Omaha Game Developers Association

March Meeting Date (Not on St. Patty’s Day!!)

Dave Mark — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 15:00:15 +0000

Our normal rule for meetings is “3rd Saturday of the month”. However, it was pointed out that March’s meeting would have fallen on St. Patrick’s Day… not the best timing, I would imagine. Therefore, the March OGDA meeting will be on the following week, March 24th. Same time and place… 6-10 PM at CAMP Coworking.

Stay tuned for announcements on the agenda… but as it stands now, we should be having a famous indie developer joining us via Skype! Should be groovy!

Remember to visit the OGDA forums!

Dave Mark — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 02:00:23 +0000

Don’t forget to swing by the OGDA message board to continue to interact with other OGDA members! If the forum asks you a question when registering, the answer is the 4-letter name of the place where we have been holding … Continue reading →

February Meeting a Smash!

Dave Mark — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:55:43 +0000

The February meeting last night was a huge success!

About 20 people were present to see KillSmile’s presentation of Blockmonster and to help playtest Twelve Studio’s Resonance. We were excited to see the early peek at Blockmonster and Tyler and Lucas got an ear full of suggestions! Additionally, it was difficult to determine who was more excited about the Resonance playtest — the people playing it or Vince himself!

There were quite a few new faces as well including the co-creators of a new Omaha game studio, Fully Croisened. It turns out they have moved into the Mastercraft building down the hall from CAMP! We are really looking forward to seeing what direction they are taking! More on them later…

Thanks again to CAMP for hosting the meeting! (And thanks to Megan Homan for giving up her VGA cable for a while!)

Keep an eye out for a special announcement regarding the March meeting! Should be nifty!

February Meeting: 1 Demo and 1 Playtest

Dave Mark — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:51:08 +0000

The February OGDA meeting is this Saturday at 6 at Camp Coworking. This month should be pretty special, too!

KillSmile Studios will be giving us the first look at their recent work on Blockmonster. If you recall, the original version of Blockmonster was created at the Games++ game jam in Lincoln. Suffice to say, things are a lot different than what they could do in 12 hours.

Also, Vince from XII Games is finally (I don’t think he will object to me using that word) nearing completion of his game, Resonance. More importantly for the rest of us, he would like to have OGDA members do some play testing at the meeting! This will be an exciting opportunity for us to see some near-finished work by one of our members. Additionally, it gives Vince some extra eyeballs on his game to help him polish up any rough areas. Please bring a Windows laptop if you have one available.

January Meeting Tonight!

Dave Mark — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:32:26 +0000

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!

Dave Mark — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:24:57 +0000

Are 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!

January Meeting this Saturday at CAMP

Dave Mark — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 20:38:59 +0000

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!

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Reminder: December Meeting on Saturday

Dave Mark — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 14:05:58 +0000

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.

Meeting December 17th again at CAMP

Dave Mark — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 22:55:50 +0000

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.

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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!

BATTLE BEARS Royale is out now for iOS

Michael SkyVu — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 21:42:24 +0000

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!