Game Developers Club

     Back in January I wrote a blog entry about how I volunteered at clubs week to promote the game developers club. Since then we have held several meetings and had some interesting discussions. Since I have been a member for a while I am also looking for ways to get more involved.

     One of the things that I really enjoy about the game developers club is learning about all kinds of different technology that I might not otherwise have heard about. Usually when I am working independently on my own game projects I am so focused on the way that I am currently doing things that I do not stop to consider new or alternative technologies. By discussing ideas with other people I feel that I can learn more than I can individually.

     For example last week at the game developers club we discussed game engine called Unity. Some of the other members have used Unity to create very interesting games. Unity developers also have the choice of embedding there game in a web browser or deploying it to a mobile device. At one of our upcoming meetings one of the members might give a brief tutorial on how to use Unity because many people seem interested.


     I have really enjoyed being a part of the game developers club and often try to find ways to get more involved. As I already mentioned I volunteered at clubs week but I have also been looking for ways to help organize the meetings and other club activities. Over the past couple semesters some of the prominent founding members of the club graduated and there has been a gap in leadership. Last week one of the former club presidents drop by during the Burnaby meeting and we talked about some of the things we could do to try to improve the club. One of the problems is a lack of focus that we have had at our meetings lately, to fix this I will try to spend some time during the week before the meetings coming up with some more topics for discussion.

     Another thing that needed fixing up was the club website. Many of the pages were out of date, especially the projects page. I started by talking to some of the executives and gathered a list of the projects that they had worked on. I will also need to find out this week if any of the other members have projects they want to post on the website. The project page on the club website is a valuable feature for promotion of the club and its members. The former club president I was talking to was saying game development companies often visit the website and one of the first pages that they want to look at is the projects page.