Hey folks,
Just a quick mail to let you know of our upcoming events over the coming week.
Now as many of you probably know its TechWeek this week here in DCU and as part of this Games Soc will be running its own events. First up is a talk by Tony Kelly of Torc Interactive, one of Irelands largest and most exciting game developers. He will be speaking tomorrow, Tuesday Feb 28th, in the Seminar Room in the Hub at 3pm. His talk will cover such topics as Games as a business, Games as a career & how to break into the industry, How to get a game published, The games industry in Ireland, and also his predictions for Irish Game Industry in the near future. This promises to be an extremely interesting talk and will be of special interest to those wishing to pursue a career in games development. It will also be of interest to those wishing to see the direction the games industry here in Ireland is heading and the industry leading technologies it is producing. Check out http://www.torcinteractive.com for more info.
Next up will be a Console Freeplay session from 4 6pm on Thursday. At this well be playing a selection of games from the Xbox, PS2 and Gamecube. This should be a more relaxed affair after our frantic Halo 2 Team Tournament so come along after your lectures for a little bit of chillout.
Then straight after that, our Lab Gaming sessions will be resuming in C204 in the Henry Gratten. The session will start at 6pm but as most of you know the room fills up pretty quickly so come early to make sure you get a seat.
Now for those of you who were too lazy to read all that heres a summary of our events during the week.
Tuesday Talk by Tony Kelly of Torc Interactive 3pm, Seminar Room, The Hub
Thursday Console Freeplay Session 4-6pm, Seminar Room, The Hub
Lab Gaming 6-9pm, C204, Henry Gratten
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Now whats coming up after this week. Well with next week being Week 5 some of you may know we have two of our newest and best events lined up. The Retro Console Day will be running on Wednesday, March 8th from 1 4.30pm. This event will celebrate the best of Retro with competitions on the SNES, Mega Drive and good old Commodore 64. The event is being sponsored by Game Exchange, Dublins largest stockists of both retro and second hand games who are also providing the prizes for the competitions.
Info on the BYOPC LAN Event that week will be in a subsequent mail...
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As usual keep an eye on the site and forums located at http://games.redbrick.dcu.ie/forums for more info on these events. Hope to see you all there!
Regards Simon
Secretary DCU Games Society