Free drinks and nibbles will be served while you watch great presentations from Eidos Montreal and the creator of the famous Iron Baby. Later on the Siggraph Electronic theater will also be screened.

Don’t wait, register today and bring your peers for a fun night in the industry!

Date and time:
December 2, 2010
Registration: 5 – 6 p.m. EST
Event: 6 – 8 p.m. EST
Electronic Theatre: 8 – 10 p.m. EST (presented by the Montreal ACM SIGGRAPH Chapter)

Location:
Autodesk, Montreal
10 rue Duke, Montreal, QC, H3C 2L7 Map

A new 3ds max user group in Montreal has been created, join us via LinkedIn.

Here is the event page on LinkedIn and registration page.

There is also a Facebook group that you can join.

See you there !

Mount Royal Game Society, Dirty Rectangles and Babycastles present
THE PRINCE OF ARCADE
indie games showcase & party.

 

> look_
You see a joyovial congregather of scintilliant video-games, resplendiferous in their arcoats.

> get beverage_
You take up a fluottle of alcoluminous beverage and slake a thirst accrued over two long days of intense pensiveness about video-games.

> listen music_
This rocks!

> play games_
The viewportal brings you to another world. You have a transcendental experience and emerge a changed person.

 

> get info_

Tuesday, November 9, 2010, 8pm
at Eastern Bloc, 7240 rue Clark, Montreal, QC
$10 ($5 with a MIGS conference pass)

More announcements about this coming soon. Stay tuned!

Event Details

When: Wednesday, October 27th – 7pm doors open, 7:30-9pm roundtables, then bar…
What: IGDA-Montreal Roundtable Discussions Night
Where: Holiday Inn Midtown “La Plaza” – 420 Sherbrooke West
Why: Four in-depth roundtable discussions
Who: All game developers, and those related to the game industry
Entry: free, but must RSVP – priority for IGDA members (see below)

 

RSVP

Everyone must RSVP via montreal@igda.org and indicate which topic they want to participate in. Each topic has limited seating of 20. Priority access will be given to IGDA members in good standing. If you are not a member, you can join online before RSVPing.

 

Roundtables

Doors will open and attendess can mingle starting at 7pm. Doors will close and discussions will officially start at 7:30pm and will run until 9pm. After the discussions, everyone is welcome to the hotel lobby bar to unwind. The roundtable topics are as follows:

More details on on IGDA Montreal…

Event: GA Portfolio Day – Part Deux!

Time: Saturday October 2nd, 3-6pm

Registration: Registration is currently Open. 60 People Maximum

(Here’s their Facebook event page)

 

Get ready for a great day at Game Artisans Montreal! GA will be hosting its second portfolio review day and this time, we are adding great things to the mix to make it a more fun and educational event for everyone! Along with reviewers, we are going to have exciting games to play while you wait! Soul Calibur, Bomberman, and Super Mario Bro Wii!
The following pros will be there to speak with:

• Vlad Dergachov (Environment Modeler, Texture Artist)
• Jack Zhang (Character Modeler, Texture Artist)
• Marc Taro Holmes (Concept Artist, Art Director, Game Designer)

How it works? Come in to GA Montreal in person today to get your personal assigned time slot.Sign-up cost is $5, free for premium GA members and above.
Then, on Saturday October 2nd from 3 to 6pm, chat with your chosen professional in a private 1 on 1 meeting to find help, or get answers to the questions you seek. Questions like what it’s like to be a game artist, what training you need to get a carreer in games, what are your current chances to get in, how to improve some of your work, etc,. Each professional will do his best to help you with your portfolio or art creation endeavors.

 

What you should bring?

• Pen and paper
• A portfolio, CD demo reel or example art on a usb-key. For online websites, GA will have computers sponsored by Eurocom and high speed internet to showcase your work.

 

GA Portfolio Day Extra Features: Play the following great games while you wait – Soul Calibur (ps3, 55 inch tv!!), Super Mario Bros Wii, and Bomberman! PLUS, Prizes will be given to 5 lucky draw winners – AND – a Soul Calibur most wins evening champion!
 

