CALLING ALL CHICAGO GAME DEVELOPERS--STUDENT AND PROFESSIONALS FROM ALL DISCIPLINES!

DePaul Fundamental Research in Academic Gaming is proud to present Industry Night! A casual networking event for Chicago Game Devs! Whether you are a student or someone who drabbles a bit in game dev or a professional game developer all are welcome at Industry Night!

Industry Night takes place at 11th floor 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604

Food will be provided!

Proof of vaccination is mandatory! No proof of vaccination! No entry! While masks are not mandatory, it is highly recommended to wear one!

Disclaimer: Industry Night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked.

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Hey, there indie folks! It's been a while since one of these has happened so we thought it was high time to bring it back.

To shake it up even more we're moving to discord! To start off slow were only going to do the open mic portion. We sadly won't be able to have open play but we'll have rooms where folks can chat one on one if they want!

Agenda:
- Indie Open Mic. Sign up at the start of the meeting, and you'll get 5 minutes to demo your latest masterpiece-in-progress!
-Open Chat: Anyone can hop into a different room with someone else to talk about people's projects

As always, open mic sign-up will be during the first 10 minutes of the meeting--if you want in, make sure to show up on time with a playable, ready to go version of your game.

The end of summer is upon us and that means it's time for IGDA Chicago's annual picnic! This year, the picnic will be held outside (rain or shine) at Montrose Beach, off of N Simonds Dr, on Sept 12th from 12 - 3 PM CST.

Take a break from the screen, enjoy the late-summer weather, and most importantly, hang out with folks from your local game development community.

Food & Activities.

For safety, please bring your own brown bag lunch and drinks. Individual water bottles will be provided.

We'll be playing board games and enjoying outdoor activities together. If you have a tabletop or card game you'd like to bring, please do!

Please bring a lawn chair or picnic blanket if possible.

Location Info

Our group will be set up in the grass to the south of the stone bridge near N. Simonds Dr:

COVID-19 Info

As this event is outside, masks are encouraged but not required. Hand sanitizer will be available onsite. If you feel unwell or have been exposed to anyone with COVID-19 within 2 weeks of this event, please refrain from attending this event for the safety of other participants.

IGDA Chicago is dedicated to providing an inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free
experience for everyone. Our Anti-Harassment policy can be found at:http://igdachicago.com/code-of-conduct/

I've missed you all so much.

Let's get together and do the thing. You know the drill.

Remedy has agreed to host us and I would love to get a better count of how many we'll have. If we are going to overwhelm their bar we might need to move locations, but I won't know until we get people signing up.

Remedy is at the Western Blue Line or Milwaukee and Western just south east a little on Milwaukee.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers (designers, programmers, artists, audio peeps, QA, producers, indie, professional, AAA, A, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. Don't be an asshole.

From global VR eSports Leagues to the AR updating of classic tabletop games to the individual challenge of Beat Saber, technology is changing how we play both sports and games. Many believe this is the segment that will encourage mass adoption of VR/AR. Games like Pokemon Go and Half-Life: Alyx have shown signs of large market possibilities. We will explore this and more with our experts who are at the forefront of these gaming horizons.

SPEAKERS

SCHEDULE

6:00-6:15pm – Networking & Preparation

6:15-6:30pm – Introductions & Welcome

6:30-7:30pm – Panel Discussion and Q&A

7:30-8:00pm – Networking

IGDA Chicago is dedicated to providing an inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free
experience for everyone. Our Anti-Harassment policy can be found at:
http://igdachicago.com/code-of-conduct/

Hey, there indie folks! It's been a while since one of these has happened so we thought it was high time to bring it back.

To shake it up even more we're moving to discord! To start off slow were only going to do the open mic portion. We sadly won't be able to have open play but we'll have rooms where folks can chat one on one if they want!

Agenda:
- Indie Open Mic. Sign up at the start of the meeting, and you'll get 5 minutes to demo your latest masterpiece-in-progress!
-Open Chat: Anyone can hop into a different room with someone else to talk about people's projects

As always, open mic sign-up will be during the first 10 minutes of the meeting--if you want in, make sure to show up on time with a playable, ready to go version of your game.

We're doing the thing again, but on this Thursday instead of Tuesday! Hope to see you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is an independently run social gathering/event for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering for game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Triple Indie, Triple Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Industry Night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked.

For new people:

Game Dev Industry Night is not for promoting yourself or anything. It is not a networking event, instead it is a social event. Please do not join us to promote things or try to get a job. We're all hanging out and chatting, not selling our brands to each other. Thank you!

Regularly scheduled information:

While parts of the u.s. pretend that the pandemic is over and everything is fine, we continue our online meeting in hopes of helping minimize the overwhelming effects of corona-virus. Thanks for understanding.

Discord link will be sent the day of the event for people who do not have it.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. Don't be an asshole.

For new people:

Game Dev Industry Night is not for promoting yourself or anything. It is not a networking event, instead it is a social event. Please do not join us to promote things or try to get a job. We're all hanging out and chatting, not selling our brands to each other. Thank you!

Regularly scheduled information:

Here we are, still in lock down, but things are looking up. It's getting warmer, the plants in my garden are growing, and hopefully the garden of your mind, at least, is also growing through this pandemic!

I hope everyone can come join us and do some vid/voice chat in discord. I'll post the link to the discord the day of the event.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. Don't be an asshole.

We're finally doing it! Online! In a voice/video chat room!

Here's the deal. We all want to drink and chat. I know I do. I love it! But online platforms for voice and video are kind of garbage.

For now, my plan is to do a discord server which I already have setup and ready to go. I will send the link for that here once it's time.

It's worth noting that I am trying to find ways to make the server controls easy to ban shitty people or mute loud mic people, etc, but I am not a discord server pro, so I'm still learning.

Also, I'm sure everyone is going to suggest a free for all vid chat style service like Zoom, or that I should use slack, but in my opinion, discord has the best set of features for our unique situation. Anyway, we can talk about it if you think you have better ideas. There are other options available.

Anyway. See you there!

DISCORD LINK

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

You're over halfway to the end of official winter and often times the end of February is very close to the real halfway of our cold season.

So get excited. It's time to turn the tide on cold weather!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

Here it is, the beginning of 2020. Finally! Celebrate the new year with us by coming out and having a drink! Food nearby can be brought into the bar and they have a delivery service for Kumas.

See you there!

Ohh, also, this is the 9 year anniversary of Industry Night. Wow!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

You have a season and a few weeks until 2019 crashes into the ground on top of you and 2020 arises from the ashes.

Make it count!

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

The end of summer is upon us and that means it's time for IGDA Chicago's annual picnic. This year, the picnic will be held at Montrose Beach, where we'll enjoy delicious burgers, mac and cheese, and potato salad from Kuma's Corner!

Take a break from the screen, enjoy the picnic spread, and most importantly, hang out with folks from your local game development community! We'll be playing board games in the shade and enjoying outdoor activities together. If you have any tabletop or card game you'd like to bring, please do!

Please let us know if you have any food allergies or dietary restrictions. We will have vegetarian and vegan options available.  

Location Info

Our group will be set up in the grass to the south of the stone bridge near N. Simonds Dr:

IGDA Chicago is dedicated to providing an inclusive, welcoming, and harassment-free
experience for everyone. Our Anti-Harassment policy can be found at:http://igdachicago.com/code-of-conduct/

Over here at Industry Night it's been a pretty good summer. If your summer wasn't good, maybe we can help make it better over a drink or two.

FYI: Crown is a 21+ bar.

We'll be hanging out in the front area of Crown Liquors. There are many food options nearby and you can bring it into the bar.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.