Salt Lake City
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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
GDC Share 2009
The Salt Lake City IGDA's GDC Share 2009 discussion took place on May 12th, 2009. Josh Jones, Megan Gardner, and Tim Tillotson reported on their visit to GDC and several listeners asked questions and enjoyed the discussion. Swag was given out (first pick went to paying members) and much learning was had by all.
SLC Chapter IGDA Meeting - March 2009 - Weathering the Storm
The Salt Lake City IGDA's Weathering the Storm discussion took place on March 10th, 2009. It was a fun meeting, and lots of thoughtful comments and discussion about how to help the industry thrive were heard. Three or four studios were represented, and there was much laughter and sharing of industry stories. Big thanks to Lane Kiriyama from Wahoo/NinjaBee for the wisdom and the refreshments!
SLC IGDA Chapter Meeting - May 2009 - GDC Share 2009
Professional game developers gather and share experiences and best lessons from GDC this year. There will be lots of good stories, discussion, and information to take away from this meeting.
Salt Lake City Public Library
210 East 400 South
Salt Lake City, UT 84111
Phone: 801-524-8200 (map)
Room L-1