Utah Indie Games Night - November 15th at 7pm (U of U)

[Greg Squire]

Hey Indies,

Okay, its time once again to announce another Utah Indie Games Night. It will be held on Thursday November 15th at 7pm at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. Again a big thanks to the EAE department (http://eae.utah.edu/) for hosting this event.

The format will be like last time, an informal get together to chat, talk about the industry, see what others are doing, show off your current project and get feedback, etc.  

The event will be held in the EAE lab in the Film and Media Art Building (FMAB). This is the same building we were in last time the event was at the U.  Anytime after 6:00 pm you can park on campus for free (except for the pay lots, and there are some reserved parking spaces that are off limits until 10 pm).  You can park in the lot just west of the Marriott Library, and then walk east toward the tall sky scraper building just south of the library. There are stairs on the east side of that building (it's the Behavioral Sciences building), walk up those and the building (Film and Media Arts) is on the right at the top of the stairs. Here's a map that shows the building on campus: http://www.map.utah.edu/?&xmin=427655.3&ymin=4511962.3&xmax=429719.1&ymax=4513274.7&find=36&aerial=off 

We'll start off the evening with a presentation from Tom Beatty on doing 3D in Flash.  After the presentation we'll break out into smaller groups for some game demos. If you have a demo to show, please let me know before hand, so we can plan on it better. Also, if you have any other questions, suggestions, announcements, or something you think that would benefit the group, please let me know. This is going to be another outstanding and enjoyable night for everyone. I hope to see everyone there!

Sincerely,

Greg Squire
Utah Indie Games Coordinator
http://www.utahindiegames.org

[Greg Squire]

Hey Indies,

I'm just sending out a reminder to you all that our Utah Indie Games Night is this Thursday night, November 15th, at 7pm at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. The EAE (Entertainment Arts & Engineering http://eae.utah.edu/) department has been gracious enough to host it their building on campus, and we wish to give them a big thanks for that.

The format will be like last time, an informal get together to chat, talk about the industry, see what others are doing, show off your current project and get feedback, etc. 

The event will be held in the EAE lab in the Film and Media Art Building (FMAB). (This is is the same building we were in last time the event was at the U).  After 6:00 pm you can park on campus for free (except for the pay visitor lots, and there are some reserved parking spaces that are off limits until 10 pm).  You can park in the lot just west of the Marriott Library, and then walk east toward the tall sky scraper building just south of the library. There are stairs on the east side of that building (it's the Behavioral Sciences building), walk up those and the building (Film and Media Arts) is on the right at the top of the stairs. Here's a map that shows the building on campus: http://www.map.utah.edu/?&xmin=427655.3&ymin=4511962.3&xmax=429719.1&ymax=4513274.7&find=36&aerial=off

We'll start off the evening with a presentation from Tom Beatty on doing 3D in Flash.  After the presentation we'll break out into smaller groups for some game demos. If you have a demo to show, please let me know before hand, so we can plan on it better. Also, if you have any other questions, suggestions, announcements, or something you think that would benefit the group, please let me know. This is going to be another awesome and enjoyable night for everyone. I hope to see everyone there!

Sincerely,

Greg Squire
Utah Indie Games Coordinator
http://www.utahindiegames.org

P.S.  Another reminder that the Pushbutton Summit is happening in Sandy on November 29th.  I'll also be there helping with a "Game-In-A-Day Hands on Tutorial" (however it will be more like a game in a few hours sort of deal).  More info can be found at http://pushbuttonsummit.com/.

[Tom Beatty]

Thanks to everyone that attended tonight. I hope you learned a thing or two about Stage3D. If you want to see the YouTube demos I showed in higher resolution on your own machine, you can view them here: http://decheck.com/indie/

Here are some other links to things discussed tonight:

FlashDevelop 

http://www.flashdevelop.org/

Starling

http://gamua.com/

Alternativa3D

http://alternativaplatform.com/en/

Away3D

http://away3d.com

Flare3D

http://flare3d.com/

If you have any questions, feel free to post a message here, email me, or find me on Facebook. If you do send a friend request on FB, be sure to mention you are from the Indie Game Dev group so I know you are not some random stranger or renegade owl salesman.

Thanks,

Tom Beatty