Hi everyone,

The game club will be meeting this week on Thursday, January 20 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA B026, which is the same time and place as last week’s meeting.

This week we’ll be doing something a little different compared our usual meetings. We will be designing and creating a card game. The game will start out with an objective and a simple set of rules, which will eventually evolve and be expanded upon by the group as we playtest our card game. The goal here is to have you all participate in an activity that some developers use to prototype their games in order to establish a fun and balanced game design. Credit goes to game club member Sean for suggesting this idea.

It should be a fun meeting, and we hope to see many, if not all, of you there.

Also, our meeting this Thursday will be the LAST opportunity for anyone who hasn’t already signed up and submitted their entry fee for GMD 2011 to do so. After this week’s meeting, which is on Thursday, January 20 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA B026, if you have not already submitted your form and entry fee for GMD 2011, then you will NOT be allowed to submit your game for this year’s GMD. So make sure that you get in on the fun and the prizes of GMD 2011 by getting your form and money in by then.

Hey everyone,

Our first game club meeting of the new year will be on Thursday, January 13 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA B026.

We will be talking about input devices and user interfaces used in gaming, and we will also be answering any questions you may have about this year’s GMD (whether it be about coding, rules etc.).

Please note that this is the last week anyone will be able to hand in the forms and money for this year’s Game-Making Deathmatch (GMD)! If you are interested in joining this year and have not handed in the forms or the money, you must do so before the end of this Thursday’s meeting.
The form can be found at: http://gmd.utgddc.com/2011/
It is ten dollars to Join GMD.

See you then.

Hi everyone,

Classes have finished for this semester, so there will be no game club meeting this week (and for the rest of this year). We’ll get back into our regularly scheduled meetings next year at the start of the winter semester. Until then, good luck with your GMD games (post to the forums at forum.utgddc.com if you need help), good luck with exams, and we’ll see you all in the new year!

Also, I just wanted to remind anyone who hasn’t signed up yet for GMD 2011 that you can still do so until Thursday, December 16. The registration form can be found at http://gmd.utgddc.com/2011/files/GMD2k11rules1.pdf, and you can get in touch with Shane, the GMD Coordinator, at gmd@utgddc.com to arrange a time to meet up with him so that you or your team can pay the $10 registration fee.

Happy holidays.

Hi everybody,

Unfortunately, due to a double booking, we don’t have an official room for this week’s game club meeting. However, we will instead be having an “informal” meeting outside of BA 2179 on Thursday, December 2 from 5pm -7pm in order to help people get started on their GMD games by
offering help with programming and other aspects of their game’s development.

Also, due to an increased workload on everyone with exams and such, we want to find out who will be able to make it out to next week’s game club meeting on Thursday, December 9 from 5pm – 7pm. Please hit the “reply” button and let us know if you’d be able to come out to next
week’s meeting. If there are enough people interested, then we will be having a game club meeting next week.

Hopefully, we’ll see you there.

Hey everyone,

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 25 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 1200. It’s during the same time as last week’s meeting, but in different room.

The theme for this year’s Game-Making Deathmatch (GMD 2011) will finally be announced at this special meeting, and registration for the competition will officially open and remain open for 2 weeks afterwards.

Additionally, we will be sharing and discussing some tools and techniques that you can use to help keep your game-making process fun, organized, and stress-free.

See you then.

Hi everyone,

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 18 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179, which is the same time and room as last week’s meeting.

This week, Barry will be giving a talk about the games that he has created over past few years and how he made them. Barry is a former 1st place winner of GMD and has also won some other game-making competitions. You should definitely check out and play Barry’s amazing catalogue of games, which are posted up on the forums at http://forum.utgddc.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1323, in order to get a good idea of the type of creativity, originality, and technical skill that goes into his work. This talk should also be beneficial as a means to further prepare you for our upcoming GMD, which will begin near the end of this month.

It should be a fun meeting, and we hope to see you there.

P.S. If you’re interested in helping out with the browser-based “Sim City” game that we discussed during last week’s meeting, then please send an email to Frankie at president@utgddc.com with your contact info.

Hello everyone,

Just reminding all of you that our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 11 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179, which is at the same time and room as last week’s meeting.

This week, Shane will be talking about the upcoming Game Making Deathmatch (GMD) competition that the utGDDC hosts every year, and he will be giving the details about registration, elegibility, contest timelines, and other aspects of GMD. The theme for this year’s GMD will be announced near the end of this month, and the competition will begin immeadiately afterward. So, this week’s meeting is the one to go to for everything about GMD, the utGDDC’s biggest event.

We’ll see you there.