Chapter Meeting - Thursday, October 2th at 7pm

Thursday, October 2nd, the Baltimore chapter of the IGDA will be having our next meeting at 7pm. We will be meeting at the 2nd floor of the Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge in Cockeysville:

Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge
9926 York Rd
Cockeysville, MD 21030
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Topic will be discussion about "Fracture", the soon to be released game from Day 1 Studios with some of the most cutting edge terrain deformation in a commerical title.

Posted by TronsterHartley on September 29, 2008 10:56 AM | Comments (0)

Chapter Meeting - Wednesday, July 30th at 6:30pm

Wednesday, July 30th, at 6:30pm the Baltimore chapter of the IGDA will be having our next meeting. We will be reporting on the recent Microsoft Gamefest in Seattle and have a brief introduction from the meeting's sponsor, the lawfirm of Ober|Kaler, whom specialize in entertainment-based law services.

This meeting will be held in the backroom of the Greystone Grill located at Hunt Valley Mall. (118 DD Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, MD)

Anyone may attend the meeting, although we recommend you sign up as an IGDA member. (If we hit room capacity IGDA members will have preference.) You can sign up to become an IGDA member at: igda.org.

Posted by TronsterHartley on July 23, 2008 12:07 PM | Comments (0)

Chapter Meeting - Thursday, March 27th at 7pm

Thursday, March 27th, at 7pm the Baltimore chapter of the IGDA will be having our next meeting. Two features at this meeting:


  • Autodesk will have a Maya-based presentation
  • Annual board elections will be held (postponed from Oct'07)

This meeting will be held at a new location, the backroom of the Greystone Grill located at Hunt Valley Mall. (118 DD Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, MD)

Anyone may attend the meeting. Drink tickets and buffet-style food will be provided thanks to our sponsor Autodesk. Only existing IGDA members are allowed to vote. You can sign up to become an IGDA member at: igda.org

Posted by TronsterHartley on March 13, 2008 11:49 AM | Comments (0)

Chapter Meeting - Tuesday, August 28th at 7pm

Tuesday, August 28th, the Baltimore chapter of the IGDA will be having our next meeting. This will be a "summer house cleaning" and social time. If you have an item you would like to tack onto the agenda, please contact Jonathan Hamel, our chapter president.

Once again we will be meeting at the Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge in Cockeysville starting at 7pm:

Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge
9926 York Rd
Cockeysville, MD 21030
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This meeting is open to everyone, but attendees are encouraged to sign up as IGDA members.

Posted by TronsterHartley on August 16, 2007 03:53 PM | Comments (0)

Chapter Meeting - Thursday, April 19th at 6:00pm

This Thursday, April 19th, the Baltimore chapter of the IGDA will be having our next meeting. We're trying a new format called a "laptop social." It's a social "meet and greet" at the Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge in Cockeysville, but people are encouraged to bring laptops as a focal point for conversation: demo some tools, a game, a process, a pipeline, whatever you're working on that's interesting.

Gathering starts at 6pm; with us running through agenda items at 7pm. A discussion regarding this meeting is currently occurring on the forum.

Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge
9926 York Rd
Cockeysville, MD 21030
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This meeting is open to everyone, but attendees are encouraged to sign up as IGDA members.

Posted by TronsterHartley on April 17, 2007 09:58 AM | Comments (0)

Chapter Meeting - Wednesday, March 14th at 6:30pm

Welcome back from GDC!

The next official IGDA Baltimore chapter meeting will be the one rescheduled from February, and it will be held as promised on Wednesday, March 14th at 6:30pm.

Bill Garrity, the director of the ratings board at the ESRB, will be presenting information on their ratings process and some best practices for developers when working with the ESRB. Should be an interesting presentation!

Due to projector requirements the meeting will be hosted at the Holiday Inn in Timonium. Attendees will be able to order light fare and drinks from the Inn's dining service.

Holiday Inn Select
2004 Greenspring Dr.
Timonium, MD 21093
410-252-7373
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UPDATE: We've been told we're at the Ridgely II conference room, but count on verifying this when you arrive.

6:30pm on Wednesday, March 14th.

On a personal note, I really wanted to attend Daniel Greenberg's roundtable at GDC on the subject of anti-game legislation, but I had a time conflict.

While the ESRB is not directly involved in this debate on either side (that I'm aware) -- it's Doug Lowenstein and the ESA who have been very active and quite effective at defending our rights as game developers -- it certainly would be interesting to discuss some of these issues at the meeting too. If anyone from our chapter attended the roundtable at GDC, I'd love to hear your thoughts on what was said. (Contact me at BreakAway, or through the forums.)

Posted by on March 12, 2007 04:19 PM | Comments (0)

Chapter Meeting - Tuesday, February 13th at 6:30pm

The next official IGDA Baltimore chapter meeting will be held on Tuesday, February 13th at 6:30pm. Bill Garrity, Director of the Ratings Board for the ESRB, will be giving a presentation. Due to projector requirements the meeting will be hosted at the Holiday Inn in Timonium. Attendees will be able to order food and drinks from the Inn's dining service.

The subject of the presentation will be posted when we have the details ironed out.

Posted by on January 30, 2007 07:03 PM | Comments (0)

November IGDA Baltimore Chapter Meeting - 15th at 6:30pm

This month several student and amateur groups will present and demo their game projects to the group. This meeting will not be in our usual location and will be hosted by Firaxis Games. (Thank you, Firaxis!)

Firaxis Games
11350 McCormick Road
Executive Plaza III; Suite 1100,
Hunt Valley, MD 21031
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6:30pm on Wednesday, November 15th.

Note the slightly later start time than usual. Refreshments will be provided.

Each group will introduce themselves briefly, and demos will be set up around the room, like a mini-IGF. (This format may change depending on the number of presenters present.)

IMPORTANT: Firaxis Games is located within a secure office complex. The doors to building III will be open until 7:00pm (so you will be able to get in if you are on time!) after which you will be required to enter through the security desk on the south side of the complex.

  • If anyone has a project they'd like us to consider for inclusion on Wednesday, please contact the Chapter Coordinator.
  • By way of apology for the short notice: Until very recently, it looked like we were going to have Emergent, makers of the Gamebryo Engine (used on some projects by BreakAway, Firaxis, and Bethesda Softworks, among others), do a presentation about the future of their engine on nextgen platforms. However, they have had to reschedule their visit for a future IGDA meeting. We didn't want to cancel the November meeting though, and wanted to do something more than just hang out at the Treehouse, so we tried to put this together quickly. We definitely plan to do something like it again in 2007, with more advance notice.

Posted by on November 10, 2006 03:18 PM | Comments (0)

Reminder: Meeting this week!

I know I posted this to the forums, but I'm staying up late finally updating our site and learning how to use this blog thingee. (Yeah, I'm not a blogger.)

Our next meeting will be on Wednesday 9/13 at 5:30 pm, same time as before, same location as before:

The Treehouse Restaurant & Lounge
9926 York Rd
Cockeysville, MD 21030
(410) 628-2190
http://tinyurl.com/plvc4

Hope to see you there!

The agenda:


  1. Elections for Chapter Committee roles

    • Chapter Coordinator
    • Content/Speaker Manager
    • Sponsorship Manager
    • Meeting Reporter/Photographer
    • Web Manager

  2. Discussion of forum traffic
  3. New business and suggestions

I'll post descriptions of these roles to the forum on Monday. Er. I guess that would be later today.

Posted by on September 11, 2006 02:27 AM | Comments (1)