The team at Petro has been working on this one for a while, and we can’t wait to see what else they reveal as the campaign progresses. Good luck, guys!

IGDA Las Vegas Casual Meetup
Saturday, March 2nd
5:00pm – 8:00pm

Artifice Bar
1025 First Street
Las Vegas, Nv 89101

Congratulations on the release, Jet Set! From the announcement:

Jet Set Games is proud to announce that its award-winning, turn-based strategy game, Highborn, is now available with eight redesigned missions, all-new art, and improved gameplay for the PC and Macintosh platforms on Steam. Check it out here!

Highborn, previously only available on the iOS and Android mobile platforms, along with the Chrome Web Store, has been completely re-imagined as a downloadable game for PC and Mac, and is now available at a one-week celebratory launch price of $7.49, 25% off it’s regular price of $9.99.

The crew at Petroglyph was hit with layoffs on Tuesday, with about 25% of the employees let go. Being laid off is never a fun process, but when it happens in a town without multiple large studios to absorb those that lost their jobs, it’s even worse, and suddenly potential becomes uncertainty.

One of our primary goals here is to help raise awareness of the local game development scene and foster communication and collaboration between the developers that call Las Vegas home. With that in mind, if any of you reading this from other studios have positions open, please contact us and we’ll get them posted immediately.

Additionally, if you were laid off, post a link to your resume and the sort of work you are looking for here or within the IGDA Las Vegas Facebook group. We’ll make sure it’s seen.

Update! Here’s the full release issued by Petroglyph:

“Petroglyph Games Inc., an innovative studio that has created and launched multiple successful games over the years, has concluded its work as developer on End of Nations™ for publisher Trion Worlds. As a result, Petroglyph has reduced its workforce by 19 employees.

The team at Petroglyph is very excited about End of Nations, a title which earned more than 50 nominations and awards while in development, and looks forward to its upcoming release.

Additionally, Petroglyph recently moved into a larger facility in Las Vegas to house its current headcount of over 90 employees. Development work continues on multiple projects across different genres and platforms, both internally and externally funded, with releases planned through 2014.”

Speaker:
Rade Stojsavljevic (Jet Set Games, Sony, Activision, EA) on the state of the game industry, mobile, PC, and console game development, and trends for 2013.

Nine years and a solid suite of games later, Petroglyph is still going strong, with over a 100 developers on the roster.

Next week the Petro crew moves into their new Summerlin studio, and with the positive showing of End of Nations, we expect things to only get better for the team. Congratulations, Petroglyph!

But from here on out we’re mixing things up a bit.

New presentations! Now, instead of holding the meetings as a casual drink and say hello sort of event, we’re gonna start each one off with a game industry presentation, followed by Q&A, and finally capped off with a bit of drinking and saying hello.

New location! We’re moving a couple doors over, to /usr/lib, a downtown tech library and coworking venue. Located on the second floor of the Emergency Arts building (above The Beat coffeehouse), this gives us access to actual meeting space and neat things like projectors. Plus, they sell beer downstairs!

October 2012 IGDA Las Vegas Meetup
Saturday, October 27th
2:00pm – 4:00pm

Speaker:
Rade Stojsavljevic (Jet Set Games, Sony, Activision, EA) on the state of the game industry, mobile, PC, and console game development, and trends for 2013.

/usr/lib
520 E. Fremont St.
Second Floor
Las Vegas, NV 89101

Anyone currently involved in local game development or interested in networking with local game developers is welcome to join us. The meetups are open to all, and IGDA membership is not required. Come on down and listen to the presentation, ask questions, and grab a beer or two with us!

Details!

When: October 22-23
Where: Las Vegas (Century Link Conference Center at Town Square)
Topics include: Native apps, HTML5/JS, Games, Design and more.
Session length: 45 minutes, with 15 minutes for discussion
Number of sessions: 14
Registration Cost: $199 (120 seats)

Full session list after the jump:

SUNDAY, October 21
7:00p Dinner with Speakers

MONDAY, October 22
9:00a – 9:45a Welcome: John Wilker, Michael Labriola
10:00a – 10:45a Nate Beck – Loom Script
11:00a – 11:45a Leonard Souza – The Art of Interaction
12:00p – 1:00p LUNCH
1:15p – 2:00p Aaron Hardy – Dependency Management with RequireJS
2:15p – 3:00p Sim Bateman – JavaScript Awesome Sauce
3:00p – 3:30p BREAK
3:30p – 4:15p Joel Hooks – Rigorous and Professional JavaScript Development
4:30p – 5:15p Drew Bourne – How To Date
5:30p – 7:30p Reception. Details TBA

TUESDAY, October 23
9:00a – 9:45a Michael Labriola
10:00a – 10:45a Jaimee Newberry – HERE’S WHAT WORKED
11:00a – 11:45a Roland Zwaga – Continuous Delivery
12:00p – 1:00p LUNCH
1:15p – 2:00p Renaun Erickson – Are AAA 3D Games for the Web Possible?
2:15p – 3:00p Tom Ortega – Montage – The only true HTML5 application Framework
3:15p – 4:00p Garth Braithwaite – Rapid HTML5
4:15p – 5:00p Closing Remarks
7:00p Adobe Create The Web Tour Stop

From the blog post:

On October 20th GarageGames employees will be participating in a 24 hour gaming marathon to raise funds for the Children’s Miracle Network Hospitals through the Extra Life organization.

Here at GarageGames we know we have ‘dream jobs’ and we don’t take that for granted. Whenever someone is having a bad day or when a stressful deadline is fast approaching we generally do a good job taking a step back and realizing that working on video game software is a pretty good way to make a living. We are always looking for ways to give back to both the local Las Vegas community and the global gaming community when we can.

Locally here in Vegas we are partnering with the video game themed nightclub Insert Coin(s) from 4PM to Midnight or later. Insert Coin(s) is located downtown at 512 Fremont Street at local Vegas gamers can come join us for games, drinks, and raffle prizes. Anyone donating $15 at the door will get a commemorative t-shirt(while supplies last).

Hit up the fundraiser page and help the GG team out, and don’t forget to drop by Insert Coin(s) on the 20th!

Eleven years ago, The GarageGames founders did an incredibly innovative thing when they sold a full source game engine for $100. We are excited to continue in their footsteps by announcing that we will be releasing Torque 3D as the best open source game technology in the world. Once again, GarageGames will be changing game development.

Read the full article.