The Game Developer Meetup CHCH - December

Welcome to the December Game Developers Meetup!

Come along and join us to chat game dev with our special guest speaker, Jordan Carlton from Magic Leap/Weta Workshop, creators of Dr. Grordbort's Invaders on the Magic Leap One!

This speaker was brought to you by our Patreon sponsors!

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6:15 PM - KICK OFF
Welcome to the Christchurch Game Developers Meetup with news from around New Zealand.

6:30 PM - Be they Friend or Foe?
Jordan usually spends her days developing the companion AI character, Gimble, for the Dr Grordbort's Invaders title on the Magic Leap One. Tonight she'd like to share her learnings and discuss things to consider when developing your AI character - be they friend or foe. This talk will span from the larger base requirements of functional navigation behaviour to the smaller nuances of gaze behaviour. Prepare for a mishmash of discussion of features that she has real life experience implementing and features that she wishes to implement one day.

Jordan was surprised when she emerged from a haze of debugging and realised she had established herself as a game programmer at Magic Leap. An unorthodox use of a psychology degree combined with some well-honed keyboard smashing skills and a dash of moxy contributed to the loveable companion character, Gimble, featured in Dr. Grordbort’s Invaders. In her spare time, she’s a classic Ravenclaw.

Check out Magic Leap:
Web: https://www.magicleap.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/magicleap
Twitter: https://twitter.com/magicleap
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2E1x3l45YUO2eOhRv-A7lw
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/magicleap/

Weta Workshop:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wetaworkshop/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WetaWorkshop
Web: https://www.wetaworkshop.com/
Weta Workshop Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WetaWorkshop
Dr Grordbort's Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DrGrordborts

7:30 PM - Pizza and Networking
Bring along your games to show and get feedback!

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A HUGE Thank You to our Patreon supporters for making the meetups possible.

Our Corporate Sponsors:
University of Canterbury
Check out their Bachelor Of Product Design, Applied Immersive Game Design - http://www.canterbury.ac.nz/engineering/schools/school-of-product-design/

CerebralFix
Christchurch Based Game Development specialising in work for hire from some amazing companies.
https://cerebralfix.com/

Our Individual Sponsor:
Jeremy Craig

And our Patreon Sponsors:
Jen Huei Lee
Leith Caldwell
Hannah Mackintosh
Maxwell Clarke

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