Category Archives: Meeting Announcements

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 18 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179

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.

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 11 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179

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.

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, November 4 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 2179

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.

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, October 28 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in BA 4010

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.

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, October 7 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in B024

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.

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, Sept 30 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in B026

Hello everyone,

Just giving you all a reminder about our next game club meeting, which will be happening this Thursday, September 30 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. in B026.  Same time as last week, but in a slightly different room (still
located below the first floor of the Bahen Centre, though).

This week we will be discussing the use of art and music in video games.  Newcomers are always welcome.  See you there.

Our next game club meeting will be on Thursday, Sept 23 from 5p.m. – 7p.m. at B024

Hey everyone. Just giving you all a reminder that our next game club meeting will be on Thursday September 23 from 5-7p.m. in BA B024, which is the same room and time as last week’s meeting. We will be having a special presentation by Steve Engels who will be speaking about the video game industry. As a Senior Lecturer who has been heavily involved with the creation and teaching of the first game design course at U of T, Steve Engels has had the opportunity to develop a network of contacts from major video game developers and publishers such as EA and Ubisoft. This should be a very fun and informative presentation for everyone to attend and more information about Steve and this event will be posted on the utGDDC website.