Hi, Great idea.. This brings to my mind one of our Alumni, Nalin Savara, 1999 passout, some of you might know, who has started his own company DSTech in the GameDevelopment field. Interested people would like to read his article that featured in Reminisce magazine <http://nsitalumni.org/main/reminisce/reminisce-09.html> last year, under the Entrepreneurship section.
In his interview last year, he was always interested and willing to give internship projects to students who would like to work in this field and this club would be the right place to begin with. Just wanted to share this piece of info with all.. Great going!! -- Best Regards, Anubhav Agarwal Member-IT D.E Shaw & Co.| NSIT Graduate'09 | Founder - Reminisce<http://www.nsitalumni.org/> On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Mohit Taneja <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > Recently, I have been talking to a few NSITians who are interested in Game > Development. Which lead me + Aditya (Vishwakarma) to think seriously about > opening a Game Development Club at NSIT. > > Our aim is to go beyond the classroom studies and do something practical, > collaboratively. This club could act as a medium for many students who want > to develop Games to meet with like minded people, and achieve something > which they probably cant in solitude, i.e develop a game. > > Some fundamental rules which I believe we should be following are : > > - Everyone's Invited (Open Door Policy): Game development is not just > about writing code, its about developing concepts. > - If you are someone who is interested in getting a concept of the > game to the table, but not sure if you could make it work, you are > welcome. > - If you are someone who can draw, even on paper. Trust me you are > more than welcome. Artists are indeed one of the most scarce resources > in > gaming industry, in our college too. > - If you are not really interested in the above listed things but > are enthusiastic about playing games, how about you show up and give in > some > testing sessions (probably that would come in later on) or your > suggestions > on the gaming ideas, which others plan to develop. > - Obviously, the good old coders can also expect a warm welcome. > > - Knowledge Sharing : The single aim of this club wouldn't be just > to make games, the ultimate motivation behind everything should be to > learn. > And trust me there is always something to learn from anyone else in your > college. > - Once we get things into motion we can always organize guest > lecture sessions by inviting local game developers. > > - Participation : The club can be used to organize teams to > participate in many Game Development Contests and Festivals. They always > are > a great source of motivation and instill a sense of hitting a milestone. > > > At last, whatever we do , we want to get ours (+ yours too) 'hands dirty' > by getting to work on something realtime. We plan to have a small meet in > connecting block 110 on tuesday 5:30 regarding the same. Please confirm your > presence by replying to this mail (even a reply with "in" as the content > with the same subject would do). > > Regards, > Mohit Taneja > > >
