CALLING ALL CHICAGO GAME DEVELOPERS--STUDENT AND PROFESSIONALS FROM ALL DISCIPLINES!

DePaul Fundamental Research in Academic Gaming is proud to present Industry Night! A casual networking event for Chicago Game Devs! Whether you are a student or someone who drabbles a bit in game dev or a professional game developer all are welcome at Industry Night!

Industry Night takes place at 11th floor 1 E. Jackson Blvd. Chicago, IL 60604

Food will be provided!

Proof of vaccination is mandatory! No proof of vaccination! No entry! While masks are not mandatory, it is highly recommended to wear one!

Disclaimer: Industry Night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked.

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I've missed you all so much.

Let's get together and do the thing. You know the drill.

Remedy has agreed to host us and I would love to get a better count of how many we'll have. If we are going to overwhelm their bar we might need to move locations, but I won't know until we get people signing up.

Remedy is at the Western Blue Line or Milwaukee and Western just south east a little on Milwaukee.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers (designers, programmers, artists, audio peeps, QA, producers, indie, professional, AAA, A, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. Don't be an asshole.

We're doing the thing again, but on this Thursday instead of Tuesday! Hope to see you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is an independently run social gathering/event for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering for game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Triple Indie, Triple Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Industry Night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked.

Covid-19 may be forcing us to change the way we meet, but it won’t stop us from bringing you content and industry experience. We will be hosting July’s event in Virtual Reality again. Unfortunately, that means we won’t be able to provide live demonstrations, but for those of you that have a VR headset you get to join us in VR. For those that don’t, you can join us in 2D on your PC or by watching the Facebook Live Stream.

The topic of the month is Law. Last year’s Legal Meetup discussed the wild frontier of AR as Burger King burned up competitor’s ads and AR objects inhabited spaces digitally. Is this just another form of grafitti and vandalism? Is it a legitimate space to play in when serious money is involved? Has the law begun to catch up with these new digital issues? What does it take to start a VR or AR company? How do enterprises address the legal hurdles involved with implementing immersive technology?

Join us in a virtual environment and hear from legal experts about how these problems are being resolved and where they think we are going in the future.

For new people:

Game Dev Industry Night is not for promoting yourself or anything. It is not a networking event, instead it is a social event. Please do not join us to promote things or try to get a job. We're all hanging out and chatting, not selling our brands to each other. Thank you!

Regularly scheduled information:

While parts of the u.s. pretend that the pandemic is over and everything is fine, we continue our online meeting in hopes of helping minimize the overwhelming effects of corona-virus. Thanks for understanding.

Discord link will be sent the day of the event for people who do not have it.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. Don't be an asshole.

For new people:

Game Dev Industry Night is not for promoting yourself or anything. It is not a networking event, instead it is a social event. Please do not join us to promote things or try to get a job. We're all hanging out and chatting, not selling our brands to each other. Thank you!

Regularly scheduled information:

Here we are, still in lock down, but things are looking up. It's getting warmer, the plants in my garden are growing, and hopefully the garden of your mind, at least, is also growing through this pandemic!

I hope everyone can come join us and do some vid/voice chat in discord. I'll post the link to the discord the day of the event.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. Don't be an asshole.

We're finally doing it! Online! In a voice/video chat room!

Here's the deal. We all want to drink and chat. I know I do. I love it! But online platforms for voice and video are kind of garbage.

For now, my plan is to do a discord server which I already have setup and ready to go. I will send the link for that here once it's time.

It's worth noting that I am trying to find ways to make the server controls easy to ban shitty people or mute loud mic people, etc, but I am not a discord server pro, so I'm still learning.

Also, I'm sure everyone is going to suggest a free for all vid chat style service like Zoom, or that I should use slack, but in my opinion, discord has the best set of features for our unique situation. Anyway, we can talk about it if you think you have better ideas. There are other options available.

Anyway. See you there!

DISCORD LINK

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

You're over halfway to the end of official winter and often times the end of February is very close to the real halfway of our cold season.

So get excited. It's time to turn the tide on cold weather!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

Here it is, the beginning of 2020. Finally! Celebrate the new year with us by coming out and having a drink! Food nearby can be brought into the bar and they have a delivery service for Kumas.

See you there!

Ohh, also, this is the 9 year anniversary of Industry Night. Wow!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

Become a networking GURU at this highly informational professional meetup for game developers interested in networking.

Before you come, make sure you're an expert in everything linked to, from, and ancillarilly to this page:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acknowledgement_(data_networks)

SEE YOU THERE - BRING YOUR BEST ASCII

But for real we're doing this a week early because the Chicago Game Developer Industry is going to be out of town the next week.

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

Please join Women at Zynga, zPride, and The Voxel Collective for a panel discussion on creating supportive communities around you, organized by and for women and LGBTQ professionals who are passionate about building inclusive spaces in the game industry.

Beer, wine, sparkling juice, and tasty bites will be available at check-in!

Please RSVP, as space is limited.

5515 N Cumberland Ave

Suite 810

Chicago IL, 60656

Located right off of I-90 and the Cumberland Blue Line stop. Free parking is available for drivers.

You have a season and a few weeks until 2019 crashes into the ground on top of you and 2020 arises from the ashes.

Make it count!

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.

On September 24th, visit Ignite Gaming - Skokie for an evening of mingling, drinks, and gaming with other Esports Business Professionals from around the Chicagoland area!

Expand your business network over complimentary appetizers and Happy Hour Drink specials from Ignite’s full bar. Everyone who attends receives a free hour of gaming on the cutting edge Game Floor, in case you’d rather do your mingling over some (friendly!) competition. Throughout the evening, Ignite will be highlighting specific companies and professionals who are making waves and leading the charge in the blossoming esports industry.

Over here at Industry Night it's been a pretty good summer. If your summer wasn't good, maybe we can help make it better over a drink or two.

FYI: Crown is a 21+ bar.

We'll be hanging out in the front area of Crown Liquors. There are many food options nearby and you can bring it into the bar.

See you there!

Game Dev Industry Night is a social gathering for game developers. If you're a game developer and you're interested in a social gathering of game developers of all types (design, programming, art, audio, QA, production, indie, professional, AAA, A, Big Indie, Big Indie Ruining Indie, etc), please come out and hang with us!

Disclaimer:
Industry night is not for pitching your company, game, project, school, kickstarter, charity or otherwise promoting yourself. Please be respectful of other developers when you show up and keep it casual unless explicitly asked. In short, don't be an asshole.