Events of Interest 24th and 25th November 2011

Two events of interest from Dr. Bryan Duggan:

On Thursday:

Michael Meagher, Academic Engagement manager from Microsoft Ireland
will be in DIT on Thursday 24th @ 1pm in room 4-008 (K408) to give a
presentation on the Imagine Cup competition. The Imagine Cup is the
worlds largest student software development competition. It was won by
a team from IT Sligo last year (at the worldwide finals in New York).
A team from DIT School of Computing represented Ireland at the
worldwide finals in Poland the year before with their project
Imaginote:
http://www.facebook.com/imaginote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKoyJcfRXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdehtXx9PVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGU-1-kcrgU
All students should attend!

On Friday:
State of Play - Indie Game Development Seminar Friday 25th November (6pm - 8pm)
Various indie game development companies will present
- Open Emotion (http://www.openemotionstudios.com/)
- RedWind (http://www.redwindsoftware.com/web/index.html)
- Pufferfish Games (http://www.pufferfishgames.com/powergrid/)
- Bitsmith Games (http://www.bitsmithgames.com/)
- Weeman Studios(http://www.weemanstudios.com/)
- Simplelifeforms Games (http://www.simplelifeforms.com/)
- Zinc Software (http://www.zincsoftware.com/)
- Nevermind Games (http://www.nevermindgames.com/)
- Digital Arrow (http://digital-arrow.com/)
- SuperfunPlay games (http://www.superfunplay.com/)
http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/calendar/viewevent.php?article=526
This will be a great event for anyone interested in getting into
games/apps development
Register your place!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHBkUmhnX1NoNmJfWklSYlVVS2NLb0E6MQ