{"id":443,"date":"2006-07-27T10:13:22","date_gmt":"2006-07-27T02:13:22","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-25T11:55:01","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T03:55:01","slug":"igda_perth_inaugural_meeting_wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/2006\/07\/27\/igda_perth_inaugural_meeting_wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"IGDA Perth inaugural meeting wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago, Tone and I attended the inaugural meeting of the IGDA<\/a> (International Game Developers’ Association) Perth Chapter. It was a combined meeting with PIGMI<\/a> (Perth Independent Game Makers’ Initiative), and I wonder how long the two entities will remain separate.<\/p>\n

Perth IGDA is listed as a “StartUp” group on the IGDA Chapters page<\/a>, and the (very new) Perth Chapter page<\/a> consists mostly of a list of people and a link to a Google Groups newsgroup which you can join here<\/a>. Anyone in Perth interested in making games should sign up to keep on top of “what’s going on”.<\/p>\n

The meeting had a good turnout (around 40 people) and a fairly relaxed atmosphere. The GO3 Electronic Entertainment Expo 2007<\/a> (being held in Perth!) sponsored and helped organise the event and ISG<\/a> (Information Security Group) were also sponsors and provided an LCD monitor as a raffle prize. A number of restaurants also provided door prizes (gift certificates).<\/p>\n

Meeting Rundown<\/strong><\/p>\n

The meeting was at the Velvet Lounge near the Flying Scotsman in Mt. Lawley. Upon entering the venue, Tone and I were greeted by David Kazim (GO3 organiser) and directed to a table to pick up our name tags. Arranging the name tags were the GO3 Girls, two models wearing GO3 t-shirts tied up as crop tops. Tone had not RSVP’d so he didn’t get a name tag, but it didn’t seem to matter.<\/p>\n

After a half hour or so of mingling, Chris McCormick from Hypercube<\/a> started formal proceedings by introducing IGDA and PIGMI, thanking the sponsors, and passing the microphone to Paul Turbett from Benevolent Interactive<\/a>. After briefly introducing himself, Paul talked about his experience at this year’s E3<\/a> (Electronic Entertainment Expo) and offered serious warnings about staying at a certain hotel in downtown L.A. (I can’t remember the name… I hope that doesn’t mean I’m doomed to repeat his mistake).<\/p>\n

After question time, the rest of the evening was a “mixer” session dispersed by frequent door prize draws (none of which I won), and leading to a final raffle draw (which I also didn’t win), after which everyone slowly made their way home. My lack of winning had no real effect on my enjoyment of the evening.<\/p>\n

Final Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n

It seemed that a lot of attendees weren’t buying (alcoholic) drinks, and hope that we bought enough to make the Velvet Lounge consider having us back. I know that Chris was doing his part! \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n

Will from walan<\/a> was drinking Red Bull… I found that very slightly amusing. I guess there was no Jolt or (caffeinated) Mountain Dew. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

I wonder if future events will also feature the GO3 Girls, and I’m concerned this might deter our female game developers<\/em> from attending.<\/p>\n

Update: The official meeting report<\/a> is now online.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of days ago, Tone and I attended the inaugural meeting of the IGDA (International Game Developers’ Association) Perth Chapter. It was a combined meeting with PIGMI (Perth Independent Game Makers’ Initiative), and I wonder how long the two entities will remain separate. Perth IGDA is listed as a “StartUp” group on the IGDA … Continue reading “IGDA Perth inaugural meeting wrapup”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paLsRH-79","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3815,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/3815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nick.onetwenty.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}