Sunday, March 15, 2020



Hello everyone,

In light of the recent measures the University is taking to prevent spread of the COVID-19 virus, the Computer Science department has cancelled all in-person club meetings and events and will not be making room space available until further notice.

So to adapt to this, here is what is going to happen with the club:

Meetings:
Our meeting this Monday, March 16th is cancelled due to the extended spring break. Our next meeting will be the following Monday, March 23rd and club officer Jordan will be giving a talk on player customization in games. We are going to try something different with this meeting and use Discord's Go Live screen-sharing feature to stream the talk remotely rather than having an in-person meeting. It will be at our normal time, 5:30 pm. This does require you to join our discord server if you haven't already, which you can join via this link. More details to come on how to join the meeting remotely. If all goes well, then our meetings will continue remotely in this fashion until further notice from the university and the CS Department.

Game Jam:
Our spring game jam will still be happening on the weekend of April 17th - 19th, so put it in your calendars if you haven't done so already! Unless the university determines after reassessing the situation on April 6th that it will be okay to have in-person events again, we will be hosting this jam fully online. All jam participants will participate remotely through itch.io. We will send out an update if the situation changes. If you plan to participate in the jam, please sign up on the itch.io page! More details to come as we get closer to the event.

All other auxiliary events (such as game nights and workshops) are cancelled for the time being.

Thank you everybody for your patience and support as we adapt to these unprecedented circumstances. Stay safe and healthy, and enjoy the rest of your extended spring break :)

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