History

We try and post all of our events here on on the website. But even before we had a website, we had events. Here is a list of events from the days before we had a website:

2011

• Feb 9th: Dead Space 2 – Sandra Voelker, Senior Technical Artist Visceral Games/EA
• Jan 27th: IGDA-TC Winter Social at the Chatterbox Pub in Highland Park

2010

• Dec 2nd: Minnesota Electronic Theater 2010
• Nov 23rd: Physics Sound Unleashed – Damian Kastbauer / Lost Chocolate Lab
  • Audio Implementation Greats #6: Physics Audio (Part 1)
  • Audio Implementation Greats #7: Physics Audio (Part 2)
  • Audio Implementation Greats #8: Procedural Audio Now
  • Member Project: Tantrix3D – Tori Kamal and Jesse Comb
• Oct 27th: Robot Rampage 2 postmortem – Tyler Burks and friends from Graveck
  • Member Project: Treasure Island app book – Richard Monson-Haefel and Joe Weber of FlyingWord, Inc
• Sep 22nd: AI and PaperDoll Fashion Reaction – Baylor Wetzel, of Shikigami Games
  • Member Project: Zogger! – Peter Eckert of Warp the Form
• Aug 4th: Solaro – Andy Korth and Scott Lembcke of Howling Moon Software
  • Member Project: Infiltration at Dusk – Zach Johnson
• Jun 23rd: Best of E3 roundtable and videos
• May 25th: Optimizing 3D Engine, Art and Animation for Android phones – Robert Green and Ryan Foss – Battery Powered Games
  • Member Project: Music, FX and Voice for Din’s Curse – Tori Kamal
• Apr 29th: Unity for iPhone, iPad and web – Matthew Gravelle and Tyler Burks – Graveck
  • Member Project: Intro to publisher finance – Peter Eckert – Brain Farm Entertainment
• Mar 18th: XNA: current and future – Chris Williams and Zach Wendt (IGDATC and Twin Cities XNA)
• Feb 10th: Digital Publishing on DSiWare and WiiWare – Ken Patterson – CEO, Big John Games
  • Post-mortem: Thorium Wars – Matt Heinzen – Development Lead, Big John Games
  • Member Project: Porting Mouse House to WiiWare, intro to Wii Dev – Chris Dillman – Owner, Plaid World Studios
• Jan 26th: IGDA TC Winter Social at The Chatterbox Pubin Highland Park.

2009

• Dec 3rd: Minnesota Electronic Theater 2009
• Nov 4th – Games for Android/gPhone by Robert Green, President Battery Powered Games, LLC
  • Member Project: Nate Pacyga, Studio Head Try Catch Games – Recent iPhone and Flash games

• Oct 6th – Educational Games – Mike Palmquist, Partner and Creative Director Portage Interactive
  • Member project: voice, audio and music projects – Tori Kamal

• Sept 3rd – GPU basics and state of the art from SIGGRAPH 2009 – Zach Wendt
  • Member project: 4k Dungeon Romp – Cory Petosky
  • Member project: Multiplayer Tower Defense – Nicholas Bilyk
• August – No meeting: SIGGRAPH 2009
• July – No meeting: Convergence 2009
• June 4th – E3 Highlights and MMO design roundtables
• May 7th – How to Develop Games the Monster Way – Richard Garcia, president of Monster Games
  • Member project: ActionChess for iPhone – Martin Grider
• April 8th – Dead Space – Creature creation, from Concept to Gameplay – Sandra Voelker Electronic Arts
  • Member project: GDC recap – various.
• March 5th – Indie game dev and Arcane-FX miduleware – Jeff Faust Faust Logic
  • Member project: Recent projects and intro to Unity – Matt Gravelle of Graveck
• Feb 5th – Making and Selling iPhone Games – Andy Korth, Scott Lembcke of Howling Moon Software and Chris Dillman of Plaid World Studios
  • Member Project: Crysis mod and into to Sandbox2 editor – Jesse Comb

2008

• Dec 11th – Holiday Party at PUNY
• Nov 6th: Agile Development for Games – Jesse Crafts-Finch – Johnson Simulation Center
  • Member Project: Mouse House for iPhone – Chris Dillman – Plaid World Studios
• Sept 2nd: Deconstructing Sandbox Games – Zach Wendt
  • Member Project: Interactive Fiction with Inform, Game Dev at Carleton – John Mawhorter
• Aug 7th: Member Project Night
  • Interactive Visualization – Ryan Foss – BAE Systems
  • ScribBall for Mac and iPhone – Andy Korth, Scott Lembcke – Howling Moon Software
  • Training and Educational games – Jesse Crafts-Finch, Brandon Schapekahm – Johnson Simulation Center
  • Mouse House for iPhone – Chris Dillman – Plaid World Studios
• May 1st: Indie and DS development – Ken Patterson, Matt Heinzen and Don Patterson – Big John Games
• April 3rd: IMGDC Recap – roundtable session.
• March 6th: Commercial Flash Games – Seth Walker and Alexis Mason – Ham in the Fridge
• February 7th: Camera-Controlled Motion Games – Yuichiro Tanabe, Cory Petosky, and Pete Border – Puny Entertainment
• January 3rd: Video and Traditional Board Games – Martin Grider Go-Tetris and Darrell Hardy

2007

• December 6th: Holiday Social at PUNY
• November 1st: Microsoft XNA Introduction and Hands-On – Zach Wendt

2006

• December 13th: Wii Demo Spotlighting ExciteTruck – Chad Jasper
• October 11th: Organizational Meeting – Gary
• August: No August Meeting
• June 14th: The Fun Factor, Machine Learning, and Gameplay Metrics – Ben Geisler
• April 12th: GDC 2006 Wrap & TikiWiki Introduction – GDC2006 Attendees
• February 8th: Education and Games Panel

2005

• December 14th: Digital Game Distribution – Wes Pederson
• October 12th: Tablet Development, and MN Game Jam 1 Games – Gary Dahl
• August 10th: Sound Effect Basics for Games – Damian Kastbauer  Summary – Slides
• June 15th: Flash Game Development – Andreas Heim
• April 13th: GDC and MN Game Jam 0 Wrap-Up – Group
• March 9th: Teaching Journalism with Never Winter Nights – Matt Taylor
• February 9th: Dynamic Simulation at Pixar Animation Studios – David Baraff

2004

• November 11th: Game Maker – Gary Dahl
• October 12th: The Video Game Revolution – PBS
• September 14th: Scrolling Game Development Kit – Benjamin Marty
• August 10th: Blender – Kent Mein, Joshua Seaver
• July 13th: Pen&Paper vs Computer Game Design – Christopher Weiss