Events and Meetings

Past Events

Come watch us or participate in the 24 Hour Charity Stream hosted by the SJSU Game Dev Club! All proceeds will go to the Children's Miracle Network/Hospitals. We have chosen our local hospital - Oakland Children's Hospital as the recipient. To Watch Us: twitch.tv/sjsugamedev To Donate To Our...

Oct 2: Meet Garret Cooper - The creater of BLACK ICE

Play it on Steam, come ask questions and learn about the process of getting your game greenlite. Attendees will automatically be entered into a raffle to win 1 of 3 BLACK ICE Steam game codes :)

Jan 24 to Jan 26

: Global Game Jam

The SJSU Learning and Games Consortium(LGC) is hosting the Global Game Jam (GGJ) on campus January 24-26, 2014. GGJ is open to all. Students from all majors are encouraged to sign up at http://globalgamejam.org and to join our jam site (under construction) http://globalgamejam.org/2014/jam-...

Dec 5: End of the Fighting Games Challenge

Be ready to show of your finished fighting games! Also, there will be a fighting game tournament.

Nov 14: Game Demo's and GameMaker Tutorial

Be ready to demo your fighting games at the meeting! Also, there will be a game maker tutorial as well.

Nov 7: FTL Music by Ben Prunty

Ben Prunty, the musician of the indie game Faster Than Light, will be coming in to talk! For some samples of FTL's soundtrack, please check out this link: http://benprunty.bandcamp.com/album/ftl...

Oct 31: Halloween Social

Entry Fee: Current Members - $3.00 Non-members & Guests - $4.00

Oct 19 to Oct 20

: Global Impact Game Jam

Anyone interested in being part of a Game Jam next week? It shall be hosted by College of Business and University Housing Services on Saturday, October 19th at 12:00PM to Sunday, October 20th at 12:00PM at the CVB RAC. You must be an SJSU student to participate! Highly recommended for students in...

Oct 17: Game Night

Come socialize and play games!

Oct 11 to Oct 12

: SJSU x NeuroSky Hackathon

The SJSU x NeuroSky Hackathon is a unique opportunity for San Jose State University students across the arts, humanities and the sciences to engage with cutting edge technology – a mobile EEG brainwave sensor – in a competitive hackathon. The Learning and Games Consortium (LGC), in collaboration...

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Apr 18: Maya Tutorial

Jimi Youm, an Animation/Illustration major specializing in 3-D modeling, will be coming in to our club to give a tutorial on Maya. You can download the student version of Maya for free here: http://students.autodesk.com/

Mar 14: Blender Tutorial

Gavin, our awesome VP, will be teaching the club Blender. Download the program here: http://www.blender.org/

Sep 13: Game Maker Tutorial

Our very own webmistress, Kelsey, will be teaching us how to use Game Maker!

Apr 19: Icebreaker Ninja Night!

We will play Ninja for this Game Night!

Photos and the absolutely perfect video by Kevin Hietala!

Mar 9: GDC

Carpool up and learn about video game development! Also, hopefully submit resumes!

Apr 21: Open interview with Jonathan Blow, author of Braid

Jonathan Blow, the designer of Braid, is coming to the Game Development Club on April 21st! We're going to have a discussion with him, so be sure to play Braid if you haven't (it's on steam here) and think of some scintillating questions to ask. You can check out the development blog of his current...

Award winning game designer, Craft...

May 11: Brian Urbanek of Cryptic Studios on Matching Theme and Mechanics in Game Design

We will have a guest speaker, Brian Urbanek from Cryptic Studios, talking about game design, probably. We must have a contact at Cryptic or something, this is the second time we've had someone from there to present. Brian has been working on MMO design for over ten years! He most recently worked...

Thanks to Brian Urbanek (of Cryptic Studios (of Champions Online)) for giving us an idea of the things he thinks about while he's designing! It was super fascinating and super informative.

Mar 16: Anna Anthropy of the Internet on the Design of REDDER

Anna Anthropy will be presenting at our next meeting on Tuesday, March 16! You should come, even if you're not a part of the club. (Even if you're not a student here! (Even if you're from the Internet.)) I don't know what she'll be talking about, so I'll tell you a few miscellaneous things about...

Thanks to Anna Anthropy for presenting about the design of one room (and then of other things) in REDDER! There were like 50 attendees and we were all at the edge™ of our seats.

Feb 16: Albert Chen of Cogswell on Design Documents

We've asked Albert Chen (we've seen him before) to give a presentation on design documents! A design doc is basically a big document that describes a game in detail before it's been made; in big companies, it's given to all the departments and they try to make a game matching it as accurately as...

Thanks, Albert Chen, Assistant Professor of Game Design and Development at Cogswell, alumnus of LucasArts, Factor5, EA, and 3DO, and generally awesome guy, for presenting at our club for a third time! (He talked about design docs, you guys! So great!)

Oct 20: Jude Gomila of HeyZap on How to Make Your Game Go Viral

HeyZap will be coming. They monetize Flash games and such. They will present info on their company and their monetization tools. The tech title is "How to make your game go viral and make enormous amounts of money from it."

Many thanks to Jude Gomila of HeyZap for speaking at our last meeting! It was great to learn how social networks can be used to promote games, and hear a success story from a start-up co-founder.

Sep 10: Albert Chen of Cogswell on Getting into the Video Game Industry, Episode II

Albert Chen will speak.

Thanks to Albert Chen for his presentation, "Getting into the Video Game Industry: Episode II - Unemployment Strikes Back." You can view his presentation here.

Oct 28: Shannon Posniewski of Cryptic Studios on Programming in the Game Industry

Shannon Posniewski is the director of game programming at Cryptic Studios. At this meeting he is going to speak about the game development process,and his work in the MMORPG realm. Shannon has worked on City of Heroes, City of Villians and is currently working on Cryptic's upcoming titles! This...

Thanks to Shannon Posniewski of Cryptic Studios for coming to share his presentation!

Sep 30: Jameson Hsu and Alexander Shen of Mochi Media on Flash Monetization and Distribution, and Entering the Game Industry

Mochi Media is dropping by! Pong Competition Presentations are gonna rock! Free FOOD!!!

Thanks to Mochi Media for coming! Jameson Hsu talked about monetization and distribution of Flash games, and Alexander Shen talked about different paths into the game industry.

Sep 2: Albert Chen of Cogswell on Entering the Video Game Industry

Special guest speaker: Albert Chen, over 12 years of video game industry experience with credits in nearly 2 dozen PC and console games. He has worked at EA, Factor 5, The 3DO Company, and LucasArts. Is currently the Professor of Game Design and Development and head of the Game Development...

Thanks to Albert Chen for coming!

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