Hey, everyone.

Welcome back!  Unfortunately, we will not be having a meeting this week.  Instead, our regular meetings will begin next week.  More information about next week’s meeting will be posted within the next couple of days or so.

In case you haven’t already heard, the U of T Game Design and Development Club was mentioned in a newspaper article from last Friday’s Globe and Mail along with our own president, Jen, who contributed her opinion to the article’s topic.  The article discusses the representation of gay and lesbian characters in video games and makes a specific reference to a love scene that players can choose to initiate in the popular video game Dragon Age: Origins.  It’s actually an interesting read and you can find it at:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/family-and-relationships/video-games-gay-love-scene-stirs-controversy/article1387692/

Hey, Everyone.

Here’s a message from Jen, who asked me to pass this along to all of you:

SUBJECT: Announcing EpCon, the Inaugural Technology
Conference from EPIC
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What: EpCon, the best student technology conference ever!
When: January 15-16, 2010
Where: Waterloo, ON
Website: epcon.epictech.org

Do you have a passion for technology and innovation? Be sure to check
out EpCon, the best student technology conference ever!

EpCon 2010 will be held on January 15-16, 2010 in Waterloo, ON. Break
out of the classroom routine and join hundreds of students to think
about where technology is headed next. EpCon will also feature the
first-ever Elympics, a set of super-fun competitions, as well as the
fun-filled closing dinner “7-Ate-9”.

EpCon holds the perfect formula to world-changing powers: passionate
people, outstanding knowledge exchange, and technological possibilities.

Top 5 reasons to attend:

1. Get Motivated

* Will you be the next Steve Jobs or the next Mike Lazaridis? Talks from
established entrepreneurs are sure to inspire!

2. Get Connected

* Meet speakers from Google, Facebook, EA, Rogers, Cisco, IBM,
Primal Fusion – just to name a few!

3. Get Competitive

* EpCon features the Elympics, compete in super fun
competitions against your fellow friends (or should we say opponents?)

4. Get Educated

* Catch the latest in cloud and super computing, mobile
development, gaming, nanotechnology and social media!

5. Get EPIC

* A fun-filled, awesome closing dinner 7-Ate-9 is guaranteed to
be EPIC in every way possible

So if you love technology as much as we do, visit
http://epcon.epictech.org/register to register! Delegates pay only
$50, which includes 2 lunches and our closing dinner. There’s also a
$500 delegate prize courtesy of StudentAwards.com, so REGISTER today!

If you are interested in becoming a Campus Ambassador for your program
and/or school, please contact Gordon Hall at gordan@epictech.org for
more details.

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Also, fellow game club member Gabriel has sent me a link to a cool PyGame tutorial that he found online.  Hopefully, we’ll be able to post some of our own PyGame tutorials on this website in the near future, but if you’d like to get a head start with PyGame right now, you can visit the online tutorial at:

http://rene.f0o.com/mywiki/PythonGameProgramming

Hey, Dudes and Dudettes.

As this semester winds down, we will be having our last meeting for this year on Thursday, December 3 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3012, which is basically the same time, but in a different room than last week’s meeting.  Hopefully, we’ll see all of you there.

Hey, Everyone.

Last week we had an interesting discussion about how video game content ratings are assigned in North America and throughout the rest of the world.  We learned that if you ever make a game that you’re anticipating to sell, it’s always good idea to consider how your game may be rated, especially if you want audiences like teens to able to legally purchase your game.  Also, we had an impressive presentation by fellow game club member Mark, who showed us how to mock up a quick Defender-like game without any programming knowledge by using a computer program called Multimedia Fusion 2.  You can download a copy of the game that was created during Mark’s presentation at:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=DWKAGJT4

You may have noticed that a new section has been added to the website reintroducing all of you to some of the Game Development Tools that we talked about during some of our previous game club meetings.  If this section looks a bit wordy right now, do not fear.  There are plans to expand it  and give it some much needed visual enhancements in the near future.

Our next game club meeting for this week is on Thursday, November 26 from 5-7p.m. in BA3008. Exactly the same room and time as last week’s meeting. See you there.

Hey, Everyone.

Just a reminder to all of you that the game club is back this week, and we will be meeting on Thursday, November 19 from 5–7p.m. in BA3008. See you there.

Also, it should be mentioned that the video game event Gamercamp.ca is happening this Saturday, November 21.  There is a cost for admission, but it appears that this cost includes food that will be served at the event.  Additionally, club member of UTGDDC past, Daniel Steger, is scheduled to be demoing his prototype of Battle Beat at this event.  Gamercamp.ca looks really cool and may be something that some of you will want to check out this weekend.  And as if Gamercamp.ca were not enough, the CSSU will also be having Game Night this upcoming Friday.  Enjoy!

Just a quick reminder to everyone that there is NO CLUB MEETING THIS WEEK.

Hi everyone.

Just reminding all of you that our next club meeting will be this upcoming Thursday, October 29 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3000.  Please note that this is the same time, but a different room than last week’s club meeting.  See you there!

CORRECTION:

I got tired and made a mistake when I sent out the most recent reminder of our meeting to the e-mail list and the facebook group.  Please take notice that the club is meeting in room BA3000 this time, NOT in room 3008 as I mistakenly mentioned previously.  Sorry for the confusion everyone, and please don’t let that stop you from showing up this week.  🙂

Hey Everyone.

Our club will be meeting at the same time in the same room as last week.  So that’s this Thursday, October 22 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3008.  Sorry about the late notice.  We’ll see you there!

Hi everybody.

Same time, new room!

The game club is back this week and we WILL be meeting this upcoming Thursday, October 15 from 5-7 p.m. in BA3008, which is on the 3rd floor of the Bahen Centre.  Please take  notice that this time we will be meeting in a different room than we usually meet in, so be prepared for that and hopefully we’ll see all of you there.  And as always, if you want to join the club, but have never attended a meeting yet, that’s cool.  We always do our best to welcome new people to the club at anytime, so come down anyways.