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Presentation Notes for Oct 11, 2007

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Thanks to everyone who came on Thursday night. IMO, it was pretty productive as some people were able to get their hands on XNA right away. We have posted the presentation notes on XNA and PHP here for those who are interested.

Next week I’ll will give a beginner’s tutorial on using Python with PyGame. This will be geared towards first year’s in Computer Science but everyone is welcome of course. If there’s anything in particular you want to know how to do, let me know and I’ll do my best to cover it.

Agenda for Oct 11, 2007

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Hey GDDC goers.

We have two presentations for tomorrow. Mark will be giving a short intro to C# and Microsoft’s XNA and Jen will be giving a tutorial on PHP and how cool it is 🙂 .

Meeting location for tomorrow will be Bahen Centre, 2nd floor in room 2195.

Also, if anyone is interested in knowing how to use the Python programming language for making games (like you first year Comp Sci’s), let us know and Thuan will give a tutorial on using PyGame next week.

Industry talk: Jason Wilson of KOEI and former club member

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Jason Wilson is a success story of a U of T graduate and former member of the club who broke into the games industry. He’ll be coming to give us a talk about his experience working at KOEI Canada for over a year now next week during club meeting time on Thursday September 27th, 2007 at 7pm in BA1240. Want proof? Here’s his thread on the forums. If you have any questions or things you would like him to talk about, let us know so he can prepare to answer them when he comes.

Meeting Time and Locations!

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Hey everyone,

Based on what people wrote on their sheets, we figure that the best time to meet is 7-9pm on Thursdays. I realize that there is one person who can’t attend, as well as two people who can only attend every second week, but it was the best we could do.

The rooms we are meeting in are slightly different for each week, so here’s the list of rooms I’ve booked and their respective dates, they’re all in the Bahen Centre.

SEPT 27 BA1240

OCT 4 BA2165

OCT 11 BA2195

OCT 18 BA2135

OCT 25 BA2195

– Mark

KOEI Canada @ UofT job fair

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This is a bit of a short notice, but KOEI Canada will be at the U of T job fair tomorrow (Wednesday September 19th, 2007) in University College (UC), East and West halls, St. George Campus 15 King’s College Circle, NOT at the Koffler building as originally announced in the club meeting. The fair be happening from 11am to 3pm. Be sure to bring your TCards as it is required to get in.

Meeting minutes (Sept 17, 2007)

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Here are the meeting minutes for the first meeting of this year (taken by Barry):

  1. Introduction about the club and executive members.
  2. Survey of the attendees and their program of study:
    • Computer Science: 10
    • Engineering: 1
    • Life Sciences: 2
    • Math: 3
    • Humanities: 1
  3. Experience of attendees with game design and/or development:
    • None: 1
    • Involved in one game: 5
    • Involved in two or more games: 4
    • Participated in competitions: 5
    • Professional: 0
  4. Played the name game! Everyone makes a circle and try to figure out everyone’s name
  5. Everyone writes down three things they would like covered in the club and three things they want to get out of the club. (If you weren’t able to attend this meeting but would like to suggest something, email us at info@utgddc.com.
  6. A little intro to Game Making Deathmatch and showed some game reels (up on the site under GMD section). Rules for this year will be much different than previous years…
  7. Upcoming events (see next post(s))

First Guest Lecture

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Hi Everbody!

We’ve determined a time and place for our first industry talk!

The first industry talk will be by Jackie Copland of Electronic Arts.

Time:

Thursday Sept 20th, 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Place:

BA 1170

Hope to see everyone there!

– Mark Cautillo
President: utGDDC

First Meeting!

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Hi Everyone!

After a long and complicated adventure, involving misdirection, intruige and doubt, I’ve managed to book a room for our first meeting! 😀

Here’s all the info that you need:

Time:

Monday Sept 17th, 2:00pm – 4:00pm

Place:

SF 3201

see: http://rrs.osm.utoronto.ca/map/

Sanford Fleming Building Room 3201 – I tried to book a room in the Bahen Center since they’re much nicer, but because it was such sort notice, I was unable to. This will not be our permanent meeting place or time, we will discuss where / when people would rather meet in the first meeting.

I will be sending an email sometime tonight to all of the people who asked for it (I forgot the email list at home :P)

I Hope everyone had a great first week, see you at the meeting!

– Mark Cautillo
President: utGDDC

PS. It looks like we’ll be having our first guest speaker on Thursday September 20th from 3-4, but I just have to double check that it’s a good time for her to come.