But first…a Ludum Dare juiced competition update! Our first ever Ludum Dare competition had three fine entries: WPM Warrior, Building Keys, and Button Runner. We ended up having a 3-way TIE! So we decided instead that the final deciding vote will be decided by: the public! Yes, each contestant will get even more time to polish their entries for the Tucson Comic-Con. Players will get an opportunity to play then rate the game afterwards, and the highest rated game wins! The winner will receive cash prizes and one of these sweet trophies! Join us at the Tucson Comic-Con this weekend! Read More

How it Works If you’ve created a game for Ludum Dare over the LD weekend, you have one week to further polish your game. Then next Sunday October 13th we will host a competition. We will play the entries, present them, and vote on the best ones. The winner will win $100 and the runner-up gets $50. You have to have submitted the game to Ludum Dare 45. It is free to enter and anyone can join. You have to physically be at the Juiced event to win (not all team members must be there). The game must be playable. Read More

This Thursday our virtual speaker will be Dan Miller from Unity. Dan is an Augmented Reality specialist who is going to be presenting AR techniques in the Unity engine and how YOU can augment your game. The meeting is on Thursday October 3rd and will start at 7pm sharp! Our meeting will be taking place at Tucson Games & Gadgets at the Tucson Mall. The JC Penney entrance is the best location to park. Hope to see you then! We have a new policy: No Outside Food and Drink! Our hosts at TG&G are gracious enough to provide this space Read More

Last month’s meeting with Blake was chock full of cool stuff! He showed us some great tips on rigging and animating characters in Unity. By setting up bones in Maya and animating in Unity he showed how you can get some great results and preview the work in-game, instead of going back and forth between the engine and Maya. Next Monthly Meeting: Augmented Reality with Dan Miller! Next month’s virtual speaker is direct from Unity themselves! Dan Miller, who is a Virtual and Augmented Reality evangelist at Unity will be speaking to the group about AR in games. Come by Read More

It’s time again for another game jam event! This time we’ll get together to participate in the 45th Ludum Dare, which runs from October 4-7. This will be a solid 48 hours of video game making, and it’s always better with friends and free food! Of course, anyone who’s participated in a weekend game jam can attest: 48 hours is never really enough. That’s why we’re going to change things up a bit, and extend this LDJam with our own local competition! We’re going to add the rest of the week to our local submission deadline, giving you an additional Read More

Come join us for games and brews at the Dillinger Brewing Company (Google Maps link: https://tinyurl.com/yxbj2wh8). They’re open to about 9ish, so we can get two hour long games in. They have a great beer selection and allow outside food, so bring a meal to soak up those brews! Come join the #game-night Discord channel for more info. This is a casual gathering, focused on playing games rather than making them. Anyone and everyone is welcome to come out and play welcome! We’ll focus on board games, but if you want to come play some video games, feel free to! Read More

Last month’s meeting was fantastic! Andrew Seward presented his new Unity asset Player Prefs Anything, which allows for much better player prefs functionality than the out of the box version you get with Unity. Andrew is still looking for testers interested who will get a free copy of the asset! Drop in to our Discord and ask him! Brandon Lee and Brandon Yongbanthom gave a very educational presentation on photogrammetry coming from both the amateur and professional perspectives. Brandon Y used meshroom and Blender to convert some cell phone pics into a high-res model, and Brandon L used these high-poly Read More

Come join us for games and brews at the Dillinger Brewing Company (Google Maps link: https://tinyurl.com/yxbj2wh8). They’re open to about 9ish, so we can get two hour long games in. They have a great beer selection and allow outside food, so bring a meal to soak up those brews!Come join the #game-night Discord channel for more info. This is a casual gathering, focused on playing games rather than making them. All are welcome! Board games and video games both welcome!

Last meeting’s speaker Don Daglow was a blast! His experience is so broad, I think everyone in the room left with useful advice. We have a few short presentations this month, and I hope everyone gets something out of it this month as well. Making Game Assets with Photogrammetry Wouldn’t it be cool to be able to take things from the real world, scan them, and put them into your game? Enter photogrammetry! We’ll talk about some of the unique details of this process and by the end of the night you’ll know what photogrammetry, de-lighting, and retopologizing are! While Read More

We are quite excited to have our first speaker with an Emmy talk to our group, Don Daglow! He helped shape games as we know them by creating some of the very, very first games in the 70s. He developed the first graphical MMORPG Neverwinter Nights. And he’s written the highly rated book Indie Games: From Dream to Delivery. We highly recommend you attend, to get the opportunity to hear Don talk about his long and illustrious career. And if you have a burning question about how to get your game off the ground, feel free to ask that as well! Read More