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Meeting Notes

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META

• Attendance: 17 people attended our first rebooted meeting of 2019! Our next meeting will be November 18, 2019!
• Meeting format: version 0.1 - introductions followed by “scrum-style” what are you up to/what are you looking for. Followed by show and tell.
• Locations: The Nashua Public Library is the nicest, free-est location discovered so far between Manchester and Nashua. We are open to any suggestions.

INTRO / SCRUM

1. Alex - psychological interview game (VR/Unity)
2. Maxon - making “spooky game”
3. Dave.Sri - Learning Sciences support programming in Javascript. Interested in collecting “ready-to-compile-and-run” frameworks(any platforms)
4. Sam - working with Godot Engine, developing “twin stick shooter” game, steampunk enthusiast
5. Justin - using blender, substance painter with Unity. looking for people who have released/monetized work to discuss.
6. Carl - trivia podcast and seeking trivia game development help (mobile)
7. Bill - long-time programmer (since 1974) investigating current video game programming
8. Dennis - pluginAuthor(Unreal, Unity, blender), doing web app animation, networked drawing.
9. Tim - illustrator, working with photoshop and vector graphics, looking for collaborators on educational games.
10. Melody - working with Unity. Interested in tools and how things work, would like to make her own Javascript engine
11. Spencer - checking out the group (saw listing at NPL)
12. Dan - Making an RPG with Chris, working with Unity. role: programmer
13. Chris - role: art with Chris, philosophy of doing things you love, creating and sharing.
14. Lorenzo - Getting familiar with Unity. IT/light robotics work. Interested in mastery and tools.
15. Eric - Has done 8 game jams in the past 3 years. Interested in exploring game concepts.
16. Ren - Astralore Games (lead writer, social media management. Focused on creating good culture)
17. Val - Astralore Games (programming and art)

DIVERSITY OF EXPERIENCE

• languages represented: C#, Javascript, Python, Java
• day jobs represented: web developer, illustrator, indie game developer, student/recent grads in game dev program, writer, trivia master
• noted shared interests (in addition to games and game development): tool development, workflow, game mechanics, release management, Unity, Javascript, animation.

TOOLS/THINGS MENTIONED

• game jams at itch.io…there are a zillion of them
• Unity XR
• Software Game Patterns book
• ImpactJS
• Snowman video game mechanics (?)
• Using a phone as a game controller
• Two-button / single-button games ( “Divekick”, “Minute” )

TALK POSSIBILITIES

• Sam - “interactive storytelling with ink”
• Dennis - Blender, Python (I can’t read my writing here -Ed)