Women in Games Vancouver BC will be  holding a mixer to coincide with Game Design Expo 2009.
The free Game Design Open House on Sunday February 8 will feature a “Women in Games” panel and the announcement of a 30K Women in Games scholarship to VFS’s Game Design Program. 

Digital Alchemy will be hosting the event at their studio in Gastown. They will have some drinks and appetizers on hand as well as a line up of international DJ’s and game stations. 

Game Design Expo 2009

Game Design Expo is an annual event for game industry professionals and enthusiasts hosted by Vancouver Film School’s Game Design program. The third-annual Game Design Expo 2009, hosted by Vancouver Film School (VFS) can hear from leading minds in the industry at the free Game Design Open House on Sunday, February 8, including exclusive presentations by representatives from LucasArts, Big Fish Games and Vicarious Visions.

A special ‘Women in Games’ panel featuring panelists from Electronic Arts, Deep Fried Entertainment, Hydrogen Whiskey Studios and Hothead Games will coincide that day with the launch of the inaugural Women in Games $30,000 scholarship to Vancouver Film School’s Game Design program. Other scholarship opportunities will be announced at the Sunday Open House.

And throughout the day, visitors will be able to experience the acclaimed one-year VFS Game Design program firsthand – test-driving student- and alumni-created games, and enjoying sample classes like Level Design and Storytelling taught by expert VFS instructors.

The Open House is expected to fill to capacity again in 2009, so those interested are strongly encouraged to register soon. Event details and registration are available at www.gamedesignexpo.com

Today we had the privilege of participating in a design workshop. This workshop was lead by Tom Wujek, Fellow from Autodesk. The workshop showed us we can use agile development and visual process to come up with ideas and structure our projects. We all sat and stayed in our teams for two days. During this time we looked at many different aspects of our projects and really started the process for this terms Industry Projects at The Centre for Digital Media.

Today is sort of a milestone for most of us at the Masters of Digital Media Program. The next gens (1st yr) and the first borns (2nd yr) students headed back to Great Northern Way to start out spring semester. More importantly for us first borns, this is the last semester of our masters program. This semester I will be working with Samer El-Nashar to rework the Masters of Digital Media Program website and to create a stronger identity. Other students have projects ranging from mobile gaming to a project for the Olympics. Now we are … Back @ it!!!!!