In addition to seeing the latest and greatest in Chicago indie game development, we’ll also get updates on the progress of the Indie City arcade cabinet and discuss other indie business.

As usual, the meeting will be taking place at 243 S. Wabash Ave Room 924. It will be from 1 – 4 PM, Saturday November 12th, 2011. Needless to say, if you want to show off your latest work, bring a laptop with a copy of the game on it. We’ll see you there!

–Craig

In just two short weeks, Indie City Games is throwing an open-house games expo. Members of the general games-playing public are invited to show up, meet local indie developers, and play the games they’ve been hard at work creating. It’s fun, it’s free, and absolutely everyone is invited!

Here are the essential details:

Where? 243 S. Wabash Ave Room 924

When? 1 – 4 PM, Saturday August 20th, 2011

Why? Because you love indie games!

Indie developers looking to show off their games should show up with a laptop (or iPad, or smart phone) along with all needed peripherals. If you’re not a dev or you just want to come and play games, just show up with as many friends as you can round up. See you there!

–Craig

I’m happy to announce we’re teaming up with the Chicago chapter of the IGDA to do a showcase event. It’ll be a great place to show off any games you may be working on. The showcase (which is also our next Indie City Games meetup) is on Saturday, May 28 from 12-3pm at the usual spot, 243 S. Wabash Ave, Room 924. This will be an awesome chance to meet with local developers who work in AAA games, Facebook games, or anything “not indie” I guess.

We’ll also be giving an update on our arcade cabinet, so come on out to have a say in what happens next. I really like the idea of having a game jam to create games for the cabinet. Speaking of which, it looks like Dude Icarus (which we made during the two-week jam in September) might get a new life as an iOS game.

Anyways, hope you can make it and keep on creating stuff.

-Erin

Saturday May 28, 2011
12-3pm
243 S. Wabash Ave Room 924

It’s in the usual location at DePaul University: 243 S. Wabash Ave, room 924. The meeting runs from 12-5pm as usual, but feel free to start working on your game beforehand. If you’re an artist, maybe you can work on art this week and enlist a programmer to help you on Saturday. The game doesn’t have to be for another Indie City games member.

Also, fellow Indie City member Ryan Wiemeyer is looking for people to participate in a charity Rock Band tournament:

“Since we are powerful and handsome/beautiful people, we should use our charisma to do good (for once.)
If you don’t already know, Chicago Loot Drop is next Wednesday. It’s a charity event to raise funds for Child’s Play.

Please do what you can to spread this around, I want to see our entire community there.

We’ve also been issued a challenge by Justin Corcoran of Phosphor Games.
We need to form a band. So visit the forum topic and spread it around to Chicago-nians.
http://forums.indiecitygames.com/index.php?topic=91.0“

This episode, the Question Blocks stray for their normal format and talk with several local game developers about their experiences being professionals in the ever changing Chicago game industry.

We have special guests David Turkiewicz and Stephen Wiemeyer, formerly of Midway and Robomodo, Justin Corcoran of Phosphor Games and David Lang of Iron Galaxies Studios.

We invite you to share thoughts on the IndieCity forums!

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In gear for Halloween this weeks topic is horror, and why horror games have started to go down hill. We have a guest interview with Thomas Grip from Frictional Games ( Amnesia: The Dark Descent) who tells us some of the nuances of working with horror.

We invite you to join in as the debate continues on the IndieCity forums!

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Now is the time to share all projects abandoned or unfinished. These could be long-dead projects that still have some interesting ideas, or simply unfinished games that you’re trying to get done. Now is the perfect time to find some help for your project.

We’ll also have a short guest lecture by Steve Swink (professional indie game designer, author of “Game Feel”) on experimental game development.

Date: Saturday, October 16th 2010
Time: 12p-5pm
Address: DePaul University’s CDM Theater – 14 E. Jackson (corner of State and Jackson) – Lower Level LL105

NOTE New location: We have a new location for this meeting: the CDM Theater, 14 E. Jackson, a block west on State and Jackson. Take the elevator from the lobby down to the Lower Level, then go straight to the theater. It’s a roomy theater that seats 150 and has a great projection system. If you plan to show a game, make sure that you can output to VGA on your Mac or PC laptop.

The theme for this game jam is “things that fly.” Folks have been working on games about vengeful clouds, balloon-bound animals, Greek mythology, a psychedelic couch mountain, and other soaring insanities.

On Saturday September 11th, from 12pm-3pm, we’ll meet again at DePaul University; hope to see you there!

Date: Saturday, September 11th 2010
Time: 12p-3pm
Address: DePaul University, 243 S. Wabash Ave, Room 924

On Saturday August 28th, at 12pm, we’ll meet again at DePaul University for our third Indie City meetup, but our *first* Indie City Game Jam!

We’re still sketching out what the game jam will look like & how it will work. Come join the conversation on the Indie City Games forums!

The meeting is on July 24 from 12-5pm. It’s in the same place as last time:

DePaul University
243 S. Wabash Ave
Room 924

This session is going to be all about game-making tools.

Our tentative schedule looks like this:

And that’s it!

Come hang out with a bunch of aspiring game developers in beautiful downtown Chicago!