The next Indie City Games meetup is waddling toward us like a friendly lil’ Goomba!
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 time has come for the next meeting of Indie City Games!
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:
| 1 hour | Loosely-structured session of people playtesting each other’s games on personal laptops & offering feedback |
| 1 hour | Open projector for attendees to present new work |
| 15 min. | Flixel+Flex overview presentation – Jake Elliott |
| 15 min. | Adventure Game Studio overview presentation – Erin Robinson |
| 15 min. | Gamemaker overview presentation – Ryan |
| 15 min. | Interactive fiction with Inform 7 – Ben Collins-Sussman |
| 15 min. | Unity3D overview presentation – Joseph Hocking |
And that’s it!
Come hang out with a bunch of aspiring game developers in beautiful downtown Chicago!
Come play some board games with other Chicago-area independent game developers and enthusiasts next Wednesday June 16th at Chicagoland Games (5550 N. Broadway St.).
Chicagoland Games has a free open boardgame night every Wednesday from 6pm-12am. Here’s their description:
Every Wednesday night starting about 6 PM we have open board game play until extremely late at night. In fact we do not close until the last game is over… Some of our favorites include Arkham Horror, Settler of Catan, Battlestar Galactica, Tribune, Smallworld and Space Hulk. We have an insane selection of hundreds of demo games available for use but everyone is encouraged to bring anything that they would like to play. It is usually a good mix of people of all ages and interests that will play just about anything. There is no charge for these events just an appetite for game.
Hope to see y’all there!
Indie City Games is a loose collection of Midwest-based video game nerds.
We founded this group for one reason: to bring together people in Chicagoland with an interest in creating their own games.
Everyone is welcome! Whether you’re an artist, programmer, writer, or just someone who has always wanted to make a game but doesn’t know where to start.