Core Jam this weekend + Monday 9/28 Guest Speaker

Our Core Jam is this weekend - Saturday, September 26 at 10am MST (Arizona time)! Sign up at the itch.io page here. Since it's a virtual jam, work on it as much as you want over the weekend, but be sure to submit it by 6PM MST (Arizona time) on Sunday. We'll be doing a games showcase at 7PM (one hour later) and vote on favorites. The winners will get Amazon gift cards provided by Manticore Games!*

Monday's meeting (9/28) will feature another guest speaker and UA alumni, Cynthia Shlezar! Cynthia graduated from the computer science program at UA in 2018 and has worked as a software engineer on the Xbox team at Microsoft for the last few years. This is a great opportunity to hear from someone in the industry who started where we are, so definitely come with questions if you have any! We are back to streaming meetings on Twitch. 

And just as another reminder, our next monthly game night will be next Friday, October 2nd from 6pm - 10pm MST (Arizona time). Hop into our Discord server to join us for fun party games like Among Us, Fall Guys, Jackbox, and more!

*Manticore Games is a prize provider, but not the sponsor or administrator of this UA GameDev Core Jam.

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Core Demo 9/21 + Game Jam and more!

Core Demo 9/21 + Game Jam and more!

Next Monday's meeting (9/21 at 5:30 pm) will feature Manticore Games giving a talk about their Core platform! It's similar to Roblox and Dreams in that it's a platform for making and playing games that provides a lot of built-in assets, and it's great for beginners. 

PLEASE NOTE: This meeting will most likely NOT be streamed on Twitch due to Manticore Games' preferences; please join us at this Google Meet link at the start of the meeting.

We will also be hosting a Core Jam that weekend to tie in with this talk! It will take place on Saturday, September 26 from 10am to 6pm MST (Arizona time). The itch.io signup link will be sent out in a few days. In the meantime, Core is also hosting a jam with Global Game Jam, so you're welcome to submit your games to that as well. 

Also, a reminder to sign up on RippleMatch if you haven't already - it's a job platform that matches students with jobs and internships they're qualified for, and a club partnership comes with added benefits like more matches, increased visibility to recruiters, and exclusive virtual events. We might even get some funding out of it :)

Finally, our next monthly game night will be on Friday, October 2nd from 6pm - 10pm MST (Arizona time). Hop into our Discord server to join us for fun party games like Among Us, Fall Guys, Jackbox, and more!

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Welcome back (virtually)!

 Welcome back to the fall 2020 semester!

We hope you had a good socially distanced summer :) All our club meetings and events will be fully virtual this semester - our first meeting is next Monday, September 14 at 5:30 PM MST (Arizona time).

Due to the online nature of our meetings, all talks will be livestreamed on Twitch at:

https://www.twitch.tv/uagamedev

We have quite a few new and returning guest speakers lined up, but if you are interested in giving any sort of game development related talk, please don't hesitate to sign up at the Google form below. 

https://forms.gle/sZTx9JLEtHacB9BS9

If you have any questions regarding club activities or meeting/talk format, please contact us on the UA Game Dev Discord or at gamedev@cs.arizona.edu. 

We hope to see you on Monday!

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