Surrey Clubs' days Summer 09

Well I just came back from clubs' day at Surrey. It turns out not a lot of Surrey students go to school in the summer or not on Thursdays. Two IAT courses I'm taking are on Monday and Tuesday which are quite large so it would have been nice if clubs' day was then. Still it was not a bad day. At least 4 new members joined that were genuinely interested signed up. Two people joined that are not even students at SFU which is a first for us.

Student Speaker Series - The Life of a Game Developer

Ulric Wong gave a presentation titled "The Life of a Game Developer" which offers insight into entering the industry and what to expect. Slides and an audio recording are available on the Game Developer's Club website located here.

First Development Meeting

Wow, that was an awesome meeting! There were around 22 people that came to the meeting and most people were able to stay 3 hours. There were numerous project pitches which helped members practice pitching ideas and get feedback. One such pitch might turn into a club project.

Clubs' Day table

On Thursday January 15th we had a Clubs' Day table in the Academic Quadrangle to promote the club. We managed to attract a wide range of majors including business, psychology, and physics. There will also be a Clubs' Day table at SFU Surrey next week where you can sign up if you haven't already.

Eric's talk, another huge success

On Monday November 24th, I gave my talk titled Nintendo DS Homebrew and Programming. Since the pop was gone my guess was there were around 23 people at the talk. Only a couple with DS homebrew programming experience. At the end a few people said that they are now more interested in trying it themselves.

Jeff's talk, a huge success

Jeff's talk was a huge success. We had approximately 20 people attend. The first picture is Jeff demonstrating his XNA MIDI controller project. In the second picture you can see some of the audience, this was while he was setting up. We certainly need to do this again.

Blog introduction

Welcome to the SFU Game Developers Club blog. Here members are encouraged to share their personal projects and thoughts about game development. Anyone who is a member of the club can post on the blog as long as the posts meet the following conditions.

1. It is relavent to game development
2. Content does not contain profanity or links to copyrighted material.

The club executive reserves the right to remove any post not suitable for the blog, however this must be done by consensus and contacting the original author.