Christchurch Game Developers Association

We're moving! This announcement has been a long time coming, but for reasons that *should* be obvious, twitter isn't the right place for us or our community. You can find the new CGDA socials over on Bluesky and LinkedIn: bsky.app/profile/chchga… linkedin.com/company/christ…

Our next meetup is on TOMORROW night, where Érika Casab of CerebralFix will discus ways ways to remain passionate for creating, even as your ideas are consumed, reworked, or sacrificed in the creative process ✨ More info here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

This Thursday, we're hosting 3 speakers for our Game Dev Meetup! Hear how profound experiences and commercially successful games are made, and how playtesting can be used as a tool for team alignment! ✨ More info here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

Our November meetup is happening on *Nov 7th at 81c Lichfield St*! Steven Linton will be presenting his NZGDC talk, *Designing for Mixed Reality* - hear what unique challenges come from designing in this space! More details here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

We're having our next Playtest Event on October 26th. Hosted at Tūranga @chchLibLearing. This event is a great opportunity for local devs to get feedback and for people to check out and play local games! More details here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

Our October meetup is on *this Thursday* at 81c Lichfield Street! Ben Maher of CerebralFix will be presenting a preview of his NZGDC talk, "Balancing Business and Art"! Come along to hear how transdiciplinary game dev skills can be! Link with more info: meetup.com/christchurchga…

Our September meetup is happening *this Thursday* at University of Canterbury, John Britten 117! Come along to hear the Applied Immersive Gaming Initiative discuss designing games for learning, training, decision-making, and raising awareness. meetup.com/christchurchga…

We're having our next Playtest Event on August 17th. Hosted at Tūranga @chchLibLearing. This event is a great opportunity for local devs to get feedback and for people to check out and play local games! More details here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

For our meetup on August 8th, we're hosting a panel of speakers on AGILE game development! Come along to 231 High Street, or watch the stream live on YouTube!✨ Link with more info: meetup.com/christchurchga…

@Guv_Bubbs @UCNZ Very excited to see Comet there! Thank you for taking the live playtest plunge✨

The @CHCHGameDev group asked me to show off ☄️Comet at the International Simulation & Gaming conference being hosted at the @UCNZ this week. This will be the first time I'm seeing people play it in front of me so that will be fun. If you're around on Thursday, come say hi!

Sign up for Kiwijam! We'll be jamming at Yoobee College in Christchurch from 6pm Friday, July 19 to 6:30pm Sunday, July 21. Newbies and the experienced, solo or teamed up, you're all welcome. Check out all of the details here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

For our upcoming July Meetup, we're hosting a panel of speakers from the 2024 International Simulation And Gaming Association conference! This Meetup will be held Thursday 11 July, in-person and streamed live on YT! Link with more details: meetup.com/christchurchga…

We're having our next Playtest Event June 22nd! Hosted at Tūranga @chchLibLearning – this event is an opportunity for devs to get feedback, & for folks to check out + play local games! More details here: meetup.com/christchurchga…

A HUGE thanks to Navi Brouwer at the May meetup who did an awesome talk! Thanks to Keegan Gibson at the June meetup who also did an amazing talk! Thanks to our supporters at HITLabNZ, YoobeeColleges, CerebralFix, FilmSCNZ, and to all of our wonderful Patreon supporters!

For our upcoming June Meetup we are stoked to announce Keegan Gibson will be joining us to talk about Demystifying Nanite in Unreal Engine! This Meetup will be held Thursday June the 6th, in-person and streamed live on YT! Link with more details: meetup.com/christchurchga…

Our May Meetup is tomorrow! This Meetup will be held in-person and streamed live on YT! Link with more details: meetup.com/christchurchga… It will also be our AGM, this portion will be members only, here's how you can become one: forms.clickup.com/36716418/f/130…

A HUGE thanks to Sam Cook at the April meetup who did an awesome talk! Thanks to our supporters at @HITLabNZ, @YoobeeColleges, @CerebralFix, @FilmSCNZ, and to all of our wonderful Patreon supporters!

For our upcoming May Meetup we are stoked to announce Navi Brouwer will be joining us to talk about How to Make Games and Influence Risk Factors! This Meetup will be held Thursday May the 2th, in-person and streamed live on YT! Link with more details: meetup.com/christchurchga…

We're having our next Playtest Event April 20th! Hosted at Tūranga @chchLibLearning – this event is an opportunity for devs to get feedback, & for folks to check out + play local games! More details here: meetup.com/christchurchga…