Quick reminder that we are having our August meeting this Saturday night, August 21st, 6PM at Scooters, 108th and ‘O’ St.
August Meeting
August 17th, 2010Reminder: July meeting this Saturday!
July 15th, 2010Just a quick reminder that we have our July meeting this Saturday, the 17th, from 6-9 at Scooter’s on 108th and O Street.
Full House in June + July Meeting
June 22nd, 2010Once again, the OGDA packed the Scooter’s on 108th and O street for a meeting. I didn’t bother counting, but we were up over 15 people again including a new member.
BlackTopp Studios did an excellent presentation on the game they are working on that inspired a lot of good questions and discussion.
The next meeting will be, as usual, on the 3rd Saturday of the month — putting it on July 17th.
We are expecting at least one or two more members, including (I hope) David Finlay. David has worked for Rockstar San Diego on various Midnight Club titles and the recently released Red Dead Redemption and had assets in Forza Motorsport 3 and Blur. We are hoping David will be a great inspiration and mentor to the many student artists and modelers we have in the OGDA. We are quite sure that his skills will be a valuable addition to the OGDA as a whole!
Few FPS demos
June 19th, 2010Here are a few demos I created just recently. They demo ragdoll and vehicle physics, water and sky simulation, simple inventory system, and the more common things you would see in a basic FPS. As soon as I get some sound effects I’ll created another demo using 3D sound and background sound.
Here’s the ragdoll demo:
Here’s the 6 wheeled vehicle demo:
Paged terrain:
Sky and water demo 1:
Sky and water demo 2: This is at night
Thanks,
Shane.
Email list and your websites
May 23rd, 2010For those of you who are interested in getting notifications of the meetings by email, I have an informal mailing list. Send me an email with your contact information and I will add you to it.
To avoid the spam bots, you can find my email address on the contact page of my company site.
Also, if you have a company, project, personal, or portfolio web site that you would like linked from the right side of this page, send me the link to it. Our whole point around here is to promote our own!
20 people at the May meeting!
May 20th, 2010Wow! The OGDA is really gaining some momentum. The May meeting saw us have about 20 people attend – many of them for their first time. Again, we went from 6PM until they kicked us out at 9. If this keeps up, we may have to find a venue that lets us stay later!
A new venture was formed earlier in the month. The OGDA has apparently birthed BlackTopp Studios. Then at last week’s meeting, they were even discussing adding OGDA charter member, Shane Farris. This is what the OGDA is all about!
Keeping with our new schedule of meeting on the 3rd Saturday of the month, we will be getting together on June 19th. (Unfortunately, for me, that’s about 20 hours after I get home from a grueling week prowling E3.) As it stands now, there should be a few new faces at the June meeting — eager students from Bobby Steele’s classes at ITT Tech.
If you would like to join us, feel free to stop by. We meet at the Scooter’s coffee shop at 108th and ‘O’ St. in Omaha. See you there!
May Meeting on the 15th
May 13th, 2010This kinda snuck up on some of us because the first of the month was on a Saturday. However, remember that our meetings happen on the 3rd Saturday of the month. That means this weekend, May 15th.
We will be at Scooter’s again, 108th and O. For those that haven’t been there, the Scooter’s coffee shop shares a building with a U-Save pharmacy. Sometimes it’s hard to notice unless you are looking for it.
We don’t specifically have a plan for this meeting. Suggestions are welcome.
April Meeting Reminder
April 10th, 2010Remember that our April OGDA meeting will be next Saturday, April 17th, at 6PM. We should have a number of new people there from ITT tech game development program and possibly from the UNO game programming classes as well.
The plan is to watch video of a couple of the main sessions from GDC 2010.
Hope to see you there!
Next Meeting – April 17th
March 25th, 2010Our next OGDA meeting will be April 17th at 6PM. Come join us at Scooters, 108th and O street.
March Meeting this Saturday
March 16th, 2010Remember that the March OGDA meeting is this Saturday, the 20th, 6PM, at Scooters, 108th and O street in Omaha.
With many of us returning from the recent Game Developers Conference, there should be plenty of enthusiasm and ideas floating around!