September 2019 Online Meeting and Summer ’19 Game Jam Kickoff Announcement

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Knoxville Game Design invites you to attend the online meeting and podcast recording for Sunday September 8, 2019 at 2pm Eastern Time.

This month’s topic is Creating Games in Smalltalk.  We will look at how it is possible to create games in the Smalltalk language using the Squeak environment.  Smalltalk is one of the first object oriented languages, where everything is an object.

We will also be meeting at Panera Bread on North Peters Rd at 6pm Eastern Time on Friday October 4, 2019  for the Summer ’19 game jam kickoff.  Knoxville Game Design has been holding kickoff events for this weekend long game jam since 2013.  Numerous games have been created over the years by Knoxville developers for this event.  At the kickoff meeting, we will discuss our ideas and thoughts on the theme for the game jam.  This game jam will start and end three hours earlier at 6pm Eastern Time.  We will show off the games that we create on the monthly online podcast the following weekend (Sunday October 13, 2019 at 2pm).  We will also have Japanese games available for anyone interested in learning how to play Koi-Koi with hanafuda cards and mahjong.  For rules and more information on participating in the game jam, please see ldjam.com.

Any questions on the topic or game development in general are welcome.  We will also have time for “show and tell” for anyone who wants to share any game projects that they have been developing.

Join us using Google Hangouts at the following URL:  https://hangouts.google.com/call/ni63jloemrd7xdto37z5mayk4uu

Video for last month’s meeting on Random Number Generators (RNG) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUeyXKqzJrY

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Please direct any questions to levidsmith@knoxgamedesign.org