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Welcome to HGMUG 
 
The Houston Gaming and Media User Group meets the 4th Thursday of every month.

News about the group and upcoming meetings is listed below. You can also visit the events page for links to past and current events. See the about us page for more information about the group and if you haven't attended a meeting before, please see the directions page for information about the venue.

 

 

News 

July 24th Meeting Postponed
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Due to conflicting travel and recent changes in group leadership, we will not be having our regularly scheduled meeting on July 24th. Please check back in a few weeks for information on our August 28th meeting.  

Thanks,

Jared Bienz
Modified: 7/17/2008

Meeting 2
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It’s that time again. We don’t have the e-mail addresses parsed out yet so please let folks know our second meeting is planned. As before, please don’t forget to register.

  • What's new with XNA Game Studio 3.0
  • Building a parallax scroller in the XNA Framework
  • Break
  • What is TorqueX
  • Using Torque to build a Parallax scroller
  • Q&A

We'll be there at 6 so come early if you want to play.
Modified: 6/13/2008

Get Your Game Face On! (First Meeting)
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The Houston Games and Media User Group is holding its first meeting Thursday, May 22 at the Microsoft Houston office complex. Special guest speaker for this event will be Marco Zambetti, Creative Director for Tietronix Software. Mr. Zambetti will discuss topics related to digital art history, and current theory and practice for real-time artistic development. Pizza will be provided, so please register for this event.

 

Meeting Outline

  • 6:00 - 6:30 Sign in, Pizza, seating
  • Introductions to the UG Leads: Nick Davis, Jared Bienz, Oz Rodriguez (6:30 - 6:40)
  • What is HGMUG All About? (6:40 - 7:00)
  • Intro to XNA, its purpose and some demos (7:00 - 7:20)
  • What you'll need for future meetings (7:20 to 7:30)
  • Art: History, Theory and Practice for real-time (Marco Zambetti) (7:30 - 8:00)
  • Q&A (8:00 - …)
  • Mingle, Deathmatch

Meeting Sponsors:

 

Tietronix
Nido
Modified: 6/13/2008

HGMUG Goes Live!
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The Houston Gaming and Meda Users Group is now live! Our first meeting is scheduled for May 22nd from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM. Our CodeZone site will be up soon with more information so stay tuned.
Modified: 6/13/2008