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TIG Toronto is back!

Name:	Rob Segal
Date Posted:	Jul 21, 2007
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Greetings fellow GarageGamers,

I'm pleased to announce with the support of fellow Torque developer veterans Ken Finney and Krunal Patel aka "Lateral Punk" the resurrection of the Toronto Torque Intereset group or TIG. Some of you may recall a previous TIG meeting in November of last year. Details of which can be found here. These new meetings will be held very much in that same regard. This is meant to be a fairly regular meeting occurring every two months highlighting various GarageGames technologies and what people are doing with them. All are welcome to attend! The first meeting will outline the following topics...

Torque Game Engine - basic presentation by Ken Finney covering the basics of Torque Game Engine and some of it's capabilities.

Torque Game Builder - presentation by Rob Segal on the basic capabilities of Torque Game Builder including the level editor, collision detection, particle effects and more.

Space is generously provided by Ken Finney and the Art Institute of Toronto.

Full details about the date, time and venue are...

RECENT UPDATE! FLOOR CHANGE! - Thursday August 9th, 6pm - 9pm @ 655 Bay St, 3rd floor, Art Lab 4 (AiTO). Signs will posted to direct you on arrival.

!IMPORTANT! - If you do plan on attending please post a reply here so we can get an idea of the number of people attending.

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Eric Preisz (Jul 21, 2007 at 03:36 GMT)

Great to see another TIG! We were talking about having another here in Orlando.

Michael Perry (Jul 21, 2007 at 19:40 GMT)

Hell yeah! Nice lineup of topics. Good luck guys! Hopefully TIG will grow enough that the local groups can get together for one large national meeting =)

Rob Parton (Jul 21, 2007 at 20:56 GMT)

It'll be a bit of a trip but I'll so be there if I can get the time off!

Rob Segal (Jul 22, 2007 at 03:48 GMT)

Thanks for the support guys! Should be alot of fun. Hopefully we can kick things off with a bang.

Josef Rogovsky (Jul 22, 2007 at 14:59 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

Great to see this event coming back.

I'll be there!

Eric Roberts (Jul 22, 2007 at 16:41 GMT)

I think I'll be there this time :)

John Rockefeller (Jul 22, 2007 at 23:32 GMT)

I'll be there. How much does it cost?

Rob Segal (Jul 23, 2007 at 02:34 GMT)

Cost!? Cost!!!??? This is completely free my good man. Although if you want to buy me a beer after the presentations I won't stop you.

Rob Segal (Jul 23, 2007 at 16:03 GMT)

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I think I'll be there this time :)

Hey Eric glad to hear you'll be making it out to the meet.

deadm4n (Jul 24, 2007 at 00:40 GMT)

i will be there again! this time a little less nervous. it was nice seeing my former prof Ken [your camo was a dead giveaway]. sorry for droppin' off the face of the earth. the timing of the telefilm project conflicted with my full-time job. hope things turned out well.

i also hope there is news of a night course at AIT.

much love!
Edited on Jul 24, 2007 00:43 GMT

Tim Carter (Jul 30, 2007 at 01:36 GMT)

Will be there. Just to check out the Torque and its community.

Joel Walsh (Aug 01, 2007 at 17:56 GMT)

I'll be there for sure

Rob Segal (Aug 02, 2007 at 00:57 GMT)

Now I don't want to excite anyone but there may be the possibility of some refreshments and snacks. I say MIGHT BE a possibility. I will relay more news as I get it.

Rob Segal (Aug 07, 2007 at 03:36 GMT)

Just a reminder folks the meetup is this coming Thursday starting at around 6pm. I look forward to seeing everyone there!

Lateral Punk (Aug 07, 2007 at 03:49 GMT)

Hurray for TIG!! See y'all there!

Ken Finney (Aug 09, 2007 at 16:09 GMT)

Refreshments and snacks will be laid on, I'm assured by the Campus Director.

There will be a student downstairs directing people where to go. The meeting room is on the 3rd floor - Art Lab 4.

At 6pm the downstairs doors will be locked by security, but the student volunteer will be there to let people in and provide directions.

Rob Segal (Aug 10, 2007 at 06:06 GMT)

The GGE Torque group we had discussed at tonights meet can be found here. It will serve largely as the portal for notifications about the TIG group here in Toronto. I'll post a more comprehensive review of our first meet when it's not so late and I'm not so tired. Thanks to all who attended!
Edited on Aug 10, 2007 06:07 GMT

Josef Rogovsky (Aug 11, 2007 at 04:57 GMT) Resource Rating: 5

I hope the meeting went well. I got stuck with work and wasn't able to attend. Looking forward to reading the review.

Rob Segal (Aug 12, 2007 at 20:44 GMT)

Hey Josef sorry you couldn't make it out. The meet up went quite well. You can read my review of the event at GGE group page for TIG Toronto. Hopefully you can make it out to the next one Josef.

Note to all you guys again that I will be using the GGE page as the primary portal for distributing notices and reviews to the community.

Rob Segal (Sep 02, 2007 at 06:29 GMT)

Guys I'm putting together a list of topics for the next TIG meet. Should be in later September or early October If there is something you would like to see covered let me know.

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