VGDev

Since the last update for Flying Whales, the team added their main character! As well as new music, a dialogue system, new cool abilities and much more!

Melody Star! is back with updated character art, and a new idol! The team also created a rock band composed of the characters Axe, Roxie, and Frey. They're aiming to spread their name and raise money for the Tooth Fairy, a well known metal icon.

The Walpurgisnacht team has been busy following their previous update! A functional UI system has been implemented, and work on the first witch, Selene, is nearing completion. In addition, the game arena has been updated, and designs for the second witch, Rhea are in development!

Since Flying Whales' last update the team has created the game managers! Now the player character can die and come back by using their lives and lose the game if they run out of them. The team has also created a patrolling system for AIs to chase the player if they get too close!

Announcing our sixth game of the semester, History Hex, led by Luka Derado! History Hex is a strategy game with a focus on the logistics of moving your armies and their supplies.

Announcing our fifth game of the semester, The Prototype Inheritance, led by May Lawver! In the Prototype Inheritance, collect strange weapon modifiers as you climb a tower full of half-baked inventions and deadly experiments.

Since Melody Star's last update, the team created concepts for some of the game's characters! The first is the spirited leader of a J-pop idol group, and the second are members of a chiptune band. Stay tuned for more updates!

Announcing Walpurgisnacht, led by Yoon Lee! Steel yourself for a spell card duel in Walpurgisnacht, a hectic shoot-em-up fighting game in which players must face off against each other in a desperate bid to charge their magic circles! Unleash the spell contained within before your opponent and rain down fire upon them. On this night of sorcery and ancient tradition, travelers beware: there are witches about...

Interested in designing video games? Coding cool mechanics? Drawing art? Composing music? Eating free snacks?? Come to VGDev's first meeting of the semester to learn how to do all of that! Join us this Friday at 4:45pm in CCB 017 to hear more about our club's structure and the exciting new games our members are working on!

Our sixth game of the semester is the Price of Wealth, led by Tristan Sallin! The Price of Wealth is a college-setting roguelike where people have been mind-controlled through their money and you, a broke college student, must stop the people pulling the strings.

Our fifth game of the semester is Grackle: The Maze of Eternal Horrors, led by Ben Yarmowich! Grackle: The Maze of Eternal Horrors is a first person shooter horror game where one tries to collect glowing skulls to escape from maze after maze filled with murderous ghosts.

Our fourth game of the semester is Zscape, led by Kevin Tang and Chris Kim! Zscape is a roguelike Battle Network game where players must defeat increasingly difficult levels, all while adapting to the various upgrades (and enemies!) that present themselves.

Our third game of the semester is Hengliding, led by Alice Kalok and Sarah Tsai! Hengliding is a game about raising chickens, showering them with love, and steering them to victory on the race track!

Our second game of the semester is Rune Search, led by William Martin! Rune Search is a half word search, half roguelike web game where players must strategically maneuver their way around levels in order to save the princess or kill the monster or get the gold or something.

This week, we'll start introducing our games for the semester! Our first game is Demonstratum, led by John Britti. Demonstratum is a stealth learning/adventure game based on Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Experience the formative years of Frankenstein's Dæmon as he learns to speak and survive in a world that hates him.

Hello everyone! Are you interested in learning how to make video games? Making new friends? Eating snacks?? Then join us this Friday at 4:45 in Klaus 2447 for our first meeting. We'll be talking about what we do, and we'll be showing off new projects! Any skill level is welcome, and we'll help provide the guidance you'll need for game development this semester.

Hello! Want to learn how to use Unity? Join us this Friday, right after the regular VGDev meeting at 6pm. You'll learn the basics of Unity and make a game in 2 hours!

Thanks to everyone who was able to make it to our first meeting of the semester! Here's a quick recap if you weren't able to make it today. Each semester we make 5 - 7 games, of any genre or style (as long as the scope is doable). The groups meet at other times during the week to work on their games. These games are created, developed, and led by students! And at the end of the semester we have a campus demo where we show off our games. VGDev is a great place to learn. Projec...t leads and other experienced members and more than happy to help you learn how to use Unity, code, make art, etc. If you come to one of our Friday meetings you'll be able to check out the games we're working on this semester and if any of them interest you talk to the project lead about getting involved. We also have a discord, and if you weren't able to join today the link will be available at the end of the powerpoint at each meeting. Next week we'll be doing updates on the 3 games pitched today and after the meeting (around 6ish) there will be a Unity Tutorial for anyone interested in learning.

