Practical Game Design : The Rule of Threes by Lars Doucet, posted on Gamasutra

Dear Students and Faculty,

You are cordially invited to a presentation of the Phone Inquiry Narrative Gaming (PING) by Dr. Roberto Gregorius and Przemyslaw Moskal.

Digital Day – Friday, February 19th, 2010 at 2:30 pm in the Library Instruction Room.

For online presentation of PING please visit: http://www.laksom.com/PING

The battle of the mobile OS continues as Microsoft introduces its new Windows Phone OS:

Microsoft Starts Over in Phone Software by Ashlee Vance, New York Times article

A Shooter Showdown by Josh Bycer

Gamasutra article on shortcomings of the FPS games genre and things that could be improved in it.

Developers React: The iPad’s Future by Kris Graft and Christian Nutt

Gamasutra article on the reaction of game developing community to Apple’s announcement of iPad.

Dear Students,

The club will meet tomorrow (Wednesday) at noon again.

- We will discuss trip and other outing ideas
- I will show you how to make a simple slide show in Flash, if we get to it.
- We will talk about increasing the membership
- Any other ideas are welcome, of course.

Talk to you friends and invite them over.
If this meeting time is not good for you let me know.

I hope to see you at noon!

Best,
PJ

Paid Mac Internship Position is offered by ITS.

If you are “mac savy”, reliable and looking for an internship on campus please send a cover letter and resume to Scott Clark at clarks@canisius.edu.

Interviewing will be conducted in February with hopes to start someone 1-2 days a week in March. More hours over the summer (approx 20-25/wk) and in the fall should be about 10-12/week.

If you are interested, contact Scott Clark at clarks@canisius.edu

Dear Students,

I hope you had good break and your semester is off to a good start.

Following Mr. Dunkle’s suggestion, I would like to start a series of presentations conducted by students and faculty about a topic of your choice (most likely related to art and technology). The presentations would be rather concise, between 30 min. to an hour, and would be followed by a discussion.

Let’s meet for the first time this Wednesday, January 27 at noon, just like last semester. If this time doesn’t work for people we will then change to another time. We probably won’t be able to accommodate everybody’s schedule and will simply go with majority. As always, we will meet in the DMA lounge next to DMA Web Lab on the 3rd floor of Lyons.

I will kick off the series this Wednesday at noon with a presentation titled “Building Virtual Cities with Google SketchUp”. We will take a look at 3D modeling application called Google SketchUp and we will connect to Google Earth where we will place our virtual models. You are invited!

If you own a laptop you can bring it with you and follow along. Download Google SketchUp (http://sketchup.google.com) and Google Earth (http://earth.google.com) for free prior to the presentation.

If you have any questions or ideas for a presentation, just e-mail me moskalp@canisius.edu

Regards,
PJ Moskal

Hey all! Hope you all had a good long Winter Break.. I thought that the blog would be a good place to start to try to and see when would be good meeting times for next semester for the club.. Just post what the best day/times are for you next semester according to your schedule, I’ll send out an email as soon as the semester starts off and people are back at school. Thanks!