Congratulations to next year's officers,

President: Curt Lawrence

Vice President: Joe Mitchell

Treasurer: Anirudh Nath

Project Advisor: Mitchell Bloch

Events Coordinator: Doug Strait

Art Director: Mark Bosko

The dates of the 48-Hour Development Contest this year have been set. The contest will run from Friday, February 12th at 6:00PM through Sunday, February 14th at 8:00PM.

Details: 48 Hour Game Development Contest 7

We now have a Steam Community group called: Wolverine Soft. So, if you use Steam, join the group so we can all play online together.

Just a reminder that our Mass Meeting is Thursday, September 17th, in the Henderson Room of the Michigan League from 7:00PM to 9:00PM.

I rewrote the website over the summer to modernize the look & feel and (hopefully) make the codebase less intimidating for future webmasters.

Major changes

• Friendlier URLs (http://wolverinesoft.org/member.php?uniqname=clawr is now http://wolverinesoft.org/member/clawr)
• Google calendar integration for events
• Nested comments
• Easy comment formatting (try commenting on this post and see the Formatting help link below the comment box
• You are notified when you log in if somebody replies to a comment, post, article, or game you made
• The ability to upload more than one screenshot for games
• Privacy settings for contact information
• Any member can submit and vote on links
• Back-end stuff that nobody cares about but me

I have set up a Counter-Strike: Source server at the following address:

wsoft.servecounterstrike.com

I've installed the following mods (obviously not all active at the same time):

• Deathmatch
• RPG
• Hide and Seek (Terrorists choose a model of an inanimate object and CTs try to find them)
• Gun Game
• Zombie
• Flamethrower
• Jetpack
• admin commands like slay, burn, rocket, etc

If you have other fun mods you like to play, tell me about them and I will see if they will work with the current setup.

The new officers are:

President: Ryan Meier
Vice President: Doug Strait
Treasurer: Warren Bame
Events Coordinators: Artun Kircali and Sean Sheehan
Project Advisor: Mitchell Bloch
Webmaster: Curt Lawrence

48 Hour Contest 6 Photos are online. Enjoy.

48 Hour Contest 5 Photos are also online. No videos yet though. Maybe someday...

48 Hour Game Development Contest 6 has come to a close; to see the results go to 48 Hour Contest 6. Make sure to try out all of this year's games, they're very impressive. Congratulations to all of the participants for their hard work, they made this year's contest such a great success.

We'd like to EA, Microsoft, THQ, Ed Baraf, and Dave Ratti for their prize donations. Because of their genorosity, we had enough games for all the participants this year.

Thanks to Sid Meier for helping to judge the games this year. We appreciate that he made a long trip to help score all of the games.

Also, we'd like to thank the Duderstadt Center for allowing us to use their facilities for our contest again this year. They helped this contest run as smoothly as it ever has.

Finally, I'd like to thank Mitchell Keith Bloch and Paul Skowronek for helping to coordinate the contest this year. I can't imagine how difficult managing the contest by myself would have been.

The sixth annual 48 hour game development contest is approaching quickly; the contest officially starts at 6pm on Friday, January 16th. To register or view details about the contest, go to 48 Hour Contest 6 for more information.

We will emphasize contest preparation at our regular Dev Session on Thursday, January 15th, the day before the contest. This will be a great time to make any final preparations and to familiarize yourself with any tools that you may use for the contest.