Events

2024

02/28 - Apple Vision Pro, DIY HCI

2023

04/26 - Sensory Room
04/12 - Veridian Expanse Premortem
03/29 - GGJ and Quest Pro Updates
03/08 - Defining Success as a Hobbyist Game Designer
02/08 - Global Game Jam Postmortems 2023
01/25 - The Mad “Science” Behind Putting Your Project On App Lab
01/11 - From Midwest to Far East

2022

12/14 - IGDA Twin Cities Holiday Gathering @ Gamezenter
10/26 - MN VR and HCI Oct 2022: Quest Pro, XR Conference Highlights
10/12 - IGDATC October 2022 - Different faces of combat design
09/29 - MN VR and HCI Sep 2022: Magic Leap 2
09/14 - Creating Equality and Equity In Esports
08/10 - Games, Inclusion, and Empathy
07/27 - Tilt Five overview and Unity SDK
07/13 - Games, Inclusion, and Empathy
06/22 - ARKit 6, Quest Spatial Understanding, AWE
06/08 - The Agile Nature of Gaming
05/25 - Human Powered Virtual Airship
05/11 - UW-Stout Game Design & Development Capstone and Thesis Showcase
04/27 - Vive Flow, Focus 3, GDC, vMed in PuzzleFox Park
03/09 - Community Power
02/23 - Quantum Mirror VR
01/26 - PuzzleFox Park - Making a Custom VR Hangout Space
01/12 - Introduction to Game Hacking / Modding / Scripting

2021

12/08 - Holiday Game Party!
10/28 - FB Connect all day watch party
10/13 - The Practical Magic of Pixel Art
09/29 - Quest Arena Scale
09/08 - Opening Your Own Door to the Industry
08/25 - WWDC, Focus 3, Consumer AR
08/11 - Task Failed Successfully: How to Plan for What You Don’t Yet Know
07/14 - Representation is a Verb: Palestinian Aid Bundle postmortem
06/23 - Mozilla Hubs and Quest Hand Tracking
06/09 - “So, you made a game engine?”
05/26 - Creating a Custom VR Social Space
05/12 - Stout Senior Capstone Projects and Thesis Project
04/14 - The Game Jam Strategy Guide
03/24 - Microsoft Mesh / Ignite summary
03/10 - Making ‘Camp Illuminate’
02/10 - 2021 Global Game Jam Postmortem Special
02/04 - Twins XR - REM5 STUDIOS
01/27 - 3D Scans with iOS LiDAR, Global Game Jam
01/13 - Talking About Your Thing: An Introduction to Branding Games

2020

11/11 - Tips for Designing Games for Learning
10/28 - Big Orange Dance Machine
10/14 - Take a Quick Ride with Wallride
09/23 - Panel discussion - VR / AR developments
09/09 - Thrive Board Game & Steam Store Optimization
08/26 - Hubs, Arena Scale and Safety
08/12 - Sovranti & Inkjs
07/29 - Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Metaverses
07/08 - The Power of a Cube / Fractals
06/24 - Pico Neo 2 Eye
06/10 - Ease of Accessibility / Joy of Playtesting
05/27 - VR Interaction Framework / MR Dev Days
05/13 - UW Stout Senior Capstone Projects
04/29 - Journey to Cosmotic Blast
04/08 - Two Years of Widget Satchel: A Postmortem
03/25 - Oculus for Business
03/11 - GGJ 2020 Postmortems
02/26 - GGJ VR Postmortems
02/12 - We Need You to Take the Battery Out
01/31 - Global Game Jam - IGDATC @ Xirgo
01/22 - Watchmen AR, IAPPA, CES
01/08 - Games at the Museum, Parleying with Publishers

2019

12/16 - IGDATC and MN VR and HCI - Winter Social
11/13 - Board Member Election, Lightning Talks
10/23 - Sun Shard, Quest playspaces
10/09 - Seppy Yoon, Dev Jana, Jesse Gillespie
09/11 - Peter Yang, Scott Lembcke
08/21 - MN VR and HCI - Valve Index, Vive Focus Plus, SideQuest
08/14 - Tactics for Self-Motivation
07/10 - Kim Loken, Jajeev Nithiananda and Lane Davis
06/26 - MN VR and HC: Quest Qlub, ARKit 3, Eyeo
06/12 - Matt Ames, Dev Jana
05/29 - MN VR and HCI May 2019: Firezone, MR Dev Days
05/08 - Stout Senior Capstone Projects
04/24 - VR Demos
03/13 - Global Game Jam Review
02/27 - VR at TEDx, Ravenclaw Common Room
02/13 - Riddle Mia This
01/16 - IAAPA, Daydream 6-DoF, CES, GGJ
01/09 - Joggernauts Post-Mayhem

