Sociality Rocks!2013 - San Francisco - is actually the first Eastern European-friendly event in Silicon Valley, dedicated to social and mobile games. Truly unique structure of the event: 2 conference days of speeches and discussion panels with top experts of social and mobile market (Facebook, Wooga, Chillingo, AppAnnie, PopCap, Playtika, Kerosene Games, GREE etc) + 1 day of welcoming tours to the gaming offices in Silicon Valley (Zynga, PlayHeaven, Paymentwall). What will we discuss?Trends and …

SF Family Game Night is for anyone who loves to play games socially whether it's with your children, significant other, friends, or the new friends you make in this group! Let's step away from the technology for at least an hour each month to connect and laugh over fun board/card games. Blue Orange Games sponsors this Meetup group by providing games and other perks. I just want to clarify that I do work for them but I run this meetup and welcome games from all companies. If you work for a game c …

With rising acquisition costs, the struggle to create innovative gameplay, and a marketplace that couldn't possibly get more crowded, how can mobile game developers differentiate from their competitors? How can you get players to connect with your brand and remain loyal in the face of unprecedented options? The answer may surprising you: doing good. Doing good can mean many things: selling in-game items that support charitable causes, giving consumers a way to donate instead of buying in-game cu …

What are the problems that every game developer has? At this point they've almost become a cliche: Acquisition, Retention and Monetization. Every game developer from the solo indie to the mammoth public company needs more players, to keep those players, and to monetize those players. There are literally hundreds of companies that are founded to help developers address these challenges in one way or another. So why is it still so hard? I believe it's an education problem, and I've founded this gr …

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.

Let's get together and play games! I'm a fan of Cards Against Humanity but I'm flexible, if folks want to play Apples to Apples, Scrabble or something else, I'm game.

This meetup is for iOS and Android game developers and designers to learn about way the various methods of user acquisition and 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.

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 or share 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.

Looking to find any players who would be interested in playing science fiction themed board and miniature games. For example: Space Empires 4x, Ogre, Starfire, Lensman, Eclipse, Twilight Imperium, The Sword and the Stars, Frontiers, Spaceship Troopers, Space Hulk, Battlestar Galactica, Race for the Galaxy, Vanished Planet, 4x games.

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 …

Every two weeks, we all go play a 2-3 casual to midcore games, then get together and talk about them! If you're working on projects on your own and want thoughtful feedback from other game makers, this is also a great avenue for that!

The Gaming & Mobile Entrepreneurship get-together's started a few years ago at Stanford and meet every quarter in the Bay Area. The idea is simple: get together on a regular basis people who are interested in gaming, mobile and entrepreneurship. The event is open so feel free to pass around. The last events saw over 500 people from: A Bit Lucky, Blizzard, Nexon, Google, ZipZapPlay, PopCap, PlayFish, Activision, Zynga, Apple, Unity, Neowiz, EA, Booyah, Trion, Sifteo, Raptr, Playdom, Playspan, P …

Whether you're working on the next Triple-A series or weekly mobile game stories, writing for video games is a unique and challenging experience. You're faced with constant deadlines, unrealistic demands, and a need to stay flexible when environment, tools, and even entire characters change. Come meet other writers in this growing field to learn tricks of the trade, find inspiration, share struggles, and just have a good time. The goal is to meet monthly, either casually over drinks or more form …

This is a group to get folks who are interested in playing Living Card Games (e.g. A Game of Thrones, Netrunner, Starwars, Lord of the Rings, etc.) together to play, organize tournaments, and just generally to socialize about the games we love.

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 …

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.

Have a strategic boardgame mechanic in your head? Want to get it to paper, create a prototype, develop rules, and create something not only playable but enjoyable and perhaps even marketable? Or do you want to interact with those who are actively developing, prototyping, playtesting - gaining access to unfinished designs before they hit the market? Then this group is for you! Together, we will discuss game theory, game ideas, design concepts, the process of prototyping, playtest existing designs …

This is a group for those who like playing Poker or Board Games. Meetup's can be specific to one activity or both depending on what's specified. Friendly Poker games will generally be $20 buy-in (that will increase as demand and Player size increases, so if you are looking for a little larger stakes you should still join the group). The skill level we are looking for is strictly amateur. We are looking to have fun not looking to make an income. If you are trying to hustle please move on as you w …

Our goal is to disrupt the mobile game industry by delivering a complete infrastructure and ecosystem for HTML5 2D and 3D game development, allowing developers to deliver equal performance for both Native and Web-based games from a single code base. We provide a cloud compilation system that allows developers to deliver their games to all of the native apps stores, including iTunes, Google Play, Facebook and Chrome today with Kindle, Nook, Windows Phone, Tizen and Intel AppUp coming soon. We'll …

Making and thinking about games, both the analog and digital! This is an inclusive learning community for all backgrounds and skillsets, focused around co-working events in classic "game jam" fashion: meet up for a few hours, chat, and make something - whether it's your own projects or as part of a competition.

Like SC2 Meetup groups in other cities, this meetup will be used to organize local meetups to do LANs, practice online together at night and attend local Barcrafts. Add your friends and let's get playing! We'll also try to work with local gaming related organizations like the IGDA for those who are interested in the field of gaming.

This is a group for anyone currently working or interested in Social Game Development and the inter-workings of virtual currency. There will be many topics relating to Facebook, MySpace and other social game development and monetization. We primarily discuss current games, market trends in virtual goods and issues facing the industry. Its a great causal place to network and pick up some interesting tips. We'll have speakers and themes. This group is for people in social game development and for …

This meetup has been going on since about November 2011, as a place to organize weekly game nights.  We play mostly Euro-style strategy games, such as those found on boardgamegeek.com.  So, experienced strategy gamers are preferred but if you don't mind learning some relatively complicated rules, we are happy to teach.  We are always looking to recruit others to the die-hard boardgamer cult.  Welcome!

The focus of this meetup is on the growing field of HTML5 and javascript Game development. This is a place to learn or teach, to share tips on programming, game engines, sdks, tools for development on the web and cross platform solutions for HTML5 for iphone android ipad windows phone 7 palm. HTML5 or hybrid solutions, 2d or webgl are explored. Meetings will be held in both SF and Mountain View. Checkout our website at: http://gamesjs.com/ where you will find meetup recaps, further reading mater …

This group is for soccer games on weekends in Marina Green. Players at all levels of skill are welcome. The group is open to all genders. The idea is to get a good workout and get your heart rate up in midst of beautiful scenic setting of Marina Green. Post game we can head out to a local bar for some good beer ;) Games will typically start at 11:30am on either Saturday or Sunday.

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Gathering the smartest mobile game developers from the valley and San Francisco into one super-dense neutron sphere of awesome. Lets share ideas, tech, code, frameworks, marketing tips to make better mobile games.

We were sad to see the Just Awesome! game store close, but plan to continue organizing events for the SF gaming community.  Expect to hear more soon.