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The second lab session's notes are available on the GameDev Wiki.

http://isugamedev.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?LabSession2

If you've got questions, feel free to drop us a line.

The officers have decided that we will postpone the lab session this week to
Thursday.  Having two meetings a week was very taxing on us, and we believe it's
a little much for the members too.  We decided to alternate lab sessions and
normal gamedev meetings every week.  We will have lab this week, a normal
meeting next week, lab after that, etc.  Normal meetings will still be in Carver
150 at 8:00 p.m.

Remember:  Lab session this Thursday, Atanasoff 116 (or somewhere thereabouts),
7:00 p.m.  We aren't meeting tonight.

Also, we will have a booth at ClubFest on Wednesday, so feel free to come visit
us in the Cardinal Room in the Memorial Union!

It means Thursday...  sorry about that.  The mailing list server was slow, and
the message didn't get out until after the meeting was over.  Sorry again. 
We're going to try to meet on Tuesday in Atanasoff again.

Michael Holtan wrote:
> 
> Does tonight mean Friday?  cuz the message you sent has thursday as the date on
> it for some reason.  just trying to clarify.
> 
> >From: Chad Austin <ae...@ia...>
> >To: gda <isu...@li...>
> >Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 18:18:05 -0500
> >Subject: [ISUGameDev-annc] Meeting tonight
> 
> > Sorry for the late announcement...
> >
> > Tonight we are meeting in Carver 150 at 8:00 p.m. to talk about general
> concepts
> 
> > of game design, such as design docs and general game architecture.
> >
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Sorry for the late announcement...

Tonight we are meeting in Carver 150 at 8:00 p.m. to talk about general concepts
of game design, such as design docs and general game architecture.

Tonight the GameDev club is having a lab session where we will show you how to
draw graphics using OpenGL in C++.  Just show up to 116 Atanasoff at 7:00 p.m.
tonight and we'll get you started!

If you have any questions, e-mail ga...@ia...

The ISU Game Developers Club is having its first meeting this Thursday at 8:00
p.m. in Carver 150.  It will be an introductory meeting -- we will explain what
the club is about, what we want to accomplish in the next year, and introduce
those of us that love to create games.

Everybody is welcome!  Game designers, programmers, artists, sound and music
folks...  Hope to see you there.

And be sure and visit our web site at http://isugamedev.sf.net/

Game Developers Club
http://isugamedev.sf.net/
ga...@ia...

Ben told me to let everybody know what the plan is this semester for the gamedev
club.

We plan to have our first meeting next Thursday (that is September 5th).  The
actual meeting itself has yet to be fleshed out.

We plan to change the focus of the club from a passive, classroom-like setting
(i.e., what we did last year) to something a lot more active.  We want to form
an active group to finish off Midworld (or another game, if that is what people
want to do).  The meetings would become more like real game design and
development sessions.  With Levi's new laptop, we could even playtest the game.

That is my intent, at least.  If plans change, you will surely hear about them. 
If have any ideas you want to throw out or have any questions, send a message to
the isugamedev-devel list.

We will start putting up flyers next week and I will send another message to
this list with more information when the time comes.

Thanks,
Chad

Congratulations to the new officers for next year.

President:   Chad Austin
Vice Pres:   Lou Herard
Secretary:   John Gurley
Treasurer:   Andres Reinot

These fun people will bring you into a kick-ass new game development year.

-----
Ben Scott
President ISU Game Developers Club
Treasurer ISU Ballroom Dance Company
bs...@ia...

At the Game Developers Club meeting this Thursday, Adrian Sannier will be
speaking about his experiences in the gaming industry.  He'll start off with a
short talk about what he's done out there in RealLife.  Afterwards, we'll have a
Q&A / round table type discussion.  Adrian is a wonderful speaker, so make sure
you show up!

As a reminder, we're having officer elections for next semester at the meeting
as well.  We're holding elections for the following positions:  president, vice
president, secretary, and treasurer.  If you're interesting in having a
leadership position next semester, show up and nominate yourself!

