Much more important than my previous announcement about the Spike TV VGA awards, two Boston-area studios landed spots in Gamasutra’s 5 Best Developers of 2007. Congrats to 2K Boston (#3), and Harmonix (#2)!
Boston Studios Comprise 2 of Gamasutra’s Top 5!
The January Post Mortem: Your Chance to Rant
For our January Post Mortem, we’re doing something a little different. Based on the concept of 20:20 and Pecha Kucha, the gist is that anyone can speak on any game-related topic, provided their talk conforms to the constraint of 20 slides, 20 seconds each. That’s 6 minutes, 40 seconds of talk.
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Harmonix Wins Studio of the Year at Spike VGAs
I suppose this is a dubious honor, since the Spike TV Video Game Awards are a game industry punchline, but Harmonix took home Studio of the Year. Congrats to the hard-working folks at Harmonix. (Of note is that 2K Boston was another nominee, so Boston area studios made up 2 of the 4 nominees!)
December Meeting
[ December 11, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] It’s getting to be that time. The Boston Post Mortem for the month of December is one week from today, Tuesday the 11th. Our speakers will be from the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab, which from my point of view is one of the coolest things to appear on the Boston game industry scene in the […]
GameDev Day ‘07 at Harvard
[ December 1, 2007; 10:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] This Saturday, December 1st, is GameDev Day at Harvard University, a one-day series of free workshops on game development sponsored by Microsoft and the Harvard Interactive Media Group. No RSVP necessary, you just show up. Here’s their description:
Come to GameDev Day ‘07, a free event being hosted at Harvard University on December 1st, sponsored by […]
Post Mortem Gathering
[ 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.