Just in time for the Spring semester we have a new and improved web site! Check later this week as we post more information about upcoming events such as the Unreal Engine workshop on Wed 1/25, the Global Game Jam on Fri 1/27 – Sun 1/29, DiscoverFest on 2/1 and 2/2, Jim Rivers speaking about GDC on Tues 2/7, and the Game Developers Conference in March!

Our first club meeting of the Spring ’12 semester will be Feb 8th at 5:30pm in TSU – Tuffree Room. See you there!!

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

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.

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 shooters, and a pretty awesome Chopper Game. What really stood out was a game called “The Angry Hand of God” in which you control the hand of god in the sky and shoot lightning bolts and building and people. It’s hilarious watching the little people run for cover. The game was released on the XBOX Market and to date has had 5,300 downloads. We look forward to next month’s IGDA meeting.