IGDATC October 2023 - Josh Anthony

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

We're back! Please join us as we return to in person meetings at Nerdery who have graciously offered to host us again going forward.

We have elected to follow the COVID policy of our venue for this meeting: vaccination required, masks strongly encouraged. If you are feeling ill or have any cold/flu symptoms, please stay home.

(And We’re Still Streaming Live Online!)

Join IGDA Twin Cities on youtube.com/igdatc for a virtual meeting.

Separating yourself from Unity? Developing in Unreal getting unrealistic? Game for exploring game engines? Then let me introduce you to the Godot game engine! I'll start by telling you what Godot is about, how you can get started, and what the supporting ecosystems are like. After that, I'll give you a brief taste of what working with Godot is like, traipsing across some sample projects to help illustrate the technical points. Finally, I'll expose the innards of my current Godot game, Dice Tower, as an example of what deep engine usage looks like. Hopefully, your interest will be piqued enough to stop waiting for Godot and give it a shot for your own game development needs!

A long time ago, Josh Anthony turned down learning how to make games because he thought he wasn't smart enough to do programming. As the years passed by, he accidentally became a web developer for his day job; upon realizing that he could, in fact, do programming, he decided to learn game development in his spare time. Godot became his engine of choice in 2019, and in 2021 he cofounded Loonicy Entertainment with his spouse. Currently, he is working on developing Loonicy's first game, Dice Tower. He loves working with Godot, and now wants to share his passion and knowledge with you!

https://joshanthony.info/

https://loonicy.com/

Twitter: @Jantho1990

Discord: @SaintKerrigan

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 presentations. It's harder to do that online, but we still want to feature your game trailers and announcements. Please use the extra form field for Plug my thing tickets to let us know if you have anything you want us to show. Game trailers are easiest, but we can still open links and say a sentence or two on your behalf. We'll be in touch before the meeting if we don't know what you mean.

• 6:15 Doors open at Nerdery
• 6:30 Youtube stream opens, meeting intro and monthly slides
• 6:45 Presentations
• After-hours hangout at a nearby pub (TBD)

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