Hey everyone! It's that time of the year again. Our first meeting of the semester is TODAY at 4:45 in KLAUS 2447. We'll be talking about what we do and introduce you to our first 3 games of the semester. And now Friday meetings have food! And remember, any skill level is welcome. We hope to see you there!

Thank you to everyone who made this an incredibly successful semester of making games! And congratulations to our Deleonic award recipients: Andrew Hoyt, Amrut Kulkarni, WinaGodwin Anyanwu, Jeffrey Zhang, Joey Jackson, and Rachel Tierney.

Come to our first meeting of the semester (Friday, January 19th at 4:45 PM in Klaus 1447) if you want to make some cool games or chat with the person who made this incredible advertisement

t h e c y c l e c o n t i n u e s. Join us on Friday, January 19th for our first meeting of the semester! New projects, new people, new leadership (but not really), and MORE fun (hopefully!!). If you've never been to a meeting with us, don't fret! We're ready to guide you through the world of developing games in one semester, no matter your skill level.

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TODAY IS THE DAY!!! If you're a member of the club, don't forget to show up at the event location at 5pm to help set up. And those of you who just wanna check out our awesome work, stop by any time between 6pm and 9pm. See you then!! :D

Heeeeeeey VGDev, check it out! We've got a guest talk this week!! Titled "What the Heck is UX?" presented by Sarah Massagee from Tripwire Interactive, and Stephanie Chergi from Games That Work. It'll be Friday, October 27 in Klaus 1447 after weekly project updates, so please be sure to stick around--and encourage your friends to come too ;)! "UX, short for User Experience Design, has become a buzzword lately, but what does it actually mean? It's often associated with UI, but user experience goes beyond the interface. Join us as we discuss what UX is, how it applies to game design, and how your own projects can benefit through UX research and testing."

It was a full house tonight for VGDev! We had an amazing turn out and a great talk by our guest speaker, Matthew Guzdial, that will surely give our new members a solid place to start in their game development careers, as well as keep our old members inspired to continue with their awesome work. Thank you all for coming out, and we hope to see you again next week!!

Wow, just happened upon this lovely reminder on a whiteboard that VGDev is the BEST club if you're interested in developing games! They were even thoughtful enough to include our meeting location (Klaus 1447) and time (4:45pm on Fridays, which is today!! What a coincidence!!)

We hope everyone had a relaxing summer and is refreshed for another semester of making awesome games! First meeting of this semester will be FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 1ST at 4:45pm in Klaus 1447. And if you haven't seen them yet, check out the amazing games our club made last semester at http://vgdev.gtorg.gatech.edu/games/

It's been a great semester in VGDev, and this is when we get to share it with everyone! We invite you all to stop by the CULC (next to Starbucks) next Friday at 6pm for a chance to play all of the awesome games made by our club members this semester. Hope we see you there!

Just a reminder, we will not be having a meeting tomorrow (Friday, January 27th) due to the the College of Computing Career Fair. Have no fear though, club meetings will return as usual next week!

We're back from break, and you know what that means? More games! Come visit us this Friday at 4:45pm in Klaus 1447 for our first meeting of the semester. Everyone is welcome, and we hope to see you there!

Well, VGDev had its final meeting for the semester last Friday. We shared our Deleonic Awards, elected our new officers, and showed off our new website! http://vgdev.gtorg.gatech.edu/ We can't wait to see what's in store for us soon! Hope you all survive finals and we'll see you all next semester!

Evening VGDev'ers! This semester is drawing to a close as we are wrapping up our games for this semester! Remember that we will also have our last meeting THIS FRIDAY in Klaus 2447 at 4:45pm like usual! We are holding VGDev officer elections, so please come! Also, we're handing out the FREE t-shirts people have signed up for, and if you haven't signed up for one, then you may get lucky!

Good morning VGDev'ers! Our campus demo was a success and we'll be having one more meeting where we'll have our leadership elections and hand out the leftover t-shirts! It's not the upcoming friday because it's Thanksgiving break! So sit back and relax until December 2nd! We'll send more reminders in the near future :D Have a Merry Thanksgiving~

Good morning VGDev'ers! TODAY IS THE DAY! Come to the CULC at 5pm with your finished-ish games and get ready to set up! We will distribute t-shirts to those that filled out the form and have pizza, so bring people :D

Evening VGDev'ers! Our campus demo is coming up THIS FRIDAY! Get your games wrapped up and get some free feedback and pizza at the CULC. Remember to come and set up at 5PM because the event is open to the public at 6PM! Spread the word, tell your friends, and let's have some fun! :D

Good morning VGDev'ers! If you haven't gotten the emails, we have our new VGDev T-shirts out! If you can fill it out, we'll get you a free T-Shirt at the demo! Speaking of which, our campus demo is coming up REAL soon. Get your games ready, and spread the word! November 18th, 6pm, at the CULC!

