IGDATC Gamedev Meeting April 2025 - Erik Onarheim: Learn Shader Programming

This event is open to the public! IGDA Membership not required.

Please join us for a night of industry and community presentations! Postmortems, live demos, and talks on game design, art, marketing, audio, community, social issues, and more, given by developers from the Twin Cities and all over the world.

We also stream live on youtube.com/igdatc.

Learning Shader Programming

By day, Erik is a full stack developer working in Angular, TypeScript, C#, Python, Postgres and AWS. He builds large applications for the EdTech industry that require performance to meet the needs of students and educators. By night he is the maintainer of Excalibur.js, a friendly TypeScript 2D game engine for the web. He also loves his partner Karin, freshly hatched daughter Maeve, fur child Beanie, running long distances for fun, retro video games, and cat videos!

https://erikonarheim.com/

https://excaliburjs.com/

At the beginning of our in-person meetings, we like to put a call out for game trailers, demo reels, and other short game development related announcements. Please come 15min early or contact us (Discord is best) beforehand if you can!

• 6:30 Youtube stream opens, meeting intro and monthly slides.

• 6:45 Presentations.
• After: we head to a nearby restaurant to get food/drinks and socialize!

Join us on our Discord server!

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