The sixth annual 48 hour game development contest is approaching quickly; the contest officially starts at 6pm on Friday, January 16th. To register or view details about the contest, go to 48 Hour Contest 6 for more information.

We will emphasize contest preparation at our regular Dev Session on Thursday, January 15th, the day before the contest. This will be a great time to make any final preparations and to familiarize yourself with any tools that you may use for the contest.

Congratulations to Maclain Weltzer, our new webmaster.

Maclain ran uncontested to replace our graduating webmaster Dan Demp.

Dave Swanson, Sr. Development Director
Ken Domke, Software Engineer, The Godfather II

3rd Floor Duderstadt Center
Windows Training Rooms 1 & 2
Thursday, October 16th 7:00pm
FREE GAMES RAFFLE!

We have officially started regular meetings for this semester; they will be held each Thursday night from 6-10pm in the Windows Training Rooms 1 & 2 on the third floor of the Duderstadt Center.

People will be spending much of the dev sessions working on their games, though we will also hold other events, such as speakers, tutorials, and video games tournaments.

Make sure to stop by to check out what games our members are working on this semester.

The votes are in and the winners are...

Warren Bame for President
Artun Kircali for Treasurer
Sirius Gu for Events Coordinator
Sean Sheehan for Gamesmaster
Dan Demp for Webmaster
Marc Morisseau for Art Director

Congratulations everyone! These new positions take effect immediately.

Articles written regarding the 48 Hour Game Development Contest are being published on gamecareerguide.com, linked from Gamasutra Education.

The articles can be found here:
A Word from the Coordinators
Part I
Part II
Part III
Part IV

Honoring Stephen Colbert is the theme, and the results are in. There are 14 games ready for download made by 14 teams, 41 participants. All should run in Windows if the proper redistributables have been run.

First, I want to thank the particpants. They all worked hard and most came out with great, if a bit incomplete, games. I hope that Stephen Colbert is honored by the games and the hard work that went into them. My only regret regarding the contest is that I wasn't able to make one myself. Perhaps I'll get to work on World of Colbertcraft soon ;-)

Second, I want to thank our sponsors: Activision, EA, Microsoft, THQ, and Ed Baraf, Pete Knepley, and Dave Ratti. Their donations help to make these contests possible.

Third, I want to thank our judges: Professor John Laird, Professor Brian Winn, and Professor Bruce Maxim. Some came a long way. All took a great deal of care in evaluating the games - a time consuming process.

Fourth, I want to thank my co-organizer, Paul. Our working together made the largest 48 Hour Contest yet the most manageable yet.

Last, but not least, I want to thank Stephen Colbert for being the inspiration for our theme this year.

So, get to playing the games. Have fun!

Flag Wars: Capture the Flags is the game Keenan, Wes, Jason and I worked on for our EECS 494 project. It came in 7th out of 13 entries. I hope you enjoy it. You will need to find someone else to play it with as it is a networked multiplayer game only at the moment.

Also, Supermassive Black Hole and Perilous Seas are two EECS 494 arcade games that were made this semester. Both are also worth checking out.

Play a great games and win door prizes!

7:30 PM until 9:00 PM this Friday, 1695 CSE, North Campus.

It has been one of my favorite events to partake in over the past few years, so I strongly recommend you come.

This week's dev session, we will be starting a tutorial series. It is definitely going to a tutorial on beginning game programming, so be there if that interests you. There are a few different options for what engine or library we will be teaching you, so if you want to have some input, be sure to come early. Whatever we decide on we will probably stick with for some time.