Hi Everyone,

This week Daniel S. will be doing a presentation on the basics of how to use Blender. (http://www.blender.org/)

The meeting will be in BA 1240

We managed to get the same room for the next few weeks, so we’ll be in 1240 for a little while 🙂

See you there!

This Thursday, we’ll be having a presentation by Jean-Luc David, Developer Adviser for Microsoft. He’ll be presenting a bit about Imagine Cup and XNA, then answer anyone’s questions.

The room will be BA 3004.

See everyone there!

The meeting for this week (i.e. today) will be in BA 2195.  We have a guest speaker today: Sami!

For Oct 18, 2007, the meeting will be in BA 2135. Mark is going to kick it off with a second XNA tutorial on input and motion, and later Thuan will give an introduction to PyGame. Presentation notes have been already been posted – check them out. If you have a laptop, we highly recommend that you bring it so that you can have some hands-on time with XNA and/or PyGame and ask us any questions if you need help. If you do bring a laptop, be sure to install the software and have it ready along with your favorite IDE! See you then.

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.

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.

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

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.

We’ll be at the next IGDA Toronto meeting in September:

Thursday September 6, 2007, 7 PM
Imperial Pub, Downstairs floor
54 Dundas E (Just east of Yonge and Dundas Square by Dundas Subway station)
Toronto, ON, M5B-1C7