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Registration for Global Game Jam Online 2023 is open!

The University of Baltimore Simulation and Game Design is celebrating our twentieth anniversary.  To celebrate, we are hosting the Global Game Jam at both campuses!

Students, faculty, and members of the community, join University of Baltimore and uBalt at the Universities at Shady Grove to create games. The Global Game Jam is the largest simultaneous competitive/collaborative game creation event in the world, with tens of thousands of participants at hundreds of sites all over the world. Our sites generally draw about 50 participants. You don't need experience creating games or using digital tools, as submission of board games is allowed as well!

The event runs:

• At the Universities at Shady Grove location, Monday, January 30, 2023 6:00 pm to Sunday, February 5, 2023 6:00pm. 
• At the Baltimore campus location (online-only), from Friday, February 3rd, 5pm, to Sunday, February 5th, 8pm.

Note that each location has a different start day. Global Game Jam will be a hybrid experience this year with in-person and online events at both campuses.  All jammers are welcome regardless of level of experience.   

If you can't make the whole event, you are welcome to join us for the various events featuring special speakers and the closing events on Sunday where you'll get a chance to play the games and watch the contest! 

Please register here to participate in GGJ at Shady Grove: https://globalgamejam.org/2023/jam-sites/ubalt-universities-shady-grove

Please register here to participate in GGJ in Baltimore:  https://globalgamejam.org/2023/jam-sites/university-baltimore-simulation-and-game-design-program-baltimore-campus

If you are not participating in Global Game Jam and would like to join the in-person and/or online events, please register here: https://forms.gle/vUmXTypoTjwRZQhU9

If you have any questions, please contact:

Aaron Oldenburg [log in to unmask] (Baltimore Campus)

Elka Cahn [log in to unmask] (Shady Grove Campus)

This spring, University of Baltimore's Simulation and Game Design program will be having its capstone exhibition online. It will be on Monday, May 16th, from 7-8:30pm.

Students will present the results of two semesters of team-based effort creating original videogames in the program's senior capstone course.

You can find screenshots and more information on the public Facebook invite: https://fb.me/e/2mnYuhxEv
If you don't use Facebook, you can see the announcement here: http://www.ubalt.edu/digest/index.cfm?id=13041 

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This spring, University of Baltimore's Simulation and Game Design program will be having its capstone exhibition online. It will be on Thursday, May 13th, from 7-8:30pm.

Students will present the results of two semesters of team-based effort creating original videogames in the program's senior capstone course.

You can find screenshots and more information on the Facebook invite: https://fb.me/e/HitFh35t You can RSVP through that link as well.

I hope to see you there!

- Aaron

Registration for Global Game Jam Online 2021 is open!

https://globalgamejam.org/2021/jam-sites/ub-universities-shady-grove

Students, faculty, and members of the community, come join University of Baltimore at Universities at Shady Grove online to create games over four days. Wednesday, January 27, 2021 6:00 pm to Sunday January 31 2021 6:00pm. All jammers are welcome regardless of level of experience. 

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This spring, University of Baltimore's Simulation and Game Design program will be having its capstone exhibition online. It will be on Monday, May 11th, from 7-9pm.

Students will present the results of two semesters of team-based effort creating original videogames in the program's senior capstone course.

You can find screenshots and more information on the Facebook invite: https://www.facebook.com/events/775711302966368/?active_tab=about 

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Hi all,
I'm so sorry. In my previous invitation to a playtesting event, I mistakenly gave the incorrect time frame (which happens to be the time of last semester's class). This semester's class is the same day, but from 2-4:30pm.

If you made a trip out to join at the time I gave, I apologize profusely for wasting your time. If you have not headed out, the invite still stands for 2-4:30pm.
- Aaron

Hi,
I would like to give folks on the Simulation and Game Design mailing list the opportunity to influence games currently being created.

On Tuesday, April 9th, from 11am-1:30pm, second semester capstone students will have completed their third milestone. I would like to invite you to come to class that day, playtest their games, and give feedback. 

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Saturday at noon at the National Electronics Museum in Linthicum, MD, IEEE is hosting a competition for games using neural headsets that read brainwaves as interfaces.

University of Baltimore's Simulation and Game Design program has put together a team that to create a game prototype using the Unity 3D engine that uses the EMOTIV Insight wireless headset as a control interface. 

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May 16th, 7-9pm (pizza provided, come and go as you like)

This is an exhibition of the Simulation and Digital Entertainment program's senior capstone game design projects. Students will present the results of two semesters of team-based effort creating orginal videogames in the SDE program's senior capstone course.

Join us in the Student Center Bogomolny Room (21 W Mount Royal Ave, 5th floor) where games will be set up to play (or watch) on large screens throughout the room, and developers will be available to answer questions. There will also be a video loop of game highlights and information about 

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The Simulation and Digital Entertainment Program and Langsdale Library are hosting a videogame event for students, faculty, staff and the community. Play some throwback games on old Nintendo systems, or try out some of our newer video games. We'll have a variety of consoles, screens, and games to play.

Where: University of Baltimore Learning Commons, 1030 N. Charles St (behind the Edgar Allen Poe statue), 1st floor (you'll see us through the windows) 

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Hi,

University of Baltimore's Simulation and Digital Entertainment program and Langsdale Library are hosting another board game social event on Friday, Sept. 30th, from 6-10pm in the Learning Commons 1st Floor Lobby (1415 Maryland Ave).

We have a sizable collection of board and vintage videogames in our game library, so we would like to take the opportunity to invite students and the community to make use of them. 

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Hi everyone,
We've got two events coming up in the next month from the game development program at UB. The first is an exhibition of the SDE program's game design senior projects.

Thursday, May 14th, students will present the results of two semesters of team-based effort creating orginal videogames in the SDE program's senior capstone course. 

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Hi everyone,
This is just a reminder that Simulation and Digital Entertainment capstone presentations are next Tuesday, May 13th, from 6:30-8pm. Come to see the presentations in the auditorium or, if you're short on time, feel free to drop by any time afterward from 8-9pm to hang out and play the videogames. We'll have ten set up around the atrium with projectors and LCD screens, as well as snacks. 

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This coming January 24-26, University of Baltimore will be hosting the Global Game Jam.  This is a 48-hour team game development event with judges, prizes, snacks and an opening night guest speaker (Dave Inscore, an 18 year game industry veteran and founder of Big Huge Games).  Come with a group of friends or find a new group to join at the site.  This year's secret topic is given out on Friday evening and designers have until Sunday afternoon to produce a game.  We have a variety of software in our lab on site (see the web page), but you can 

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