Friday Night Social
Who says game developers are all anti-social nerds?
My buddy Mark DeLoura was in town for some developer meetings on behalf of Sony. Earlier in the week, we had started to form plans for some Friday night dinner. Around the same time, I got an email from Heather Kelley (who was just in the process of moving up to Montreal (from Austin)). I had promised her that I'd take her out to meet some "locals" when she got to town. She suggested that Friday would be a good night to hook up. And finally, I had just discovered that Troy Dunniway had recently moved to town as well and had not had much chance to meet industry people, other than his colleagues at Ubi.
So, rather than bail on any one of them, I opted to combine the them and invite along a few other local industry buddies... From a small invite to "grab some sushi Friday night", it quickly turned into a full blown date for 20 developers from various studios from the Montreal game dev scene.
While I help with the local IGDA Montreal chapter, which pulls together 200+ developers every month, this social night was a nice change of pace and provided a more intimate setting to connect. Oh, and the sushi was great too!
Here are some pics from the night, courtesy of Mark.
A bunch of sushi for a few of the guests.
Julie (FDL's significant other), Francois Dominic Laramee (freelance designer) and Dominique Roussy (A2M).
Vander Caballero (EA) and Mark DeLoura (Sony).
Stephanie Marchand (DC Studios) and Troy Dunniway (Ubisoft).
Elspeth Tory (Microids), Martine Quesnel (Microids) and Chris Rorl (Ubisoft).
Ken Schachter (GameLoft).
Damien (Heather's significant other), Heather Kelley (Ubisoft) and Mike Drummelsmith (Quazal).
Elspeth Tory (Microids) and Martine Quesnel (Microids), etc.
Posted on August 30, 2004 02:45 PM
Comments
Man alive, do I ever look ugly in pictures. Good thing I'm not quite that repulsive in real life ;-p
Posted by: FDL at August 30, 2004 03:10 PM
Francois, you think yours is bad? Look at me, the look on my face says "I wonder if you'd fit in my freezer".
Posted by: Ken at August 30, 2004 04:37 PM
Hey Jason, thanks again for putting that together; it was a lot of fun! I really enjoyed getting to meet all those folks from the Montreal scene. Now I might have to start doing monthly SF-area dinners. hmmmm....
Posted by: madsax at August 30, 2004 08:55 PM