Technical Discussion March 15 2012

Club Management

• meetings have become a bit disorganized and are lacking focus
  • decided that meeting organizers should bring more things to talk about
    • someone should be taking the minutes regularly, Jordan volunteered to do this
• club website needs updating
  • project page needs to be updated to include newer projects
    • need to find out through email or at next meeting if anyone has projects they want to showcase on the site
  • Jordan also volunteered to update the website over the next couple of days

Club Project

• Eric suggested doing a unity game that is a collection of smaller games
  • This idea seemed to have interest with the members present
  • Eric was going to contact the executives to get there thoughts on the idea
  • Also wanted to remind members about Unity's limited time free pro subscription
    • One of the executives will send out an email in the next few days reminding all members

General Discussion

• Discussed several interesting indie games made during mojam
  • Catacomb Snatch by Mojang (Minecraft creators)
    • discussed an interesting tool that Notch uses to modify code while it is executing
  • Broadside Express
• Eric showed his global game jam project "Catch"
• Jordan showed his recent projects to Eric
  • Jordan's Factory simulation game reminded Eric of a Gamasutra article explaining simcity's new engine
    • There is also a youtube video with a visual explanation
• Discussed ideas for club promotion
  • possibly a mobile game in the style of Johann Sebastian Joust
• Discussed a game design competition website called Experimental Gameplay Project
  • Was one possible inspiration for Eric's idea for a club project or club promotion
• Discussed Unity
  • talked about the library Rage Pixel used for creating animated pixel art in Unity