GGE - AZ Gamers and Game Developers

Ok, some of you may have seen the .plan I wrote a while back about the first GGE AZ Gamers and Game Developers "get together", and I'm just writing up another plan to announce some updates, changes, and to bring more awareness to the group so that if anyone else is interested in joining, they can.

The AZGGD group on GGE is basically a combination of Gamers and Game Developers, and we get together on the first sunday of every month in Downtown Phoenix, AZ. We have been doing this since the first Sunday of February, and have had 3 meetings so far.

We are currently in the process of trying to find a conference room we can rent, most likely in a local downtown library (cheap, or free) as the coffee shop we've been meeting at is no longer capable of supporting the groups size. I've posted a message to the groups discussion thread on GGE regarding this, and if anyone has any input on other alternatives in the Phoenix Area, they would be greatly appreciated.

As for the group itself, we have 13 members, of which, 7 have attended meetings in the past 3 months. Not too bad, eh? Our meeting regulars are Myself, James Spellman and Richard Van Stone, who have so far attended all of them (I think Rich missed the first), our latest "new comer" was Robert this week, and he broke the "developer only" flow by being our first Gamer to show up.

So far, we've kept the meetings extremely informal, more of an open discussion, anything goes, type of thing ... but in our last meeting, we discussed the possibility of creating a slightly more formal atmosphere and having a specific agenda ... we tossed around the idea of possibly doing a group project of some sort, something small, that could benefit the group and the Gamer/Game Dev community at large (no real ideas, just the idea of an idea) ... we are also going to try out a "show and tell" type thing, where we can all show off our current and past projects, discuss the problems and the joys that went along with it, etc, etc ...

So, for anyone else out there in the Phoenix area, the group is open and you are all welcome.

You can check the group discussion thread, and member list on the GGE group page;

GGE - Arizona Gamers and Game Developers