2018

11/14 - Verdant Skies Postmortem
10/24 - MN VR and HCI Oct 2018
10/10 - Joggernauts Launch Party
09/19 - MN VR and HCI Sept 2018: Hardlight Blade
09/12 - Working with Publishers: From Pitch to Signing
08/22 - MN VR and HCI Aug 2018: Hybrid Medical Animation
08/08 - Epic Trailhead Games: No Screens Required
07/25 - MN VR and HCI July 2018: A Virtual Evening with Team Zero
07/11 - IGDATC July 2018 - Go West, If You Have To
06/27 - MN VR and HCI June 2018: ARKit 2, Eyeo
06/13 - IGDATC June 2018 - Starting 11: Going to 11
05/23 - MN VR and HCI May 2018: Super Bowl VR post-mortems
05/09 - IGDATC May 2018 - Mansions of Madness 2nd Edition: Postmortem
04/24 - MN VR and HCI Apr 2018 - Designing Interactive VR for Events + Pixel Farm
04/11 - IGDATC April 2018 - UW-Stout Senior Games: Small Hours & Umbrella Mondays
03/28 - MN VR & HCI Mar 2018 - GGJ Postmortems
03/14 - IGDATC March 2018 - Taking an Indie Board Game to the 3rd dimension
02/14 - IGDATC Feb 2018 - Newt One: Postmortem
01/24 - MN VR and HCI Jan 2018: CES, Windows MR, Game Jams
01/10 - IGDATC Jan 2018 - Making Games with Bert and Ernie

2017

12/11 - Winter Party Instead of Presentations
11/29 - MN VR and HCI Nov 2017: Lux Sonos VR
11/08 - Game Dev Cheat Codes: A Gathering of Tips and Tricks
10/25 - Wellness VR and Hockey VR
10/11 - Zodiapp: Or Why I Never Want to Develop a Freemium Game Again
09/27 - ARKit, Vive Body Tracking
09/13 - How to Build a Holodeck
07/26 - VR on a Train
07/12 - ColecoVision Zaxxon Cartridge Development
06/14 - It’s A Lttle Weird, But We’ll Deal
06/12 - E3 2017 Keynotes and Hang Out
05/17 - Joint IGDATC and MN VR&HCI May 2017 - Adaptive Audio
04/26 - VR Driving at a Trade Show
04/12 - The Rift Between ZeniMa and Oculus
03/22 - VR Chat
03/08 - GDC Review
02/22 - GGJ Post-Mortems
02/08 - Global Game Jam Recap and Game Post-Mortems
01/18 - Unity AR/VR Bootcamp
01/11 - Game Development in Fly Over Land

2016

12/13 - IGDATC and MN VR and HCI Dec 2016 - Winter Social at Republic Bar
11/30 - MN VR and HCI Nov 2016: Mixed Reality Recording, UX in VR
11/09 - IGDATC Nov. 2016 - A Vast Treasure Trove
10/26 - MN VR and HCI Oct 2016: VR Conferences and PSVR Launch
10/12 - IGDATC Oct. 2016 - All Your Crates Are Belong To Us
09/28 - MN VR and HCI Aug 2016: Nvidia Flex and Flow for VR
09/23 - Startup Week #Doughvelopment
09/14 - IGDATC Sept 2016 - Working in the Games Industry
08/31 - MN VR and HCI Aug 2016: Social and Demos
08/10 - IGDATC Aug 2016 - Introducing Zones of Control
07/27 - MN VR and HCI Jul 2016: 360 Video
07/13 - IGDATC July 2016 - Introduction to Speedrunning
06/27 - MN VR and HCI June 2016: Member Project Night
06/13 - E3 2016 Keynotes and All Day Hang Out
06/08 - IGDATC June 2016 - Developing a Non-Violent 3D Platformer
05/25 - MN VR and HCI May 2016: Vive Interaction Design in Unity
05/11 - IGDATC May 2016 - Living as a Starving Indie
04/28 - MN VR and HCI Apr 2016: Jobbing in VR - Designing Room-scale VR
04/13 - IGDATC Apr. 2016 - Paths: A Druid’s Duel Post-mortem
03/23 - MN VR and HCI Mar 2016: Intro to UE4 and Vive Development
03/09 - IGDATC Mar. 2016 - UW-Stout’s Game Design and Development Program Capstone Game Projects
02/24 - MN VR and HCI Feb 2016: VR/HCI projects from GameCraft/GGJ
02/10 - IGDATC Feb. 2016 - Global Game Jam Recap and Game Post-mortems
01/27 - MN VR and HCI Jan 2016: Unity VR/AR Bootcamp and Tips
01/13 - IGDATC Jan. 2016 - The Journey of a Successful Video Game Media Convention

