April Meet & Mingle Recap
Pittsburgh IGDA converged on our local Dave & Busters this past
weekend for some food and fun! Twenty-six of us flooded the dining
room and the waitstaff didn't know what hit them. While waiting for
our Eat and Play Combos to arrive, we discussed everything from
animation to code, dinosaurs to root beer.
After enjoying our meals, we migrated into the game area to race, save the world, and jump rope, all virtually of course.
Some Highlights:
Emily won 100 tickets by sticking with her case at the Deal or No Deal game.
Lauren, Mark, “Snake”, Emily and Russell raced each other for title of Best Race Car Driver – winner is still to be determined…
4 jumps at the Jump Rope game – makes you the Jump Rope Master! Isn’t that right Lauren, Russell, Shawn?
We hope you all met some one new from the local Pittsburgh game development community. If you have additional highlights you want to share… post them to forum!
Posted by PittsburghIGDA on May 2, 2008 11:35 PM
Board Game Night Recap
About 25 local IGDA members pulled up to the tables at Shell Games to play all sorts of crazy games. As always, it was a great way to ring in the new year at Pittsburgh IGDA.
Posted by PittsburghIGDA on January 30, 2008 12:22 PM
Gamers GAVE Back
On Saturday, December 1, 2007 the Pittsburgh Chapter of the International Game Developer’s Association (PIGDA) held their first annual Gamers Give Back Charity Event at Cyber ConXion in Squirrel Hill.
The event consisted of three video game tournaments and a used video game yard sale. All proceeds were used to buy new video games, accessories and consoles for Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh.
PIGDA event coordinators worked with the Child’s Life department to create an Amazon.com wish list. People who could not attend the event were able to participate in Gamers Give Back by purchasing items from this wish list and sending it directly to the PIGDA for distribution at the hospital.
PIGDA and members of Child’s Life have described this event as a huge success. Forty people attended the event and PIGDA was able to donate over $2,500 in video games consoles, and accessories to Children’s Hospital in time for Christmas.
“We were shocked at the level of support this event had from the local gaming community. We have made staying at Children’s Hospital a little nicer for a lot of kids. I’m proud of everyone involved and I can’t wait to see what we can do next year, now that the event has been established in the community,” said Emily Skopic, event co-organizer.
Prizes for tournament winners were provided by the National Aviary, Eat n’Park, and various Game Stop and EB Game Locations in the Pittsburgh Area.
Donations: $1,122 (Cash Raised at Event)
Wii: $350 (After Event - Estimated Donation Value)
Wii Games $250 (After Event - Estimated Donation Value)
Xbox 360 $415 (Amazon Donation)
Xbox Controllers $80 (Event and Amazon Donation)
DS $120 (Event Donation)
Games at Event $200 (Estimated Donation value)
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Total: $2,537 (Gamers Give Back! YAY PIGDA!!!)
(Thank you everyone who came- we hope you all had as much fun as we did!)
In case you're interested, the complete list of systems, accessories, and games we were able to give to the Children's Hospital can be found by following the link below.
DS:
DS Lite White (Gamers Give Back event)
DS Lite Pink (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
DS Lite Black (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
DS Lite Red/Back (bought with event proceeds - Best Buy)
DS Lite carrying case with screen protector x 4 (bought with proceeds from event - Amazon)
Metroid Prime Pinball (Gamers Give Back event)
New Super Mario Brothers (Gamers Give Back event)
Viewtiful Joe Double Trouble (Gamers Give Back event)
Retro Arcade (Gamers Give Back event)
Konami CLassic Arcade HIts (Gamers Give Back event)
Planet Puzzle League (Gamers Give Back event)
Drill Spirits (Gamers Give Back event)
Diddy Kong Racing DS x 2 (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Meteos Disney Magic (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Smart Boy'sGameroom (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Wario Master of Disguise (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Kirby Squeak Squad (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Brain Boost (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Hanna Montana Music Jam (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Disney Princess Magical Jewels (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Yoshi's Island (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
My Sims (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Black DS Case (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
White DS Game Case with accessories (bought with event proceeds - Costco)
Gameboy Advance
My LIttle Pony: The runway rainbow (Gamers Give Back event)
Fire Emblem (Gamers Give Back event)
Marble Madness/Klax (Gamers Give Back event)
XBox 360:
Xbox 360 w/controller (donated on Amazon)
Xbox 360 x 2 (bought with proceeds from event - Amazon)
Cars (Gamers Give Back event)
Open Season (Gamers Give Back event)
Fuzion Frenzy 2 (Gamers Give Back event)
Rayman Raving Rabbids (Gamers Give Back event)
Beatiful Katamari x 2 (Gamers Give Back event)
NCAA Football 06 (used) (Gamers Give Back event)
Viva Pinata Platinum hit (bought with proceeds from event - Amazon)
Playstation 2
Nascar Thunder 2004 (Gamers Give Back event)
SSX3 (Gamers Give Back event)
Burnouts 3 Takedown (Gamers Give Back event)
F1 2002 (Gamers Give Back event)
Maddedn 2003 (Gamers Give Back event)
Looney Tunes (Gamers Give Back event)
MVP Baseball 2003 (Gamers Give Back event)
GameCube
GameCube w/controller (bought with proceeds from event - Amazon)
Game Cube controllers x 7(bought with proceeds from event - Amazon)
Wave Race Blue Storm (2 copies) (Gamers Give Back event)
SSX3 (Gamers Give Back event)
Harry Potter Chamber of Secrets (Gamers Give Back event)
SSX Tricky (Gamers Give Back event)
Freek Style (Gamers Give Back event)
Wii
Wii System (donated after the event)
Wii Play (donated after the event)
4 wiimotes & nunchucks (donated after the event)
Wii Play (donated after the event)
Super Mario Galaxy (bought with event proceeds - Amazon)
FIFA08 Soccer (donated after the event)
NBA Live08 (donated after the event)
Need for Speed, ProStreet (donated after the event)
SSX Blur (donated after the event)
MySims (donated after the event)
2 Wii mote charging stations (donated after the event)
Posted by PittsburghIGDA on December 24, 2007 05:02 PM
Thanks for a great crawl!
The Second Annual South Side Game Studio Crawl was a huge success!
Over 90 people attended, making their way up Carson St. from Sim Ops Studios to Schell Games to SilverTree Media. Food and drink were
enjoyed and people chatted the night away. The costumes were all
wonderful and it was great to see everyone come out and support the
Pittsburgh IGDA!
The winners of the Costume Contest were:
Best Last Minute - Tetris Guy - Justin ?
Geekiest - Rasputin from Psychonauts - ? ?
Most Uncomfortable - Kool Aid man - David Shaver
Best Villains - Joker and Harley - Chad Metrick and Megan Robinette
Funniest - Spirit of Corrogation - Bryan Cash
Best Overall - Harvey Birdman and Bird Girl - Gabe Sabourin and Lauren Holt
See pictures of the event (and submit your own!) at the Pittsburgh IGDA Flickr Pool.
Thanks to everyone who attended, see you next year!
Posted by PittsburghIGDA on November 6, 2007 08:56 AM
June 2007 Meeting
About 15 intrepid IGDA members gathered in June to build usb powered Wii 'sensor bars' and learn how to connect their wiimote to their pc using a bluetooth adapter.
The chosen design ended up looking more like little cat ears for your computer. Check out the images in the PIGDA picasa gallery!
Posted by PittsburghIGDA on September 15, 2007 05:17 AM | Comments (0)