June CGDA Meetup - Intro To CODE & AMA - Tim Ponting

Welcome to the June 2023 Game Developers Meetup!

Meetup Location:
John Britten Building - University of Canterbury Campus

The meetup will also be streamed online:
https://youtube.com/live/HuYUMK7GMcs

6:15 PM - KICK OFF
6:30 PM - GUEST SPEAKERS + Q&A
7:15 PM - GJA AWARDS
then PIZZA

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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 - Intro To Code & AMA
This talk will function as a brief introduction and AMA about the Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) and CODE's pillars. Alongside CODE's goal of capability building within teams and projects, the talk will also cover the general structures of funding -- the fundamentals of who should be applying, and which kinds of projects are likely to be a great fit for CODE support.

CODE is a regional economic development initiative designed to nurture a nationally significant, sustainable game development ecosystem, originally servicing Ōtepoti – Dunedin, CODE is now opening up support for interactive projects NZ-wide!

Tim Ponting has 30 years’ experience in the games industry, initially as a multi-award winning journalist and publisher of music, technology and videogame magazines and websites, followed by five years at Activision as European PR Director where he was responsible for strategy and execution of all comms campaigns across the EMEA region. Achievements include launching the Call of Duty and Guitar Hero brands. Since 2007, Tim has been a director of Renegade PR and other projects including IndieDevKit, driving communications for videogames – both for publisher franchises and smaller independent projects, where his heart lies. Tim is the Chief Executive at the New Zealand Centre Of Digital Excellence (NZ CODE).

Vee Pendergrast was originally also scheduled to present, but can no longer make it.

7:15 PM - PIZZA
Enjoy some refreshments (AKA pizza) and catching up with/meeting other game dev enthusiasts.
The Game Jam Aotearoa award announcements will be happening separately from this Meetup.

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