Good morning VGDev'ers! Remember that there is NO MEETING TODAY due to Career Fair! As far as if your project teams are meeting, that's up to your leaders ;) Have a splendid day today everyone~

Don't forget! Today is the Unity Level Up session. Kartik will be teaching how to make a simple game in under 2 hours. Attend if you want to sharpen your Unity skills or learn it for the first time! Klaus 1212 at 5:30pm tonight!

Good morning VGDev'ers! Remember that we have our third meeting today at 4:45 at Klaus 2447. See you all there!

Good afternoon VGDev'ers! We have another announcement that our Speaker, Kartik, made about his Unity Tutorial sessions! Check it out, because he's awesome and willing to help!

This is a re-upload! We have received notification that the GGDA/Microsoft Hololens event is held in the CENTERGY BUILDING, same time, same date! The original post got deleted when I removed the photo (oops). So just as a reminder, you can still sign up for any of the FIVE teams by contacting the leads or even pitch your own idea for this semester!

One more note for those who couldn't make it to meetings or if you couldn't sign up with one of the project leads... Here's is a Google Doc with all the projects and the contact information with it! It is a live document, so it will be updated often! It should have the new projects on there by tomorrow~

Good afternoon VGDev'ers! This is a reminder that we have our weekly meeting tomorrow in Klaus 2447 at 4:45pm! We have a couple of projects already up and running, with a few more being pitched this week. Come and see if there are any teams you want to join!

Gooooood morning VGDev'ers! The wait is over and we're back! We'll be having our first official meeting next Friday, Sept. 2nd! Remember that! 9/2, in Klaus 2447 at 4:45pm! Spread the word and see you there!

Hey VGDev! Know it's a bit late but if you haven't seen in the emails, our games are up for the semester! Go check our your hard work and share with your friends, family, and whoever you'd think would like to see some awesomeness!

Good afternoon VGDev'ers! So as you know, we upload our videogames onto the VGDev website after the end of the semester! Well, it may take 2 more weeks before we can see our hard work immortalized on the interwebs. But rest assured, they will be up there! So for now, enjoy the start of your summer people!

Totally didn't forget to post photos from the last meeting. We apparently traveled into the future of Fall 2016. (Whoops) Congratulations again to Da-In Ryoo, Seth Triplett, and Jimmy Spearman for your exceptional effort this semester!

It's finally over :( But VGDev doesn't end there! We hope that you enjoyed your experience this semester. It was tiring and hectic, but also a lot of fun. Good luck with the rest of your finals and we'll see you all next Fall!

Good morning VGDev'ers! Remember that tomorrow is our LAST meeting for the semester! We'll be seeing the final states of our hard work and giving out special recognition with some Deleonic Awards! There will also apparently be a super SECRET thing. So come and see what it is! Even I don't know! Also for those who signed up for T-shirts, come claim them! If you don't, ANYONE can come get it!

Some more photos from the campus demo!

Good afternoon VGDev'ers! Our campus demo was a big hit yesterday and thank you to all who came to help and have fun! Now there will be one last final meeting at Klaus 2447 at 4:45pm on Friday, April 15th! It will be our wrap-up meeting to polish our games and finally immortalize it on the official website! Also, we will be giving out Deleonic Awards to some outstanding members who went above and beyond this semester! AND FREE T-SHIRTS will be given if no one claims the leftovers. So come out and we'll see you there!

The campus demo is setting up!

YO! The campus demo is TODAY at 6pm in the 2nd floor of the CULC! Get your friends, mates, and strangers to play some student-made videogames and eat some free pizza! Remember that all members should try to arrive at 5pm to set up.

Good morning VGDev'ers! Remember that the campus demo is TOMORROW! So get your games ready and bring your laptops! Setup will start at 5pm at the CULC 2nd floor near the Starbucks. Come early to help and make sure you're not fumbling around when people arrive at 6pm.... As a small note, we will still hold another meeting next week!

Good morning VGDev'ers! Remember that our campus demo will be next Friday in place of our regular meeting! RSVP so we can prove to the CoC that we need lots of pizza :) Also there's a Junior Design project team that is planning to re-design our current VGDev website! So if you can fill out the survey, it will help give more feedback and result in an awesome upgrade! Have a lovely weekend!