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.

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.

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/)

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

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.

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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 …

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 :)

Digital Arts Career Day, Friday, April 6th, 2012 Technology is a constantly changing, evolving field.  Designers need better understand programming, and programmers need to learn design. Artists, graphic designers, animators, storytellers, filmmakers, musicians, and educators all need to understand this New Media frontier. This was the impetus for creating the New Media Group. Located in Westchester County,NY. The New Media Group is a non-profit student organization affiliated with Westchester C …

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We are a group of professional poker players who offer several courses designed to help you think, play, and profit like a professional poker player. We pride ourselves in not only being great players but effective teachers with the ability to effectively explain complex material. Our course materials, curriculum, and teaching methods were all developed by a psychology professor who is also a professional poker player. Our classes are designed to help you internalize the mathematical, strategic …

Establish a core group of makers who can fabricate a virtual reality prototype that can be demonstrated at expos, conventions, & eventually, investors. The same way people got together to form computer companies out of their garages in the late 70's & 80's, we can form a group that could potentially become a business.

This group is for anyone in Manhattan excited about the use of iPads in all areas of business. We started this group to share stories on how the iPad has become an important and innovative tool to solve business problems. We will get together to share stories on unique use cases and explore business problems the iPad effectively solves. If you would like to expand your network with other like-minded people who are passionate about the intersection of technology and business, feel free to join us …

This is a meetup group for anyone interested in Motion Capture. Whether you are an animator using motion capture data, a technician working in a mocap studio, or a producer or director looking for information on motion capture and what it can do for your next project,  then this group is for you.

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Hackers + Designers + Entrepreneurs = Code Crew! Passionate about learning how to code, creating beautiful designs or building the prototype for your business idea and tired of doing it alone? Then this is the group for you! This is the perfect group for people serious about learning how to code through self-study using resources on the web like Code School, Codecademy, Treehouse, P2PU, Coursera, edX, Udacity, programming books, screencasts or whatever else is out there on the internet. We also …

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Natural user interface (NUI) is about to take the world as the newest revolution in computing and devices. The next tech rock stars are the people developing NUI and the businesses they envision will be the next hot tech start-ups. We are those people that are changing the world and the way people interact and experience things through our projects, products, and start-ups. We use voice control, voice recognition, facial recognition, eye tracking, gesture, motion capture, emotional response, sen …

Welcome to NYC Mobile! This group is for folks doing interesting things in the mobile space. The goal is to inspire mobile innovation in New York City through thought exchange and networking. We love the perspectives of technologists, strategists, business innovators, marketers and advertisers. Important topics to discuss include ad networks, payment systems, mobile UI, 2D codes, app development, mobile hardware and software, platform opportunities/growth and how legacy industries are evolving t …

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