Goals The goal of this group is to bring local Game Developers together in order to learn from one another, network and possibly even create a game (or games) together. We're looking to re-create the atmosphere of the good old days. The days when today's top guru's started in back rooms and basements working on a labor of love. It's never too late to get started if you're willing to work with a group and put in sweat equity. Are you a hobby game programmer? Professional looking to do more? All a …

The New York Games Forum is an organization dedicated to supporting NYC's game industry.  From game developers to designers to creatives and investors, the Forum provides a platform for those interested in the creation of games to connect and learn.

We're the premiere webOS Developers & Enthusiast meetup group in New York City. Attend one of our meetups to meet other webOS fans, developers, or just to experience HP webOS for the first time. Founded on June 23rd 2009 by Michael Prenez-Isbell, Director of Mobile Development for BlueSwitch in New York City, we're the first HP webOS Meetup Group on the East Coast and the second HP webOS meetup group, ever. The meetup is now coordinated by Jonathan I. Ezor, a law professor and attorney who is a …

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We started this Meetup to bring together the best devs, designers and entrepreneurs in the local social, casual and MMORPG games space. Come meet some friends, hear a couple of great industry speakers talk about what's cool in games. We're especially interested in Casual Game Association Minna Mingles members and IGDA 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 gaming …

Originally focused on just the iPhone, the new Group hopes to embrace the iPad deeply, and considers the iPhone as just a larger installed base for universal apps that ideally use the iPad's large real-estate and 'hand-sized' muti-touch area in new and exciting ways. iPhone developers welcome, but just be aware that the new Group owner, a Xerox PARC Smalltalk old-time Dynabook dreamer, may try to convert you to the iPad. Please come and help start the new Group, even if you are in the Greater …

For iPad Developers, special emphasis on Media and Publishing, how to integrate the iPad into larger publishing frameworks.

Test and share board game prototypes with local game designers and game-designers-in-training! Get feedback, give feedback.

This group aims at providing those in the NYC area who are involved in creating computerized health games with a platform to meet, share their work, and collaborate. This group is organized by Kognito Interactive a NYC-based behavioral health game company.

I started this group to bring together those developers with an interest in OpenGL, WebGL, Canvas and HTML 5.

The Boston Windows Game Developers Group is a community of developers in the Boston, MA area. It's purpose is to gather together individuals interested in developing games for the Windows platforms. No experience is necessary, beginners and experts are all welcome. The group meets monthly in the Microsoft New England Research and Development Center at 1 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA on the fourth (4th) Wednesday of the month at 6:00pm.

Along the same lines as IGDA, I'm starting an professional association, the International Mobile Developers Association effective today, Feb 17, 2012, to address the technology, business and creative concerns of mobile developers, regardless of platform. We'll have our first meeting within 60 days. If you'd like to be on the board and are at least a Manager level (as well as a developer) at a large media or financial services company, we'd love to hear from you.

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Market research suggests that cross-platform development tools for mobile devices are here to disrupt the status quo where IOS apps have to be developed in Objective C and Android apps in Java. Did you know that you can build and deploy an IOS app to an IPhone or IPad and an Android phone all from your local Windows machine? Cross-platform tools(CPTs) allow developers to create applications for multiple platforms - usually mobile, but increasingly tablets or TV screens - from almost the same cod …

The Cross-Platform Games Meetup New York is a meeting place for anyone interested in creating cross-platform games. It will provide a platform for learning and collaboration around the development, distribution, and monetization of cross-platform games. The list of platforms and devices is constantly growing--Desktop, Browser, Facebook, iOS, Android, Windows 8, Kindle, Nook, etc. We will explore general approaches, business models, design considerations, platforms, and technology. Look forward t …

Books and Games focused on developing wisdom, wealth and human potential.

The HTML5 Games Meetup is a meeting place for anyone interested in creating HTML5 games. It will provide a platform for learning and collaboration around the development, distribution, and monetization of HTML5 games. The list of HTML5-compatible platforms and devices is constantly growing--Desktop, Browser, Facebook, iOS, Android, Windows 8, Kindle, Nook, etc. We will explore general approaches, business models, design considerations, platforms, and technology. Look forward to presentations and …

Welcome, Boston-Area App Developers! This Meetup is a way for all app builders, from new to experienced, to learn, share, and create apps with the help of Microsoft and the area's community of developers and designers. Already have apps or games on Android, iOS, or other platforms?  We absolutely welcome you to join in to share your experiences and connect about opportunities for your app and cross-platform development for Windows 8 and Windows Phone. There's normally a variety of upcoming event …

A community for educators who want to engage their students, who use games in the class, or who want to start; a place for game designers and developers to meet and learn from one another tips and strategies for making games that effectively teach; a place where "serious games," "alternate reality games," and "gamification" might fit in the same sentence with "edtech," "curriculum" or "Common Core Standards." NYC's #1 group for people who concern themselves with the overlap of learning, design, …

A group dedicated practicing and improving our fighting game skills. Come hang out with us, get some match up experience, network with other gamers who share similar interests. We practice mainly on Sunday nights on Xbox 360. People of all skill levels are welcome. We have a stream that we're developing but we also record matches. Join the Facebook group here and be a part of the 8 bit community (http://www.facebook.com/groups/190980590946975/)

New York Game Makers focuses on designing, building and releasing a new game each month. Through a series of weekly workshops we will explore the process of making a new game each month. There are two track, one for beginners and the other for more advanced game developers. Our goal is to contribute games to OneGameAMonth.com with a focus on Cross Platform technologies like HTML5, GameMaker, Unity and more.

This group is designed to match tabletop game designers with playtesters. The idea is that everyone wins when we play each others prototypes and share our experience. You don't have to be a designer to join. You just have to want to be part of a community that helps games get made.

This is a group for anyone interested in design and development of physical, video, or mobile games. We share projects we are working on, provide feedback on works in progress, and help each other bring our ideas to market. All skill levels are welcome to join.

GameDays consists of panels on a bi-weekly basis, following themes ranging from technical game mechanics and the computational problems involved, to conceptual design involving narrative, music, and art, and intersections of the three. Our intro-level panels empowers students to create games without prior coding experience, using software such as GameMaker: Studio and Unity 3D.

NYC Pipeline Developers unite! This group is for the people that develop plugins, automation, tools, asset management systems and otherwise hack together the creative engines that keep animation, visual effects, and game studios pumping out their remarkable content. We'll get a chance to network, trade skills, explore cutting edge techniques and drink lots of beer/coffee/tea.

A place for mobile developers: Android, iOS HTML5, Cloud.