The Baltimore Area IGDA Chapter and Breakaway Games would like to invite everyone to the May IGDA meeting.

Our next meeting we will be having a Student Show Case. Students from colleges around the area will be brining game projects they have been working over the course of the year and will be giving hands on demonstrations.

Breakaway has graciously offered to host the event, as well as provide Pizza and Soda to all who attend.

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Posted by BrettDoerle on May 1, 2008 09:22 AM | Comments (0)

GamersUnite! Blood Drive at BreakAway

BreakAway is hosting a blood drive on May 22nd from 10am-3pm for the Red Cross. GamersUnite is looking for volunteers from the gaming community in the Baltimore area to donate blood.

If you are interested in participating please contact Lisa Robinson at lrobinson ~at~ breakawayltd.com to set up an appointments.

Posted by BrettDoerle on April 10, 2008 01:59 PM | Comments (0)

Silverlight talk at CMAP 4/1

Tonight, Tuesday, April 1st, CMAP will be hosting a talk on Silverlight given by Pete Brown. The CMAP meeting begins at 6:30pm. Details are on their web-site CMAP web-site.

Posted by TronsterHartley on April 1, 2008 12:29 PM | Comments (0)

UMBC Digital Entertainment Conference 4/12

UMBC is holding its 3rd annual Digital Entertainment Conference on April 12th from 10:30 to 5:30 PM at UMBC In Lecture Hall III.

This event brings speakers from the industry to come and speak about their areas of expertise in the industry. No RSVP is required to attend this free event.

For more information, see the post in the Baltimore IGDA forum.

Note: As of 4/3/08 its now in Lecture Hall III. The above entry has been modified to reflect this.

Posted by TronsterHartley on March 31, 2008 09:49 AM | Comments (0)

Thank you Simulistic - Maya talk

The Baltimore IGDA chapter would like to send a big thank you to Jeff Meeker from Simulistic for demoing and (with Autodesk) sponsoring the talk. If you found the talk last night informative, please discuss it on our forums. Your feedback helps determine what speakers and subjects we host at future meetings.

Elections were held and we have a new board:
Chapter Coordinator: Tronster Hartley (Geek House Games LLC / Breakaway Games)
Content Manager: Paul Oliver (Legendary Studios)
Community Manager: Brett Doerle (Day 1 Studios)

Additionally we have an Advisory board:
Jonathan Hamel (Breakaway Games)
Lucien Parsons (Zenimax)

Posted by TronsterHartley on March 28, 2008 10:18 AM | Comments (0)