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3D Modelling Workshop
| Starts | Tue 14th Feb 2023 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
This is a 2 hour workshop on creating 3d models for games using Blender, and importing them into a game engine, such as Unity.
Any Society member can participate by joining the Discord.
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Game Jam 2022
| Starts | Sat 5th Nov 2022 at 09:00 |
| Ends | at 21:00 |
| Cost | € 3.00 |
| Max | 20 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Thomond Village Student Centre
It will be a 12 hour event, running from 9am to 9pm. A Game Jam is an event where you make a game from the ground up in a time limit. This is based on a Theme *announced at the day*. You can use any software to enter.
To Attend: The entry fee is 3€ per person. You can participate solo, or in a group of 3.
Prizes: The winner of the Game Jam is a 50€ voucher of the winner's choice. Committee members can participate but will not be able to earn the prize. Pizza will also be provided on the event. We hope to see you there!
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Pub Quiz Event
| Starts | Tue 1st Nov 2022 at 20:00 |
| Ends | at 23:00 |
| Cost | € 3.00 |
| Max | 100 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Pavilion (North Campus)
Hello everyone,
just wanted to let you know that Games Soc is hosting a pub quiz in the Pavilion at 8pm on the 1st of November.
We have collaborated with them and submitted one of the rounds of questions. The entry fee will be €10 per team of 4 or €3 per person. The maximum amount per team is 4 people and if you want to join a team we will help you find one. There will be prizes for the first 3 teams.
We hope to see you there!!
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Pixel art workshop
| Starts | Tue 25th Oct 2022 at 18:30 |
| Ends | at 19:30 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
Hello everyone,
Games Dev is hosting a Pixel Art workshop on the 20th of October at 6.30pm in our Discord server. It will focus on the basics of pixel art and how to animate it. The software being used is a free software called FireAlpaca. It will be run by our Secretary Wiktoria Ziaja.
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Unity Workshop
| Starts | Thu 20th Oct 2022 at 18:30 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
Hello everyone,
Games Dev is hosting a Unity workshop on the 20th of October at 6.30pm in our Discord server. It will focus on the basics of Unity and will run you through how to make a 2D game. It will be run by our Health and Safety Officer, Bart, who has experience in Unity from previous projects from Computer Science modules as well as from attending our Game Jams.
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Game Jam Event
| Starts | Sat 2nd Apr 2022 at 09:00 |
| Ends | at 21:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Max | 40 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Thomond Student Village Hub
Hello, programmers after a bunch of organization and reorganization we bring you the bi-annual Game Jam this Saturday from 9am to 9pm in Thomond Student Village Hub. For anyone who is new to Game Jam's the general idea is you have 12 hours to make a game, the theme is going to be announced on the day, you can work in groups of up to four. We will also bring the VR headset for anyone who wants to make a VR game, however they will be on a first come first serve basis. There will be a prize for the best game made. The winner will be chosen by the committee member and will be announced the following weekend. Also to prevent any bias, committee members that so take part in the Game Jam don't qualify for the prize.
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Workshop: Blender - Terrain Creation
| Starts | Tue 8th Mar 2022 at 19:00 |
| Ends | at 21:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
Wiktoria is going to walk us through how to use Blender when it comes to creating a terrain for your game. Since we did an introductory Blender workshop last semester, Wiktoria will only cover the basics of Blender briefly. If you missed our intorductoy workshop, Wiktoria recommends taking a look at Blender for Beginners: Easy Froggy! by MAR on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEBwBrRzyhw&t=233s&ab_channel=MAR), This workshop will take place on Discord (Invite link: https://discord.gg/Ch2VmhMg) at 7pm on Tuesday the 8th of March.
Hope to see you there.
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Last Meeting
| Starts | Fri 3rd Dec 2021 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Max | 26 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Kemmy Business School floor 1 room 13
Going through the game jam games as well as having fun playing multilayer games. This is our last meeting for this semester.
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Game Jam 2021
| Starts | Sat 27th Nov 2021 at 09:00 |
| Ends | at 21:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Max | 30 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Kemmy Business School KBG-10
A Game Jam is an event where we will meet up and make a game within 12 hours(9am - 9pm), the theme of the game jam will be announced on the morning and will have teams of 1-4. There will be a prize of a €50 voucher for Steam/Playstation network/Xbox live, there will be an option to buy food on the day but we recommend you bring a snack too as well as this you should also try to bring a laptop, some of us will also be online on discord if you want to join in from home.
