.  In order to register for the club,  all you need to do is show up at one of our meetings.   There is no fee to join, and you can show up whenever you like!

We will likely be having our meetings on Modays 2-4, but we have not yet booked a room so that’s not official yet.

We’ll try to keep everybody updated on this site and I will be posting things as soon as I know them. You can subscribe to the site’s RSS feed if you’d like to be informed as soon as we make a post.  I’ll also be sending an email to  everyone who asked to receive notification.  If you’d like an email sent to you,  you can send an email to info@utgddc.com and we’ll get you added to the list.

Hope everyone is having a great first week of school,  hope to see you there!

- Mark
  President UT:GDDC 

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We’ve put up some video reels of some of the past top GMD game submissions for 2004 and 2005. More will be coming, but for now check them out at http://www.utgddc.com/gmd/.

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We’ll be at the next IGDA Toronto meeting in September:

Thursday September 6, 2007, 7 PM
Imperial Pub, Downstairs floor
54 Dundas E (Just east of Yonge and Dundas Square by Dundas Subway station)
Toronto, ON, M5B-1C7

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