For those of you who are not already familiar with Drinkbox Studios, this video game developer has been involved with the development of both licensed and original video game products.  Their team consists of video game industry veterans who have developed on a variety of consoles and worked for a variety of developers such as Rockstar, Ubisoft, and Silicon Knights to name a few.  Attending this event would be a great opportunity to talk to some video game industry veterans and  get some answers to your questions about the industry itself.

The Game Club will be meeting this week on Thursday, March 18 from 5-7p.m. in BA3004.  As usual, this is the same time and place as last week’s meeting.  So, we’ll see you there.

Once again, we will be having our Game Club meeting this week on Thursday, March 11 from 5-7 p.m.  in BA3004, which is at the same time and in the same room as last week’s meeting.  See you there.

I also posted links to the websites that we discussed during our last meeting, which feature free media resources that you can use in your games.  You can find these links in the Game Development Tools section of the www.utgddc.com website.

I just want to remind all of you that the CSSU Game Night will be taking place this week on Friday, March 5 from 7p.m. – 7a.m. in BA3200.  To get more information about this event, visit:

http://cssu.cdf.toronto.edu/?p=120

Also, keep an eye on the Game Club website as I will be putting up the links that we mentioned today during the meeting where you can find media resources for the games that you are making.

-Chris
UTGDDC Web Admin.

This week we will be having our usual Game Club meeting on Thursday, March 4 from 5-7p.m. in BA3004.  It’s at the same time and place as last week’s meeting.

Also, the issue of whether to extend the GMD submission deadline is still undecided. We want to make this fair for everyone, so we will be putting it to a vote. If you are participating in this year’s GMD, then please have one member of your group send an email to gmd@utgddc.com that states who your group members are, your group name, and whether your group feels that the GMD submission deadline should or should not be extended to Thursday March 11, 2010 at 9p.m. instead of the current submission deadline, which is on Thursday March 4, 2010 at 9p.m. If a majority of votes are for the extension, then the extension will be granted. VOTE NOW PLEASE!!!

Good news!  It appears that everyone essentially wanted an extension to the submission deadline for this year’s GMD competition.  So, we got it!  If I remember correctly from what was agreed during our most recent Game Club meeting, people now have a week’s extension on the submission deadline date.  However, games will be also be accepted anytime before the judges of the competition have completed judging the entries.  After this point, no more submissions will be accepted.

Official terms of this extension to the submission deadline should be posted at the GMD2K10 website at a later time.

Also, keep checking this website from time to time to find new updates to the GAME DEVELOPMENT TOOLS section that may help you out when you’re making your games.

Good luck, everyone!

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UPDATE:

We need your votes to determine if there should be a week’s extension for the GMD submission deadline.  Read the last paragraph in this post to find out more about how your GMD team can vote to have the extension or not.

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Hey, everyone.

There is the possibility that the GMD submission deadline will be extended because the last couple of weeks may have still been a busy time for a number of students. You can read all of the current the details about this extension here:

gmd.utgddc.com

We’ll continuously keep you updated on the status of this proposed extension and how you can vote for or against it when new information becomes available.

-Chris
UTGDDC Website Admin.

I hope that all of you had a nice, relaxing reading week.  We will be having our next Game Club meeting on Thursday, February 25 from 5-7p.m. in BA3004.  A number of you may be very busy this week with midterms and such, but the meeting for this week is still on.  So, if you’d like to drop by, but can only stay for a short while, that’s cool and we’ll see you there.

We will be having our next Game Club meeting on Thursday, February 11 from 5-7p.m. in BA3004, which is the same time and place as last week’s meeting.

However, this week we will be having a special meeting because the details for this year’s GMD competition will be announced.  Details that will include the year’s never-before mentioned GMD theme.   So, it is highly recommended that all registered GMD participants attend this meeting.  And if you haven’t already registered for GMD, your in luck because there is still time to do so, but this Thursday’s meeting will be the last time that you can register for the competition.  If you still want to participate in this year’s GMD, then please make sure that you submit your registration form and pay your registration fee by our next Game Club meeting on Thursday, February 11.

You can get the registration form and more details about the 2010 Game Making Deathmatch at:

gmd.utgddc.com

We’ll see you on Thursday.

If you haven’t heard of them before, The Hand Eye Society is an association of individuals from Toronto’s video game development community who share the common interest of connecting the community with itself and its audience. They are responsible for helping with a number of video game development projects in Toronto, including the annual TOJam events. With a membership base that recently reached 100 members, The Hand Eye Society includes some notable members such as Jonathan Mak, the developer of the popular indie title Everyday Shooter, and Nathan Vella, the president and co-founder of Capybara Games that developed the critically acclaimed video game Critter Crunch.

In fact, Nathan Vella will be hosting this social event, and according to the Hand Eye Society’s website, the event will also include several presentations of upcoming games that are being developed by some of Toronto’s indie game studios. All-in-all, it sounds like something that could be interesting to attend. So, if you want more information about the time and location for the social event, you can visit this post on the Hand Eye Society’s website. Luckily, The Hand Eye Society social will begin after our Game Club meeting on Thursday, so if you have the time and are interested, you can attend both.