Pittsburgh

Did you know the annual World Pinball Championships is here, in Pittsburgh? Neither did we!

IGDA is organizing a last minute outing to check out the Pinball madness this Satuday, October 13th, @ 2pm. Sign up at the evite to let us know you're coming and work out details/carpooling at the forum. Oh and, if you have an IGDA shirt- you should wear it : )

Cost is FREE for spectators, a few quarters to play, a few dollars to compete. Exact pricing info at http://www.papa.org/papa10/pricing.php

More info at http://www.papa.org/papa10/ and http://edeify.com/2007/10/10/world-pinball-championships-in-pittsburgh/
Directions available at http://www.papa.org/facility.php

Invite your friends, bring some quarters, and limber up your fingers!

Pittsburgh IGDA will be going paintballing on Saturday September 29th, 2007, 4-7:30pm.

Where: Riverside Renegade
When: Saturday September 29th, 4-7:30pm
Cost: $40 for gun rental, 500 rounds, mask, pizza, and a soda

Signup here.

Discuss this event- including car pooling action- in the forums.

The blog has been pretty quiet for the past couple months but PIGDA has been having regular meetings.

In March, Justin Truman of Pandemic Studios wowed 35 PIGDA attendees with his talk on Pandemic's upcoming 'Saboteur' game. Justin was kind enough to bring along his 360 dev kit to give us an early first taste of the game. He answered a lot of member questions about technical achievements in the game including animation techniques and streaming world methodology.

In April PIGDA held its first downtown Pittsburgh studio crawl. The downtown crawl included two locations- Etcetera Edutainment, a company spun off from Carnegie Mellon's ETC, and The Art Institute of Pittsburgh. Though the event was sparsely attended compared to last fall's South Side crawl, the content was classy. Both Etcetera & AIP gave strong showings- the Pittsburgh entertainment industry is young but growing!

Welcome to 2007.

To start off the new year we'd like to invite everyone to take a break from their PC's and Wii's and Xbox's and PS3's and join us for a night of BG's- that's Board Games.

This coming Friday, January 26th, Schell Games will be hosting the revival of PIGDA Board Game night. Games begin at 7 and will run till 10 . There will be board games of all types and calibers. Bring your own if you like. We'll be ordering pizza during the first half hour so also bring a few dollars for the pizza pot.

The location is Schell's new space (above Shootz) at 2313 E. Carson St. Look for the "Pittsburgh Business Times" sign.

Pittsburgh Young Professionals (PYP)
Autumn 2006 Business-Arts Networking Party

When: Tuesday, October 17, 2006, 5:30-9 pm
Where: Bossa Nova, 123 Seventh Street, Downtown

Come hear the latest from the Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, as we join other area arts groups at the Pittsburgh Young Professional's Autumn 2006 Business-Arts Networking Party.