For those of you who are unfamiliar with the IGDA, they create networking and collaboration opportunities for peers in the game development world. By joining your local chapter, you have an excellent opportunity to communicate and learn from others in game development. Meetings in the Austin chapter range from guided presentations, to game exposure experiences, to just good old fashioned have a drink and wax philosophically about Scrum or Mario.
Make Magazine is created and published through O’Reilly Media, Inc. Their magazine could best be described by me as, “Home and Garden gone murderously wrong, in all the right ways.” They show you unique modification and home built projects that will have you digging through your tool box and threatening every appliance and its warranty in the house.
Dorkbot is a creative collaborative of robot-loving and creating individuals and teams from all over. Their robots are best described as works of art and less like that of “Johnny 5”. They had many beautiful works on display from actual roving camera guided units to blooming mechanical flowers.
