Tuesday, February 19, 2013 7:00pm   1534 1st Ave South, Seattle, Washington

It’s that time again! Come have a drink, share stories and mingle with your fellow Seattle indies!

This month we’re going to try something a little different. Mingling is awesome, but a lot of you have expressed interest in supplementing that experience with a short period of presentations and demos of local games, so we’re going to give it a shot!
Socializing is still the focal point of the event, but we’re going to set aside an hour or so for people to give a few short presentations. We’re looking for 3-5 volunteers who would be willing to present for 5-15 minutes.

Did you make a game jam game recently that you’d like to show off?
Want to publicly debut the game you’re currently working on?
Have an interesting experience with a publisher that you think your fellow indies could benefit from?

The format is extremely flexible! If you just want to show your game, that’s great. If you’d like to walk us through your design process in more detail, that’s cool too! Sign-ups are on a first come, first serve basis, in the interest of fairness. If we have more presenters than we can fit in an hour then we’ll start filling up the roster for next month’s meetup.

The other exciting development for this month’s social is that the crew at 17-Bit have graciously offered to let us use their office space for the meetup! It’s a little bit of a trek compared to our usual Capitol Hill haunts, but the venue is spacious, private and comes equipped with a projector that we can use for the presentation segment.

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The Anatomy of a Successful Kickstarter Campaign

Wednesday, 23 January 7pm at Bungie Studios.

Crowd-funding game development is changing our industry.  Kickstarter and similar portals are changing the relationship between the developer and their end users, bringing them together much earlier in the development process, often even before the first lines of code have been written.  Crowd-funding has the potential to turn the traditional model of publisher funded games on its head.  But, this is uncharted territory and the success or failure of these projects will have an enormous impact on the long term impact of this funding model.

Uber Entertainment’s Planetary Annihilation Kickstarter campaign was among the top five highest funded game projects on Kickstarter in 2012, raising over 2.2 Million dollars.  Bob Berry, CEO at Uber, will provide some insight into the process; what went right; and, what went wrong. His presentation will be followed by Q&A.

Don’t miss this intriguing and enlightening presentation, brought to you by IGDA Seattle and hosted by Bungie!  Following the presentation we have a few Kickstarter books to raffle thanks to our new executive director – speaking of her, see below….

Bob Berry is Founder and CEO of Uber Entertainment. Over the last two decades, Bob has been involved in nearly every aspect of game development including game design, engine programming, audio design, production, marketing, and business development. After three years in the doctoral program at Japan’s Gifu University, he decided to instead focus on his first game company. After shipping the critically acclaimed PC FPS Devastation, he moved to Seattle to join Gas Powered Games where he contributed as an engine programmer and producer on Supreme Commander and Demigod. In 2008 he started Uber Entertainment, makers of the hit XBLA game Monday Night Combat and its free to play sequel, Super MNC. Most recently Uber raised over $2 million via Kickstarter to fund their next game, Planetary Annihilation.

A Special Congratulations

To IGDA Seattle’s own Kate Edwards, she has stepped up from the Chapter Board to head up the organization as Executive Director!  Her leadership and skills will be an amazing boon to the organization, great work Kate!

Click here to see the new Executive Director’s blog!

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Tuesday - Building Mobile App Engine Backends for Android, iOS and the Web @ SURF

Wednesday – IGDA Seattle and Bungie present: Kickstarter Success – a post mortem for larger projects.

Thursday – the Seattle Unity User’s Group is hosting an look at Unity’s new Visual Studio    add on.

Then, to top off a full week, Global Game Jam starts Friday and wraps up Sunday evening!  Learn more here, and check out the two Locations here - Seattle and Tukwila!

It’s a great time to be a game dev, and Seattle is an awesome city.  If you have ideas for future events, suggestions for our Game Night, or want to network, check us out on Facebook here.

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It’s time to party & network folks, as in LAN party! Bring your laptops and join in the fun! We’re also hoping to get another epic Artemis session going (the Star Trek bridge simulator for LAN parties).   Setup begins at 5:30, games will kick off at sixish.

If you’re not into the whole digital thing, no worries! Bring your board games, card games, or whatever and have some fun!  Meet developers in the area, show off your favorite games and feel free to show off what your latest work on the projector.

What to bring:

• Got a game prototype you want to show off or test?  Bring it out!
• GAMES!  Board games, indy games, lan games, party games.
• Your laptop (if you’re going to LAN)
• Patch cables for the LAN party (if you have spares to loan, please bring them!)
• Power strips (if you can bring just one, that would be helpful!)
• BYOB & BYOF!

Join us at The Easy (at Techstars Seattle in South Lake Union), 511 Boren Ave N. Suite B, Seattle, Washington 98109   The Easy is sponsored by Microsoft BizSpark, Founders Co-op and StartupSeattle.  Parking is available on the street (free after six!) and a large lot southeast of the entrance (cheap evening paid parking).

See our Game Night Page for more information.

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The IGDA Seattle chapter was saddened to learn on Tuesday, December 4, of the passing of Christopher Erhardt, one of the founding members of our chapter. As a video game educator, Chris was instrumental in launching the careers of literally thousands of developers.

He was most recently the founding director of the US operations of the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Seattle and Lafayette (Louisiana). He will be sorely missed and our condolences go out to his wife Madeleine and their children Emilio, Estelle and Emma.

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Just a reminder for anyone who didn’t see the facebook event notification, this Tuesday we’re having our social meetup at the Ray Gun Lounge! Board games, beer, and indie socializing!

http://www.facebook.com/events/211582058976217/

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IGDA Seattle LAN Party & Game Night!

Friday, October 26, 2012 from 6:00pm to 11:00pm

It’s time to party & network folks, as in LAN party! Bring your laptops and join in the fun! We’re also hoping to get an Artemis session going (the Star Trek bridge simulator for LAN parties). If you’re not into the whole digital thing, no worries! Bring your board games, card games, or whatever and have some fun!  Meet developers in the area, show off your favorite games and feel free to show off what your latest work on the projector.

And since we’re so close to Halloween – costumes are encouraged! We’ll award lame (but edible!) prizes for the better ones!

What to bring:

• Got a game you want to show off?  Bring it out!
• Your laptop (if you’re going to LAN)
• Patch cables for the LAN party (if you have spares to loan, please bring them!)
• Power strips (if you can bring just one, that would be helpful!)
• BYOB & BYOF! Some non-alcoholic drinks and snacks will be provided, but feel free to bring beer and/or food
• Costume, if you’re inclined to that kind of thing

Join us at The Easy (at Techstars Seattle in South Lake Union), 511 Boren Ave N. Suite B, Seattle, Washington 98109 

Parking is available on the street (free after six) and a large lot southeast of the entrance (cheap evening paid parking). 

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Wednesday, October 24, 2012 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM

The State of Mobile Games, presented by Mobile Games Seattle, is the networking event in the Pacific Northwest to show you how to get your Apps discovered on mobile platforms. By offering high-level keynotes and discussions, as well as networking with other mobile and social game developers and game executives, State of Mobile Games enables & propels developers to take their apps to the next level.  State of Mobile Games is for anyone looking to or are currently involved in the hottest sector to hit gaming in years – Mobile Gaming.

There will be an open bar at this event, so please bring an I.D. as well as business cards.

Featured Speakers:

Gree – Tara Townsend, Senior Product Marketing Manager

App-O-Day / Iddiction – Billy Shipp, VP of Growth

Use discount seattleindie for 50% off!

Register here:  http://mgseattlestate.eventbrite.com/

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