December Game Developer Meetup CHCH - Delaney King

Welcome to the December Game Developers Meetup with special international guest Delaney King!

Meetup Location:
https://goo.gl/maps/NDBMmdJjgwUHBEYN9

Don't forget to check us out at:
Website: https://chch.gamedev.co.nz
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CHCHGameDev
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And help support our meetup on Patreon
https://www.patreon.com/CHCHGameDev

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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 - Cheaper Awesomeness: Optimising Trickery for Artists

For those that missed Delaney's talk at NZGDC, she is coming to Christchurch. Walk away from this session armed with a vicious combo of tricks and techniques for optimising your art assets. Learn smart ways to concept, model, map, surface, shade and crunch in ways that free up, speed up and cut down resources. All the stuff you pick up in the trenches.

Delaney has clocked up 20 years of experience as an AAA games artist with an impressive run of titles including Unreal Tournament 04, Dungeons & Dragons Online: Stormreach, Dragonage: Origins, Civilization IV, Lord of the Rings Online and many more. She was also the digital artist responsible for Carol in the film Where The Wild Things Are (2009) at Animal Logic. Delaney also likes to mix it up, having been the Games Development Consultant for Autodesk, a software specialist for Foundry products, and a VFX teacher at Australian Film and Television and Radio School. She was a finalist for the MCV Women in Games awards for penning the first-ever games artist curriculum in Australia for AIE and her LGBTIQA activism. She has been art director for Tantalus, Rocksteady Games and Microforte (now Wargaming.net). Along with freelancing, she runs Darkling Games, and is developing The Growly Darks, a mental arithmetic free tabletop roleplaying game designed for people with Dyscalculia, ADHD and other learning challenges.

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:
Digital Confectioners
Christchurch-based company working on their own games as well as collaborating on some of the biggest titles in the world.
https://www.digitalconfectioners.com/

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/

Yoobee
Check out their Diploma in Game Art and Development: www.yoobee.ac.nz/courses/game-art-development/diploma-in-game-art-development

CerebralFix
Christchurch-based game development studio specialising in work for hire from some amazing companies.
https://cerebralfix.com/

And our Patreon Sponsors:
Matt Barton
Leith Caldwell
Maxwell Clarke
Jeremy Craig
Ray Hidayat
Jen Huei Lee
Hannah Macintosh
Dean Newberry
Robert Oram
Aaron Simon

You are Amazing!