GRID Lab News and Info
New Google Summer of Code 2010 Applications Due
Google Summer of Code is a program that offers student developers stipends to write code for various open source projects. Historically, the program has brought together over 3,400 students with over 200 open source projects, to create millions of lines of code.
NSConference 2010
At the Georgia Tech Research Institute.
Game Center Computer Updates
Starting at 1:00 pm Friday the iMac's in the Game Center will undergo operating system and software updates. If you currently have any project or personal files stored on these machines, please backup your files before noon on Friday.
Thanks,
Brandon
Game Developer's Conference Student Scholarship Program Application Deadline
The IGDA will be awarding 25 scholarships for this years Game Developers Conference. GDC is where game development professionals gather to share ideas and build the skills that the industry needs.
Located in San Francisco, California, this years GDC will be held March 9-13 2010.
Qualifications & Scholarship Details: Scholarship applications must be submitted on or before Thursday, January 15th, 2010. Only full-time university (or similar) students are eligible, and must be 18 years of age or older as of March 9, 2010.
Applicant must be an IGDA Student Member in good standing.
Unity3D UniKnowledge 2
http://www.unifycommunity.com/wiki/index.php?title=UniKnowledge_2
~UniKnowledge 2 is very similar to the last ~UniKnowledge. The concept is the same: develop a sample game project and document the development. You can comment the code, create a tutorial, record videos and video-tutorials... it's up to you. The best entry wins, and by best entry we mean the entry that teaches most. However, ~UniKnowledge 2 has a theme. The sample game must be a vehicle-oriented game, meaning that you can teach people how to make a good kart racing game, or a dogfight game, or a motocross game... etc.
Photoshop CS4 Down & Dirty Tricks (Book)
Rendering with Maya Toon (Video Disc)
Introduction to Maya Paint Effects (Video Disc)
Introduction to Maya Muscle (Video Disc)
Introduction to Animation in Maya (Video Disc)
Body Mechanics and Animation in Maya: Pushing Objects (Video Disc)
Body Mechanics and Animation in Maya: Pulling Objects (Video Disc)
Scott016 (Door Keycode)
Game Sound Convention
Sound Ideas is helping to sponsor a new conference about game audio design http://www.gamesoundcon.com/
September 23 - 24, Los Angeles
November 13 - 14, San Francisco
Sound Ideas will also be exhibiting at the Audio Engineering Society tradeshow, booth # 250. Info and free pass : https://secure.aes.org/events/127/registration.cfm?type=vip&vip=150
October 9 - 12, New York
UniKnowledge Contest Deadline
After chatting some time on the #unity3d IRC channel about the sample projects provided by Unity Tech, and discussing that they should release more projects with less media, and that simple primitives would be enough to show us how things work... "dock" had the idea of a community-driven contest, in order to choose the best sample project.