August 25, 2010
6:30 pmto9:30 pm

Come see the most innovative, inspiring and cutting-edge computer animations of 2010!  You are invited to join the Boston Maya User’s Group meeting on August 25 at 6:30pm.  We will be screening the SIGGRAPH 2010 Electronic Theater Animations premiered in Los Angeles just last month.

Meeting  Info:

Date: August 25, 2010

Time:     6:30 – 7:30: Meet and greet (with munchies)

7:30 – 9:30 SIGGRAPH 2010 Electronic Theater Animation Screening

Location: MIT Campus, Building 32 room 123 (Stata Center)

Address:  32 Vassar Street
MIT Campus Map: http://whereis.mit.edu (type 32-123 on campus map field to see the building location)

The event is free of charge, but please RSVP for the meeting on the bMUG website - http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Maya-Users-Group.

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August Post Mortem Meeting

by Darius Kazemi on August 3, 2010

in Event announcements, Post Mortem

August 10, 2010
7:00 pmto10:00 pm

The August meeting for the Boston Post Mortem will be on Tuesday, August 10th at 7pm, at the Skellig in Waltham. Our speaker will be Terrence Masson, who will be giving a SIGGRAPH roundup:

Terrence Masson, ACM SIGGRAPH 2010 Conference Chair and Director of Creative Industries at Northeastern University (Game Design & Interactive Media), will present a recap and overview of the 37th annual international Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques. Held just last week in Los Angeles for over 22,000 attendees, the conference included many game related content such as ”Live Real Time Demo’s”, Game Papers, talks and panels, and the hands-on “Sandbox” area. Terrence will be showing videos, behind the scenes pics and be open to Q&A to share all the insider info you want to know about the worlds biggest CG Conference!

Mark your calendars:

Logistics

Tuesday, August 10th
7pm @ The Skellig, Waltham
Directions

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Worldcon Panelist Seeking Contributions

July 29, 2010

We received the following request from a Boston Post Mortem community member seeking folks who might be able to contribute to one of two Worldcon panels.
I’m a voiceover artist with enough speculative fiction (Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, …) experience to be a panelist at the World Science Fiction Convention in Melbourne, Australia in September (AussieCon 4). [...]

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38 Studios is Moving to Rhode Island

July 27, 2010

The Boston Globe reports that 38 Studios is moving to Providence:

Former Red Sox pitcher Curt Schilling is moving his videogame company 38 Studios, based in Maynard, from Massachusetts to Rhode Island. The deal will bring Schilling’s company a $75 million loan guarantee backed by that state.
“I’ve invested a significant amount of my life’s earnings in [...]

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Change to Location for ZORK Playthrough

July 22, 2010

We’ve been informed that the ZORK playthrough we posted a few days ago has changed its room. It is still at MIT, but is now in Building 1 Room 135 (original post has been updated to reflect this as well).

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July Meeting Video Online!

July 19, 2010

Many thanks to Darren Torpey, who took video of the July meeting and posted it online. It’s about an hour long and is available in 6 parts, embedded below and on this Youtube playlist.

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The People’s Republic of Interactive Fiction Presents: ZORK

July 19, 2010

[ July 25, 2010; 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm. ] Come and play Zork where it all started. We will be venturing together into the dungeons of the Great Underground Empire.

Inspired by Adventure / Colossal Cave, Zork was one of the first text adventure games, developed by a team of students at MIT back in 1977 on a PDP-10. If  you’ve never played a text adventure game, this is [...]

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GAMBIT Open House Focus Testing

July 7, 2010

[ July 8, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. July 22, 2010; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ] The GAMBIT Summer Program has seven games in early development, each one seeking to answer a different research question. We invite everyone – young, old, game playing, game developing, or even never touched a video game before in your life – to play our games and give us the early feedback we need to complete [...]

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July Meeting – Indies Will Shoot You In The Knees

June 29, 2010

[ July 14, 2010; 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The July meeting of Boston Post Mortem will be held on Wednesday the 14th at 7pm at The Skellig in Waltham.  This month we’ll be doing a reprise of the PAX East Panel, “Indies Will Shoot You in the Knees”:

Everyone is talking about Indie games — titles like World of Goo, Braid, and AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — [...]

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NE Games SIG: Post-E3 2010 Mixer at Champions

June 25, 2010

[ June 29, 2010; 7:00 pm to 11:00 pm. ] Join the NE Games SIG for a casual year-end get together at Champions at the Marriott Copley in Back Bay on Tuesday, June 29th – 7pm. Champions is at 110 Huntington Ave.

Tuesday, June 29th

7:00pm – whenever!

Come down to chat about the latest in the industry, what happened at E3, what the autumn holds and to [...]

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