Salt Lake City
Welcome to the Salt Lake City Chapter! Come to the Salt Lake City Chapter to share information, generate a cohesive network of developers, and have fun!
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News / updates
March Chapter Meeting - GGJ Play Party
At this chapter meeting we will be playing the games that were created at this year's Global Game Jam which was held Jan 27-29th in Salt Lake City. Come on out for pizza and to catch up with friends near UVU!
UVU, Room TBD
Post to TwitterFinal Burn 2011 Report
This year we moved to a new venue because the old one shut down. The new venue seemed to work out great for us and everyone seemed to have a great time. The poster art was really impressive too! Overall there were about four studios represented, and about 20 people. It was really nice seeing what React and Wahoo and Smart Bomb were working on; their newest offerings were very impressive! We'd like to thank the volunteers that helped bring equipment and set up, and Legends for hosting! A big Thank You goes to Wahoo Studios for providing so much great food for everyone! Be sure to check out their games and support them: http://www.wahoo.com/ or http://www.ninjabee.com/
Final Burn 2011
Final Burn 2011
It's time again for the annual end of year party for game developers in the Salt Lake City/Provo area in Utah. Gather to show off projects, talk about the events of the past year, and plans for the next year, and play games and hang out!
Date: Tuesday, Nov 8th
Time: 7:30 pm
Place: Legends Pub & Grill
677 S 200 W, Salt Lake City (directions)
RSVP: Notify Josh Jones if you plan to attend or if you have any questions.
Please join the Utah IGDA Mailing List for further announcements and discussion.
IGDA September 2011 - Your Developers Are Your Customers
This time we had the opportunity to hear from out-of-state speaker and IGDA supervolunteer Sheri Rubin as she began her trek across the west coast. This meeting was super well attended- over 50 people came to EA Salt Lake's offices and enjoyed refreshments and the great meeting room and hospitality EA Salt Lake provides. A huge thanks to them for hosting! Below is the speech outline for those who missed it.
IGDA May Meeting
This meeting was a casual gathering at Gecko's. Attendance was light but once again the content was great! Thanks to Shane Smit for the excellent postmortem on Cars 2! We were all enlightened and given much to ponder about.
IGDA January 2011 - Repetitive Strain Injury
This meeting was graciously hosted by EA Salt Lake. They provided excellent refreshments and helped run the event smoothly.
Our speaker, Brady Dalton, talked to us about his experiences with RSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) and how they affected his game development career.
Here's hoping everyone stays healthy while developing awesome games during the new year!
Final Burn 2010 Report
This year's Final Burn was at the newly revamped Green Street. The upstairs was sporting a couple new cabinets, but less TV's. We had 4 studios demo and members from nearly every major studio (Disney/Avalanche, EA Salt Lake, Eat Sleep Play, Smart Bomb, Wahoo, and React) attend! Most seemed to agree Disney's Toy Story 3 took home Utah Game Dev Choice award this year.
Big thanks to Wahoo Studios and NinjaBee for sponsoring! Please check out their Keflings games on XBLA and show your support for their high quality games!
Final Burn 2010
Final Burn 2010
It's time again for the annual end of year party for game developers in the Salt Lake City/Provo area in Utah. Gather to show off projects, talk about the year over some food and drinks, or bring games and just hang out!
Green Street at Trolley Square
602 East 500 South, Salt Lake City (directions)
IGDA September 2010 - Tools, Pipelines, and Workflow Roundtable
This time we had a less formal and more fun roundtable style meeting. We discussed as a community the topic of Tools and Work Pipelines. We got some great feedback and ideas on ways to improve productivity in your daily workflow. I, Josh Jones, moderated the discussion and presented some of the various methodologies for discussion of pros and cons and we all enjoyed some time sharing our thoughts and experiences.
This meeting was graciously hosted by EA Salt Lake and their new studio downtown. Thank you!!
IGDA Salt Lake/Provo Recent Events
IGDA SLC
Check the link to see pictures from the IGDA Summer Bash 2010
IGDA May 2010 Social Meeting at the Bayou
Tonight we met up at local hangout The Bayou. The food was good but the company was better!
Indie Night Success, SLGDRT Thursday, Next Meeting in 2 Weeks
Indie Night was a great success, hearing all the postmortems and seeing all the great demos was a blast! Not to mention finally giving out all the t-shirts. There are still some extras so we will plan on having those at GEEX to give out to the first N people that sign up for the Game-in-a-Day event there.
Reminder: SLGDRT meeting is Thursday this week. Info should be in your email. Email Ryan <ryanbutcherart@gmail.com> with any questions.
GGJ Followup and Postmortems w/ Indie Night
Next IGDA event is a joint meeting with the Indie Night group where we will be hearing the results of the GGJ for Salt Lake City. We had a lot of great projects start up at GGJ this year and we are very interested to see where they went and what the experience was like for the participants. Don't miss out on this special meeting! Details are over at www.utahindiegames.org - you can find directions in some of the past posts as well - so see you there April 22nd!
NinjaBee Offices - Indie Game Night
IGDA March 2010 - Sims 3 Post Mortem
Last chapter meeting saw an excellent GDC-level quality presentation by Ben Bell. Ben talked to us about producing the sequel Sims 3 and various stories such as team building, player types (listen to your players!), setting design pillars, firefighters, prototyping, and the need for all of us to sometimes, "have more fun" in what we do. 
The meeting was well attended, about 20 people again, graciously hosted by EA Salt Lake.
Sims 3 Post-Mortem
The Salt Lake City Chapter of the IGDA would like to invite you to:
"Sims 3 Post-Mortem"
We will be priviledged to hear from the Executive Producer of Sims 3, Benjamin Bell. He will discuss the good things and bad things that occurred throughout the development of this iteration of the popular Sims franchise. Don't miss it!
Special thanks to EA SLC for hosting this event!
RSVP: Notify Josh Jones if you plan to attend or if you have any questions.
EA SLC Office
1551 S. Renaissance Towne Drive
Bountiful, UT 84010 (map)
Reception on 5th floor
IGDA January 2010 - Flawless Physics
Tonight was a well-attended lecture by Eric Brown, past GDC speaker and local programmer and physicist. The presentation went smoothly and EA Salt Lake provided refreshments which were enjoyed by all. Attendance was about 25 people representing about 5 studios. Special thanks to EA for graciously hosting!
Final Burn 2009
Another year has already gone by. Many changes have happened for me and for the industry around us- thankfully Final Burn was still very well attended!
It was great to see EASL, Smart Bomb, and React! Games coming to demo their latest releases.
All in all we had employees/founders of six local studios (and one out of state studio!) attend. A big shout-out goes to Wahoo/NinjaBee for the last second sponsorship, and to all the organizers who helped put this together. Thank you!
SLC Chapter IGDA Meeting - September 2009 - Directing Games
This meeting report is a little late but last month Salt Lake City had a very good chapter meeting, a full writeup of which can be found in the October newsletter:
http://www.igda.org/newsroom/Oct09Perspectives.txt
http://www.igda.org/newsroom/newsletter_archive.php
Smart Bomb Interactive
SLC Chapter IGDA Meeting - July 2009 - Meat & Greet
We had relatively good attendance and met some new developers that recently moved to our area. The discussion was very good, and of course the food was very good too!
Meat & Greet
Next Chapter Meeting will be July 14th, 2009 - come and meet other developers while enjoying food and atmosphere of friends and fellow enthusiasts.
TBA
