Monthly Archive for October, 2008

IGDA Montreal 2008-10-15 – Open Bar "Drinks Only" Night

A small crowd of developers came to the Vinyl Lounge to chill, drink and chat with other game developers. We had a lower turn-out than expected, but it fitted really well with the small, more laid back ambience of the Vinyl Lounge. I really enjoyed the smaller crowd. It gave me much more time to chat and network with people.

At the meeting, I was happy to introduce Étienne with some people I knew. Étienne is a colleague and partner in crime (we’re currently working on a secret project together, more info on that soon). It made me remember how hard it was for me when I was a newbie at the IGDA, building the courage to move up to a group of people you don’t know and introduce yourself.

Oh and also!

Given the lower turn-out, we actually had a load of uneaten sandwiches. So, after the party, we brought them over to the Maison du Père. They were very thankful.

Man, it feel good being a volunteer for such a great organisation :)

Phoenix Down

I’m back from the dead! I’ve been silent during the summer partly because I was busy, partly because, well, I didn’t really felt like blogging.

Summer really seems like my busy season. People love summer because it’s sunny, it’s hot and everything feel good. For me summer usually feel like I have to run everywhere to deliver everything on time and I can’t take a breather. That’s maybe why I prefer winter…

Anyway, summer is over. I’m back at university and most of my classes are cool. The coolest of them all is Parallel programming. Toughest class I have, but man is it interesting to see how you can take a seemingly sequential algorithm and run it in parallel on multiple processors at the same time.

I also started searching for an internship for the winter. I got an interview tomorrow. Wish me luck! Oh and if you know somebody who happen to know somebody that works in a game company searching for programmer, hook me up ^_^