July 12, 2006
July Meeting Recap
Greetings all,
I'm happy to report we had a fairly successful meeting on the 11th. We had a total of three new faces show up, so hopefully we'll start experiencing more growth. As always if anyone has any ideas about how to bring in more developers to our chapter drop me a line at mike.mcgehee@gmail.com to discuss it.
The topic for the night was Complexitity vs. Simplicity. It was quite a discussion. We touched on numerous points of interest, everthing from web based games, the casual games market, gamer expectations, and even Hollywood and Blockbuster Games. As usual it can be pretty much agreed amongst this group that every game has it's market, even if it is a niche. We all had a great time and I really enjoyed our discussion.
I look forward to seeing you all at our next meeting in September.
Posted by MikeMcGehee at 05:16 PM | Comments (0)
November 19, 2005
Student Panel Recap
On the 17th of November, 2005 the Las Vegas Chapter hosted a panel discussion for students in the area. The students had the chance to ask questions of the local game developers, workshop a game idea, and they also were able to participate in a raffle to win some prizes.
On the subject of how the panel went all I have to say is WOW! We had a great turnout of about 50 students and the panel really enjoyed the event. There were some great questions asked and we were able to brew up quite a bit of student interest in the IGDA. Hopefully that will result in some student memberships for the orginization.
It's still a bit undecided but I'm thinking it would be nice if we could hold something like this again next year, and maybe even make it an annual event for our chapter. After all, we do have to remember that these students are the future of our industry and if we can help shape and develop them our industry will be very strong in the next generation.
I've uploaded some photos of the event as well, so have a look!
Here are a few good views of our panel.
Students had the chance to workshop a game idea. The idea? A game involving 2 characters and fish.
and of course you can't forget the questions.
It was great time for all and I was really glad that we could give this to the local students.
Don't forget members that we have a meeting in our usual spot on December 4th, 2005 at 7:00pm.
See you then!
Posted by MikeMcGehee at 04:08 PM | Comments (0)
October 08, 2005
October Meeting Recap
Hello Everyone,
Some of you have probably been waiting on the recap of the October meeting, so here it is! Our meeting went very well, this time we had nothing but new people attend and man it was a blast. I had the pleasure of finally meeting Mike Legg from Petroglyph Games, Jill Zinner from Premier Search, and many other new people. Our topic for the night was “Censorship in games, where do we draw the line and who is responsible.” Through-out the discussion many points were brought up, some members suggested that the developers have a social and moral responsibility to make good games that don’t involve over the top violence. Other members said it was the parents, retailers, or even the ESRB. After much discussion on the topic I think we all came to agree that it was probably a combination of all these things, but we also have to accept the fact that the gaming industry is this decades taboo. All in all the meeting went extremely well and I hope to see many of those new faces again.
See you all at the next meeting,
Mike
P.S. Here's a link to a picture from the meeting.
Meeting
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August 25, 2005
August Recap
Greetings!
I hope that everyone attended our meeting had a good time. We had a little bit of a late start and to be honest I was worried that no one was going to show up. Luckily right as I was starting to pack it up we had someone show up. After sitting and chatting for a little bit more of our regular members began to trickle in and pretty soon we had a nice gathering of people. We had some special visitors this time around, a couple of developers from out of town decided to stop in and join us on our little picnic. They were really neat people and it was a good feeling to have hosted them. Aside from our out of town visitors there were also some new members to the group, hopefully they'll stick around and continue to join us in our future meetings.
As most of you know two of our student members are leaving us on September 1st for a higher education in Tempe, AZ. I'm sure they would appreciate your words of encouragement as they start the path down a long road of a career in game development. You can reach Nick at darkchapinko@gmail.com and Luis at btchslapurass@gmail.com. Best of luck to you guys.
Lastly please take a quick look at our forums and you can see some images from the meeting as well as some other discussions. See you guys in October!
Thanks!
Mike McGehee
Las Vegas IGDA Chapter Coordinator
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