Games and Grog, once a month

[ February 5, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Grey Thumb group, which meets periodically to talk about AI, is having a meeting featuring a talk by Chuck Lewin, “Sex And The Single Algorithm: Similarities and Differences in the Reproductive Habits of Biological and Simulated agents.”

In honor of Valentines day, Mr. Lewin will use selected examples from the natural and artificial world to […]

[ February 20, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. March 21, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. April 10, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. May 9, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. June 12, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. July 18, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. August 14, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. September 20, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. October 16, 2007; 5:30 pm to 8:00 pm. November 13, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. December 11, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Let’s get the dates on the calendar, shall we?

Unless things change, these are the expected dates of Post Mortem this year.

I brought my new camera to the meeting last night and took a bunch of photos.
In addition to addressing the primary subject of his talk (which was excellent, by the way), Ben had also been to visit the people at the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) project, and they sent along an intern with […]

[ January 10, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Ben Sawyer will be giving us a preview of his upcoming GDC talk, Innovation Beyond Play: Other Things Gamers do With Games.
Often innovation in the games industry stems from ideas that are developed or fueled by gamers themselves. By observing all that gamers do and organizing it into a taxonomy we can create a means […]