We're creating this group as a way to meet with FarmVille players in the SF area. We'll trade stories, talk about play tips, talk about what people want to see in the game and hear what the development team is thinking about the future Play FarmVille at http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm or go to http://www.farmville.com (hit the play now button).

This group was created to provide a regular meetup for iPhone developers actively working on projects. The purpose is  to work together to support one another in bringing our ideas to life.  The goals are also to meet people in the San Francisco Bay area who are doing the same type of work (programming and creating apps for the iphone and ipad) and to have fun. This meeting is for: iPhone Developers of all levels. People who are interested in getting their hands dirty in code. People just start …

The Gaming & Mobile Entrepreneurship get-together's started a few years ago at Stanford and meet every quarter in the Bay Area. The idea is simple: get together on a regular basis people who are interested in gaming, mobile and entrepreneurship. The event is open so feel free to pass around. The last events saw over 500 people from: A Bit Lucky, Blizzard, Nexon, Google, ZipZapPlay, PopCap, PlayFish, Activision, Zynga, Apple, Unity, Neowiz, EA, Booyah, Trion, Sifteo, Raptr, Playdom, Playspan, P …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library, whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open forum. The audience will ask questions and provide feedback. We w …

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

Join other SF Bay Area singles over 50 for innovative events featuring ice-breakers and conversation. Speed dating, dinners, discussion groups, potlucks, hikes, and more in the San Francisco Bay Area. We never leave conversation to chance!™ Our focus is on the chemistry that happens when single men and women meet face-to-face. We provide the structure that helps you quickly find the potential common ground with those you meet. Events every month in San Francisco, East Bay, and/or Marin County. " …

This is a meetup of Android Game Developers. Meetup for a chance to win funding, a how to guide to meet and convince VC's to fund your app and possibly a chance to sell your game.

Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on? Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developers …

Glitch is a browser-based MMO created by Tiny Speck. Check it out at glitch.com. Our development community focuses on enriching the Glitch world and expanding it across multiple platforms. To promote the creation of new and exciting apps, Tiny Speck released a developer site, developer.glitch.com. There you will find Glitch APIs, iOS and Android SDKs, graphic packs, and developer tutorials. We are excited to see new apps and mobile games that utilize the Glitch API. Look here or on the developer …

This group will meet regularly to discuss cross-device HTML5 developer tools for creating native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows along with HTML5 web apps.  We'll invite guest speakers to discuss new advances in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 that empower web and mobile developers to accelerate their time to market and reduce the costs associated with deploying across a variety of devices. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will try to meet on a qua …

At Startup EduTech you will find people who can help you take your educational mobile app or digital learning ventures to the next level. Submit your EduTech Startup: http://goo.gl/W9z91 Pitch your game changing idea: Build your team Find Investors Build Partnerships Get Funded It's all possible, when you 'empower young minds and the hands that guide them!' Find us on: Meetup.com: http://www.meetup.com/StartupEduTech Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/ByParents4Kids Twitter: http://t …

BIG strives to demystify the video gaming industry for people of color. We assist individuals in evolving from consumers to producers of video games and apps. To accomplish our goals, BIG provides networking, outreach, mentoring, and entrepreneurship guidance to professionals and students.

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is one of the largest mobile industry user groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1999, MoMo has been bringing together mobile enthusiasts for education and networking events. With the fantastic growth of the industry, a significant portion of more than 6,500 MoMo SV members have backgrounds in non-technical fields, such as business, marketing, finance and legal. But we want to make sure the actual mobile builders – yes the coders - can come together to collabor …

Tech in Motion San Francisco offers an exciting opportunity for tech pros and enthusiasts of all ages to network around our beautiful city by the bay. The Bay Area is the epicenter of technological innovation with some of the most talented engineers, programmers, designers, and bloggers in the game. This meetup group is for the SF tech lovers out there to network and stay current. Let’s ‘meetup’ San Francisco! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offering career counseling services to …

We started this Meetup to bring together the best devs, designers and entrepreneurs in the local mobile games space. Come meet some friends, hear a couple of great industry speakers talk about what's cool in mobilel games. We're especially interested in Casual Game Association Minna Mingles members who may have not gotten together in a long time. Hopefully we can be a resource. Please join our Meetup and pass the URL to other friends of yours in the local Mobile games space.

