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SUMMARY:Jam Night!
DESCRIPTION:An open co-working night for creatives of all types! Bring something to work on\, and enjoy the company of designers\, developers\, and more!
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/jam-night-2/
LOCATION:Noble Robot\, 326 East Hennepin Avenue\, #206\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jam Night!
DESCRIPTION:An open co-working night for creatives of all types! Bring something to work on\, and enjoy the company of designers\, developers\, and more!
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/jam-night-3/
LOCATION:Noble Robot\, 326 East Hennepin Avenue\, #206\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
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SUMMARY:IGDATC Gamedev Meeting February 2026 - Ezra Bao
DESCRIPTION:Join local game devs in-person for an evening of talks and networking!\n\n\nThis event is open to the public! IGDA Membership not required. \n \nGamedev Meeting is Live and in Person @ 2DHQ\nPlease join us for a night of industry and community presentations! Postmortems\, live demos\, and talks on game design\, art\, marketing\, audio\, community\, social issues\, and more\, given by developers from the Twin Cities and all over the world. \nWe also stream live on youtube.com/igdatc. \n \nThis Month: Ezra Bao (He/Him)\nGames for Cultural Empathy: Representation of Mongolian Cultural PracticesOver the span of 6 months Ezra Bao has researched and designed a short demo that focuses on Mongolian cultural representation through the games core mechanics. This talk will briefly address the process of research and design\, focus on audience impact\, and the value of his research to game designers. \nEzra Bao is a Twin Cities game dev and artist. He is set to graduate from Savannah College of Art and Design in Spring of 2026 with an MFA in Game Development. During his graduate studies he focused on system and mechanics design as well as programming. Post-graduation\, his plan is to teach and freelance. His projects are playable through : https://quaintcrow.itch.io/ \n \nAnnouncements & Plug My Thing\nAt the beginning of our in-person meetings\, we like to put a call out for game trailers\, demo reels\, and other short game development related announcements. Please come 15min early or contact us (Discord is best) beforehand if you can! \n\nAgenda (approximate)\n\n6:30: Youtube stream opens\, meeting intro and monthly slides.\n\n\n7:00: Presentations.\nAfter: we head to a nearby restaurant to get food/drinks and socialize!\n\n\nOther Happenings\nJoin us on our Discord server! \nHelp us find interesting presenters\, use this easy form to let us know.
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/igdatc-gamedev-meeting-february-2026-ezra-bao/
LOCATION:2DHQ\, 1325 Winter Street Northeast\, #108\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55413\, United States
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SUMMARY:Game.wav Audio Meetup
DESCRIPTION:Discussions and deep dives on game audio.
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/game-wav-audio-meetup-january-2026-2/
LOCATION:13100 College View Dr room h183\, 13100 College View Drive\, #room h183\, Eden Prairie\, MN\, 55347\, United States
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SUMMARY:Wild AI - February Meetup @ Headflyer Brewing
DESCRIPTION:Wild AI Meetup: **3rd Monday Monthly at Headflyer Brewing** \nTame the raw potential of AI alongside fellow innovators. Enjoy a 40 min social\, 20 mins of fire talks by passionate innovators\, and 1 hour of networking post talks. RSVP now! \nEvent Agenda:\n6:00 PM: Arrival\, mingling\, and drinks. \n6:40 – 7:00 PM: Speaker sessions begin.\nSpeaker Approach: No slides\, just concise\, high-level introductions. Speakers will share who they are\, what they are working on\, and why it matters in five minutes or less. The goal is to spark curiosity and set the stage for meaningful conversations during the networking hour. \n7:00 – 8:00 pm: Open networking\, offering attendees the chance to connect directly with speakers and fellow innovators. \nInterested in being a Speaker? Contact mosborn@skail.ai
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/wild-ai-february-meetup-headflyer-brewing/
LOCATION:HeadFlyer Brewing\, 861 East Hennepin Avenue\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
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SUMMARY:Twin Cities Playtest
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by IGDA Twin Cities\, an evening of in-development games hosted at Noble Robot and streamed on YouTube!
