Hey fellow gamedevs!

I wanted to remind you that we are meeting tomorrow at Tel Aviv University for some discussions followed by some consumption of alcohol.
We are still waiting for a final word from a guest speaker we have from the US and i’ll send another note later if he’ll actually speak.

If anyone have a topic of discussion, or wants to show or present something, like their game or ideas shortly (in 5-10 minutes)

feel free to bring it with you.

Agenda:
18:00 gathering
19:00 Introductions around the room and some discussions
20:00 Lecture by Dave Gilbert  (Webcasted from USA)
21:00 going to drink in Rosh Pina pub.

As promised, here is the info about today’s lecture at GameIS TAU meet up. I think we managed to find a great subject for all of us garage game developers, and speak to one successful individual who makes a living out of making indie games.

Due to popular demand by you, Dave Gilbert, CEO of Wadjet Eye Games, will speak about running an indie game studio on a shoestring.

Dave Gilbert has been interested in adventure games ever since 1986, when his mother made the mistake of buying him a copy of Infocom’s Wishbringer. Fifteen years later, he took his first dip into game creation in when he discovered the Reality on the Norm Project and wrote his first short game. Since then, he has authored over six successful freeware games, including 2004’s award-winning Two of a Kind.
In 2006 he turned his hobby into a fulltime career when he founded Wadjet Eye Games and published his first commercial title, The Shivah. The company was soon nominated for a “Best New Studio” Game Developers Choice award and was also voted by Gamasutra as one of the top twenty breakthrough developers of 2008. Currently on its roster are three games in the Blackwell series as well as the upcoming Puzzle Bots.

Room 206, Wolfson Building for Engineering, Tel Aviv University

See ya tomorrow !

full details at the event:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111159865565892

Hey everyone,

We’ve been a little busy preparing a full line up of interesting and exciting events for the next few months, here are the “save the dates” email

April 13th 2010 GameIS TAU meetup at Shiluvim – April 2010,
discussion & lecture.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=111159865565892

April 27th 2010 GameIS Play And Mingle (location TBA soon),
going out drinking with the devs.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105309316172593

May 11th 2010 GameIS TAU meetup at Shiluvim – April 2010,
discussion & lecture.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112617438749324

May 25th 2010 IGDA Game Day 2010 –
a full day of lectures and activities in Afeka Collage. More info coming soon.
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=105078856197490

9 November 2010 – Gameis @Contech2010
We’ll be having our annual big Games Conference a little later than usual this year and part of the Contech conference on November 9th 2010.
Save the date!

More meetup dates for June and forth will be announced shortly.

We are still looking to fill up a few lecture spots in May 25th event and looking for lecturers for the November GameIS event.
Subjects can be in any game development related subject : Design, Production, Business, Marketing, Technology and anything else game related.
Please email your talk proposals GameIS@odedsharon.com

Since this is relevant to some of you, Almog Koren from the Flash and Flex Israel user group is having an event on April 25th and asked me to pass along:
http://flash-and-flex-israel.eventbrite.com/

Last but not least, we’re in the process of re-launching the Gameis.co.il website. http://gameis.co.il/
Our plans is to have a game company catalog, game developer profiles, job seeking and offering boards, industry event list, mailing list, etc…
We would really like your feedback regarding what you would like to see in it, and your help in making it better (if you are a content editor, or graphic designer, or know wordpress or PHP, you can help!)

See ya soon!
Oded and the other guys (Guy Bendov, Guy Nesher, Yuval Sapir, etc..)