Games and Grog, once a month

This [pdf] [large png] is an improved version of the chart I displayed today at my talk at the Powering Up session at Northeastern University. Powering Up was a discussion of the game industry from the point of view of Boston, and how academics, game industry, and government can cooperate to further the growth of [...]

[ February 20, 2007; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] On a cold weekend in January, a bunch of Boston-area game developers got together with some students to hold the first-ever Boston Game Jam. The developers made eight small games in 36 hours. And now these very same folks are going to come together at the Boston Postmortem, show off their games, and relate to [...]

Jesper gave an interesting talk this evening. I blogged it at my website.
– Kent

Multiple award-winning Boston-area composer (and Post Mortem attendee) Duncan Watt recently wrote the original score for the upcoming digital game “Pirates CSG Online”, to be released by Sony Online Entertainment. Rollicking and exciting, the largely orchestral score combines classic swashbuckling Errol Flynn-era Hollywood score elements with modern-day instrumentation and world-class soloists to create a thrilling [...]

Boston-area folks had a presence at the Serious Games Summit this week. Henry Jenkins from MIT gave one of the keynotes, and other speakers from PM included Nick deKanter of Muzzy Lane software, Mike Gesner of Dragonfly Game Design, and Kent Quirk from CogniToy.
The conference and this industry segment are getting pretty significant — they [...]

Our own Dan Scherlis thought you might want to know about a games-related event he has organized for the MIT Enterprise Forum, for next Monday (Oct 23, 6:30-9pm). Here’s his message:
We’ll cover mobile games, casual (web-based) games, and massively-multiplayer online games (”MMOGs”). Our keynote speaker is Curt Schilling, Red Sox pitcher and CEO of [...]