OGDA's next Drinks Meetup is Saturday, May 16th!
For any of you in or wanting to connect with game development peers this is our casual adult meetup with beers.
May 16th 7pm
Not restricted to game industry professionals.
Hard cap of 30 people!
www.eventbrite.com/e/1987942988...
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest is this week.
Date:
Thursday April 23rd at 6:30 pm
Location:
Twice The Dice Board Game Cafe, 575 Bernard Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 6N9
RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest is this week.
Thursday April 9th at 6:30 pm
Location:
Twice The Dice Board Game Cafe, 575 Bernard Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 6N9
RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
Thursday April 2nd at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Presentation starts at 6:45pm
Accelerate Okanagan, 460 Doyle Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 2A2
RSVP and let us know you are coming in person!
www.eventbrite.com/e/leveling-u...
Can't make it in person? Register for the remote option.
riverside.com/webinar/regi...
Certification is the process to verify that a game meets specific technical, safety, and quality standards before it can be sold. So if you have ever wandered what the process is like or what is involved with releasing a game this will be a great one to catch.
This week is the next Level Up and Social event.
This week we are hosting Trystan McCourt from Unknown Worlds at our Level Up session this Thursday.
Trystan will be presenting "Cert & You: An Overview"
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest is tomorrow
Thursday March 11th at 6:30 pm
Location:
Twice The Dice Board Game Cafe, 575 Bernard Avenue Kelowna, BC V1Y 6N9
RSVP:
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
#Okanagan #kelowna #GameDev
Whoops! Supposed to be March 5th!!
RSVP and let us know you are coming in person!
www.eventbrite.com/e/leveling-u...
NEW seeing as this is a remote presenter we will hosting Haley webinar style, if you would like to register in advance for a remote option you can do so here:
riverside.com/webinar/regi...
OGDA Level Up Session
This week we are hosting Haley MacLean from Voyer Law at our Level Up session this Thursday.
Haley will be presenting "Publishing Agreements 101"
Thursday February 5th at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Presentation starts at 6:45pm
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Thank you everyone for coming out and showing support for the casual beers meet up.
We had just over 30 people show up for the event and Copper Brewing enjoyed having us and would love to host us again!
Announcements!
#1
Socials are not going away! We are just at our max capacity for hosting right now so we are going back to our old format of having a level up session followed by the casual networking.
Still on a Thursday and once a month. Expect to see some changes to the event schedules.
This Week's Events
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest
Hosted by Shane this week!
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
Reminder for OGDA's next Drinks Meetup on Saturday, February 28th!
www.eventbrite.com/e/drinks-soc...
#okanagan #kelowna #gamedev
Reminder tomorrow is the first Social of the year!
RSVP and let us know you are coming!
www.eventbrite.com/e/game-devel...
This Week's Events
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
Reminder for OGDA's next Drinks Meetup on Saturday, February 28th!
www.eventbrite.com/e/drinks-soc...
This Week's Events
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest
Hosted by Brian Looney
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
OGDA is officially part of the 2026 Global Game Jam!
globalgamejam.org/jam-sites/20....
www.eventbrite.com/e/global-gam...
Friday, Jan 30th Local Launch, more info in our discord
#gamedev
The OGDA Ambassador Program is live.
We’re looking for community leaders who want to help host our events and even start their own.
Inspired by the incredible dedication of members like Brian Looney, we want to give you the assist to turn your community ideas into reality.
#OGDA #Gamedev #Okanagan
This first session of the year will be more of a check in and outlook for 2026 and what OGDA is aiming to do this year.
Tomorrow kicks off our first event of 2026
It's an OGDA Level Up Session
RSVP and let us know you are coming!
www.eventbrite.com/e/leveling-u...
#kelowna #okanagan #gamedev
Update, we won't be doing any more events again until January 8th. Happy holidays!
This Week's Events
OGDA Level Up Session
Thursday December 11th at 6:30pm - 8:30pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/leveling-u...
We will not be doing a social event on the 25th and there isn't likely to be a playtest event on the 1st of January but we wish you a happy holidays!
This Week's Events
OGDA Game Dev Social on Thursday
www.eventbrite.com/e/game-devel...
Connect with OGDA on our social channels and join the conversation!
LinkTree
linktr.ee/OkanaganGDA
#Kelowna #Gamedev
Some new details about the Ideation workshop.
It is moving to be hosted online and Registration deadline is Dec 14th for the next session.
www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...
#okanagan
Deadline:
Share your work by this coming Sunday to be featured in our next Friday Showcase!
The Constraint:
Try to accomplish this with 25 lines of code or less. If using visual scripting aim for less than 8-10 nodes.
Submission Guidelines:
Post our discord in the relevant #weekly-challenge channel or post on social media using the hashtag #OGDACodeChallenge
OGDA Weekly Code Challenge: The Player Greeter
The Prompt:
Your challenge is to write a script or blueprint that makes a simple 3D Cube (or 2D Sprite) "react" to the player character. The goal is to make a simple, inanimate object feel "alive" or aware.
This Week's Events
OGDA Bi-weekly Playtest
www.eventbrite.com/e/ogda-bi-we...
Game of the Month is..... Dinocop!
Wednesday December 3rd at 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
www.eventbrite.com/e/game-of-th...
On the topic of new and learning, a reminder that our registration to the Ideation Workshop is open!
If you want or need a hand creating a solid one page GDD using industry standards this is the workshop for you.
www.ogda.ca/ideation-wor...
Think & Learn Thursday!
So Steam is getting new hardware!
store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware
More opportunities on the platform as well as interesting ways to develop with the new SteamOS.
No longer do you need a linux build for the steam deck.