Wednesday, March 14, 2012

Valve

Who loves Valve?
I know i do.
Have any of you gamers out there ever wondered how they came up with their ideas?
Like how they came up with the art design for Team Fortress 2, or maybe how the zombies in Left 4 Dead seem to follow you at every turn no matter where you go.
well look no further.
I have recently found a page featuring Valve's publications that discuss various topics such as art design and various aspects of gameplay in their games.
Take a look and keep it in mind when designing games.

Free Programming eBooks

Hey gamers,
I recently found a great article on various eBooks that should help with any of you out there trying to learn programming.
it has lists for various languages like Ruby, Javascript, and even Python.
Give it a look.
http://citizen428.net/blog/2010/08/12/30-free-programming-ebooks/
Oh, i also found a quick wiki page that will give you programmers out there some basic exercises in C++
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C++_Programming/Exercises/Iterations

Saturday, March 10, 2012

Sunday, March 4, 2012

Facebook Page

For all of you who have only been to the blogsot page and want to join the Facebook group, you need to friend either me (Mike Wesley), Naiche Washburn, or Louis Simental.

Video Games and Education


Friday, March 2, 2012

First Official Meeting 3/2/12

Hey gamers.
We had a great first meeting, with some great ideas.We had two new officers elected today along with our four existing officers.
For those of you who are unaware our officers are as follows:
President-Naiche, Vice President-Louis, Treasurer-Derek, Secretary-Mike, Sergeant of Arms- George, Researcher-Daniel.
Congratulations to George and Daniel for their new positions.
We also had some great ideas for the future of our club as well.
One of the major discussions was about our gaming tournaments.
There were several possibilities that each of us came up with including fundraisers for the tournaments and whether or not to give all of the proceeds to charity.
The finalizations still need to be worked out.
There was also plans to attend or view upcoming events that are happening in the gaming world, such as the Game Developer's Conference, E3, and places like Comic-con.
Dungeons and Dragons was also a heavy topic that was being discussed about.
It will give us a great chance to evaluate the core aspects of games through a new perspective.
It is a great way to allow us as game designers to focus on what works in a game and how to change it, whether it be the level itself or how the monsters and quests function.
There will also be many opportunities for us to go out and visit many different game developers and see how they work.
Derek has announced that he has connections to someone who works for idle minds and would be willing to see if we can get a peek inside the studio.
There will also be times that we can try and set up booths at school events to get our club out into the open.
Finally, there will be several opportunities for contests to change the look of the Blogspot, Twitter, and Facebook pages.
Hope to see all of you guys at the next meeting and don't forget to check back for  new updates of the club and the gaming community.

Welcome Gamers

Welcome everyone. This is our official blogspot page for the AIC Gamer's Guild.
I will be posting regularly to inform each of you about  news and events for our club and for all the happenings for the gaming world as well.
Glad all of you could join and make this club work.