Gamedevelopers.ie second birthday timetable + Invite

Hope you all have a fun one :D ..

i’ll be in Waterford :(

sorry Claire….

Aphra..

Good stuff. Count me in. :)

I see it ends at 8:30. To Toners afterwards perhaps?

maybe to the nearest bar which is McGruthers…

Aphra.

Email sent….
Nearest sounds best to me……the less time spent travelling to pubs the better…..

gonna try to make it up, cos sounds like a good night. would be good to catch up with everyone who was in derry. but got an interview earlier that day i think, quite a bit away.

:(
I was really looking forward to making it to this one, but flights on friday and ridiculously expensive and at crap times too :(

I just want to thank everyone who has sent an e-mail to events@gamedevelopers.ie to let us know that you are attending on Friday.

You will not receive an e-mail confirmation but all the names have been recorded and name badges will be available on the evening as well as a list of attendees.

It looks like we will have a very good crowd…

I will keep you posted…

Aphra.

Have fun on friday. Maybe I’ll mark the day by hitting 1000 posts, but unfortunatelly won’t be there :(

sorry to hear that omen…

have you looked at flying into Belfast at all? just a suggestion..since I will be heading to Dublin either late Thurs night or Friday morning…and could collect you at the airport..

Aphra.

Even at 11pm you’d be welcome, no doubt the celebrations will continue LOOOOOONNNNNNNGGGGGGGG into the night

there’s a rumour going around that you don’t exist, Damian – that you are, in fact, an alter ego of Ivan’s cunningly designed to allow him post some of his more obscure ramblings!!

I put it to you, members of the jury, that this man is not real! How else explain his non-appearance at a single Shindig in this age of cheap air-travel, eh? Eh??

hey, I made it to the sony psp talk, not my fault no one else went to that…

maybe gd need a whip around :0)

set up a pay pal and we’ll drop ya a euro, either that or maybe gd could give rewards points like tesco’s per post, except exhchangable for flights..

if that was the case omen probably would be able to get a flight from rio.

then find an internet cafe and start posting so i could get home :p

i would like to go (to at least one of these shin digs) but i have to go to derry on friday- sunday, hope u all have a good time

Looking forward to finally meeting you guys. Won’t be a very long night for me though, a few pints and then I will have to be off I’m afraid!

will be good to meet a few of you girls and guys. hopefully plenty of pints will be had :D just out of interest, how expensive our dublin hotels or hostels??

Yeah, no doubt Mal and Aaron will be sharing a roomy doorstep til the small hours with only Big Heg’s chest hair and a naggin of Grants vodka to keep them warm….

you could try Jury’s Inn at ChristChurch – I believe they do room rates…so more than one could crash there…

..also the Avalon Hostel on South Great George’s Street or maybe at that point it is Camden st..

Aphra…

I’ve just sent an email to be put on the guest list thingy, am I too late?

nope…just doing up the list now…we have 45 on the list so far…so looking good…

Aphra.

Cool sounds good, is this place hard to find i havent got a clue right now! haha

Don’t rely on a taxi driver knowing how to get to the Digital Hub, I tried that once and he just looked at my blankly…know the street name / nearest pub.

thanx, so Thomas street somewhere then! :)

tell them is is on the same side as McGruders pub, near where Media Lab Europe was…

Aphra

ooohhhh look at Omen (alter ego of Ivan) on 995 posts are we going to break the 1K barrier before the birthday shindig????

User Name: Omen
Total posts: 995

If someone posts a topic on EA/Producers/Marketing, I’m sure he will reach 1000….. ;-)

I’ve got such a bad reputation….

He’ll probably get his 1000th post while we’re off at the shindig. How very crafty… ;)

he has passed it!! Omen, if we were an airline you would be getting a very special prize!!

Aphra.

question though.

omen your a professional developer, how you get the time to write games, between posts? does you day start when the rest of us are offline and gone home? :)

Well done, Damian!

I still remember when Aphra was untouchable at the top of the list. Reign on, King Damo! ;)

omen your a professional developer, how you get the time to write games, between posts? does you day start when the rest of us are offline and gone home?[/quote:f59e462c10]
Compile and load times give ample posting time.

if we were an airline you would be getting a very special prize!![/quote:f59e462c10] We’re not an airline, but do i still get a prize?

ah ha, Omen that would be telling!!

I have just posted the final list of nominations and the revised progamme for tomorrow night, including a link to a map of the place, under news on the home page.

Unfortunately a speaker from DC studios cannot make it so we have had to revise our list of speakers and the times.

I have been in contact with DC and they are aware of discussions on these forums and will be making announcements to us as soon as they can re. the Dublin studio and their plans. I look forward to circulating them to everyone as soon as we know more..

Regardless I think tomorrow night will be a very useful event and a great chance for people to meet people in the industry and in acadmia. About 50 people expressed an interest in attending the event so hopefully they will turn up on the night and make it the best birthday so far for gd.ie!!

I am looking forward to it…and the new look site will be unveiled too and hopefully we will have banned little boxes, broken forms and other such annoyances from our site..!!

Aphra.

Regardless I think tomorrow night will be a very useful event and a great chance for people to meet people in the industry and in acadmia [/quote:140dea9024]

Not to mention the mother of all piss-ups! I’ll be a bit late getting there but have no intention of going home early.

Oh yeah, forgot about the new site design, really looking forward to seeing it!

Oh yeah….and the piss up too…. ;)

Not to mention the mother of all piss-ups! [/quote:6610422423]

:D Give the man the Humour Award for that one alone!

im just wondering if anyone knows how to get to the digital hub from the busaras?

