There will be a meeting tomorrow, Sunday, April 20 at 4 p.m. in the ET lab (Room 70-2550).

The RPI Game Festival & Symposium on Friday, April 25 and Saturday, April 26 and Vicarious Visions tour on Friday, April 25 are next week! (You can visit the website here.)

We will probably begin arranging carpools. If you have a car and have signed up for the RPI GameFest and/or Vicarious Visions trip, please come to the Sunday meeting tomorrow or email us at ritgdc -at- gmail -dot- com if you can’t make it.

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This is just a reminder that there will be no meeting this Sunday, April 13. We will have our last two meetings of the year on Sunday, April 20 and Sunday, May 11 at 4 p.m. in the ET lab (Room 70-2550).

Additionally, the following are the election results from our last meeting. The people who will be holding officer positions next year are:

President: Rob Yates
Vice President: Mike Thomas
Secretary: Chris Kaczmarek
Treasurer: Max Wunderlich Hall
Art Director: Melissa Fuss
Public Relations: Maximiliano Herrera

A special thanks goes out to our founder and president Andrew Williams, our vice president Paul Solt, and our treasurer Anthony Reese. We couldn’t have done it without you guys!:)

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This Friday, Matthew Belmonte of the Autism Collaborative will be speaking at RIT about video games for autism. His main goal is to to hire RIT students for co-ops and full-time positions. There are game programmer, 2D artist, 3D artist, designer, and musician positions available! The talk will be a great opportunity for everyone wanting to get experience in the game world.

This is one of the few faculty talks where the point is to meet students. The colloquium, Designing Serious Video Games for Autism Research and Treatment, will take place this Friday, April 11 from 2pm to 3pm in Bldg. 70, Room 2400. For more information about Matthew Belmonte and the Autism Collaborative, visit http://www.autismcollaborative.org

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We will be having our spring Rapid Game Development Day tomorrow!

What is it? You will form teams of 1-3 people and make 2D video games. Even though the games won’t be polished, it is a chance to have fun making games without the pressure of grades and classes! Anyone can participate in this event and we do mean anyone. This can be a fun learning experience if you never made a game before and a chance to learn new skills if you have.

It all starts at 1pm on Saturday, April 5th in the ET lab (Room 70-2550). We don’t have a set ending time, so stay as long or as little as you want. And if we get a good turn out, we may order pizza too.:)

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• Emagination Computer Camps is looking for students to teach game design, art, and programming. This would be a great summer job for freshman and sophomores or anyone looking for a fun game related job! Please see the job posting here for more information.
• The Entertainment Software Association is offering up to 15 scholarships of $3000 for women and minority students. You must be a woman or a minority; pursuing a degree that leads to a career in video game development; and have at least a 2.75 GPA. If you meet these requires, apply here. The deadline for application is April 15, 2008.

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The dates for our spring quarter general meetings are as follows:

• Sunday, March 16, 2008
• Sunday, March 30, 2008
• Sunday, April 20, 2008
• Sunday, May 11, 2008

These will all take place in Building 70, Room 2550 (ET Lab) from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. If there are any changes throughout the quarter, we will inform everyone through e-mail as well as posting on this website.

Also, we will be holding elections for next year, so please make it out to the ET Lab this Sunday to help drive the future of the club.

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Looking for spring or summer internships? Two companies are looking for students for game development co-ops. They are:

• Action XL: Make innovative, motion-based games with a small team of developers. Students with a wide range of skills are extra valuable. Click here for more information.
• Autism Collaborative: Implement a video game for research on autism. Create a suite of experiments within an engaging and fun video game that children and adults will want to play. Click here for more information.

We will post any future job offerings on our forum section “Game Jobs”: http://www.ritgamedev.com/forums/viewforum.php?f=18

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We have a meeting on Sunday, February 10, 2008 at 4:00pm in GCCIS room 2550.

This Sunday, we have special guest Ben Kalb from Kionix (www.actionxl.com) in Ithaca, NY. He is coming to talk about motion sensing and possible co-op opportunities building a game around this technology. Ben is looking for 3 to 5 co-ops, so if you are searching for a co-op, we highly recommend bringing a resume and a portfolio (if you have one) of any work you have done.

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We’ve got a General Meeting on Sunday, January 27th at 4pm.

Also we’re selling raffle tickets for a laptop at the GCCIS Hockey Night. The tickets are $1 and the raffle will take place at the hockey game during the second intermission on February 1st at 7pm. The proceeds go directly to our club as a donation.

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