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 …

This is a group for anyone interested in game creation. We will emphasize learning, overcoming barriers, and networking with one another in an attempt to create something greater than the sum of our parts. You might be interested in joining us if you consider yourself any of the following: Developer Designer Chiptuner Concept Artist Interested in Learning I started this group because I'm pretty good at teaching and seeing the strengths of others, and thought it'd be cool to meet, learn, build, …

This group is for professional, amateur, and aspiring game developers. Ranging from students and hobbyists, to those already engrossed in the field. We welcome programmers, artists, audio engineers, biz types, and anyone else who wants to get involved with game development. Share your projects, prototypes, creations, and ideas. Looking for answers? Concerns on how to get started, where to turn, how to market, different business plans and models? Let Philadelphia Game Development be a resou …

Scheduled for every fourth Tuesday of the month from 7 pm to 8 pm, this Meetup focuses on discussions regarding the artistic and technical work that goes into game development as well as the business aspect of creating games and running a game company. The format is usually a presentation by guest speakers followed by a round-table discussion on a specific topic, where all attendees are encouraged to contribute. To facilitate this close and informal exchange of ideas, we usually keep the size of …

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.

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.

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, …

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.

A lot of us heard the buzz on the amazing growth in the mobile & social networking platforms. Tons of people are creating apps and have crowded that place with millions of apps already. However, there is still a lot of room and well paying jobs for niche developers. This meetup facilitates people to receive job-oriented training in mobile development in Android and iOS platforms. This training costs you some money but will be refunded back to you if you end-up getting a job through us. We will a …

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 …

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This is a group I envisioned where various groups could meet to discuss video games - The logistics of the games, whether they're opensource, GP/L, etc, languages and technologies, and all that - I'd love to have 1 huge group make a big game and market it together and split the proceeds but we'd have to decide the logistics of that and something tells me from the other groups I'm in, that the group will grow in population faster than the group is ready for in function. This group is for all fu …

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.

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 …

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.

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

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

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/)

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.

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The new and improve Unity3d meetup group. Ours Goals Are: 1) Building a deeper understanding of Unity technology in the New York area. 2) Bringing together like minded developers, artist, designers, musicians and others interested in creating great game play experiences.

From cocos2d.org: Cocos2d is [an open source] framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. There are many flavors of Cocos2d. Originally written in Python the framework is in the process of being ported to Objective-C, C++, Java, and JavaScript. Coco2d enables you to quickly design and develop high quality 2d games that run on Mac OS X, Windows, iOS, Android, and modern web browsers. The Objective-C version, Cocos2d-iPhone is one of the most complete an …

Tech Under Thirty is a new meetup group for designers & tech-oriented people under the age of thirty. If you’re a game developer, a web designer, a print designer, an engineer, blogger, or anything in between, you should definitely join us. No experience required! Our focuses include: Encouraging people in design & tech industries to meet and cross-pollinate ideas. Building a word-of-mouth network to make finding jobs & recommending qualified people easier. Enabling people to learn new skills i …

This group will meet regularly to discuss cross-device HTML5 developer tools for creating both native mobile applications for iOS & Android along with HTML5 web apps. We'll include guest speakers that will talk about 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 handsets. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will likely me …

A group for anyone working on or interested in Apps for Kids in New York City. Apps as in interactive media for phones or tablets, iPads, iPhones, Android devices or on other platforms. Designers, developers, writers, voice actors, composers, marketers, investors, ... are all welcome. There's an "Apps for Kids" Meet-Up in Silicon Valley with 600+ members , and no equivalent in NYC. Let's see if we can start something here too :)

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 (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open f …