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 […]

[ January 16, 2008; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] A week from today is the Boston Post Mortem, 20:20 edition! We’re going to have 8 speakers give talks that consist of 20 slides, 20 seconds each, on various topics. Also, the meeting is sponsored by CIDC who will be providing refreshments–see below for answers to your questions about CIDC and the nature of said […]

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 […]

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 […]

We held PM to Boston this month. Please take a moment to tell us how you feel about the change of venue.

[ February 26, 2007; 6:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Every year at SIGGRAPH, they put together a video for the Electronic Theater containing the best and most technically advanced computer graphics of the year. That video is being screened at the SIGGRAPH/Boston meeting at Northeastern. If you like graphics, it’s a real opportunity to see the state of the art.

We’ve got a new job on the jobs page, from Tilted Mill.
The jobs page is a bit of a pain to maintain. I have a little helper app that gives me a form to fill out, and then I can cut and paste from the resulting text into the XHTML file that contains the job […]

As we threatened last month, we’ve switched over to WordPress for managing this site. There’s still quite a bit of work left to do, but it’s already close to being better than it was.
These changes will allow a few useful things:

Easier site management for the committee — in particular, it will provide a way for […]