…….care to enlighten me on how?? :p :) thanks.

by taxi :D

thanks :p il get there somehow.

I think what they’re trying to say is that there’s a map in the news section! ;)

Bus station is next to O’Connell Street. I’ll get you there somehow. Don’t worry. I can be trusted…!

cheers ronny. anyone else making the long distance trip from donegal, besides tony??

I think Pete is filling KITT full of the red, and driving down.

He only has room for one, in the eject seat.

Mal

LOL Mal, I’ll be riding shotgun with Ireland’s finest bus drivers from the bus depot in Foyle Street, Derry on the 12.30 bus to Dublin.

As previously for shindigs, I shall drive over from Rathfarnham so if anyone needs a lift, let me know… 1 seat or 3 seats available, depending on takers :)

I’m going straight from work, which means I will probably be very early, by early I mean I’ll be in the area at around 5:15. So if anyone else is around……….I’ll be in McGruders pub. :D

Your far more generous with your knowledge then I ever would be Ian!!! :) [/quote:8b9d2db43d] spoken like a true Dub!

cheers ronny. anyone else making the long distance trip from donegal, besides tony?? [/quote:6ac97f079c] looking like we’ll have 3 or 4 from Torc apart from myself

im just wondering if anyone knows how to get to the digital hub from the busaras? [/quote:d3b65416d7]

Walk up to Eden Quay, get the 78A?

ughhhh…….head hurts…………
Twas a good night. Great speakers and presentations, amazing turnout, and some good revelry afterwards.
Much kudos to Aphra, and everyone else who arranged and took part in the event. Great to meet everyone…..

Looking forward to the new look site going live, some fantastic work done on it, well done to Ian and Dave……great stuff! :D

…..I’m goin’ back to bed.

so who are the lucky people who won awards last night?? im really annoyed i didnt make it up to dublin, damn this irish weather has cursed my health!!!:mad:

New guy to this forum!
I got an invitation for the conferance, and must say I thought it was very good. Although I couldnt stay long afterwards I hope to get to know people here better through this forum and future meetings.

The game industry in Ireland has huge potential from what I have seen.
There are so many talented perople, and people with so much knowledge about games and still to few companies.
It seems like most of the talent goes over to england to work, whitch is a big shame.

Hopefully this will change with time!:)

Much thanks to everyone for turning up on Friday night…we had 50 chairs out and there were still people standing which is always a good sign.

I will write a proper review when I get back up to Portrush later today but for those of you who want to know who won!!….

Newbie – Stephane Ambrosini (steph)
Stamina – Damian Furlong (Omen) with a special runners up award for Ronnie Southwood (ronny)
Salmon of Knowledge – Tony Kelly (Idora)
Humour – Peter McNally (Pete)
Gd.ie person/group of the year 05 – IGDA Ireland

Steph and Omen – I have your awards and hopefully we will get to pass them on at a future shindig…

Many thanks to our speakers on the night – things continued in McGruders, then Handels and then some late night eating establishments…think I got home around 4am!! Still life in these them bones eh..

Aphra.

Wahoo…go me!
I will really try to make it to an event in the near future.
Thanks people

congradulations to all the winners. im really annoyed i didnt get up to dublin to meet everybody, but hopefully in the future the opportunity will arise again. cant wait to see the new site!!

The new site is sweet looking alright!

When does the new site go live ?

Hold on a sec….

*racking through drink induced swiss cheesed memory*

Couple of weeks I think, if my memory serves me……which it usually doesn’t, so…….

When does the new site go live ? [/quote:ffb175c77d] some day this week

See I told you how bad my memory is!!

I also think that a special award should be given to Aphra for bringing along……..THE WORLDS HEAVIEST BAG. Who’d have thought that such a small bag could induce such terrible shoulder ligament damage…..

hey I was carrying around two glass awards + my house + my office…what do you expect…!

drink more Guinness!

Aphra.

Sorry couldnt make it friday night, was all set to go friday evening but something came up and my lift cancelled (also at this stage i was too late for the train, by about 10 minutes).
hope twas a good night and many pints were consumed. hopefully should make it to the next shindig, in may i guess?

Anyone up for a visit to cork for the next one :)

Drink more Guinness?

Sounds like a plan!! :D

May is e3 month and start of conference season for us academics…also bank holidays at the beginning and the end which are never too good for organising shindigs.

..but hey, if we can agree on a date then great..

it also sees a month of games events in the digital hub..so tying it onto one of them might be an option..

having said that I would love to get to Cork during the year of culture…anyone down there want to try an organise or suggest a games related event – not just a shindig??

I wonder are there flights from Derry to Cork…?

Aphra.

flight from derry to cork, i dont think there be. but there are from belfast, expensive though. pretty cheap to go derry-dublin, dublin cork via aer arann (derry leg is logan air operating for BA).

I’m sure we could organise something down here. Games which teach kids culture?? Also im sure getting one of the boole lecture theatres could be pretty easy during May because everyone will be doing exams, wayhey thank god im doing the research masters :). Might be cool to hear torc and the lot talking about the company because cork seems to be a black hole, not many people down here know about the irish games industry. Probably would be useful Aphra for you also to speak.

But i could get onto the multimedia msc and see if they wanted to open day display their recent thesis. Some i heard are games related.

Also i can definately help with recommending good pubs\clubs, can probably put 3-4 of ye up for a night or two, if ye dont mind floors, couches etc. And accomadation is cheap and very central.

Derry/Cork .. I drove that one for Awakenings.. 8hrs ! but worth it though!

you’ll be happier getting a flight if one is available :D

looking forward to the next shindig. My fingers are crossed I can make it