Greetings web, social, console, mobile game and application developers, game designers and entrepreneurs. You will recognize the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, East Bay IGDA Chapters and other Bay Area Game and application developer group friends here. All are welcome. Join us to grow and present your games and apps and related tools and platforms. Find other game developers for your projects. Get or give advice on design, funding, art, technical architecture, careers for your game or applicatio …

This meetup is for iOS and Android game developers and designers to learn about way to better monetize their games. In this meetup we talk about the latest trends in monetization, we share experiences on what works and what doesn't and we hear directly from people in the trenches making money with their games.

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A casual group for guys who like games and gaming of all sorts. Board games, card games, video games, RPGs, etc. Hopefully a place to gather like-minded individuals and game.

Hello, We are a group of avid gamers (board and card games) who live in San Francisco.  We seek to create a community that thrives on frequent gaming sessions.  It is my sincere hope that the consortium can help bring people together to spend time engaging in our wonderful hobby.  Please join us in our revire. We strive to create a fun, welcoming, healthy, and safe environment for all who wish to participate. Our presence on meetup.com is new, but we have been operating as a Facebook group for t …

This is a group for anyone currently working or interested in Game Development. We primarily discuss current games and technology, market trends and issues facing the industry. Its a great causal place to network and pick up some interesting tips. Feel free to make suggestions! This group is for people in game development and for those who want to be. Join us if you're an artist, programmer, designer, marketing guru, any connection to game development at any level.

We started this Meetup to bring together the best devs, designers and entrepreneurs in the local mobile games space. Come meet some friends, hear a couple of great industry speakers talk about what's cool in mobilel games. We're especially interested in Casual Game Association Minna Mingles members who may have not gotten together in a long time. Hopefully we can be a resource. Please join our Meetup and pass the URL to other friends of yours in the local Mobile games space.

Come meet and play board games, card games and even the occasional RPG with smart, interesting. Types of games you'll see played at this meetup include Dominion, Arkham Horror, Castle Ravenloft, Battlestar Galactica, Ghost Stories, and more! No Experience required to join, we're always willing to teach newcomers.

This is a meetup of Android Game Developers. Meetup for a chance to win funding, a how to guide to meet and convince VC's to fund your app and possibly a chance to sell your game.

We welcome anyone interested in social gaming on mobile (Android & iOS). Whether you love to play the games or sit in your garage and write code to create these games, we'd love to have you join us! Majority of our events cater to developers and helping them socialize, monetize, and increase users for their games. Our topics will range from discussing gamification of games, current games and technology, and analyzing market trends. Its a great causal place to network and pick up some interesting …

… I should also mention that we are ONLY looking for people that can play on a regular basis hopefully NO LESS than a couple times a month and we prefer people over the age of 23 (young kids tend to go all in constantly) and if you are coming over strictly to play cards and have no intentions of speaking to anyone please don't reply, you must have some kind of a personality... some people that show up are about as exciting as a parking meter.   Games are one night during the week and often on Satu …

This group is for Games User Researchers or those that are interested in Games User Research in the San Francisco Bay Area.  In addition to keeping in touch on the Games User Research group on LinkedIn, we sought a need to organize face-to-face meetups to further build our community and facilitate the exchanges information and ideas.

Ideas, Design, Development, DEMOs, Product Marketing, Business Development, Success or Failure Tips, Entrepreneurship, Opportunities among the whole bay area (including south to north, east to west :-))'s mobile game professional community, here is the place we can hold discussion, seminars, talks, and conference for the next big wave ! We hope to have monthly DEMOs, yeh, DEMOs, and quarterly bigger event to cheer up our own mobile game professionals for bigger success together !!!

… This group is a place for independent developers who live near Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, publishers, stupid mistakes we've made, and anything else that is relevant to an indie developer who wants to successfully make it in the games industry.  

This group was started in 2011, the admin since moved to Sunnyvale, but I wanted to keep it going so now it's back in SF.  I haven't changed the blurb or anything since it's pretty much exactly what I'd say :)   i have a large collection of euro-style board games. most of them are strategy oriented, but i do have a few 'stupid fun' games as well. if you'd like to play some thinking-people games with some fellow thinking people who also like to laugh and have fun, join this group. or don't; i don …

Gamification and use of game dynamics/mechanics in non-game contexts is next wave on the internet. To quote Seth Priesbatch "This decade is the decade of games". Community owners, entrepreneurs, application developers and marketers need to understand and leverage gamification techniques to their advantage. This group brings together people interested in gamification to discuss various aspects of the game design and dynamics.