Lua's a fascinating, super-fast scripting language perfect for gaming and web applications. This is a very engineering-centric group for those interested in trying out Lua, or for sharing creations. Let the organizer(s) know if you're looking to sponsor, host, or speak at any of our events. We're open to suggestions!

Every two weeks, we all go play a 2-3 casual to midcore games, then get together and talk about them! If you're working on projects on your own and want thoughtful feedback from other game makers, this is also a great avenue for that!

Our mission is to educate and support our community about Autodesk developments, tools and best practices in computer animation. We are a social group formed to serve the needs of highly talented individuals. We gather to discuss technical issues in animation and computer graphics. Covering all aspects of Entertainment and Serious Games.

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Our goal is to disrupt the mobile game industry by delivering a complete infrastructure and ecosystem for HTML5 2D and 3D game development, allowing developers to deliver equal performance for both Native and Web-based games from a single code base. We provide a cloud compilation system that allows developers to deliver their games to all of the native apps stores, including iTunes, Google Play, Facebook and Chrome today with Kindle, Nook, Windows Phone, Tizen and Intel AppUp coming soon. We'll …

This is a group for women of African Descent 40 years of age and older who love women. It's for anyone new to the Bay Area or not.  If you're looking for a way to meet women close to your age group for friendship and socialization. I started this group because many of my friends over the age of 40 have shared their desire to meet other women 40 and over who share similar interest in dining out, dancing, game nights, potlucks, spa days, wine tasting, plays, musicals, concerts, retreats, traveling …

Let's break away from the bars (and, okay, sometimes also go to bars) and have some real fun.  ALL 20-something queer-identified folk (and their friends) are enthusiastically welcomed.  My hope is to develop a sense of community through recurring events.  Some ideas for events include potlucks, game nights, movies, hikes, club nights, and happy hours.  If you have any ideas, please suggest them!  Activities take place mainly in Oakland, and sometimes in Berkeley and San Francisco.

Are you finding it difficult to work at home alone? Do you crave feedback for your ideas? Are you looking for referrals, new clients or interested in business barters? This group brings together small business owners who would like to network, form alliances and find support in a community of other independent professionals. It is open to all industries of business. This is a round table discussion and time for sharing. Each month different community members will facilitate the meeting so it wil …

For anyone who's tried, or is trying, to make an iOS app, and is stymied by lack of money/smarts/connections/luck. But keeps trying anyway.

We are hosting an informal regular meetup for people who like tech or beer pong to hang out and network. The venue is in downtown SF and fear not the kegs will be chilled. If you are interested in hacking, coding, designing, startups, entrepreneurship, beer pong, tech, or just want to watch and mingle then please come and join us. It should be great fun. We also have foosball and airhockey for those that would rather have a different distraction while they drink their lager! Looking forward to s …

If your growing list of Javascript books, articles, and tutorials to read through is as long as your list of projects to experiment with--and you know you're never going to finish all of them alone--this group is for you. Considering the pace of evolution in the Javascript world, trying to stay on top of all that's happening is at best optimistic, and at worst a fool's game. But don't surrender! Enjoy the support and encouragement of a community of like-minded Javascript coders and enthusiasts. …

With rising acquisition costs, the struggle to create innovative gameplay, and a marketplace that couldn't possibly get more crowded, how can mobile game developers differentiate from their competitors? How can you get players to connect with your brand and remain loyal in the face of unprecedented options? The answer may surprising you: doing good. Doing good can mean many things: selling in-game items that support charitable causes, giving consumers a way to donate instead of buying in-game cu …

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.