PAGDIG: Portland Area Game Developer Interest Group

On Wednesday February 24th, from 6 to 9pm, PAGDIG is proud to host the Global Game Jam Post Mortem. Join the five local teams that participated in this world-wide event as they discuss what went wrong, what went right, and what they learned during their 48-hour game-development marathon. After the post mortems, a panel of experienced game developers will host a Q&A about managing creative teams.

This event will be held at The Art Institute of Portland (1122 NW Davis St) on the 2nd floor in the Open Space. From the front door, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and there should be signs pointing the way.

Please note the special Wednesdayness of this meeting, and that it starts at 6pm this time ;D.

See you all there!

Hello all PAGDIG people. I hope you all had a great holiday season.

This month’s PAGDIG meeting will be held at the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on Thursday 1/21 at 7pm.

We have a couple topics that have come up on the mailing list that we can discuss on the agenda:
Getting awareness of the game industry going for the Portland Economic Development Plan
Global Game Jam

Also, we’ll have the usual talk about all things game dev related. Come grab some pizza and drinks with us!

See you all there

Hello everyone. We are excited to announce the next PAGDIG Presentation, which will be held Tuesday 12/1 at 7pm at the Art Institute of Portland.

Stumptown Game Machine’s Andrew Stern and other team members will give a post-mortem on their hit iPhone game Touch Pets Dogs, with Q&A to follow.

The school’s address is 1122 NW Davis St. in the Pearl District, kitty-corner from the new Deschutes Brewery.

The meeting will be held on the 2nd floor in the Open Space. From the front door, take the elevator to the 2nd floor and there should be signs pointing the way.

Hope everyone has a great Holiday weekend, and we’ll see you all there!
Dmitri

Hello everyone!

This month’s PAGDIG meeting will be held at the west side Lucky Lab at
1945 NW Quimby St. on Thursday 10/29 at 7pm.

We have some member game releases to celebrate! Exciting times

See you all there!

Hello everyone! Hope you’ve had a good end of summer so far.

This month’s PAGDIG meeting will be held at the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on Thursday 9/24 at 7pm.

Stop on by for pizza, drinks, and lots of game dev talk. PAX will probably be a prominent subject.

Hope to see you all there!

PS, PAGDIG has a twitter account now…. @pagdig natch, for what it’s worth.

Dmitri

Hi everyone! Hope your August is going well.

This month’s PAGDIG meeting will be held at the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on Thursday 8/27 at 7pm. Stop by and chat with like minded developers, students and enthusiasts.

Hope to see you all there!

Hello PAGDIGers. This month we’ll be starting to structure our meetings a little differently. Every other month, starting this month, we will hold presentations on various subjects of interest to the local game community, or at least until we run out of presentations to present ;D. The Art Institute of Portland has graciously offered a conference room for us to use for these presentations. Thank you, AI! Next month will be back to pizza and beer, etc.

The meeting will be on Thu., 5/28 at 7pm
The school’s address is 1122 NW Davis St. in the Pearl District, kitty-corner from the new Deschutes Brewery.

The month’s presenter will be Corvus Elrod on Networking, a subject that is useful to us all. A short blurb :
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Networking can be very intimidating whether you’re trying to break into an industry, or expand your connections within your field. It’s easy to find concrete tips on how to network but how, and when, do you start preparing to do it?

Corvus Elrod, semionaut and narrative design consultant with Zakelro! A Story Studio, will share proven techniques for ensuring you’re ready to be an important part of your professional community. By breaking the process down into three easy steps–Story, Play, and Community–Corvus shows how to take charge of your networking experience and that it’s not “Who You Know” that’s important, but “Who Knows You.”
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The meeting will be held on the 2nd floor in the Open Space. From the front door, take the elevator to the 2nd floor. There will be signage leading to the space.
There will be pizza provided!

Hope to see you all there!

Hello peoples! The next PAGDIG Meeting will be at the same location
as last time, the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on 4/16 at
7pm.

I’m sure there will be a lot of post-GDC discussion from those of us
who attended, and the usual drinks and pizza too.

See everyone there!

Hello everybody! The next PAGDIG Meeting will be at the same location as last time, the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on 3/12 at 7pm

The location worked out really well last time, with plenty of room and lots of discussion.

Stop on by

Hi everyone. Hope you all had a good holiday season and new year.

The next PAGDIG Meeting will be tried out at another new location, the west side Lucky Lab at 1945 NW Quimby St. on 1/22 at 7pm

One topic of conversation will be the OMSI Teen Game Tournament and Game Careers Fair. OMSI would like to showcase local developers at the fair to talk to kids about the different roles and jobs there are in the industry. It’d be cool to gauge the level of interest in that from some of our members, especially if we could get a good cross section from all the different disciplines (programming,art,design,sound,writing,etc..).

The other topic will be grabbing food and drinks and hanging out

Hope to see you all there!