If you have any questions, send an e-mail to ga...@ia....  And visit our
web site!  http://isugamedev.sf.net/

Remember:

Durham 171
7:00 p.m.
Thursday, 26th

(Gloria, could you forward this on to the ugrads?  Thanks.)

Game Developers Club Meeting
Thursday, April 11th
7:00 p.m.
Durham 171

http://isugamedev.sf.net/
ga...@ia...

Josh Brown will be talking about AI on Thursday.  He'll cover some basic
graph algorithms, Dijkstra's algorithm, and the A-star algorithm.  He will
also touch on genetic algorithms.  These concepts can help make your AI
opponent less predictable, making the game more fun and challenging.

Remember:
Thursday, 7:00 p.m., Durham 171
No cost!

We're having our second meeting of the semester!  Durham 171 at 7:00 p.m.

It'll be a relaxed question and answer setting, so bring any questions you have
about game development with you.

Also...  go to our web page!  http://isugamedev.sf.net/

hi all-

welcome back from break. we've got a gift for you - a new web site. i 
think you'll like it much better than the old one. kevin spent a lot of 
time tweaking it to make it look nice. please, explore it and make it your 
own. please, we encourage you to submit information/news/links/etc as you 
see fit and to let us know of any bugs or missing information.

http://isugamedev.sourceforge.net

-----
Ben Scott
President ISU Game Developers Club
Treasurer ISU Ballroom Dance Company
bs...@ia...

We're meeting tonight (Thursday) at 7:00 p.m. in Durham 171.  This meeting is supposed to be
relaxing, so this time just bring some money ($5) and we'll sit around, eat pizza, and talk about
video games.  ;)

If you're coming, LET US KNOW.  Send an e-mail to ga...@ia... so we can have a rough
estimate of how many people are coming.

DURHAM 171
7:00 P.M.
BRING MONEY

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

while we're on the subject of CVS in windows, here's another option to
WinCVS ...

-----
Ben Scott
President ISU Game Developers Club
Treasurer ISU Ballroom Dance Company
bs...@ia...

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 11:29:50 -0600
From: Patrick Hartling <pa...@vr...>
To: dev...@vr...
Subject: [dev-help] TortoiseCVS

I just saw a link to the following site on slashdot:

     http://www.cvsgui.org/TortoiseCVS/index.shtml

It's a Windows Explorer shell extension that lets you use CVS directly 
from your folder windows.  Those people doing CVS work on Win32 who don't 
like WinCVS might like this a lot.

  -Patrick

-- 
Patrick L. Hartling                     | Research Assistant, VRAC
pa...@vr...                | 2624 Howe Hall -- (515)294-4916
http://www.137.org/patrick/             | http://www.vrac.iastate.edu/

hi all-

i hope your thanksgiving break is going well and that you are looking
forward to getting yourself stuffed. ^_^

several meetings ago we covered (quickly) what CVS is and how to get it
working on windows using CygWin. i mentioned there was another way to go
about it, but it required some "voodoo" to get it working. well, i put
together a quick HOWTO for getting WinCVS and OpenSSH installed and
working together so that you can access CVS in windows through a nice GUI.
if you're interested, check out

http://isugamedev.sf.net/wincvs_ssh_howto.html

cheers,
-----
Ben Scott
President ISU Game Developers Club
Treasurer ISU Ballroom Dance Company
bs...@ia...

This Thursday we're *back in Durham 171*.  Hopefully it'll stay that way.  :)

This week we'll be choosing the games we want to work on and getting a rough idea of how the
development teams will be laid out.  If you can't make it to the meeting, e-mail us
(ga...@ia...) the top two games that you'd like to work on.  You can view the designs we
have so far at http://isugamedev.sourceforge.net/design/index.html.  If your design isn't there,
E-MAIL US.  If you're not sure what you want to work on yet, that's okay.  No pressure, just send it
in sometime next week.

