[Event] Cape Town Community Night - 28th January
When: 18:30 until around 21:30, Wednesday 28th January
City Varsity new campus, 18 Roeland Street, Cape Town.
"The new City Varsity is the red building on Roeland Street a 100 meters down from Kimberly Hotel, on the opposite side of the road from the Perspectives apartment block. "
Take note, there will be no free, provided food at this venue!
If you have a demo you want played, bring a station on which people can play it, and set it up before the meetup begins!
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet and greet
- Rapid fire intros (10 min)
- Community News (5 min)
- Quickfire GGJ feedback/reflection (10 min)
- Clockwork Acorn's First year of making games ~20 mins
- Focused Feedback (10 min slots) x3
- Lauging Ginjah trailer
- MindTrip Feedback
- Open Demo Floor
This event happens monthly, is free to attend, and anyone may speak at the meetup - just comment beneath to let us know! This is for anyone and everyone interested in making games of any shape, size or type. Come join us!
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
Indicate your attendance on the Facebook event !
City Varsity new campus, 18 Roeland Street, Cape Town.
"The new City Varsity is the red building on Roeland Street a 100 meters down from Kimberly Hotel, on the opposite side of the road from the Perspectives apartment block. "
Take note, there will be no free, provided food at this venue!
If you have a demo you want played, bring a station on which people can play it, and set it up before the meetup begins!
Agenda:
- 6:30 - 7:00 - Meet and greet
- Rapid fire intros (10 min)
- Community News (5 min)
- Quickfire GGJ feedback/reflection (10 min)
- Clockwork Acorn's First year of making games ~20 mins
- Focused Feedback (10 min slots) x3
- Lauging Ginjah trailer
- MindTrip Feedback
- Open Demo Floor
This event happens monthly, is free to attend, and anyone may speak at the meetup - just comment beneath to let us know! This is for anyone and everyone interested in making games of any shape, size or type. Come join us!
Test games! Talk games! Make games!
Indicate your attendance on the Facebook event !
Comments
We may take notes.
Would people be interested in a talk about Clockwork Acorn, giving an overview of our experience over our first year, and trying to give some pointers for anyone going down a similar path? I think we've learnt a great deal and I'm happy to share.
Old dungeon crawly / rogue-like (game is 10 years old) launching on Steam with luck the week after this meet.
Initial launch will be the "current" (read 10 year old) version. Busy working on a modern update which will follow later this year as a DLC upgrade.
It's an old game, but I'll be happy to show anyone if there's interest, I might even have my arm twisted into handing out some early steam keys.
It's a winamp visulisation gone awesome and we need more ideas of how it would best be turned into a game.
HOWEVER, I would like to get a focus feedback slot for the project I've been working on at FreeLives, MindTrip. Right now it's a toy, a wonderful and pretty toy but with no gameplay. We have some ideas and we've tried and are trying things out but I would love to hear what people think and if anyone might have a cool idea for it.
Oh also... Oculus Rift enabled :>
For post meetup coolness, might some of you be interested in dropping in on the tail end of the Modern Alchemists meeting? It'd be a 10 min drive from City Varsity. There'd a neat collection of playtesters around, methinks.
Just a thought though :).
Info: http://www.eatout.co.za/venue/leftys/
At about 5:30ish
Also, really keen to have everyone set up their jam games afterward: I didn't get time to try anything else during the jam itself :(
Also, would you Cape Townians like to run a session reflecting on how the meetups run and suggestions for improvement? :) I feel this is something we should be doing at least once a year - it's something we'll do in Joburg next month.
now, how can we better cross-pollinate our learning between the two hub locales?
Invite is still open and we'll definitely be having dinner at Lefties for whomever would like to join us :)
Cu all at AMAZE!!!!
Also, I wanted to thank @francoisvn for his talk. It takes guts to stand up and present achievements that don't fit the mold of a classic success story, but that's also precisely why it's useful to hear, because the hard work that forms the foundation to great successes is often invisible, as no-one talks about it. So thank you. A really useful talk. And I'd also like to wish you good luck for 2015!
FYI: I plan to write up most/part of my talk as a short blog post, mostly for the Joburg people and others that weren't there. I just have to find some time to do that
PS: I'm glad I didn't get voted off like @damousey was joking ;P
https://nomagicjustmagic.wordpress.com/2015/02/02/mgsa-meetup-jan-2015/