Talk:Gamebridge

GAMEBRIDGE MEETING NOTES

2025

NOV 19 2025

PREMEETING ROLES

• Facilitators (1 or more): LX
• Note takers (2+ is ideal): LX, Martin

OUTLINE SCHEDULE

• Intros (intro yourself and what your gaming or game dev related interests are, share what you'd like to share about or want to learn about/get help with)
• Announcements (1-2 sentences about your announcement not the whole topic)
• Topics (announcements in detail to discuss them, game demos, tutorials to learn stuff by request or offer from whomeever teaching)
• Mentoring if someone wants feedback or help with a topic in their projects
• Tutorials for people who might be beginners needing to learn gamedev in general or a specialty within it or just a specific technique
• GAME JAM UPDATES
• During game jams we'll talk about the phases of the jam and share people's progress and teach about the current and next phase of the jam

INTRODUCTIONS

• Alex: started gamebridge and is excited to see people work on stuff
• Garik: beginner in gamedev, have coding experience 12+ yrs, working on some small games, showed sheep game last time, exploring next ideas, using unity open to godot
• Eric: Doing music in music room working on upgrading it, could also support video and streaming/recording in the room, beginner gamedev, music maker
• Sophia: game dev tabletop designer, unity experience, interested if an idea for unity games
• Martin: Like to work on games, working w Eric on music
• Jessie: interested in gamedev, nongamedev unity experience, also tabletop on aethertac and other stuff
• Daario: Did game dev a while ago. Garik's friend. Factory games. Plays shapes 2.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• GAMEBRIDGE GAME JAM STARTING TODAY!
• Aethertac playtest will continue! Join their discord: https://discord.gg/TUAvenSF
• Garik: Working on super early new prototype idea to show!
• Jessie: Looking for pixel art!
• BAD (Bay Area Developers gamedev collective) is a sister group with many gamedevs and arists that are good to meet and hang out with on their Discord! https://www.badcollective.games/

Q&A =

   * Anyone know how to mocap?
   * Jessie worked on it. Cam mocap is improving.
   * Tutorials and coding AI?
   * Our tutorials series: https://gamebridgeu.wordpress.com/
      * Tutorial series starts with making a simple FPS where you solve the problem of alling forever.

TOPICS

AETHERTAC

• Aethertac playtest will continue! Join aetherworld discord: https://discord.gg/TUAvenSF

GARIK DEMO

• Moving points around to triangulate movement is fun!
• Ideas for single and multiplayer movement and level complications or teamwork
• How to make levels for it?
• LX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mssc0S8GeFI the p
• Sheep update: everyone who sees it loves it, some updates to polish and mechanics.

EXPERIMENTATION

• Ideas we have so far:

   * Eric: Game with physical toys that you can play tabletop.
   * Garik: Monster thing. or sheep?
   * Jessie: Narrative focused idea maybe? More of programmer.
   

CONCEPT

Think of a 1-2 sentence concept that sparks someone's imagination with the most unique ideas of your game and a GIF animated sequence that could convey what your game is about.

Q&A

?: I saw a sign in the library at Noisebridge indicating that Gamebridge is Wednesdays at 8. Is this correct? LX: Yes

COPY THE TEMPLATE FROM BELOW

• Every meeting, you can copy the below notes template into https://pad.riseup.net/p/gamebridge.
• Ask that you have 1-2 facilitators and 2 or more note takers so the most active note taker can speak and have the other notetaker write and correct things.

GAMEBRIDGE MEETING NOTES TEMPLATE

NOV 19 2025

PREMEETING ROLES

• Facilitators (1 or more): ?
• Note takers (2+ is ideal): ?, ?

OUTLINE SCHEDULE

• Intros (intro yourself and what your gaming or game dev related interests are, share what you'd like to share about or want to learn about/get help with)
• Announcements (1-2 sentences about your announcement not the whole topic)
• Topics (announcements in detail to discuss them, game demos, tutorials to learn stuff by request or offer from whomeever teaching)
• Mentoring if someone wants feedback or help with a topic in their projects
• Tutorials for people who might be beginners needing to learn gamedev in general or a specialty within it or just a specific technique
• GAME JAM UPDATES
• During game jams we'll talk about the phases of the jam and share people's progress and teach about the current and next phase of the jam

INTRODUCTIONS

• Name: About themselves.

INTRO TO GAMES AT NOISEBRIDGE

• "Games Guild at Noisebridge encompasses many subgroups:

Q&A =

• Does anyone have questions maybe someone in the group might know the answer?

TOPICS

• Does anyone have a discussion topic? Let's take a stack of topics first before we get into them.

PLAYTESTS

• Does anyone have a game they want to playtest?

DEMOS =

• Does anyone have a game work in progress they want to demo?

GAME JAM!

• Discuss ongoing game jam progress.