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/twin-cities-playtest-7/
LOCATION:Noble Robot\, 326 East Hennepin Avenue\, #206\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
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SUMMARY:Meet Ollama: AI Engineering with Local LLMs
DESCRIPTION:Have you ever wanted to actually run and experiment with AI models on your own machine.. without paying per token or sending your data to someone else’s cloud? Now’s your chance!! \nThe Twin Cities Data Science & Analytics (TCDSA) group is excited to announce our next in-person\, hands-on event: \nMeet Ollama: AI Engineering with Local LLMs\nWhen – February 19\, 2026 from 6:00–8:00 PM\nWhere – Improving (NEW LOCATION!! THANK YOU FOR HOSTING!!) \nIn this beginner-friendly\, practical session\, we’ll walk through how to use Ollama to run smaller Large Language Models (LLMs) directly on your laptop. No cloud compute.. No Pay per token.. No API Keys… No usage limits… \nWith Daniel McKenzie as our host\, we’ll cover the following: \nInstalling Ollama\nDownloading your first local LLM\nUsing a local model directly from Python \nBy the end of the session\, you’ll be able to run and interact with an LLM locally and start experimenting right away. \nRegister now! space is limited! (scan the QR code on the flyer or click this link: [https://lnkd.in/gU2fyMBw](https://lnkd.in/gU2fyMBw).). You will receive a calendar invite with the details and what to bring!
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/meet-ollama-ai-engineering-with-local-llms/
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SUMMARY:MN VR and HCI Feb 2026: Arcology Zero
DESCRIPTION:MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for February 2026: Arcology Zero by Clement Shimizu and Carol Trindade\n\n\nThe Arcology Zero Hypothesis – Clement Shimizu and Carol Trindade \n@DrClementShimizu and @CarolTrindadeArtist had a dream of building an artist ARCOLOGY inspired by SimCity 2000\, When investors said\, “OBJECTION!”\, the pair took Delusional Action to make it real! \n \nIn this talk\, you will: \n\nFollow their EXPLOITS in academia\, VR engineering\, game design\, the arts and more.\nWitness the birth of a dream to build Arcology Zero\, a PARADISE that connects established engineers and game designers with emerging artists complete with housing\, studio space\, and a planetarium bar.\nConsider the investor’s OBJECTION that the dream was IMPOSSIBLE\, CRAZY\, and A WASTE OF TIME.\nBE DAZZLED by the hypothesis that it was indeed possible and how Dr. Shimizu\, Carol Trindade\, and friends\, ULTIMATELY willed the dream into reality!\nWitness the results from the EXPERIMENT and the aftermath!\n\n \nWe will conclude with a VR demo created as part of Arcology Zero: Take a pill and enter a hallucinogenic experience where you TRANSUBSTANTIATE into a living breathing BARBIE DOLL to have the TIME OF YOUR LIFE! \n \nSocial Media: \nhttp://www.clementshimizu.com \nhttps://www.instagram.com/caroltrindadeartist \nhttp://www.elumenati.com \nhttp://www.arcologyzero.com \n \nSchedule: \n\n6:30 Social and setup\n7:00 Kickoff / announcements\n7:15 Clement and Carol\n8:00 Demos\n~8:45 Tear-down\, cross the sidewalk to Yardhouse\n\n \nAttending and Parking: \nThis event will be in person at the REM5 STUDIOS new office in West End and the presentation will be streamed live at https://www.youtube.com/igdatc \nPark underground and take the central red elevator to ground level\, then cross the sidewalk. REM5 STUDIOS is across from Yardhouse. Map below. \n \nAbout MN VR and HCI: \nMN VR and HCI (Human-Computer Interaction) welcomes developers\, tinkerers and enthusiasts working with all variety of VR\, AR\, HCI\, hardware hacking\, creative coding and interactive art. Members are working on projects with custom displays and lenses\, projection mapping\, mocap\, tiny computers\, servos and sensors\, interactive art and a wide variety of VR\, AR\, motion and computer vision applications. If you’ve only been to our parent group IGDATC meetings\, MN VR and HCI is a slightly different format: We aim for smaller group discussions and lots of specific details.
URL:https://minnestar.org/calendar2/mn-vr-and-hci-feb-2026-arcology-zero/
LOCATION:REM5 STUDIOS\, 1639 Park Place Boulevard\, St. Louis Park\, MN\, 55416\, United States
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