On 12th January, Saturday, the SSC held its first meeting and gathering. In total 30 people attended this gathering. We are honored to have Donny and Chor Guan from MDA and Alex from NUS to join us for this gathering. To everyone - Thanks for coming to support the SSC!
During this gathering, Kun gave his opening speech as the Coordinator of the SSC and shared with us his vision and goals for the SSC with the participants.
This is then followed by Donny’s very informative presentation on the Games Industry in Singapore with highlights of the business opportunities in the Games Market, the demand of the market for game-related professions and MDA’s role to support the local Games Development Industry.
Chor Guan then followed up on presenting the various approaches taken by MDA to support and provide resources to nurture budding talents who are passionate and dedicated to producing games. Among these enticing approaches are: a new Games Lab in town dedicated for game development teams to brainstorm and create games, and recruiting a larger contingent of students for this year’s GAMBIT program at the MIT. Chor Guan also mentioned that what matters most are young talents having the passion and dedication to make games, and complementary skill set, rather than possessing top grades in school.
After the presentations, the participants adjourned for light refreshment and spent the rest of the session interacting with each other.
After the event, the main members of the SSC got together for a short and relaxing get-together session to… play games! We crowded around to look at the demonstration of the game Monster and Justin’s demo play of the indy game Mogura - yes, gaming is our way to relax too!
With the start of this first gathering, the SSC strives to bring more events to the local gaming community to learn, interact, play and create! Stay tuned to this site =)
*photos on the event coming soon!
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Well it was indeed a very informative and enjoyable day, and we met lots of interesting people too. Hope to see everyone soon. =)
Comment by leangle — January 17, 2008 @ 12:14 pm
Ah yes, we are already working on the next meeting. Meanwhile, in between we may have a short boardgame gathering. Stay tuned!
Comment by Extrakun — January 17, 2008 @ 1:55 pm
It was fun! But I think we should photoshop the darker pictures in the future…
Comment by manny — January 18, 2008 @ 5:31 am