Hi everybody,
Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 4 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179, which is located on the second floor of the Bahen Centre. Luckily, our room should be bigger this time compared to the room that we met in last week.
The topic for this week’s meeting will be about making an A.I. (Artificial Intelligence) for your game, so it should be some good applicable information that you can use in practice. Hope to see you there.
Next week there will be social event held by the Hand Eye Society, which is a collective of individuals from Toronto’s video game communities that is comprised of students, teachers, video game developers, and other industry professionals. Events held by the Hand Eye Society are a great way to learn more about the game development industry in this city and to meet the professionals who work in it. You may be surprised to find out that many popular indie games have been developed by Toronto-based video game developers with a few notable examples being Might & Magic: Clash of Heroes for DS, developed by Capybara Games, and Everyday Shooter, developed by Queasy Games. However, there are many other developers in this city who have also seen great success.
The Hand Eye Society’s social event will be taking place on November 11 at the Unit Bar, which is located at 1198 Queen St W. (see the map and image below for more detailed directions). The event will start at 7pm and will feature an appearance by Jason DeGroot, who was one of the main team members that created the indie game Fez, which was given the Excellence In Visual Art award at the 2008 Independent Games Festival. The event will also include a sampling of some of Japan’s finest indie games so come out to the bar and have some fun.
The Digital Interactive Gaming Conference (DIG) is a huge event that will be held in London, Ontario throughout November 18 and 19. It will feature a number of keynote speakers from leading North American video game developers as well as other industry professionals. With tons of learning and networking opportunities available, it certainly appears to be a great event for game developers of all areas of expertise to participate in.And if that wasn’t enough, DIG will also feature a Game Expo with a wide variety of games designed by local DIG companies that you can play until your heart’s content. Top that all off with the 2010 Vortex Game Competition, where notable video game industry judges rate competitors on their video game prototypes and designs, and you have a very full 2 days of game industry education and fun.
If you love video games and want to become more connected to the industry, then this conference seems to be developing into a very profitable experience for you. If you’d like to get more information on DIG LONDON 2010, check out their website to get the details.

Gamercamp is an upcoming event that celebrates the art, creativity, and fun of video games. Taking place here in Toronto, Gamercamp brings together local developers, industry speakers, and video game enthusiasts for 2 full days of demos, presentations, and gaming goodness. This event appears to be shaping up nicely as a meeting of Toronto’s video game industry, and it even includes a former utGDDC member among its list of influential guest speakers! (I’ll let you try to figure out who it is).
Gamercamp takes place on November 13 and 14 across the George Brown School of Design and the Toronto Underground Cinema. See their website to get more information about this exciting event and how to get tickets.
Hi everyone,
Our next game club meeting for this week will be on Thursday, October 28 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in room BA 4010, which is on the fourth floor of the Bahen Centre and is a “slightly†smaller room than usual.
The topics for this week will be A.I. and how to make a video game with time constraints and focus, which will be useful to consider as our annual GMD competition will be starting next month (more details on that soon). Hope to see you there.
Hello,
Just a friendly reminder to all of you that our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, October 21 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in B024 at the Bahen Centre just below the first floor. We’ll be discussing game balance and evolutionary gaming. See you then.
Hi everyone,
Our next Game Club meeting will be on Thursday, October 14 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179. Same time as last week, but clearly a different room (this room is on the 2nd floor of the Bahen Centre).
This week, we’ll be having a presentation and discussion on player archetypes, and we hope to see you there.
Hi everyone.
This week’s game club meeting is on Thursday, October 7 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in B024. We’re back to our original meeting room this time.
In the first part of this week’s meeting we will be having an Intro to Video Game Programming using Flash’s ActionScript 2.0 followed by a brief presentation on using Game Maker to easily create your own video games. In the second part of our meeting we’ll be discussing what makes games fun. It should be a very informative and fun meeting and we hope to see you there.
Toronto’s annual event, Nuit Blanche, will be starting on the evening of Saturday, October 2 at precisely 6:57p.m. and will run until sunrise on Sunday, October 3. You read that correctly, Nuit Blanche is an event that runs all night and turns Toronto into a showcase of various artistic exhibits throughout the city.
Among the exhibits will be the Hand Eye Society’s Arcadian Renaissance, which will display 6 custom-made arcade cabinets featuring some of the hottest indie games to have ever been developed right here in Toronto. You may even recognize some of these video game titles from Valve’s popular video game catalog on Steam. You can visit the Arcadian Renaissance exhibit in the atrium of the brand-new TIFF Bell Lightbox during Nuit Blanche and have some fun trying out these indie games for yourself. It’s certainly shaping up to be quite a memorable event to come out and experience.
On Thursday, September 23, Steve Engels gave a special presentation to the game club and mentioned that his contacts at Koei are looking for people to playtest their upcoming video game titles. Koei is a Japan-based game developer who has produced a variety of video games for consoles and PC.
If you are interested in playtesting some of their future video game titles before they are released, then please send an email to Steve Engels (whose contact info can be found here) and state your interest in participating. He will then set it up so that Koei will get in touch with you afterward with the details.
