New School Year, New Goals
Hello everyone and welcome back what we hope to be a better turn out than last year. Sorry it’s a couple weeks already into this semester, but we’ve been busy on a couple small projects, and to those who were following us last year, but never got the chance to stop by yet this semester, there have been some changes.
First of all, we are not located in the Art building anymore. NIU has opened up an Digital Convergence Lab in the library, room 338, and has allowed us to use it as our headquarters. We are also not confining ourselves to coding video games for just the XBOX 360. Andy has shown us some really interesting and innovative uses for motion tracking, multi-touch screens for touch-and-play experiments, and many more. Don’t feel that if you don’t want to code for XBOX, then you’re not welcome. We welcome all talents.
Secondly, we no longer meet every other week. We will be meeting every Thursday night at 7 p.m, unless schedules start to not work out, in which case we will work something out with the rest of the group.
Also, we encourage everyone to invite your friends, even english or music majors. We could use their help, even if it’s storyline creation, character modelling, or even creating a musical number for an epic battle.
As always, if you have any questions, feel free to send either Andy Saia, Michael Pagano, or I (Dan Parker) a message on facebook if you have one, or email us: saiacide@gmail.com, mikepagano@gmail.com, or joedanpar@gmail.com.
I hope to see you all at the meetings, and let’s try to have a productive year.
