IGDA Melbourne

The trivia night went off with a bang on Tuesday the 4th of May (yes, there were some Star Wars related questions).

The game was host to over 100 players and it was roughly an hour and a half before the dust settled. The top ranking team was “The Fucking Volcano in Iceland”, those ever-tasteful fellows took away the grand prize of a PlayStation 3, generously donated by Big Ant Studios. The winners were followed closely by The Lavish Badgers (winners of a Wacom tablet, donated by Wacom) and then, coming in at third, was Colonel Mustard’s Lonely <3′s Club Band (winers of a copy of Expose 6 and also a membership to CG Society, all thanks to our friends at Ballistic Media).  A $100 drink card for the Mana Bar up in sunny Queensland was given to the team that finished last, who will remain anonymous (for obvious reasons). There were also three lucky winners, of the Heads and Tails games ran through the night, that received some fantastic GDC T-Shirts (thanks to Jenn Sandercock). The night was a huge success and a lot of fun was had by all, both in attendance and those participating.

Thanks to everyone who could make it, and a very special thanks to our wonderful sponsors, Big Ant Studios, Wacom, Ballistic Media, Jennifer Sandercock, The Mana Bar, and of course the BLVD Bar for being wonderful and giving the trivia night a home.

Stay tuned for news on next month’s event.

Gathering from 7 for catch up social shop talk.

8pm – Trivia starts

Teams include:

SARQAT
Touch my Pixels
The Voxel Agents
Colonel Mustard’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
*My Epeen is over 9000*
The Billionaire Skeletons
The Lavish Badgers
Tin Man Games
Team Rocket
Team 3
Tuckshop Lady Headbutt
The Red Barrels,
Team Rocket’s Blasting off again
Team Andromeda

More teams will be formed tomorrow night and anyone not wanting to play is welcome to hang about

It’s at the BLVD Bar in Southbank, just around the corner from The Embassy near the Macca’s. If all else fails The Embassy folk will help you with directions.

Great prizes, and also the possibility of a gold coin donation from trivia players towards a decent drink card for the winn ing team.

Also up for grabs are:

A PS3 thanks to Big Ant Studios (who have two teams vying for the prizes)

A Wacom tablet thanks to Wacom

A Ballistic book and online membership to the CGSociety

A $100 Drink card for the Mana Bar – save it up for GCAP!

Three GDC ‘collectors’ tee-shirts

Along with much revelry and merriment…

Thanks to the following folk for these most excellent trivia night prizes

Big Ant Studios
A PS3!!!!

Wacom
A Wacom

The Mana Bar
$100 drink card ripe and ready for GCAP or before

Ballistic Media
A book (?) – We’ll let you know when we know more on that one, and it comes with a year’s membership to the CGSociety

BLVD Bar
Drinks – details yet to be negotiated.. you’ll know when we do!

Jenn S
3 GDC Tee’s

Thanks to Big Ant Studios (http://www NULL.bigant NULL.com/), we have a PS3 for the grand prize at Trivia Night on Tuesday 4th May at 7pm for an 8pm kick-off!

While games, rather than Star Wars questions, are on the cards, don’t miss out on a fun filled night at the BLVD Bar in Southbank (just around the corner from our old haunt which is sadly closing down). Get a team together and catch up with fellow games mates.

We encourage co-worker teams and hope to see turnouts from studios big and small, students and indies. Help us by signing up using the form below.

Whether you want to form a team, meet a new crew on the night, or just come along for a bit of a chin wag we look forward to the next catch up. Registration details are available further down the page.

If you have any ideas or suggestions for IGDA nights( or prizes to donate for the triv night!) email info@igdamelbourne.org or contact your friendly local committee member.

Stay tuned for more prize details….

When: Tuesday 13 April 7pm
Where: The Embassy, 1 Queensbridge St, Southbank

What: 8pm The Voxel Agents: One year into indie

The creators of iPhone App ‘Train Conductor’ give a rundown of the highs and lows, challenges and successes of life as an Indie Developer Start-up.

8.30 GDC Goss

A selection of people who went to GDC – including Jenn Sandercock – who was there as a volunteer and Mark Flanagan – who went to look from an education and IGDA perspective, will spend a few minutes sharing their experiences and answering questions…. details of other speakers will be listed once they are confirmed.

9.00 Big Ant sound guy, Stephan Schutze

Stephan will give you a quick rundown on his awesome FREE sound library (http://www NULL.stephanschutze NULL.com/).

If you’re a FBer please RSVP here (http://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/event NULL.php?eid=334288174057&ref=mf) so we can make sure staffing is alright on the night

Any questions, feel free to email info@igdamelbourne.org, and we hope to see you there

Things are ticking along, and the next meeting in April is just choc-full of gamery goodness. This is thanks to eveyone who’s come along and the lovely committee folk who’ve been getting it all together in between their other commitments:

Alexander Bruce
Trent Kusters
Mark Flanagan
Dominic McDonnell
Giselle Rosman
Tarwin Stroh-Spijer

Feel free to catch up with committee folk the at the next meet up with any ideas and suggestions about future meetings, speakers, events etc.

UPCOMING EVENTS
Sharing knowledge from distant lands and local shores

WHEN: 7pm Tuesday 13 April (talks start at 8pm)
WHERE: The Embassy, 1 Queensbridge St Southbank

It’s a double header this month, covering near and far, and once again the numbers are looking good on the facebook event (http://www NULL.facebook NULL.com/event NULL.php?eid=334288174057&ref=mf)

First up is The Voxel Agents, creators of Train Conductor, reviewing their first year as local indie developers.

Then we will be hearing from some folk who went to San Fran to GDC to get the goss! So far we have Jenn Sandercock will be giving a volunteers-eye-view recount of GDC, Mark Flanagan went to represent both AIE and IGDA, Alexander Bruce will have the indie perspective. If you or someone you know would like to give a studio perspective contact a committee member near you!

Don’t forget, you can sign up for Club Embassy Membership at their website and get 20% off food and bar prices.

GAMES TRIVIA NIGHT in May

Details are being finalised, and will be announced at the April meeting, but the May meet up will be a Games Trivia Night.

There’s a PS3 in the prize pool thanks to Big Ant Studios (http://www NULL.bigant NULL.com) so don’t miss it!

Registration will open at the next gathering and you will be able to sign up as a team or individual.

If there’s any more you’d like to share with IGDA Melbourne mailing list and website let us know!

Such as:

App My State (http://www NULL.premier NULL.vic NULL.gov NULL.au/app-my-state NULL.html) – entry deadline 23 April

Andrew Golding, from Brawsome would “like to put out the call to local iPhone developers to see what they can do with the Jolly Rover assets on iPhone, to cross promote Jolly Rover. I would be looking at arranging a revenue split with the developer as I can’t afford to pay anyone at the moment” feel free to email andrew@brawsome.com.au (andrew null@null brawsome NULL.com NULL.au)

and Giselle is looking for someone to develop a flash game for the La Trobe Uni website – email giselle.rosman@gmail.com (giselle NULL.rosman null@null gmail NULL.com) if you are interested and want more details.