Welcome to Tech Week!
As part of Tech Week 2007, Games Soc are running quite a few events:
--Monday 1pm - PS3 Talk and Demo, the Seminar Room 3pm - Build your own PC workshop, the Seminar Room
--Tuesday 4pm - Photoshop Tutorial with our very own Alan O'Connor, C101
--Wednesday 12pm - Havok (Game Physics) talk, the Seminar Room 2pm - Demonware (Game Networking) talk, the Seminar Room 3pm - Console Gaming, the Seminar Room
--Thursday 6pm - Lab Gaming in C204
and in detail...
Monday! Neil Costigan will be back with the PS3 to give another talk on the console and a demonstration too in the Seminar Room at 1pm. Games Soc's illustrious Chairperson and all round nice guy, Mr. Simon Kilroy, will be in the Seminar Room afterwards at 3pm with our lovely Webmaster, John Doyle, to run a workshop on how to build your own PC. There'll be advice on what parts to pick and then a walkthrough on how to put it all together.
Tuesday! Games Soc's own Alan O'Connor, designer of some of the best posters on campus, will be giving a tutorial on how to use Photoshop in C101 at 4pm.
Wednesday! At 12pm in the Seminar Room, two Senior Developers from Havok, the world's leading providers of physics middleware for the games and movie industry give a talk on their areas of expertise. The topics of the talk are a "Rough Guide to Working in Havok", followed by "Physics in Computer Games", which should cover all areas involved in the business. Following the Havok talk, at 2pm, Sean Blanchfield, Chief Technical Officer of Demonware, the world's leading provider of networking middleware for the games industry will be out in DCU. His talk will cover all the aspects of developing the company's technology used in leading titles such as Call Of Duty 3, Need for Speed and the Splinter Cell series.
Thursday! Lab Gaming runs as usual at 6pm in C204 and the Dawn of War campaign continues.
A reasonable amount of events... hope to see you all at the talks and stuff. Enjoy Paddy's Day and all that too.
Kevin Secretary, DCU Games Society