Student Game Developers at the University of Virginia

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StudentGame Developersat the University of
Virginia

• Third Meeting
• February 6, 2007

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Saturdays Social Event

• Thanks to everyone who came!
• Post or the forums or talk to Jason if you have
  any ideas for other events we can arrange
• If the event requires money, well see what we
  can do

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2007 Game Developers Conference

• Over Spring Break, March 5-9
• You dont have to stay the whole conference
• We can get funding for up to 4 people to help
  with airfare, room, tickets

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Electronic Arts Talk

• Next Tuesday, 600pm, Wilson 301
• Colleen McCreary from EA will be speaking about
  opportunities in the games industry (Interships!)
• Will be giving away free games

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Member Project Presentation 2

• Yoshi Nagasaki and Ben Morrison
• Probably use Multimedia Fusion
• We need an artist, and maybe a writer
• Dark artistic theme
• Clever and interesting plot development
• Talk to Yoshi if youre
• interested in joining us

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The Torque 3D Game Engine

• We have 10 licenses to hand out
• Ill talk more about how to go from idea to
  development in a moment
• Scott and Chris will do a demo

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Hands On with Torque Dues

• Feel free to play around with the Torque Engine
  come on up!
• If you still need to pay dues, go talk to Scott
  now
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• 6 if you get a friend to join
• Write the name of your friend on the sheet
• If someone brought you, write their name
• Reminder Members must create an account on the
  forums and introduce themselves (We check this)
• Well come back together in a few minutes

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What can you come up with?
Steps from idea to completed game software, and
SGD can help

• Get an idea!
• Post the idea on the forums
• Find friends and assemble a team
• Email Ben or Scott to present your game at a
  meeting
• Can also be used to help find more people
• But even if you dont need more people, wed like
  you to present to encourage and inspire us!
• An Officer will work with you to develop a
  Project Outline
• Requests for licensing Torque or Multimedia
  Fusion engines
• Roles of developers on this game
• Milestones

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The 2007 SGD Umbrella Project

• This years theme Survive UVA
• Should be a good viral theme for publicity
• Easy to come up with ideas
• Simple to break up levels (E-school, Comm school,
  etc.)
• If you are interested in working on the Umbrella
  Project this semester, talk to Scott immediately
  after this slide
• Probably a little more than 1 hour / week
  commitment
• Most of the development will happen at the
  meetings

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Break!

• Find Lawton and Ben if youre on the Rhubarb team
  to do a Project Outline
• Find Scott if youre interested in working on the
  Spring 2007 Umbrella Project
• Talk to your friends if you want to come up with
  your own project!
• If you come up with something, post on the forums!