Prizes from our sponsors:

• 2 x Eat 3D training DVDs. Winners choice (worth $69.95 each).
• 1 x Three Months Premium membership at GA Montreal (worth $54.95)
• 3 x Sketchgroup Passes ($10 each)

For any questions, please contact us at 514.439.GAME (4263).

A call for help! Daylight hours are disappearing rapidly, and only you can save them! Actually, that’s false, as daily hours of sunlight are a function of the Earth’s axial tilt and the planet’s revolution about the Sun, and thus totally beyond our control. Allow us to propose instead a gathering of minds, games, and brews to distract us from the whims of astronomical happenstance: it’s time for another MEETUP!

WHEN: Wednesday, October 6, 7:00 pm

WHERE: Brasserie Artisanale l’Amère à Boire, 2049 rue Saint-Denis, 3rd floor

WHO: As always, musicians, artists, designers, coders, and everyone who loves to play and discuss and make videogames are welcome.

SPECIAL GUEST(S): This month, we’re very excited to have Jonathan Lavigne with us to talk about his experience as designer of Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game. Part postmortem, part dev rant, we can pretty much guarantee that it will be the most excellent thing you have ever experienced for free.*

 

The Montreal International Game Summit (MIGS) is coming up on November 8 and 9, and the Mount Royal Game Society is teaming up with sister groups from Canada and the US to get our party on and showcase some awesome games and projects from within our communities. Do you have something you’d like to see showcased at the event? If so, get in touch — we’d love to hear from you. More details forthcoming shortly, so watch this space!

Check out our recap of last month’s meeting.

More info on Mount Royal Game Society…

From TAG (Concordia’s Technoculture, Art and Games):

Just a reminder for this Wednesday’s weekly symposium [September 15th] at 5PM at TAG lab (EV 11. 425, Concordia University)

September 15: Lumines is the game of choice for the night. Saleem has undertaken to bring in Halo: Reach, as well.

Next week:

September 22: Amanda is going to be demoing Propinquity for some feedback before she goes off to Copenhagen to show off her work. (http://www.tag.hexagram.ca/?page_id=363)

UPDATE!

On the announcement for next week, can you add that Cindy will be
leading a drinking game design session (”a practice-based
investigation into embodied gameplay using a hybrid chemical
interface”)? Sorry I didn’t mention it sooner, it kinda came up on a
whim, and judging from last week it worked well to have two activities
happening in parallel. Plus — if people are liquored up my demo will
go over better.

More info on TAG…

Event Details:

When: Tuesday, September 21st – 6:30pm doors/food/drinks open | 7:30pm presentation begins
What: IGDA-Montreal Presentation Night
Where: Autodesk, 10 Duke Street (corner de la Commune)
Why: Matt Hooper discusses id’s Rage/Tech5
Who: All game developers, and those related to the game industry
Entry: free for IGDA members; $5 for non-members

Presentation:

“Controlled Rage: Production, Design and Tech Challenges of Revolutionizing the FPS”

As in industry pioneer, id Software has been pushing the boundaries of the FPS genre since its inception. With RAGE and Tech5, id is revolutionizing the modern FPS, rethinking the player experience and facing the production and technological challenges that go along with it. Matt Hooper, id’s Design Director, will walk us through a demo of RAGE and discuss key aspects of the game’s development.

Prize Raffle Action:

We’ll have the usual load of games and books and swag to raffle off for members!!!

Getting to Autodesk:

The Autodesk office is at 10 Duke Street, on the corner of de la Commune, with ample street/paid parking nearby, a Bixi rack, and the Square-Victoria metro station a few blocks up.

Les Prix des nouveaux médias canadiens (PNMC) 2010, lesquels cette année célèbrent leur 10e anniversaire, est un événement majeur et unique dans ce domaine au Canada.
Les PNMC comptent 20 catégories dont une relative au Meilleur Jeu Web.
Plus que jamais pour ce 10e anniversaire, il est primordial que le Québec puisse se distinguer et prendre la place qui lui revient dans le Canada numérique.
La date limite d’inscription est le 17 septembre 2010.
Pour plus de détails : http://www.nextmediaevents.com/cnma/competition-categories-fr.php