1. Announcements Gamebuild-a-thon 2009 – Shoot for the Moon T-Shirts
Photos and all games up on
Click “Competition” on top menu
T-Shirts
designs to
By Feb. 8th (two weeks)
EOH Countdown
7 Weeks

2. Engineering Open House
What is it?
Annual showcase of engineering student projects
Both for classes and extra-curricular
Attracts thousands of visitors to the Illinois campus
Local high schools, middle schools, elementary schools
Educational and fun
Company recruiters come to check out students’ work
(we’ve gotten visits by Volition in the past)
The largest event of its kind in the country

3. Gamebuilders at EOH
Best to have controllers rather than mouse/keyboard
Pick up and play works best on the floor
Plug our website, the games will be up for download there
Judges will come by in the morning and ask questions
We’ve won prizes the last two years
Overly Professional – 2nd Place for EOH Theme Award
QuantumS -- 3rd Place in Just for Fun Category

4. Gamebuilders at EOH Overly Professional Chromatactix RTS Racer
Chromatactix
RTS Racer

5. Road to EOH Goal: Tips Playable demo of the main ideas of your game
Does NOT need to be “finished”
Think of this as a beta
Tips
Be willing to drop features to get something that works
If your game uses levels, just make 1 small demo level
Plan out the next 7 weeks

6. Safety Meetings
Someone who has attended a safety meeting must be at your booth at all times!
Every Tuesday starting 1/26 to 3/9, 11a-12p
112 Transportation Building
Every Wednesday starting 1/27 to 3/10, 11a-12p
106B6 Engineering Hall

7. Night Before EOH Sprint to make game as cool as possible by morning
(set up starts around 8 am)
Pizza in the ACM office

8. Night Before EOH
Implement a reset feature, so you don’t have to press F5 in VS
Video wall requires 1024x768 VGA output
We can print out posters for projects that want one

9. What EOH is like

10. What EOH is like
We usually have a large booth with all of our games next to each other at the video wall

11. What EOH is like
ACM provides us with monitors, power strips, tables, and sometimes computers and speakers
2-4 games can go on the video wall, one on the plasma screen
Only one game on the video wall can output sound to the video wall speakers
The rest can either be shown on your laptop screen or use an ACM monitor

12. What EOH is like
People walk around, meander over to us, play the games
Lots of kids on Friday morning, high school students in afternoon, professors, reporters
Be prepared for kids who want to start making games and questions about what libraries you used, etc…

13. What EOH is like
Most people will spend between 20 seconds and 3 minutes at each game
Explain how to play as they play or they’ll get bored
Some people will play much longer, even come back for more

14. What EOH is like
Makes a great play testing opportunity, take some notes
Keep your game running, don’t stop it to fix bugs

15. EOH Summary Friday March 12th Saturday March 13th
9:00 am - 4:00 pm
Saturday March 13th
9:00 am - 3:00 pm
Safety inspections a little bit before 9
Judges will visit early Friday, make sure you’re there
ACM usually provides lunch for SIGs both days
Some groups do shifts, some people like to stay the whole time
Payoff for all your hard work

16. After EOH