Everyone is invited to apply to the Sid Meier Computer Game Design Boot Camp, to be held at the University of Michigan May 7-18, 2012. This will be two weeks of intensive overnight camp where 25 students receive instruction on the principles of modern game design, develop their own games, and get hands-on advice from game design experts. All of the details are on the web site here.

Here is a link to the document that contains what we are going to be talking about at the Postmortem during dev session.

The 9th annual 48 Hour Game Development Contest will take place from Friday, January 13 through Sunday, January 15. Read the contest page for more details.

Here is the link to the tutorial doc.

There will be no dev session this week because Wolverine Soft is hosting EA for a tech talk.

Who: Greg Heddlesten, NCAA Designer and Shawnna Adamson, University Relations Manager When: Thursday, October 6th at 7:00pm Where: FXB-1109 Boeing Auditorium EA is looking to hire summer 2012 interns and full time. Pizza and Prizes will be provided! Make sure to bring your resumes to the event.

Zynga, the social games company, will be giving a presentation on Monday, October 3rd at 7pm in 1670 CSE. Food and drinks will be provided and there will be a raffle for an iPad 2.

We're accepting suggestions for "Indie Game of the Week" for this semester. Every week we will encourage our members to play an indie game. At dev session we will talk about that game, what things it does well, what problems the game has, and what ways could we improve the game. These games don't necessarily need to have been developed by an "indie" studio but you should be able to play most of the game in less than 5 hours.

Here is a link the form.

Our annual BBQ is this Sunday (18 September) at 3PM at Northwood at the grill near the Murfin parking lot. Here is a Google Maps with the exact location. Everyone is welcome to attend. Please RSVP to wsoft.events@umich.edu and state if you are an omnivore or vegetarian. Feel free to bring outdoor games and things to do like football and frisbee.

Hope to see you there.

Wolverine Soft is hosting Jeremy Lee, Senior Producer at Microsoft Studios, who will discuss game production, getting into the games industry, and what it's like to work on the cutting edge of games and interactive entertainment development. There will also be a raffle of the latest Xbox 360 games. The talk, titled "Next-gen Games & Entertainment" will take place on Monday, Sept 19th from 7:30 - 8:30pm in 1670 CSE.

All UMich students interested in video game development should attend our mass meeting to receive information about our club. No experience with video game development is necessary to join. All disciplines are welcome, including designers, programmers, artists, and musicians.

The meeting will be in Windows Training Rooms 1 & 2 on the 3rd floor of the Duderstadt Center from 6:30PM to 8:00PM on Thursday, September 15th.