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Howdy fellow Baltimore IGDA members,

It has been awhile since you’ve received an e-mail for an upcoming Baltimore IGDA event.  Rest assured that you are still on this list, the chapter has just not held a meeting in the past year. I have talked with some of the existing, and prior, Baltimore board members about “rebooting” the chapter.   Today the gears are already in motion and we have a meeting to kick off the year. The meeting is open to all developers (AAA, indie, and students). No cost to attend. (But please purchase drinks and food, as well as be generous in tips to the GT staff.) I hope to see you there.

MEETING:
Thursday, February 2 at 7pm, The Green Turtle in Hunt Valley (Located in the back of Hunt Valley Mall at 118 Shawan Road, Hunt Valley, MD 21030)

RSVP HERE —-> http://www.facebook.com/events/316492588389356/ <—— RSVP HERE

Contact your board members for any questions:

Tronster
Twitter: @Tronster
Baltimore IGDA, Acting Chair
tronster+igda@cesmail.net

Gabriel Pendleton
Twitter:@GabeTHEGeek
Baltimore IGDA, Communications Manager
gabriel@baltimoregamer.com

Brett Doerle
Baltimore IGDA,  Community Manager

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Win $30,000 and a Trip to GDC: Pokki Game Developer Challenge

Rules

  • Entries must be submitted and approved for the Pokki store by February 20th, 2012 at 11:59pm (PST).
  • Entries must use open web technologies. This includes HTML5 and ascending technology such as Canvas, WebGL, Web Audio APIs, and WebSockets. Flash is not permitted.
  • Individuals or teams of up to five people.

For additional details please read the Official Rules.

Timing

The contest runs until February 20th, 2012 at 11:59pm (PST). Your game must be submitted before the deadline, and must also be approved for the Pokki store.

Many first time submissions to the Pokki store require small changes before they are approved. We highly recommend you submit your first version well before the deadline. You may continue to submit new versions up until the deadline – the last approved version is considered your final entry.

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Unity to Offer Grand Prize of $20,000 for Flash in a Flash Creation Contest

 

Unity Technologies – the people behind Unity, the popular game development toolkit – is having a contest to promote the integration of the Unity toolkit with Flash export and playback features. Basically, you can enter the contest by creating a game project that is built using the Unity 3.5 public beta and the developer preview of the Flash deployment add-on  (if the project adheres otherwise to the official rules). Meaning, you have to create the game using the Unity 3.5 version of the kit, but it has to be playable using Flash. For more information about the contest, click here: http://unity3d.com/unity/preview/contest Read More »

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And The Winner Is…..

BaltimoreGamer’s Winner of the “Share Us” contest is Meghan Ventura! Here is what she said after she found out.

Now that BaltimoreGamer will be sending you to your first Magfest, How do you feel?
So psyched. I love going to gaming events. (PAX East is probably one of my favorite weekends every year.) I’ve been told MAGFest is like the Woodstock of gaming events. I can’t wait!

What do you look forward to the most at Magfest 2012?
More like what don’t I look forward to? :) It’ll be great to have the chance to see Nobuo Uematsu or voice actors Ellen McLain and John Lowrie. MAGFest has some great guests lined up. I always like going to panels and meeting other gamers and devs from the area, too. (p.s. if you’re going to MAGFest, tweet at me!)

Who will you take with that second ticket?
My boyfriend Dan, who will be back from grad school in Hawaii for the weekend. Good timing!

How did you convince your friends to help you? Any special pitches?
Nope. My friends and family are just pure awesome. I know good people.

Was the BaltimoreGamer “Share Us” contest fun? Would you do it again?
Yeah, it was fun seeing who else was interested in MAGfest and who came through to enter me in the contest. For the right prize (*coughpaxeastticketscough*), I’d probably try this again.

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Local Game Developer Gives Away Free Game Design Book

I want to let you and your friends know that there are books, drawings and more available at WishTales Publishing. To help spread the word, I’m having another giveaway…

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Win Two Tickets to MagFest 2012 by Joining The “Share Us” Contest

Welcome, BaltimoreGamers, to December, the month of giving! It has been a long year of great indie games, events, cons, music shows, etc. So, to end the year with a bang, we will be giving away two tickets to Magfest 2012 featuring special guest Nobuo Uematsu, composer of the scores for the Final Fantasy series. To be honest we needed a cheap way to build our fan base on Twitter and Facebook.

There were three elements that had to be included in the contest: Allow for new and old members to participate, require users to work with their friends, and to have fun! After a long discussion and many nights of empty coffee mugs (we work hard around here) why not let our readers do this for us. See how much we care about our community! We introduce you to our first ever “Share Us” contest. That’s it! All you have to do is simple “Share Us” with a friend.

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Celebrity Indie Game Developer Eric Ruth Joins Fast Growing Pure Bang Games

Baltimore, Md. – Pure Bang Games, a leading developer of social games in the Mid-Atlantic region, announced today that celebrity indie game designer and developer, Eric Ruth, has joined the company. The veteran video game developer will accelerate Pure Bang Games’ plans to publish original game titles across Facebook, web, mobile and other popular social. Pure Bang Games expects to publish Eric’s next big game in early 2012.

Eric Ruth achieved celebrity status for single handedly creating the popular Pixel Force video game series, which have been downloaded by over one million people. Read More »

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Breakaway offers Day 1 Studios employees a Helping Hand in The Aftermath of Huge Layoffs

Recently reported on Gamespot.com, Day 1 Studios will lay off 95% of it’s Silent Scope development team. A source told GameSpot that the Chicago-based studio’s collapse came as a result of losing its publishing deal with Japanese publisher Konami. Day 1 had been at work on a new installment in Konami’s classic arcade shooter Silent Scope, a franchise that has not seen a new installment since 2002′s Silent Scope 3 for the PlayStation 2. Read More »

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Microsoft Accelerator Program to Offer Startups Money, Xbox Developer Kits!

Earlier this week, gamesindustry.biz, Microsoft, and even MIT’s Technology Review have been abuzz with the news of the Kinect Accelerator program: a program through which the 10 startup businesses that come out on top get funding for applications that creatively use Kinect’s features.

This is a good move on Microsoft’s part.  But notice I said startup business. According to Microsoft, all entries must have a commercial use (they point out various targetable industries, such as applications for manufacturing and healthcare). And have I mentioned that all winning businesses must also relocate to the Seattle area for the Spring of 2012? In fact, the availability of the founders to relocate is part of the application. And if the startup already has a business plan, that makes filling out the application quite easy – that just leaves the videos about the team and the business to produce. Read More »

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Gamer of the Month: Carl

November's Gamer of the Month

November’s Gamer of the Month is neither a Baltimore native nor a gamer from birth, but he epitomizes the true heart of Baltimore gamers everywhere. Carl grew up in New England but moved all around the country and has lived in most states. He recently moved to Baltimore from Indiana where he attended Ball State University and graduated with Bachelor degrees in Latin and Classical Culture, and with a minor in Telecommunications.  Read More »

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