Category: Info

Tucson IGD Casual Meetup

Coming up on Friday is our first ever casual meetup. Unlike our meetings which generally have a presentation and then a bit of socializing, this is 100% chit-chat. Got some burning questions you want...

Upcoming meeting: SpriteKit and Swift

Come join us tomorrow night! Randall Montgomery will be presenting Swift and SpriteKit. Swift is Apple’s new programming language which is their replacement for Objective-C. SpriteKit is Apple’s sprite-based rendering system, which is more...

February 2016 Meeting

We had our February meeting and a solid presentation on Game AI from Thomas Palmer. For those who didn’t get a chance to go here are his slides: Check out the slides from the...

Next Meetup: Game AI with Thomas Palmer

Wow February has just flown by! Our February meeting will be happening next week on February 23rd. Please let us know if you have anything going on, any mini-announcements and we will let everyone know!...

Global Game Jam 2016 Postmortem

Tucson’s first Global Game Jam is now in the books! We’d like to thank everyone who showed up. It was a phenomenal time, and we had a great group with all skill levels. We had 4 groups...

1 Week Out: Jam Prep

We are in full gear getting ready to make this a great Global Game Jam. Here is some additional information for attendees. And registration is still open for last-minute registration! Jam Kick-Off Friday night at 5:00pm is...

"Ship More Games"

This is a great presentation from Dave Taylor, who has worked for iD, Transmeta, and many other fun companies. Dave talks about how the game industry is horribly cruel to people who don’t ship games,...

Game Jam Update!

As we get closer to Game Jam the registrations keep on trickling in! There is limited space so please register if you plan on attending! Additionally, you might have heard of this thing called an...

December 2015 Meeting Wrap-up

It was the last meeting of 2015 for us, and we had a great turnout! Thanks to everyone for showing up. We talked about some upcoming events, the upcoming game jam, and how to...