meeting recap

 On Tuesday, October 12th the Chapter Leadership gathered online for our monthly meeting.

Highlights:

The Membership Drive is still on.  Please sign up for the Philadelphia Chapter and encourage your game career friends to do the same!

Chapter Logo contest is still on.  If you're a graphic designer, this is your time to shine.

Global Game Jam is coming January 28-30.  We are looking for a local space to host groups who need somewhere to meet for the 48 hrs of the Jam.

Chapter elections are coming Dec 13-31, and if you plan to run you must apply by December 8th.  You must be an IGDA member in good standing, and have been a member for at least 6 months.  To vote, you must be a member by December 1st.  Student memberships are ineligible for voting.

Next meeting:  11/06/2010  @ 6 pm

Presentation by Ben Walsh of Pure Bang.  

Meeting location:  

 If you have any questions or comments about the October 2010 Chapter Meeting, please do not hesitate to ask the Chapter Leadership at philly @ igda (dot) org

 On Wednesday, August 11th, the Philadelphia Chapter Leadership met for its monthly meeting.  

Attached are the full meeting notes.

Highlights:

Next meeting will be Sept 11th, 2010

Chapter Elections will be held in October

We are working on improved funding

We encourage more interaction with nearby Chapters

If you have any questions about the August 11th Chapter Leadership meeting, please contact us at philly @ igda dot org

If you have any feedback, comments or questions regarding the August 7, 2010 Chapter meeting, do not hesitate to contact the Chapter Leadership via email @ philly(at)igda(dot)org

4:45 - 5:15 Pizza and Soda

5:15 - 5:25 Chapter News and Announcements
* Grant goes over what Leadership has been up to
* We have scheduled meetings until the end of the year. Next meeting is 09/11/10

5:25-5:35 Around the World Introductions
* Everyone introduces themselves. We have an impressive student turnout, with students from Drexel, UPenn, Camden County, and Montgomery County, and several future Digipen students.

5:35 - 6:35 Post-Mortem by Cipher Prime!
Speakers: Will Stallwood, Dain Saint

* The time line of game creation
*Took two years, minus a 6 mo break where the concept was lost

* Initial concept idea vs end result
*Initial sound idea became a very interesting sound generation tool

If you have any feedback, comments or questions regarding the May 1, 2010 Chapter meeting, do not hesitate to contact the Chapter Leadership via email @ philly(at)igda(dot)org
 

5:00 - 5:15 Pizza and Soda

5:15 - 5:25 Chapter News and Announcements

• New Chapter (Interim) Secretary introduces herself
• Grant goes over what Leadership has been up to:
  • We have scheduled meetings until the end of the year for every month exept July and September.  We are taking a survey on what people want to do for July.

5:25-5:35 Around the World Introductions

• Everyone introduces themselves.

If you have any feedback, comments or questions regarding the May 1, 2010 Chapter meeting, do not hesitate to contact the Chapter Leadership via email @ philly(at)igda(dot)org



Chapter News and Announcements

• Grant discusses what leadership is doing behind the scenes
• Charter paperwork complete
• Matt discusses status of local student internships
• Grant & Matt discuss current job openings at their studio

Around the World Introductions

• Everyone introduces themselves

Finding the Fun with Tim Ambrogi

If you have any feedback, comments or questions regarding the April 3, 2010 Chapter meeting, do not hesitate to contact the Chapter Leadership via email @ philly(at)igda(dot)org

Chapter News and Announcements

• New Chapter Leadership introduces themselves
• Grant goes over what Leadership has been up to so far
  • setting regularly scheduled meetings
  • getting chartered
• Matt discusses his goals for local student internships
  • run a local studio? Let's get you some interns! Contact Matt
  • Want to let our members know you're hiring? Contact the Philly IGDA!
  • Grant: Cipher Prime is hiring; contact Grant if interested

Written by Ian Perera

Our November meeting gave us a chance to look at some of the games that came out of the Philly Game Jam 2009, as well as a recap of the event itself.  We started with the Game Jam recap, and the slides from the presentation are here:

Our first roundtable discussion meeting turned out to be a success with a large number of participants and some interesting discussions. We started with a few words from our new Executive Director of the IGDA, Joshua Caulfield, who gave us an idea of the direction the IGDA was headed in the future. After that, we broke into our separate roundtables.

Sorry this has come so late, but I hope you find that it was worth the wait. Here are the presentations from our Game Demo Night that took place in February, with links for some of the presenters.

So, we all got together in a chat room and discussed things. It was important. You should have been there. Next month, we'll have another one.

WD

The next meeting of the Philly IGDA will be held on February 15th, 2009 starting at 4:00 PM.

The meeting will be held on campus at the University of Pennsylvania in Levine Hall room 307.

Date: Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Time: 4:00 - 7:00 PM
Location: Levine Hall Room 307 at the University of Pennsylvania

The December Philly IGDA meeting proved to be another exciting meeting with a great turnout. Alex Horn opened things up by recounting his experiences at the Montreal International Games Summit. After hearing about the speakers and events at MIGS, I don’t think many would pass up an opportunity to make it to next year’s summit.