2015

2014

12/10 - IGDATC Dec 2014 - Winter Social / Holiday Hootenanny / Local Games
12/03 - Using zSpace for visualization at Boston Scientific
11/12 - IGDATC Nov 2014 - Martin Grider: Tabletop Game Design Tools and Tips
10/22 - MN VR and HCI Oct 2014: SmartThings (field trip)
10/08 - IGDATC Oct 2014 - Eric Mickols: Design through Playtesting
09/24 - MN VR and HCI Sept 2014: Oculus Connect and DK2 Features
09/10 - IGDATC Sept 2014 - Big John Games: Getting the most out of the 3DS and the eShop
08/26 - MN VR and HCI Aug 2014: Tour of VR Design Lab at UMN
08/13 - IGDATC Aug 2014 - Graveck: Publishing Experiments for Strata
07/23 - MN VR and HCI July 2014: FutureKave by VidTiger
07/09 - IGDATC July 2014 - Bringing Imagine Me to the world
06/25 - MN VR and HCI June 2014: Recap of Eyeo, E3, SVVR, and more
06/18 - IGDATC June 18, 2014 – Light Grey Art Lab & MathTap
05/28 - MN VR and HCI May 2014: Adventure Game Design for VR
05/14 - This Indie Life: Lessons From the Front
05/07 - Mixer and Multiplayer Extravaganza
05/03 - Day of Unity
04/23 - Stereo 3D Photography and Imaging
04/09 - An Introduction to Glitch
04/02 - Mixer and Multiplayer Extravaganza
03/28 - Acoustic Simulation with Impulsonic
03/12 - My Pants RPG: A Debrief
02/26 - MN VR and HC - Oculus Latency Tester
02/25 - Multiplayer Extravaganza!
02/12 - Global Game Jam 2014 Recap
01/24 - Global Game Jam 2014
01/08 - Jellyflop! Post-mortem

2013

12/18 - Holiday Hootenanny
11/13 - Game Audio, No Excuses
10/23 - MN VR and HC - Oculus Rift demos from VR Jam
10/09 - 3DS Development and some Leap Motion
09/25 - MN VR and HC - Teensy and Addressable LEDs
09/11 - Marmoset Skyshop
08/28 - MN VR and HC - Choosatron Interactive Fiction Machine
08/14 - Shooting Fish in a Barrel - Mobile App Postmortems
07/24 - MN VR and HC - Razer Hydra Dynamics
07/10 - Deeper Arts
06/26 - MN VR and HC - Oculus Rift Demos
06/13 - Oculus Rift and VR Overview
06/10 - E3 2013 Keynotes and All Day Social
05/08 - Free to Play Coulds and Shoulds
04/25 - BUMP-N’-JAM
04/10 - Graveck - Rapid-Fire Postmortems
03/13 - Games for Psychology for Games
03/04 - IGDATC Social and GGJ Play Party
02/20 - Global Game Jam 2013 Recap and Projects
01/16 - Sensus development and launch

2012

11/14 - HTML5 as a Gaming Platform
10/17 - Jump Dewds! Postmortem
09/12 - Bumpin’ Uglies / Pixel Kombat
08/08 - August Brown - Designing Great Achievements
07/11 - Justin Peck - Crowdfunding Your Game
06/13 - Ben Houge - Dynamic Music Solutions for Just About Anything
06/04 - E3 2012 Keynotes and All Day Social
05/09 - Darrel Cusey - Procedural Content Generation in Unity3D
04/11 - Big John Games - Coasters, Karts, and Bass
03/14 - 3D Virtual Tabletop and GDC Recap
02/29 - IGDATC Social and GGJ Play Party Deux
02/08 - Global Game Jam 2012 Recap and Play Party
01/27 - Global Game Jam
01/11 - Doug Thorpe - Game Center for iOS, Ty Burks - Global Game Jam 2012

2011

12/13 - Winter Social at Chatterbox Pub
11/09 - Aaron Bannin: Game Design for Free-to-play on Mobile
10/12 - Graveck: Recent Projects and Unite 11
09/14 - Member project night
08/10 - Andy Pickett - QONQR
07/13 - Jacqueline Urick - Game Startups in Minnesota: Resources to Share, Lessons Learned
06/08 - Zach Johnson - Ready to Play: JavaScript/HTML5 Game Development
05/11 - BAE Systems
04/13 - Damian Kastbauer
03/09 - Big John Games - WiiWare and DSiWare
02/09 - Dead Space 2