http://bostonpostmortem.org Games and Grog, once a month Thu, 08 May 2008 17:00:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's time for the Boston Post Mortem again, and this time around we're having our very first Wii game Post Mortem! This month Kurt Reiner of Demiurge Studios will talk about developing "Brothers in Arms: Double Time" for the Wii in conjunction with Gearbox Software.  This project began with porting the ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/05/08/may-chapter-meeting/ Turbine just announced that they've received $40 million in funding. Congrats! http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/04/30/turbine-gets-40m/ The New England Institute of Art Senior Portfolio Show April 16th, 1 - 5 PM The Brookline Holiday Inn, 1200 Beacon Street, Coolidge Corner Come see the creative 2D and 3D work of our talented Animation seniors! Many are available for freelance or full-time work opportunities. Pre-screen future resources, or just come see some ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/04/09/neia-senior-portfolio-show/ There's a post mortem of AudiOdyssey up on GameCareerGuide. For those of you who weren't at our December meeting, AudiOdyssey is a Wiimote-controlled accessible rhythm game made by the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT lab last Summer. http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/04/08/audioddysey-article/ I was surprised (to put it mildly) to see an article in Entertainment Weekly written by Stephen King, decrying the HR 1423 bill that Kent Quirk (along with the ESA and IEMA) testified against. King’s article mostly takes a common sense, “shouldn’t the parents be protecting their kids?” standpoint. You ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/04/07/stephen-king-speaks-out-against-hr-1423/ In case you haven’t heard, Rockstar Games recently acquired Mad Doc Software. You can read the official press release here. Congratulations to the hard-working devs at Mad Do–no, wait: the hard-working devs at Rockstar New England! http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/04/07/rockstar-acquires-mad-doc/ Post Mortem is coming up next week: note that the meeting is Wednesday, not Tuesday as you might guess (the Skellig was booked, sorry). Our speaker will be Alex Engel from Turbine, and here's the info on his talk. Title: Exploring the Exploitation of Online Games: Real Money Transactions Description: The explosion ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/04/03/april-meeting/ 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 ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/03/23/wpi-imgd-speaker-series/ Sorry for the short notice, but I just found out that Denis Dyack is speaking this evening (5pm) at MIT. Reposted with permission from the GAMBIT blog: This afternoon the US GAMBIT lab is playing host to Denis Dyack, the founder and president of Silicon Knights (Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Metal ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/03/20/denis-dyack-speaking-at-mit-this-evening/ The hearing at the State House was a bit confusing. There were a number of bills up for consideration, and a couple of hundred people who were there to support and/or protest one or another bill. After about an hour and a half of presentations on other laws, I was ... http://bostonpostmortem.org/2008/03/18/what-i-said/