January Meeting Tonight!

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

Remember, the January OGDA meeting is tonight at 6PM at CAMP Coworking. Shane Ferris will be showing off some of his latest work. Others are certainly welcome to show what they have been working on. Also, we might watch some videos from recent Game Developers Conferences to then discuss as a group.

Please remember that CAMP is donation-supported. They are kind enough to host our meetings — even though the owners are out of town tonight! Please try to donate a little cash to them to help support the cause!

CAMP Coworking is in the NoDo (North of Dodge) neighborhood — specifically just a few blocks north of TD Ameritrade park and the Qwest Century Link Center. The actual address is 1111 N 13th Street in the Mastercraft building.


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GDC Roommate Lobby!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

GDC 2012Are you going to GDC? Want to make the lodging a little lot cheaper? Sign up to room with a fellow OGDA member! There is a thread in the forums where you can try to find someone to share a hotel room with.

Also remember to use the GDC travel page to get the conference rates at area hotels.

Omaha Game Devs represent!

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January Meeting this Saturday at CAMP

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

Sorry for the late notice, folks, but our regularly scheduled monthly meeting is this weekend. As we have been doing lately, we will be meeting at CAMP Co-working once again. We will be meeting from 6-whenever as usual. Dave Homan is out of town but he has assured us that CAMP will be open for our use. I will let you know if anything changes.

We are working on confirming a couple of project presentations. Otherwise, I have some recommendations on a couple of videos that we can watch and discuss. More on that in the next day or so. If you want to show off even a little bit of your latest project, please let me know ASAP so we can put you on the agenda!

CAMP Coworking is in the NoDo (North of Dodge) neighborhood — specifically just a few blocks north of TD Ameritrade park and the Qwest Century Link Center. The actual address is 1111 N 13th Street in the Mastercraft building.


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Reminder: December Meeting on Saturday

Posted on December 16, 2011 by

Remember, the December meeting is this Saturday the 17th at 6 PM. It will be at CAMP Coworking once again.

With people scattered for the holidays, it might be a smaller meeting than we have had recently, but there are a number of people who are confirmed as going. There is no organized program but please use the time to get caught up with each other!

Looking ahead, the January meeting will be on Saturday the 21st. I will announce a Skype guest for that meeting soon.

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Meeting December 17th again at CAMP

Posted on December 3, 2011 by

After having such a successful time at CAMP Co-working for our November meeting, we are once again going to be visiting it this month.

CAMP Coworking is in the NoDo (North of Dodge) neighborhood — specifically just a few blocks north of TD Ameritrade park and the Qwest Century Link Center. The actual address is 1111 N 13th Street in the Mastercraft building.


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Please note that 13th street does not really go through from the baseball field north. You end up in the Hampton Inn parking lot. While you can certainly manage to get out the other side of that lot, it is a little awkward. The best bet is to go around the hotels by a block or so.

I will not be there as I will be (hopefully) flying back from a speaking engagement in New York. A few of the other regulars are indisposed as well. At this time, there is no organized topic. I hope that those of you who do go take the time to get caught up on each other’s work.

Enjoy!

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BATTLE BEARS Royale is out now for iOS

Posted on November 30, 2011 by

Today after about a month of testing, load balancing and economy tweaking we here at SkyVu are proud to announce that Battle Bears Royale (BBR) has landed on the US iTunes store!

If you are somebody who enjoyes virtual joysticks, multiplayer and crazy we would love for you to give our game a try!

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GDC Travel Group Arrangements

Posted on November 29, 2011 by

GDC 2012Thinking about going to GDC? Interested in saving money? Not scared of sharing a room with your fellow Omaha game developers? Sign up on this thread in the forums so that you can make arrangements with someone. And yes, you need to think about booking now.

Even if you are planning on going it alone, check out the GDC travel page
for better rates.

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Post-mortem of Games++ project, Facepong (video)

Posted on November 23, 2011 by

This is the video post-mortem of the original version of Blockmonster created by  Ryan Versaw, Bryce Kahle and Andrew Dakin. It was created in under 12 hours at the Games++ game jam in November of 2011. The post-mortem was presented at the November meeting 2 weeks later.

Take a moment to play this version of Facepong.

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KillSmile Studios’ Post-mortem of Blockmonster (video)

Posted on November 22, 2011 by

This is the video post-mortem of the original version of Blockmonster created by Tyler White and Lucas Hartman. It was created in under 12 hours at the Games++ game jam in November of 2011. The post-mortem was presented at the November meeting 2 weeks later.

Blockmonster was created in Unity 3D.

You can play this version of Blockmonster here.

 

You can keep up with KillSmile on the web at http://killsmilestudios.tumblr.com/.

 

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KillSmile Studios on the Web

Posted on November 20, 2011 by

Just a quick note that KillSmile Studios is now on the web!

KillSmile is Lead 3D Artist & Programmer, Lucas Hartman and Lead Designer & Artist, Tyler White.

Lucas and Tyler were the creators of the Games++ entry, Blockmonster. They are currently working on a new, real version of the game that they plan on releasing under the Kill Smile banner.

Make sure you keep an eye on these guys and give them as much support as the OGDA can!

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