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Pixel art workshop
| Starts | Tue 2nd Nov 2021 at 19:00 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
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Halloween weekly meeting
| Starts | Thu 28th Oct 2021 at 18:30 |
| Ends | at 19:30 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Max | 26 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: room S117
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Blender workshop
| Starts | Tue 19th Oct 2021 at 19:00 |
| Ends | at 21:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
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Unity workshop
| Starts | Tue 5th Oct 2021 at 19:00 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
Learning the basics of Unity game engine's tools for game development. Meeting on at Game Dev Discord from 7-8pm.
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Game of the Month PicoPark
| Starts | Thu 30th Sep 2021 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 19:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Max | 26 attendees |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Kemmy Business School, KBG13
Hello and welcome. This weeks Thursday meeting is on campus for the first time in a year and a half. We are going to be discussing PicoPark, which is Septembers game of the month. At the end of the meeting we will also vote on the game of the month for October. We will discuss PicoPark by looking at its design and gameplay. Our members can chime in with their own opinions as to what makes the game good or bad, maybe any changes or improvements they would make. We hope to see you there.
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Games Dev AGM
| Starts | Thu 16th Sep 2021 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 19:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
Hello, and welcome all new members, as well as anyone new who wants to join the fun. We are holding our AGM in our Discord Server at 6pm tonight.
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The Game Awards viewing
| Starts | Thu 10th Dec 2020 at 23:30 |
| Ends | Fri 11th Dec 2020 at 04:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
Join us in watching this years Games Awards. We will be showing it on our discord but feel free to watch it on your own device while being in the voice chat with us. Also send in your predictions in the weekly meeting chat so we can discuss them prior to the start. We will be starting at 23:30 to make sure everyone is comfortably set up and ready to watch the Awards.
Discord : https://discord.gg/yzHG6CUBzY . If you paid for your membership and haven't received the programmer role (gives you access to the weekly meeting and events channels) please contact one of the committee members with your discord name and student ID so we can make sure its you and add you in.
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Choosing engines for Sem1 game
| Starts | Mon 26th Oct 2020 at 00:00 |
| Ends | Wed 28th Oct 2020 at 18:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
You will be able to choose the game engine you will be using for the semester 1 game and you can make groups with people who are using the same engine during our weekly meeting at 6 on wednesday, we recommend unity or godot for 2nd years and above and solar2d for 1st years.
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Recruitment Drive
| Starts | Wed 21st Oct 2020 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 21:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | VIRTUAL Event |
The bi-annual recruitment drive. stop by to see what games development society has to offer you, feel free to ask us question about the society and one of our committee members should be able to answer your question.
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Bake Sale!
| Starts | Wed 9th Oct 2019 at 08:30 |
| Ends | at 16:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: Student Courtyard
We'll be having a bake sale in the Student Courtyard. We'll have buns, queen cakes, cookies, fudge, lots of rocky road, and more! Come have some food and say hi!
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Society AGM!
| Starts | Thu 19th Sep 2019 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 19:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: KBG-15 (Kemmy Business School)
The purpose of the AGM (Annual General Meeting) is to form the new committee that will operate the society in the coming year.
Come along and vote on who you want to be in charge this year, or if you want you can run yourself!
There is no restriction on who can run for positions and who cannot, so if you want to run for a position and get involved, get ready for a debate.
Hope to see you there!
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Unity 2D Workshop
| Starts | Thu 21st Feb 2019 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: KBG-13
Continuing on from the 2D Animation Workshop on the 14th February, we'll be hosting a Unity Workshop where you can port your animations into Unity and we will show you how to set them up and give them basic movement.
Make sure to bring a Laptop and laptop charger as this is a 2-hour long workshop and you will need to make sure you have power! Plugs will be provided on site.
See you then!
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2D Animation Workshop
| Starts | Thu 14th Feb 2019 at 18:00 |
| Ends | at 20:00 |
| Cost | FREE |
| Type | IN-PERSON Event |
Location: KBG-13
We're hosting a 2D animation workshop for creating and animating characters for video games!
Make sure to bring a Laptop and laptop charger as this is a 2-hour long workshop and you will need to make sure you have power! Plugs will be provided on site.
See you then!
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