2nd Meetup: Wellington Game Developers (& Related Folk)

[Creatorbot]

The first meet-up was great to have & it was lovely to meet everyone.

I thought I'd start a new thread for meeting #2.

Do we want a speaker & does anyone have a topic preference or particularly want to speak?

Can we use the Uni Venue suggested, etc...?

cheers all,

Pranee

[Nahum Wild]

room wise, I need to catch up with Kah to check it out.

not sure topic wise, was thinking one thing we could do would be to get everyone to do a 5min pres on what they have/are doing, show off they stuff etc..., not a sales pitch though mind you.  unless someone has a particular topic they wanted to discuss?

it would also be worth hit up local companies local game compaines to talk about things like their design process etc...

--nahum

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[Cameron Hart]

Perhaps Bar-Camp style where people can volunteer to show something or
talk about something, but put a time limit on it so there's time to
mingle after talks.

[Nahum Wild]

yeah, I guess that's what I was sort of meaning. then drinks afterwards of course :-)

--nahum

[Sergio Gonzalez]

A show and tell session would be good, the hardest thing for solo developers is getting people to look at the game and give feedback.

It would also be great to hear from someone who has released games talking about:
-Polishing your game, menus, user experience
-Setting up metrics, what data is valuable
-Getting it done, what 'finished' means
-Planning a project - menu structure, level transitions
-Choosing a project - size and scope

Nuts and bolts stuff like that.

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[Nahum Wild]

Just a quick update for everyone.

I'm having a quick eyeball of the space at Vic on monday, I expect it'll be great I just want to eyeball it :-)

In terms of topics/presentations we could merge Cameron and Sergio's ideas into a Bar Camp on the below topics with 5-10 minute slots:

-Polishing your game, menus, user experience
-Setting up metrics, what data is valuable
-Getting it done, what 'finished' means
-Planning a project - menu structure, level transitions
-Choosing a project - size and scope

What do people thing about that??

If we keep to the first Wednesday of the month that makes the next meeting on the 5th of September.


--nahum

[Nahum Wild]

Kah has just shown me around Vic and there are a couple of fantastic spaces for us to use. Given that and the closeness to many beer locations I'm going with that as our venue.

--nahum

[Nahum Wild]

Yep, sorry I'd ment to post an explicit email.

When: Next week on the 5th of Sept
Time: not 100% sure, when did we start last time? what works for people. how's 5:30?
Place: Victoria University of Wellington, via the Dunlop Terrace entrence: http://goo.gl/maps/h8lt0

What: um, hopefully people will turn up and want to talk about the things below, we have access to one of the lecture rooms (thanks Kah!) which includes projectors etc...

--nahum

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 3:08 PM, Alan Hucks <alan...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi All,

Have we settled on a date, time and venue for the next meet up?

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[Sergio Gonzalez]

Thanks for organizing, Nahum and Kah.

I'm happy to talk for 10 minutes about something, is the computer with the projector a mac or pc?

Cheers,

Sergio

[Alan Hucks]

Happy with 5.30pm for myself. Not sure about others?

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[Kah Chan]

Hi all,

If we can confirm a time, I can book the lecture theatre that I showed Nahum around. Looks like we even have a speaker?

Cheers

Kah

On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:14:39 UTC+12, Creatorbot wrote:

[Nahum Wild]

yeah, lets go for 5:30, means don't have to wait too long after work.

in terms of laptops, there are connectors for people to bring their own ay?

I'll talk about something too.


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[Kah Chan]

Hi Nahum,

Yep, there will be VGA connection to our projectors.

Cheers

Kah

On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:14:39 UTC+12, Creatorbot wrote:

[Creatorbot]

Hi,

Sorry I've been so quite & unresponsive this past month.  Unfortunately I will be unable to make it to this upcoming meeting but would like to request that future ones possibly start around 6:30pm if at all possible?  Have a great meeting & I'll keep an ear out for next month's happenings.

cheers all :)

On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:14:39 UTC+12, Creatorbot wrote:

[Nahum Wild]

Hey Kah, whats the best way to describe how to get to the lecture room that we're meeting in?

cheers,
nahum

[Cameron Hart]

I'm out of town for work today so not sure if I'll make it back in time tonight. Will try make it though.

On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:14:39 UTC+12, Creatorbot wrote:

[Nahum Wild]

Can we please have a quick head count to see how many of us are coming tonight.

cheers,
nahum

On Wednesday, 8 August 2012 01:14:39 UTC+12, Creatorbot wrote:

[Joel Pitt]

+1

(Do we have a confirmed room at Vic?)

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[Daniel Filner]

I haven’t announced myself but I’m one.

 

Daniel Filner

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[Nahum Wild]

as far as I'm aware we do have a confirmed room at Vic, I'm just waiting on Kah to say which one and how we get there.

if anyone gets stuck finding the place tonight my cell is:

021 677080

--nahum

[Fahmi Abdulhamid]

I'll be there.

A couple signs to mark the room may be helpful.

Fahmi

[Sergio Gonzalez]

I'll be there.

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[Will Vale]

I should be coming down too, not sure I'll make it bang on 5.30 though - I don't work in the CBD.

Will

[Sergio Gonzalez]

Just wondering what the status is, is there parking available and do we know what room we are in?
S

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[Nahum Wild]

Unfortunately I don't know what room as I've not heard back about that. Parking wise there is just normal street parking, and there is the parking building on Marion street.

I'll be out on the main enterence steps from 5:30 wearing my light/bright blue jacket.

Cell if lost or stuck is 021 677080

nahum.

[Nahum Wild]

ok, yes there is a room booked - LT2

I don't have time to make signs, but I'll be about or just ring me.

--nahum

[Sergio Gonzalez]

Great meeting, thanks for letting me talk for way too long about my game. :)

[Will Vale]

I enjoyed it too, sorry for coming in partway through your talk, and thanks to you and Nahum for standing up and doing that!

Cheers,

Will