Hi everybody!
The U of T Game Design and Development Club will be having its next meeting this upcoming Thursday, September 24, from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA2195.
Just in case you haven’t been there before, BA2195 is located at the Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BA) at 40 St. George St. (near the intersection of Collge St. and St. Georege St.).
Room 2195 is on the second floor.
We had a good group of people come out to last week’s meeting and we discussed a variety of video game topics that ranged from game design to the business of video game development. Hopefully, we’ll see everyone who came out last week at this week’s meeting, too.
If you didn’t get a chance to come out last week, don’t worry, you can still come out to this week’s meeting. The good news is that our club is very casual, and we understand that our members can’t always be there every week. You should also know that if you can’t stay for the entire amount of time that our club meets for, that’s okay, too. Some of our members have classes that don’t end until 6p.m., so they show up at 6p.m. instead of the usual 5p.m. meeting time. If you’re new to the club, then just come by and we’ll make some introductions for you.
Alright, we’ll see you all on Thursday.
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First off, I can’t remember if this was the meeting I was at, but great job getting the founders of the club.
I can’t remember who I told, but I mentioned to one of them about a game called gate88.
I decided to look it up again after seeing the beta email. Turns out the game is by a University of Toronto alumni, Jonathan Mak (http://www.queasygames.com/). He also took part in TOJam in 2006. I found this guy’s game because it was in Linux forums, and I’m a GNU-loving guy, but it’s playable on all platforms and multi-playing is possible. In fact, he made it easy to play for cdf
We have to try and get this guy to give some sort of talk. I’ve been playing his game since 2006-07!
Hahaha. Nice! I just actually unintentionally spent the last hour online looking through the various interviews that Jonathan Mak has had (I knew of him and his work from before, but never really took the time to read much about him). He seems to have some very interesting opinions when it comes to video games and game design.
I can’t guarantee that we’ll be able to get him to come down and speak to the club, but I’ll certainly give it a try.
what are the requierments to get into game producing at the U of T?
Hey there, Mr. Norris.
I apologize for not responding to this post sooner.
As of right now, there is no specific game design program that is offered at U of T. There are a number of programs at U of T that may involve some game design-related coursework (the Computer Science program is one of them), but you should know that most of the courses that you’ll be taking in any particular program will not specifically involve learning about game producing.