[Bonus!] May CGDA Meetup - Chris Murphy

Welcome to the Bonus May 2025 Christchurch Game Developers Meetup!

Location:
EPIC Innovation, 106 Manchester St, Christchurch 8011

The meetup will also be streamed online:
[To be added on the day]

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Speaker - Chris Murphy
Chris Murphy is a Senior Technical Artist at Epic Games with game development credits on multiple platforms. Chris has over a decade of experience with Unreal Engine, over 8 years at Epic, a Bachelor of Computer Science, and a Bachelor of Multimedia, culminating in a broad skillset across a range of game development disciplines. Chris’ role in the Developer Relations team at Epic Games is to help Unreal Engine developers build successful projects with Unreal Engine support and advice.

6:00 PM - KICK OFF
Welcome to the Christchurch Game Developers Meetup, with news from around New Zealand!

6:15 PM - An Introduction to World Building with Procedural Content Generation
So your grand idea is seeming like maybe it has an equally grand scope. Sometimes clever tooling and procedural functionality can ease that burden and bring a project into the realms of achievability! Join Chris Murphy for a whistle stop tour of Procedural Content Generation: A fun method of quickly whipping up and iterating environments to manage large scopes while maintaining an artist driven workflow

7:00 PM - PIZZA
Enjoy some refreshments (AKA pizza) and catch up with/meet other game dev enthusiasts.

7:15 PM - Annual General Meeting
Join us for the annual Chairperson's report, Treasurer's report, and the announcement of the new Committee for 2025-26. Afterwards we will be taking suggestions for the new Committee's agenda.

Event Photography Notice: The CGDA occasionally takes photos and/or videos at our events for promotional purposes. If you would prefer not to have your image recorded for marketing purposes, please make your wishes known to the photographer, and/or reach out to a committee member, and we will accommodate your request. Thank you!
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Our Corporate Supporters:
Yoobee College of Creative Innovation - a tertiary institute committed to developing creative and technical talent across New Zealand.
https://www.yoobee.ac.nz/courses/

HIT Lab NZ - a multidisciplinary, Human-Centred Research environment that collaborates with industry.
https://www.hitlabnz.org/

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

Screen Canterbury NZ - a Canterbury-based film office helping creatives get their projects delivered to the screens of their choice, providing fantastic resource-sharing & advocacy for our screen production industry.
https://www.christchurchnz.com/screen-canterburynz

And our awesome Patreon Supporters:
Matt Barton
Leith Caldwell
Samantha Cook
Nik Scarr
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