Game Dev Club at SJSU

Election Results!

LibrarianBot — Sat, 28 Apr 2018 00:06:53 +0000

The results for the officers next semester have been announced!

Congrats to our new officers:

President - Kevin Prakash
Vice President - Lily Wang
Treasurer - Adam Ball
Graphics Designer - Alani Robles
Web Designer - Grant Haack
Secretary - Cole Pergerson
Streaming Officer - Carlo del Mundo

Thanks to everyone who ran for elections!

Elections for 2018!

LibrarianBot — Fri, 20 Apr 2018 22:54:19 +0000

Yesterday's meeting officially marked the start for next semester's officer elections. Voting will be available over the entire weekend, and results will be announced on the meeting next week on April 26th. Thank you to all who ran for offices- and fingers crossed!

Vote here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDo2AJPJCBwKf4OqkRnEbVHXii2g69...

elections

Spring 2018: Start!

LibrarianBot — Fri, 26 Jan 2018 11:23:25 +0000

Tonight we kicked off the beginning of the Spring semester, with boxes of pizza and bottles of soda. Thanks to everyone who came, including newcomers and returning members.

Our meetings are at Art 241 in the Art Building at SJSU, every Thursday at 7:30 PM. GameDev streaming on Twitch takes place on Sundays at 2 PM in the same location.

If you've had a project you'd like to continue from last semester, or from winter break, go ahead and grab a team and continue developing- and show off what you've got!
If you're starting fresh, this semester's theme is: Escape.

The second meeting of the semester (March 1st) is a highly recommended time to start forming a team and brainstorm ideas. A group from 3-4 is ideal. Try to include diversity in terms of levels of experience.

We're starting a regular, interactive tutorial series this semester by our president, and vice president, Matt and Jeff, for teams and soloists alike. Stay tuned!

Starting this semester we will have more speakers present at our meetings- people showing off their work, devs from successful games, and so on. Carlo will be hosting a series of speakers from Art 133.

Grant showed us his work in progress, a game written directly from hardware- an array of circuit boards that would play a prototype game similar to Pong- incredibly impressive and well on its way in development. Thanks, Grant!

Big Brother Bot

Mr Reynolds — Fri, 08 Dec 2017 03:53:31 +0000

Enter the maze to find your long lost little robot brothers.

The controls are as followed:

Up - Straight
Left - Left
Right - Right
Backwards - Non-existent, just hold the left/right key and wait until you turn to the desired position.

Semester Year Long Challenge

Design, Code - Jamahl Reynolds

Robot - Assets from Unity Store

Ultra RTS

AZB — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 11:02:22 +0000

Ultra RTS is a strategic military simulation game that puts you in command of your armed forces on a battlefield. Kill all your enemies and capture all the bases and you will command your army to a decisive victory! Spread out too much and weaken your defenses, give too much ground, and you and your armies will be destroyed. History will be decided by your strategic brilliance - or incompetence. Will your armies survive or be obliterated into the ash heap of history? Download now at https://gamejolt.com/games/UltraOptimizedRTS/262170!

I created this simple fun little strategic military simulation using some advanced optimizations I learned in my CS 134 Game Engines class.

Optimizations include:

Grid-based and bucket optimizations for collision detection, enemy detection, base capture detection, nearest instance finding.

Slowing the update rate for the AI such that each frame of the simulation only one AI unit's "thinking" code is being executed at a time. The result of this is the simulation can have many more AI units simultaneously without any noticeable drop in simulation performance. (I've had up to 400 units in the screen simultaneously and it was still running at 80 fps)

Grid based drawing optimizations - only objects in grid coordinates that are on-screen are drawn.

Miscellaneous

Arthur Baney - Creator

Special thanks to Jared Finder - My CS 134 professor who taught me a lot of the cool programming optimizations I used in this game.

End of Spring 2017!

Kathaleen — Thu, 04 May 2017 05:03:47 +0000

Hello everyone!
Just a short announcement:

For this week's meeting on 5/4/17, we will be having a guest speaker, Pantelis M. Papadopoulos, for the first 20 mins of the meeting. He will be speaking to us about how to use games for research.

We will also be having a "May the 4th be with you" space themed Game Jam, which will be 1 1/2 hour long!

Lastly, on 5/11 we will be presenting our projects and on 5/18 we will be having a party and games night!

Hope to see you there!
Kathaleen Anita Trampe
Secretary of SJSU Game Development Club

PowerUp

sokry — Fri, 21 Apr 2017 03:23:27 +0000

mario inspired two player fighting game
Windows only
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The Fighting Games Challenge

Anthony Sokry:
Contribution

Game Dev Updates - First meeting!

Kathaleen — Wed, 25 Jan 2017 22:19:59 +0000

Hello everybody!
Our first meeting for the Spring 2017 semester will be this Thursday 1/26 from 7:30pm to 9:00pm in the Mezzanine area (also known as the Teen HQ) of the MLK library found on the first floor.

Just a few things before the semester starts:
-We have a club Discord channel found at this link here: https://discord.gg/RzFNd4Z

-We need help with tabling for student organization day (Tuesday 2/7, from 11:00am to 2:00pm) and if you're interested you can sign-up here: https://goo.gl/forms/ROIsCC2dcDwikXz03

-We also need volunteers to help with Rockage which is from 2/10 to 2/12 in AFKgg Gamer Lounge.
The event link can be found here: https://www.facebook.com/events/204135293385263/
If you're interested in volunteering you can sign-up here: https://goo.gl/forms/bwlGSs4gjFBeJxF33

If you have any questions you can leave a comment or send us an e-mail at sjsugamedev@gmail.com

Sincerely,
Kathaleen Anita Trampe
Secretary of Game Development Club

Game Dev. Updates - Game Presentations 12/1

Kathaleen — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:56:56 +0000

Hello everyone!
Just a small reminder, we're going to be presenting our games in tomorrow's meeting! Feel free to present on what you've been working on for the past semester. In addition we are also going to be doing presentations for the game theme of creating a new mascot for the club so come prepared!

-Kathaleen Anita Trampe
Secretary of SJSU Game Dev. Club

Game Dev. Updates - Extra Life

Kathaleen — Tue, 15 Nov 2016 23:41:21 +0000

Hello everyone!

What do you know, a last minute opportunity to stream for Extra Life has come from the AFK Gamer Lounge. They have kindly offered to let us stream from 6pm Thursday Nov 17 until 6pm Friday Nov 18.

If interested you can respond to this handy sign up form http://bit.ly/sjsugdel2016 which also references the schedule. Filling out the form is not a guarantee you can stream, since we are juggling a lot of things here, but it is a step.

Our page is up and ready http://www.extra-life.org/participant/sjsugamedev and we have been testing the stream on twitch http://twitch.tv/sjsugamedev for the last 4 weeks and are doing fairly well, but the notice is short.

This means that this week's meeting will just be a work day.

Also MLK library will be hosting an International Games Day on Nov 19th from 11am to 6pm, in rooms 225, 213, 219, 217, and the new Teen HQ. They will have hundreds of new and classic board games, card games, and video games availiable to play.

In addition, next week (11/24) there will be no meeting because of Thanksgiving holiday; however, there is always the discord channel. :)

As a reminder, for our meeting on Dec 1st we will be having presentations of mascots in their games, and for any game that others want to present as well. So if you have something you'd like to present feel free to show us!

If you have any questions you can e-mail us sjsugamedev@gmail.com
or join us on our discord channel:
https://discordapp.com/invite/9zwfgFg

-Kathaleen Anita Trampe
Secretary of Game Dev. Club