Manila

A big thanks to everyone who came to the IGDA Manila monthly meetup last October!

Hey, guys, we'd like to invite you to a casual meetup with your fellow game developers this Saturday, September 18 at Freska, along Katipunan avenue. This dinner is set to coincide with the end of the First Philippine Games Festival and is sponsored by Boomzap! (Thanks, Boomzap!)

Allan Simonsen (technical director of Boomzap and also head of IGDA Singapore) is in town for the festival and he's interested in swapping/sharing stories on game development between both countries.

More info on Boomzap can be found here.

Hey guys we're having another IGDA meetup next week, and I'm happy to announce that team By Implication will be talking about their Imagine Cup-winning game "Wildfire".

We're all quite proud of the guys for their achievement and can't wait to hear all about the process of building the game!

Check out the events page and let us know if you're coming here:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112395818813324
 

Special thanks once again to Exist and new sponsor Secret6 for being this month's venue and food sponsor, respectively:

Hey everyone,

The next IGDA meetup will be held this Saturday, May 29, 3PM at the UP ITTC, which should be familiar ground for everyone who joined the manila game jam.

We will be allowing last minute votes for the IGDA board (a nomination is now considered a vote, since there weren't enough nominees to make a race out of any of the positions) and announcing this year's incoming batch of IGDA board members.

Kuju Manila is having a grand book sale! These are mostly Game Development books that some of you might find very useful! Prices are from Php500 to Php600! Yes... that's right! Very cheap! It's almost impossible to get these books locally so if I were you, grab what you can!

For each book you buy, you donate Php100 to IGDA Manila! Money will be used for future events of IGDA Manila.

This is FIRST COME FIRST SERVE basis!
Book Sale is only up to March 26, 2010.

Look for Cherry in Kuju Manila's office at:
3207 Robinson's Equitable Tower
4 ADB Avenue, Ortigas Center
Pasig City

You can call 910-5858 to inquire availability of the books.

BOOK LIST (Prices are in Philippine Peso)

Hi everyone, I'm pleased to announce that the next IGDA meetup will be happening this Saturday, February 27, at 3pm. Gameloft Manila has graciously allowed us to use their offices for our meetup. Their office is located at this address:

7th Floor Burgundy Corporate Tower
Gil Puyat Ave. Makati City

Presenting this month are the team Tupi, who will be giving a postmortem of "Crease", the game they made during the Manila game jam that took home both our Participant's and Jury's Choice awards.

You can RSVP at our event page on Facebook, here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=321904867425

See you then!

(UPDATED with speaker info!)

Hi all,

Thanks for being patient. I'm happy to announce that our next IGDA monthly meet will be this Saturday, December 12, at the ATI building in mandaluyong from 3-6pm. It will be an art-focused meet, with myself speaking on the things I've learned being a freelance artist in the Philippines and Chester Ocampo presenting his workflow, offering some tips and tricks along the way. As usual, entrance is free of charge.

(Written by Caroline Dy, reposted from here.)