The Video Game Development Club At UCI
- omarg@uci.edu

Next meeting:

Every Monday at 7pm in CS180

Our Mission:

The Video Game Development Club at UCI aims to present its members with oppertunities to learn about video game design and programming. We also intend to enable our members to interact with industry personnel in order to learn more about oppertunities in game design/development.

Office Bearers:

• President: Omar Gonzalez ( omarg@uci.edu )
• Vice-President: Vishakh ( vishakh@uci.edu )
• Secretary: Nicholas Urrea ( nurrea@uci.edu )
• Faculty Advisor: Dan Frost (frost@ics.uci.edu)

Updates:

• November 5, 2002:The Programming Guidelines are up. Constult them as they are not only useful locally, it helps make your code more presentable which is always a good thing. E-mail me if you have any questions
• October 17, 2002:Sorry for not updating. Make sure to attend our meetings MONDAYS 7PM CS 180!!! Be there or be square! We need everyone and no previous skills required! Join us or just e-mail me to learn more
• June 15, 2002:If you want to help out with the code, you should read our CVS Tutorial here
• June 8, 2002:Mailing list now at sourceforge.net. To be added go to http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vgdc-announce
• April 10, 2002:Better porject. Food fighting game. If you would like to know moreE-mail me.
• April 1, 2002:We've begun our first group project. Peter's Adventure: Attack of the Red Triangles. I also hope to have member listings up soon.E-mail me if you have any questions
• March 19, 2002: The Projects section is up. I've added my personal project, a Pong Clone. If you want your project listed E-mail me.
• February 15, 2002:We held a very productive meeting on Friday. We broke off into two groups, Programmers and Designers. The Programmers began learning to used DirectX 8.1 and the Designers began planning out what kind of game to make. We hope to have a full game completed by the end of Spring 2002. These means we will try to meet at least once a week, and maybe twice. For now we will hold weekly meetings on Fridays at 6 in CS180 and CS183. E-mail me with any questions
• February 13, 2002: The VGDC held its very first meeting at IERF 101 on Monday, 13th February. The turnout met our expectations and Prof. Frost took some of his time to address the prospective members. We discussed the working of the club and compiled a list of members. If you missed the meeting for any reason, please feel free to drop in at our next meeting. We plan to start our work by building a very simple game. Once again, drop in next time to find out more.