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Gracias!

Phil

Event Registration and Details: http://bayareavideogamedevelopermeetup.eventbrite.com/

Hello Bay Area Game Developers,

We have all heard the less than optimistic coverage on games growth. Overall casual and console game sales dropped by 26% in April. Even social game growth, a major growth area over the last few years, is not as easy with Facebook virality changes and the rise of game companies with massive user bases and large marketing muscle.

Feeling depressed? Well don't. Instead come join us July 28th at 7pm to hear Joe Dunn and Josh Rose tell you how to beat the pessimistic forecasts by combining creative design, new technology, and platform agnostic virality to create game experiences players crave, share, and keep coming back for.

There will be a brief interactive Q&A; between each speaker; so designers and developers can get a chance to get some direct opinions or strategies on some of their own games and businesses.

Crystal Dynamics is an award winning, leading game studio, whose recent work on the Tomb Raider franchise has put it at the forefront of Square studios. Our objective is to work on quality titles and create an innovative work space for our employees.

We are currently looking for next gen art, design, production, and engineering talent to drive our newest action-adventure title to the next level. Beyond anything, we are looking for bold and creative thinkers who desire to make an impact on a project, a team, and a company. If you are passionate about making exceptional games and driven to suceed we want to talk to you!

Email me at or apply at our website at www.crystald.com.

Cheers!

Amy

****This position has been filled. Thank you****

Independent SF/bay area game studio is seeking 2D art guru to help develop the visual style of their upcoming game.

PSI Software Inc. new authorized Nintendo DS developer

From Nintendo to PSI Software Inc.:
Congratulations! We are pleased to advise you that we are
authorizing PSI Software Inc. for Nintendo DS software development.

www.PSISoftwareInc.Com

Is anyone going to GDC?

I'll be there learning, looking for work as a game designer or producer (I'll relocate for an opportunity), pitching my new DS game Alice in Planet Wonderland and at the Wordware (now Jones & Bartlett Publishing) signing my new book "Game Design Foundations 2nd Edition." In town from Monday to Sunday, also gathering game player data for my Masters thesis so come over and play my thesis game for 10 minutes.
Let's have a great time and help each other making great games.
Roger
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/roger.e.pedersen
Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/profile?viewProfile=&key=5119979&locale=en_US&trk=tab_pro

I'm having trouble finding the date for the next meeting, anybody got a clue?

Hi all!
My name is Isobel and im currently doing a PhD at the University of Ulster. I am researching the formation and nature of entrepreneurs within the games industry.
I am currently traveling around Europe and America conducting interviews. I

All of these game types (with the exception of Devil May Cry) used complicated or expensive controllers in the past to play their specific type of game, and the move to the gamepad as a standard was supposed to simplify things. And it did, in many wa

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Gameloft, a leading international publisher and developer of video games for mobile phones and console, is seeking a Technical Producer to join its existing talent pool located in San Francisco. The candidate’s main responsibil

For emerging serious games, virtual meetings platform being built in Flash in 3D. Must have Flash design/build experience on existing platforms, preferably in serious games space. Looking especially for people with exquisite sense of color balancin

Core Talent Games Ltd is holding its first annual open submission of game designs. If you have a game design - a design document or small prototype - you want to get made into a game, consider submitting to us. We do either design acquisitions or co-

Hello all, I was just wondering if anyone else was having trouble viewing the main page. Unless its meant to be completely blank, im having trouble getting it to load properly.

IGDA San Francisco
November 19, 2008 event report

Starting a Game Studio

Speakers:
Jeremy Gordon, founder Secret Level (Sega San Francisco)
Daniel James, founder T

Hi Guys!

I figured it would be good to have a thread for all of us in the bay area to just say hi to each other. I'm sure there are tons of us here, this being an undeniable game developers dream zone. So tell us a little bit about yourself!

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Hope to see you all at the IGDA meeting tonight at Dolby Labs! We have a great panel, four local entrepreneurs talking about how they spun up their game studios. For information on the event, visit the blog at [url]http://www.igda.org/sf/?p=27.[/ur

Hello.

I need some help in gauging what a 2-years experienced, 1 completed console title, and had leadership roles, game programmer can expect in terms of salary in SFO?

How much amount of money should you expect to spend for renting a place th

IGDA San Francisco
August 6, 2008 event report

Content Generation in Spore

Speakers:
Kent Jolly, Audio Director, EA-Maxis
Ocean Quigley, Art Director, EA-Maxis
Chris Hecker, Technology Fellow, EA-Maxis

Location:
Dolby Labs Theatre
Afte

Tonight (August 6) is the second meeting of IGDA San Francisco...
we are thrilled to have three members of the Spore team joining us: Chris Hecker, Kent Jolly, and Ocean Quigley.

They'll be talking abou

Hi everyone! As the title says, I'm taking the plunge and migrating across the U.S. (from DC) to try and break in to games as a QA tester.

Can't wait to become involved in your new IGDA chapter and would love to help out in any way. I'm a web deve

IGDA San Francisco
May 7, 2008 event report

Crystal Dynamics Studio Profile

Speakers:
Darrell Gallagher, Director of Art
John Pursey, Director of Technology
Troels Folmann, Department Manager

Location:
D

Dear San Francisco IGDA Members,

Over the past few months a small group of San Francisco developers has been working together to revive the San Francisco IGDA. That’s right, the IGDA’s once-dormant San Francisco chapter has awakened.

We’r

Hi all,

Do you know where to reach Renderware Dev Team or ask about Renderware exporter issue?

We have been developing an MMOG by using Renderware, but we found that its exporter doesn't work on 3DS Max 2008.

Renderware FMSS([url]http://ww

I'm moving to the bay area April 1st. In NY we had a strong IGDA presence with monthly socials and regular events (like demo nights, holiday party, etc...). I've noticed that the SF forum is a little dry. Does the IGDA have a presence in SF?

Hello,

I am founder of thinking monkeys. We offer learning solutions around specialized multi player gaming. So far we have worked with off the shelf commercial games. But now we are looking to get our own games developed.

The firm is based i

Hello there! The national IGDA folks have asked if anyone involved with IGDA-SF might be interested in helping them out at the IGDA party at GDC. The party is Tuesday, Feb 19, and runs from 8pm to midnight at the former Argent hotel (now Westin SF

Okay, I've been living in SF for a year and a half now, and there has been exactly one IGDA meeting since I got here.

I guess the guy who was hosting announcing that he was leaving at that meeting meant that the IGDA had no plans for further mee

Hey everyone!

We're all missing the SF IGDA meetings. So much so, that we decided to start our own informal group.

It's called the SF Postmortem and you can read about it here:
http://www.unknownworlds.com/postmortem

The first ga

Hello everyone. My name is Will Reusch, a first-year MBA at the UC Berkeley Haas School of Business.

I'm posting to let you all know about the Berkeley Digital Media Conference, >play. It is scheduled for October 27th and will be held at Haas Scho