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IGDA Austria Home of the IGDA Austria Menu Home About Jobs Membership ReVersed Game Jam sponsored by BONGFISH Press ReVersed Game Jam gets some Graz’ love. June 25, 2018 Tom De Roeck Uncategorized The ReVersed Game Jam , happening next week, gets some love from the biggest gamedev in Austria: Bongfish ! This ensures that we can offer all of our jammers some fooddrinks, as well as make sure that RaumD, always maintained by monochromthe QDK , get the funding they deserve, in these trying political times.. Thanks Bongfish! June DrinkupReVersed Game Jam! June 5, 2018 Tom De Roeck Drinkups , Game Jam The IGDA Drinkup is back in town! Join the local gamedev community for a free drink at the VR-Bar VREI, sponsored by the always fun Apprien! This friday, on the 8th of June, 2018, 19h at VREI. There’s apparently some collision with Play:Austria there, no worries, we will keep the party going long enough! The ReVersed Game Jam is back! Find out more here. Pathfinding WorkshopGGJ18 January 16, 2018 Tom De Roeck Game Jam , Workshops It’s back! 15h on the 26.1. @ RaumD, Vienna, our favourite games tax adviser Florian Kalchmair ( HFP ) will be talking about the Austrian tax system, founding a company, the most important things to keep in mind when employing or doing cooperative projects with someone, and wage dumping (and how dangerous it is). This will be in German only, though if there is enough interest, we will do an English version again! The Global Game Jam is around the corner, so head over here to find out more! Busy end of 2017! November 29, 2017 Tom De Roeck Uncategorized GDC 2018 Applications OPEN The scholarships include two opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students, IGDA Scholars and Women in Games Ambassadors, and Next Gen Leaders, a retention program for under-represented minority game developers with 3-10 years of experience. The programs include an All-Access pass to GDC, a travel stipend, an individually-selected mentor, and great personal and professional development opportunities too. More here! IGDA Austria in Graz! Come and listen to the latest the IGDA is doing in Austria, all the things that went down at Game Connection Europe, as well as details on next years ReVersed . First round of beers courtesy of metalcat.at ! Find out more here. PONGJam ResultsIGDA Drinkup in Vienna! Stay up to date and play a million pongs, this is our last Drinkup before the year ends. Drinks courtesy of metalcat.at ! Find out more here. GGJ registrations open! From the 26th to the 28th of January the Global Game Jam will take place again! This time, with no extreme Game Jamming at -10°C, at RaumD in Vienna. If you have time and want to help out, please get in touch ! If you want to sign up, head here . Memberships! Another workshop! Whee! October 2, 2017 Tom De Roeck Drinkups , Workshops It’s been a bit silent around these parts, mostly due to HQ’s WordPress not really working as it should, and our inability to sort it out ourselves, but now we have regained our old login credentials, and we’re back on track! First up: Local Memberships! Come and join the Austrian community of developers, with partner events such as Gamedev Days Graz and ReVersed in Vienna, with more on the way! Stay informed on the latest happenings and always up for having a drink with your fellow developers, or come and see talks by leading members of the community. Last but not least, enjoy several discountsoffers by partners of IGDA Austria, always working on getting more! Find out more here! One good example of those partnerships: with Tom’s verse publications of course! If you are a member of IGDA Austria, you get an exclusive discount on all of their workshops, including the upcoming one with Tramell Isaac! Working in a team in the games industry can be a challenge: either finding a spot to call your own in a large established company or making sure that startup culture doesn’t automatically mean you should give up on ever seeing daylight again from all the crunching or low wages. In this edition of the X For Games” workshop series, Tramell Ray Isaac is going to talk about game company office culture, management issueshow to be a better employee/manager specific to the games industry; as well as share his experience in art direction on a more practical level, in this two day workshop. Last but not least, here are some impressions of our latest DrinkUp, kindly sponsored by LemonPi ! All Drinkup September 20170915_193520 20170915_213331 20170915_213348 20170915_213454 20170915_213500 20170915_230711 20170915_230723 20170915_230735 Chris Avellone: Writing for Games Workshop April 25, 2017 Charlie Poulon Workshops The verse publications team is getting ready to welcome Chris Avellone! On the 13th and 14th of May 2017, Chris will be leading a workshop on Writing for Games! We still have some tickets available, so don’t hesitate to grab them while we still got em’. Click here to get your ticket. About Chris: Chris Avellone is best known for his work on a number of role-playing games, including Planescape: Torment, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords, Fallout (2 and New Vegas), Wasteland 2, and Prey. He is currently working on Divinity: Original Sin II with Larian Studios, and is part of the successful Kickstarter reboot of System Shock with Night Dive Studios. About the workshop: Writing for games is a game all in itself – and words are only a part of it. Game writing involves teamwork, knowing your gameplay pillars and how to support them, and also knowing not only what story you want to tell, but how to tell that story… sometimes using everything but words. Our focus will be on: Writing with a Team Speaking the Language Structuring the Hierarchy within a team… …and within a writing team Knowing the Writer’s Role and the Story’s Role Layout and Importance of Style Guides Knowing your Boundaries, Technical and Aesthetic, including matching other writer and franchise tones If you can’t make it to the workshop, how about getting a drink with Chris at the IGDA Drinkup ? IGDA Drink Up with Chris AvelloneKate Edwards April 25, 2017 Charlie Poulon Drinkups The IGDA Drink up is one of our favorite bi-monthly events! For the upcoming gathering of minds and drinks, we’ll be joined by comic book writer, game and narrative designer Chris Avellone as well as the fabulous executive director of the International Game Developers Association Kate Edwards. Chris is in town for the Writing for Games: The Game™ workshop while Kate is here to give a talk for Subotron on Game Culturalisationthe Art Of Building Inclusive Worlds. Even if you’re not thirsty, this is the perfect occasion to meet with these talented and highly experienced members of the game dev community. We’re looking forward to seeing you @Vrei on the 13th of May 2017 around 19:00, for some brain picking and beverage drinking! Website troubles, Drinkup tomorrow, Des Gayle TalkWorkshop slides! February 14, 2017 Tom De Roeck Drinkups , Game Jam , Workshops Hey everyone! We’ve been having some server problems, making it unable for us to post anything to the website D: However, now that’s all sorted (fingers crossed) and we can start putting up the good stuff again! IGDA Drinkup February Tomorrow, the 15th of February, is going to be our February drinkup! This time, we are sponsored by the lovely people of LemonPI , be sure to drop by 19h at WerkzeugH . Check out the Facebook event , and see who else is coming! Workshop Slides As promised, here are finally the workshop slides that accompanied the Pathfinding Workshop ! Many thanks to Florian Kalchmair of the HFP Tax Consultancy ! Des Gayle Talk @ GGJ17 in Vienna Last but not least, here is Des Gayle’s talk on being a producer at a game jam, working for Square Enix Collective and using game jams to find the next game to work on! IGDA Drinkup Meets GameDevGraz! January 5, 2017 Tom De...