Games and Grog, once a month

I finally managed to wrangle Java and get an interactive version of my Boston game industry map up and running. You can play with it here (warning: requires Java SE6, I don’t think it works with 1.5 or older).
Again, I made this with Prefuse, which is the best graph visualization toolkit in the world. And […]

Inspired by Kent’s Boston game company graph, I decided to re-render it in Prefuse, mostly because I like its force-directed graph layout function better. Since Kent graciously provided the source for the graph in Graphviz format, I was able to cram it into Excel and generate a GraphML file that Prefuse […]

[ May 21, 2007; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] ANGILS, the UK’s Serious Gaming Trade Association has taken a lead role in the development and deepening of the skills cluster in the UK. ANGILS founding Chairman, Professor Robert Stone of Birmingham University, will be in Boston next week to meet with companies and discuss business development opportunities for New England companies.

The British Consulate invites […]

Dave Walls (Funkitron) has created a new casual game wiki, and he invites contributions. Check it out!

[ May 17, 2007; 1:00 pm to 6:30 pm. ] We got a press release from Autodesk:
Autodesk Media and Entertainment presents its 5th Annual Game Summit! Taking place on May 17, 2007, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, this info-packed afternoon will show you how Autodesk® 3ds Max®, Autodesk® Maya® and Autodesk® MotionBuilder® can help you take ideas from concept to completion more powerfully than ever. Autodesk’s award-winning […]

[ May 9, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] We’ll be having our May meeting on Wednesday, May 9, at the Skellig in Waltham.

Due to popular demand, I (Kent Quirk) will be re-presenting the graphical history of the Boston-area game industry talk that I gave several weeks ago at the Powering Up conference. I’ll be updating the graph based on the feedback received since […]

[ 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.