   Second meeting set for Sunday 6/11/06 at noon
  Please place any thoughts regarding the meeting in this thread.  Thanks!   
  Hello everyone, Sally, Ben and I got together today for the first meeting of the Game Club.  For everyone else, I guess you lucked out because you got to miss talking about the "boring" stuff dealing with gaining club status with the school. We would like to set up a meeting on Sunday at about noon at SCC103, the room where the GameMaker class was held.  Ben, Sally and myself can make this meeting time.  Pete previously said he would be free then as well.  John is gone the week of the 12th.  Is the 11th okay for you?  As for the rest of you, can you make it on Sunday?   Also, if you haven't already, please sign up an account on www.gamedev.net and send me your name so I can accept you.  I am going to be using the forum exclusively starting a week from Sunday.  The forum doesn't have the easiest navigation, but it is good for our needs in the present.  Matt, please accept your invite!!!  Kevin, Sally, Juan, Brian, Brett, anyone else, please get yourself over there soon. As for the club issues we need to address together, I have them listed below: LOGO: Ben is working on one.  If anyone would like to help, let him know. CONSTITUTION: I believe Pete has the paperwork.  We can address this issue on Sunday.  We need to get this moving. OFFICERS:I can't be one, but Pete, Ben and John, you all volunteered.   MEETINGS: Should we make Sundays our designated meeting times?  We need your input to figure out when most people can meet. AGENDA: The function of this club is to get together to make games.  We need to address what tools we will need to do this best and how to acquire the funds to get them.  GameMaker you are almost all familiar with.  I just purchased the Torque 2D engine.  From the looks of things it is a more powerful scripting system and has a lot of bells and whistles that GameMaker simply doesn't have.  The only problem is its price, 100 dollars.  If we could find a way to purchase or get "free" one or two more licenses, we could use this platform for our more high profile games.  Just some ideas here. PROJECTS:The three of us agree that we should put together an entry for the 4E5 contest I was telling you about.  Go to www.gamedev.net and find the contest if you haven't looked it over already.  We have until Thanksgiving (!) to get it all together.  This would be an excellent opportunity for everyone to work on the aspects that they like.  Designers, artists, coders, and others can all have a part.  If we can get a very good design document and some small scale prototyping (GameMaker) done by the start of the fall semester, we can use that to draw new student interest that can then be used to polish up a commercial quality game by the due date.  You all need a gem in your gaming portfolio if you want in the industry.  Here it is, we just have to work for it. I have what I believe is a very good idea for what the game could be.  Please give a little thought into possible projects that fit into the theme set by the contest.  We'll discuss them at the meeting on Sunday. That takes care of the major project.  We also have plenty of time for smaller scale projects.  Within each project we should work on only one or two aspects of game design, but do it well.  We can make games in GameMaker.  We can learn to use other technologies such as OpenGL, DirectX, SDL, Flash or others.  The choices are endless, almost. FUN:It was on the list... I think we can work it in.  :) Well , I think I got everything needed out of the way here.  If there's anything I missed, let me know.  Please RSVP for Sunday on the forums.  Only email me an RSVP if you absolutely have to.  Oh yes, and by the way... I WILL NOT STOP EMAILING YOU UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU!  I WILL NOT STOP EMAILING YOU UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU!  I WILL NOT STOP EMAILING YOU UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU!  I WILL NOT STOP EMAILING YOU UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU!  I WILL NOT STOP EMAILING YOU UNTIL I HEAR FROM YOU! For some of you, I would just like to know if you're still interested in the club or not.  For others, I would like to know to expect you.  Thanks again! Regards,Brad   