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Holiday Meetup Party! – Seattle Unity3D User Group

Time: Tuesday, December 18, 2012 7:00 PM Location: Wine Tea and Chocolate. 3417 Evanston Ave. N. #102, Seattle, WA RSVP HERE: http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Unity3D/events/93872212/ It’s the holiday season! Many of you are traveling, but instead of not having a gathering at all, let’s have a low-key meetup for some quality holiday game dev social! It’ll especially be refreshing for those of you who are doing the Ludum Dare gamejam this weekend! (link) We’ll have the gathering at the Wine Tea an...

By Matthew Burns

What is zSpace? 3D Virtual-Holographic for Games! – SUUG Nov 2012

This belongs to the “a peek into the future” category. Making 3D models in 3D space? Interacting with the virtual world you’ve just built with the added 3rd dimension? Medical training, education, gaming… I can’t stop coming up with ideas for this piece of technology. And now it’s got a nice Unity plugin to make creating / using it with our favorite tool easy! Come join us to see the devices and demo and for a discussion of brining 3D into everything we do!   7:00 pm:Mingli...

By Matthew Burns

Showcase Your Projects! Seattle Unity3D User Group Oct 2012

RSVP: Seattle Unity3D User Group Event Page Time: Tuesday, October 30, 2012. 7pm Location: Wine Tea Chocolate. 3417 Evanston Ave. N. #102, Seattle, WA screenshot from Unity3d.com We had great fun in Feb when many developers from the group showed everyone what cool projects we’ve all been working on. By popular demand, we are doing it again in October! Get the popcorn ready, it’s show time! We will be having the event in a new venue and a new format. This of it more like a small expo - an semi-open sp...

By Matthew Burns

Substances: Using Procedural Materials with Unity3D – Seattle User Group (Sept 2012)

Update: Allegorithmic has offerred us one collection of Substances for ALL attendees! ($~99 in value) If you haven’t RSVP yet, click Yes now and get ready to rock dynamic materials in your games soon! Update 2: And we’ll have food! Thanks to Mike from Jetstream Software, we’ll have pizza for those of you who show up early enough before they are all gone ;) Update 3: Mixed Dimensions is offering us two licenses of Game Draw as giveaways! With all these tools yo...

By Matthew Burns

Building a Massively Multiplayer Game with Unity3D – Seattle Unity3D User Group (Aug 2012)

Marvel Super Hero Squad Online is one of the biggest Unity3D based browser MMO games (if not THE biggest), and we are very excited to have our very own Chad Berry, who was one of the key developers on the game to come and talk to us about the journey of creating a multi-player of massive scale with Unity!   Time: Wednesday, August 29, 2012. 7:00 PM Location: The Easy - 511 Boren Ave N. Suite B, Seattle, WA RSVP Here: http://www.meetup.com/Seattle-Unity3D/events/69705262/  

By Matthew Burns