Games and Grog, once a month

The Interactive Media & Game Development (IMGD) program at WPI has been running a weekly speaker series for the past few years, open to the public.
Recently, they began to video record the talks, and they post them online.
And if you have something interesting to talk about, they are always looking for speakers. You can get [...]

[ March 18, 2008; 1:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] The flurry of press today indicates that someone has decided to push this bill hard, and it’s become necessary to ask you all to step up.

There is a hearing Tuesday before the Joint Committee on Economic Development and Emerging Technologies.

The hearing will be held in room A1 of the State House in Boston (Beacon Hill, [...]

[ September 13, 2007; 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. ] Autodesk is sponsoring their “3D Launch Tour” next week in Boston, with a games session from 5:30 - 7:00.

Featuring a Guest Speaker from Midway Games, Scott Englett

Westin Copley Place Hotel
Staffordshire Room 10 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02116

For registration info, see:

http://www.autodesk.com/mini-sites/melaunchtour2007/index.html

[ June 8, 2007 5:00 pm to June 10, 2007 4:00 pm. ] The One Laptop Per Child project (OLPC) is holding a game jam this weekend at Olin College in Needham. The idea is to try to expose game developers and anyone else who’s interested to the hardware and software platforms for making games on this innovative device.

They’ve already got 40-something people signed up There’s still room [...]

[ 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 [...]

[ March 21, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] To give people (including the organizers) time to recover from GDC, we’re moving the March Post Mortem to Wednesday March 21, and we’re going to try out a new venue, a place called McFadden’s in Boston. We’re doing GDC open mike night, so please come with your stories about GDC this year — people, parties, [...]

[ March 5, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] Roland Hess is talking about BlenderPeople at Grey Thumb.

Where: The Asgard (350 Mass. Ave, Central Square, Cambridge)
Who:   All are welcome
Note: Parking is available for $3 (with validation) in the garage behind The Asgard on Green St.

BlenderPeople is a free, open source crowd and combat simulation
project. The system uses a combination of Blender 3D, Python [...]

[ 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 [...]