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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-8/
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-9/
LOCATION:Noble Robot\, 326 East Hennepin Avenue\, #206\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
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SUMMARY:IGDATC Gamedev Meeting June 2026 - Spencer Everhart
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: Spencer Everhart (He/They)\nPerforming Play: Player-Centered DesignWhen working on a game\, problems inevitably arise. Sometimes\, these are technical issues\, glitches resulting from code that doesn’t behave how we’d hoped. But what about when there are no issues and the game still isn’t…quite right? Wouldn’t it be nice if we could ask the game what needed to be done\, why it didn’t feel right? In this talk\, we argue that you can: the player isn’t merely consuming the game\, they are a *part* of it. Drawing from performance studies\, we explore how we co-create our games with our players\, and how a change in perspective might unlock new and better ways of designing. \n \nSpencer Everhart is a game designer and academic based in Cleveland Heights\, Ohio. He holds a BFA in Game Design from the Cleveland Institute of Art and is currently working toward an MFA in Visual Communication Design at Kent State University. A jack of all trades\, his interests lie in understanding the relationship between games and their players and how to create deeply meaningful experiences that players bring with them after the game ends. He specializes in user experience\, accessibility\, and rapid game prototyping. \n \nWebsite: https://sceverhart.wixsite.com/portfolioInstagram: instagram.com/escaliburnBluesky: escaliburn.bsky.socialTumblr: spencereverhart.tumblr.com \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 (usually Station 280) 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-june-2026-spencer-everhart/
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-2026-6/
LOCATION:13100 College View Dr room h183\, 13100 College View Drive\, #room h183\, Eden Prairie\, MN\, 55347\, 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-11/
LOCATION:Noble Robot\, 326 East Hennepin Avenue\, #206\, Minneapolis\, MN\, 55414\, United States
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SUMMARY:MN VR and HCI June 2026: New XR Hardware and Software
DESCRIPTION:MN VR and HCI monthly meeting for June 2026: XR Summary from Google I/O\, Apple WWDC\, AWE and Project Aura dev jam\n\n\nProject Aura Dev Jam – RJ White \nXReal\, Google and Qualcomm hosted the Project Aura Dev Jam the weekend before AWE. I was accepted\, and I’ll share my impressions of the event\, early development experience\, and the hardware. \n \nAll The New XR Hardware and Software – Zach Wendt \nIt’s XR season! May and June brings Google I/O\, Apple WWDC and AWE (Augmented World Expo.) I’ll summarize it all. AI is still grabbing the headlines\, so you may have missed: \n\nTrue AR-capable glasses from both Snap and XReal/Google\nA new flagship XR chip from Qualcomm\nMajor spatial OS and software features from Apple\nSeveral impressive new hardware demos from China\nCompetition and innovation in Micro-OLED display glasses\n\n \nSchedule: \n\n6:30 Social and setup\n7:00 Kickoff / announcements\n7:15 RJ\n7:45 Zach\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-june-2026-new-xr-hardware-and-software/
LOCATION:REM5 STUDIOS\, 1639 Park Place Boulevard\, St. Louis Park\, MN\, 55416\, United States
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