VGDC Members participated in the contest held at Chapman University in Orange. The contest accepted video games from several colleges and universities including CSUF, Chapman, Westwood College, UC Irvine, Cal Poly Pomona, Cal State Long Beach, and Cal State San Bernardino. Students submitted youtube videos showing off their gameplay. Of those submissions, 10 were selected as finalists. VGDC had one team in the finals for “A Ruff Day”, a platformer for Windows Phone. While the team didn’t score the ultimate prize of a trophy cup, they did get the honor of “Best Windows Phone Game”. The team consisted of Andrew Soltan, Fidel Cabezas, Troy Stump, and Emily Chiang. At the reception that followed several VGDC Members had the opportunity to show their games including “Blobvasion!”, a puzzle game by Daniel Lyons, and “Snake Bite”, with original artwork by Jose Manuel Cisneros. See the Video
Welcome to Fullerton Day
VGDC Members helped run the Computer Science booth at this year’s Welcome to Fullerton Day where incoming freshman and transfer students got a chance to see what’s in store for them for the fall semester. We helped explain the majors available and also had a chance to show off some of our games. Several students signed up to become members in the fall! Special thanks to Fidel Cabezas, Allen Hsu, Thomas Thammaaly, and Patrick Barry for helping out.
Speaker: Jon Burke
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Jon Burke was our guest speaker last week. Jon is a former VGDC member who is currently working as a lead programmer at Obsidian Entertainment. He came by to tell us about his experiences after graduation as well as to … Continue reading
Club Photo
We took our 2012 club photo on April 4th. Everyone received their club t-shirt that day and posed in the sun until we got a shot that was just right. Club Secretary Troy Stump arrived late and had to be photoshopped in later. A 24″ x 32″ poster was printed and is now proudly displayed in the VGDC Club Room.
Game Night
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This year’s game night was a huge success. Everyone brought their tvs, game systems, and controllers and battled it out with games like mario kart and super smash bros. Projectors were set up for the kinect games, Daniel Lyons brought … Continue reading
6th graders visit
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We had a visit from some 6th graders today who came out to see some of the cool video games we’ve made while in college. We had the opportunity to show off some of the work the club has done … Continue reading
T-shirts have been ordered
We have ordered t-shirts with the new club logo. We plan on having these by the day of the Club Photo (4/4) We have ordered 15 men’s shirts and 5 women’s shirts. These will be handed out at the day of the photo. Try to arrive early since supplies are limited.
Game Developers Conference
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GDC 2012 was amazing! We had the privilege of taking 10 club members to San Francisco this year for the annual conference for game developers. We explored the expo floor, dropped off resumes at the career pavilion, checked out games … Continue reading
IGDA Play Party
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We went down to this month’s IGDA meeting, which was located at IGN/GameSpy in Costa Mesa. This month’s meeting featured speakers Michael Allar and Justin Britch. Michael discussed his 3D Global Game Jam game made right here at CSUF. Justin, … Continue reading
T-shirt contest
Hey artists, help us create a new t-shirt design and you could win a $25 Best Buy gift card. Deadline for submissions is March 13th. (Use only 1 color please)
GDC Events
We have compiled a list of GDC Events. Networking is an important part of GDC and these events are hosted by some of the biggest names in the Video Game Industry. If you are going to GDC, please RSVP for all parties that require it. We will not be attending all of these events, but it is important that you are on “the list”
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We have food
RJ and Ryan went out to Costco and restocked the Club Room. We have plenty of snacks, sodas, and frozen food for sale at low prices! Stop by our club room in CS302
Imagine Cup Teams
We have formed our Imagine Cup 2012 Teams.
Deadline: 3/13 5pm PST
Team1 “A Ruff Day”:
Andrew Soltan, Fidel Cabezas, Troy Stump, Emily Chiang, Brandon Duyan
Team2:
Ricardo Cancela, Zack Aller, Brianna Leahy, Alison Hy, Patrick Barry, Jeff White
Speaker: Jim Rivers
Jim Rivers, hiring manger for Obsidian Entertainment stopped by last week to speak with us about preparing for a Job in the Video Game Industry. He specifically helped us prepare for the career pavilion at GDC, but his advice can be found useful for anyone pursuing a career in Game Development. The notes from the presentation can be found here: GDC Prep Guide
Going to GDC
Here is the list of students going to San Francisco in March to attend the annual Game Developers Conference. We have bought our passes, booked our hotels, and booked our flights!
Andrew Soltan, Fidel Cabezas, Ryan Reed, Troy Stump, Tim Lake, Emily Chiang, Alison Hy, Matthew Bostwick, Thomas Thammaaly, and Allen Hsu
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Global Game Jam 2012
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This years Global Game Jam broke some records! Over 2200 games were creating over the weekend by almost 11,000 jammers. Cal State Fullerton hosted the Game Jam for local developers from all over OC. Several games were made by students … Continue reading
CSUF = Official Global Game Jam site
Cal State Fullerton is now an official Global Game Jam site. We are providing our location for any other schools in the OC area who would like to participate. Anyone interested needs to create an account at the global game jam official site and add CSUF as their location. Here is a link: Global Game Jam
VGDC competes in ACM contest
Last Saturday club members Andrew Soltan, Fidel Cabezas, Troy Stump, Allen Hsu, Daniel Selnick, and Jeff White participated in the International Collegiate Programming Contest held each year at RCC. The contest consists of 8 programming problems that are very difficult to solve. Over the past three years, CSUF has sent a team and each of those years they didn’t get a single one correct. This year, one of our teams was able to solve 2 problems! Congratulations to Fidel, Troy, and Joanne for kicking some butt this year. The top spot went to USC who solved all 8 problems and with time to spare.
GDC Questionnaire
Would you like to go to GDC? We have secured funding to take about 10 club members to the Video Game Industry’s biggest conference in San Francisco! Please fill out this questionnaire if you are interested in going. Go to GDC Questionnaire
Volunteers @ Pumpkin Launch
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Last Saturday thousands of people showed up to Cal State Fullerton to attend the annual Pumpkin Launch, which is sponsored by the College of Engineering and Computer Science, Discovery Science Center and Future Scientists & Engineers of America. Using handmade catapults, … Continue reading
Speaker: Cat Kocher
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Cat Kocher from Blizzard came out to speak with students from CSUF last night. She offered detailed information about what types of jobs are there in the video game … Continue reading
IGDA Local Games Showcase @ UCI
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This month’s local IGDA meeting was hosted by UC Irvine’s Video Game Design Club. About a dozen local student games were showcased including the Russian Submarine game created at our recent Game Jam! There were 2D puzzles games, 3rd person … Continue reading
Tim Lake is HALOween Champ!
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Club Treasurer Tim Lake demolished the competition and emerged victorious as this year’s HALOween Champion! About 20 CSUF Students showed up for the annual event in which students battle head to head to see who’s best at HALO: Reach. 12 … Continue reading
OC Job Listings
This site now features an updated list of Orange County video game job listings which can be found here or by clicking the Game Jobs tab in the menu above