Thursday, February 16, 2017


This week, after briefly showing off some of the games from the weekend's Valentine's Game event, we were joined by Enrique Ponce!  As a professional soundtrack composer, he talked about his experience creating music for video games: the tools, the process, and the business.


His presentation slides are here!  He also shared one of his scores here, an example work-for-hire agreement here, and an example composer agreement here.  Thanks, Enrique!

Weekly Announcements
  • We're hosting another Game Night, this Friday at 6pm!  There will be fun games, fun people, and maybe even fun snacks.
  • Saturday, February 25th at 1:30pm, we're doing a Mario Maker Jam A tiny competition where you'll have a few hours to make the best Mario level you can!
  • March 3rd will be our first fundraiser of the year!  In partnership with the Union's Game Room, it will be a game night with a $5 entry fee.  In addition to the usual board games, we'll have access to pool, ping pong, and maybe even a Nintendo Switch!

Wednesday, February 8, 2017


This week, I talked a bit about how games work by walking through a simple project in my favorite beginner's game engine, Love2D!  This is something that I've given talks about before, but we think it's worth revisiting every once in a while.  Hopefully it was as helpful to you as it would have been to me a couple years ago!




Now, for those of you who weren't able to make it, there are unfortunately no slides I can give you this time, as it was all done in the form of a live demonstration.  But luckily, we have something even better than slides... friendship! I mean, links!

The engine I used, Love2D, can be downloaded here for free!

If you want to start learning it for yourself, try this tutorial, or jump into the Love2D wiki!

If you want to revisit what we made in the meeting, you can download that here!

Finally, the "finished" version of my Asteroids clone (including actual asteroids!  And multiple bullets!) can be downloaded right here!

Weekly Announcements

  • This Saturday at 1:30pm we're hosting a Valentine's Game Mini-Jam!  Come, hang out, and make the dating simulator of your (or someone else's) dreams.
  • Mark your calendars, because next Friday is the next Game Night!  

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