If you want to propose a new design this week, you *must* e-mail us the design beforehand.  This way
we can make sure we have time for you.

Remember:

Durham 171
7:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 24th

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

Thursday, October 18th at 7:00 p.m., we'll be meeting in Gilman 1652 (remember: it's a different
room from the last two times!  We'll be back in Durham 171 soon enough) and hopefully finishing up
our game design presentations.  If we have enough time, we'll vote on the designs we liked best.

Sample design documents and the ones we've received via e-mail are available at
http://isugamedev.sourceforge.net/design/.  Want us to list yours?  Send it to one of us and we'll
make sure it gets up there.

See you there!

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

hi all-

there were some great game ideas presented tonight. i must say i'm excited
for what we have in store for us for the rest of the year. we stil have
about 4 more game designs to hit next week. after that we'll have
everyone vote on their favorite game designs and we'll go from there.

i would like to ask all of you to email me (ga...@ia...) your
design documents so we can post them on the web for everybody to read. in
the future if anybody randomly comes up with a cool game design, we can
throw it on the web so that we have a large database of cool ideas we can
work with and to give us creative inspiration.

by the way, for those of you that have not signed up for an account with
sourceforge, you'll be hurting for one pretty soon. go to
www.sourceforge.net (or www.sf.net) and sign up for an account (free!).
then email ga...@ia... with your new username and we'll add you in
as developers to our sourceforge project. this will give you the ability
to work on code once we pick our game projects.

also, i highly recommend using the isu...@li... mailing
list to discuss the game designs that were presented tonight as well as
the ones that will be posted to the web shortly. i think the discussion
surrounding the designs posted tonight were excellent and would love to
see them continue online.

see you next week!

-----
Ben Scott
President ISU Game Developers Club
Treasurer ISU Ballroom Dance Company
bs...@ia...

Another gamedev club meeting is coming up!  We'll be proposing our game ideas, so make sure you
remember to bring at least one paper copy of your design!  You may also want to e-mail one to us
(isu...@li...) so we can place it on the web page, and maybe check it into CVS.

The meeting will proceed as follows:  First, everyone (or as much as time allows...  we may spill
over into next week) will present their ideas.  You get five minutes to present the game, and five
minutes to answer questions from the rest of the club.  If two people turn out to have relatively
similar ideas, they may want to consolidate them into one design, so that they're not competing
against each other.

If you need a little help to get started, we have some sample design docs at
http://isugamedev.sourceforge.net/design/index.html.

You can also view a live copy of the design doc I'm working on at http://aegisknight.org/battlements

Remember, it's in GILMAN, not Durham, this time.

7:00 p.m.
Thursday, October 11th
Gilman 1810

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

You can download the demo we showed tonight at:  http://isugamedev.sf.net/tank.zip  They're Win32
binaries...  If you're running on IRIX or Linux, you'll have to pull via CVS and build yourself.  :)

You can view the source code at:  http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/isugamedev/

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

The ISU Game Developers Club will be having a meeting this Thursday, October 4th, at 7:00 p.m. in
Durham 171.  We'll be showing off the tank games we've been working on, and Ben will give the
members an introduction to linear algebra (necessary for any advanced 3D graphics!).  We'll also
make sure that people are getting their game design documents close to being ready for the big vote
coming up on October 13th.  ^_^  (If you weren't at the recent meetings, we're going to vote next
week on which game we'd all like to work on as a club for the rest of the year.)

Hope to see you there!

Remember:  If you have a new version of your tank game, bring it so you can show it off!  Feel free
to e-mail Win32 binaries to one of the officers, and we'll take care of bringing your game to the
club, so you don't have to worry about floppies going bad.

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

I'll be talking about my experiences with my RPG engine, Sphere, and the ideas that I have for my
next engine, Naikai.  7:00 p.m. at 171 Durham if you can make it.  :)

-- 
Chad Austin
http://aegisknight.org/

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