The annual 48 hour competition will take place January 21 - 23! Details about the contest are available here. It's a great challenge and a lot of fun, so I encourage everyone to participate.

We will be at the U-con gaming convention this year (as we were last year) in the video game track hosting a few tournaments and a retro gaming event. We need members to sign up to run the events and watch over the consoles and equipment (U-con provides us with projectors and TVs). If anyone wants to bring a retro gaming console for the retro event, please contact me ASAP. If you talk to the people who worked last year they will tell you we had a lot of fun and played some of the games ourselves.

Here's a link to our events. If you work one of our events you get a free pass to the convention, however you still have to sign up to play most of the events on the U-con website in advance.

Here's a link to the sign-up sheet. Just put your unique name in the column of the event that you want to work for. We need at least one officer and two members running each event. Sign up early to ensure that I can get you your free pass to the convention. Contact me if you have any questions,

Doug Strait Wolverine Soft Events Manager

Electronic Arts will be giving a talk tonight, Oct. 21 at 7pm in 1670 CSE. The featured speaker will be Matt Shaw, the CTO of BioWare.

Those wanting to participate in Jason's Flash tutorial should go here.

When: Sunday, Rocktober 3rd, 10am to 10pm
Where: Windows Training Room 3, Duderstadt Center
Description: In this all day work shop participants go through the process of designing a video game, from initial concept to creating a presentation, prototype, and design document.

More details at the next meeting.

This week's dev session will be entirely devoted to tutorials! From 6pm to 8pm is Jason Eaton's Flash tutorial. Then at 8pm is Marc Morisseau's tutorial for creating art content for 2D games using Photoshop and for 3D games using Autodesk Maya.

Wolverine Soft, along with CSE Scholars, HKN, and gEECS, is hosting Yahoo! and the Hack U competition October 27 - 30.

Yahoo! will bring its renowned team of tech gurus to U-M for Hack U, a series of workshops culminating in a 24-hour programming contest. Taking place at the Computer Science and Engineering building, Hack U is a cool way for students with an interest in programming, computer science, and information studies to learn some new tricks and build a great hack. Yahoo! will bring the tech gurus, developer tools and inspiration (caffeine, free schwag, and prizes) -- you bring your hack genius!

The contest's best hack winner will win the Grand Prize Trip to Yahoo! headquarters in Sunnyvale, CA to represent U-M at Yahoo!'s Open Hack Showdown.

This is a reminder that all current members, alumni, and new members are welcome to come to the annual WSoft BBQ for free food and games. The BBQ is today, Sunday, September 19, from 3pm to 6pm (approx). Feel free to bring stuff to do (e.g. frisbee, soccer).

Directions: If you are at Pierpont, go North on Murfin and cross Hubbard St. Then there should be a parking lot on your right (the parking lot that runs north south). The BBQ will be NE of the field where there is a grill set up.

Hope everyone had a great summer. Wolverine Soft will be at Northfest on September 14th in order to recruit new members.

Our Mass Meeting will be September 16, 7pm - 9pm in 1013 Dow Bldg. Anyone interested in Wolverine Soft is welcome to come to our Mass Meeting to see what we are all about.

The video made about the 48 Hour competition has been finished! Thanks to Juan Carlos Pineiro Escoriaza and the rest of the film crew for their hard work.