Games and Grog, once a month

August Chapter Meeting - Featuring Ralph Baer!

Posted under Event announcements, Uncategorized - Jul 30th, 08 - 2 Comments

[ August 5, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] I know I say this every month, but the August Post Mortem is going to be a really, truly special one. For five reasons.

First, it’s earlier in the month than usual, Tuesday August 5. Take note.

Second, we will be debuting our new, much bigger projector screen, donated by Orbus Gameworks.

Third, Harmonix will be sponsoring food [...]

GAMBIT Game Lab Playtesting Open House

Posted under Event announcements, Uncategorized - Jul 28th, 08 - 1 Comment

[ July 30, 2008; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab is hosting an open house where you can come in and playtest the games that their summer students have been working on. I’ve played a bunch of their games at various stages of development this summer and I have to say that I’ve been impressed with the crop of very [...]

July Chapter Meeting

Posted under Event announcements, Uncategorized - Jul 3rd, 08 - 4 Comments

[ July 9, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Hi everyone,

This month the Boston Post Mortem is happy to welcome Drs. Lawrence Kutner and Cheryl K. Olson, authors of Grand Theft Childhood, a book released earlier this year that talks about the sometimes counterintuitive ways that video games both help and harm children. Kutner and Olson are based out of Harvard Medical School and [...]