🔺The local games scene roars back to life

August has been pretty incredible in NC!

Hey friend!

I don’t know if you feel the same way,

but the energy at local events has been different lately! Lots of new folks coming out, friendly faces we haven’t seen since before the pandemic, and just a general good vibe in the air! Let’s keep it going. Here’s the scoop:

Upcoming Events

• THIS Friday, 9/1 - PLAYTEST NIGHT and CLOSING CEREMONIES.

• Every Thursday: Weekly Coworking

• October 1st - We move into a new community office space! If you are interested in more information about a desk in our space please email us: hello@triangleinteractivearts.org

Other Community Events

• 8/28 - IGDA: The Good, Bad, and Ugly of our Game Dev Experience

• 8/30 - Unreal Engine Meetup (in CARY this month!)

• 9/10 - Deadline to submit your game to the MAGfest Indie Videogame Showcase

• 9/14 - GameDev Drinkup

• 9/16 - Stream Raleigh - Streamer Networking Meetup in Cary

• Every Monday - Raleigh Indie Game Developer Coworking

Spotlight: Summer Slow Jams

What if a game jam, but less JAMMY?

It can be hard to find time for a 48-hours straight game jam. Even if you do find the time, it’s often exhausting to have to return to your daily life afterwards without any downtime.

Enter: Summer Slow Jams, put on by the Portland Indie Game Squad.

We jumped onto this jam and have been having a great time with it so far. If you want to see some of the games we made (or share your own unrelated project) then come by our Playtest Night and Closing Ceremonies this Friday, September 1st.

What’s been going on at Coworking?

• Armand has been working on a fantastic fighting game prototype

• Steph has been performing social media wizardry

• Vince has been helping TIAC find a larger community office space

• Julia has been working on some cool new electronic music pieces

• Michael launched the FORKLIFT FLOWERPOT demo during coworking

• Caleb is polishing & playtesting the heck out of a 3D Roguelike game

• Ashley has been gathering feedback on ECGC (submit your feedback on the conference here)

• Alex had an amazing visit to the triangle and is headed back to Charlotte

• Magz & Sean have been coworking with us virtually on Discord!

• Newcomers Karen & Joe were showing off VR demos this week - more info on their VERY different projects soon!

Discord Memes of the month

Catch you next month,

<3 Michael