Working on indie games can often feel like a lonesome feat, and it is easy to miss someone to talk with ideas about, get input or just have a chat about new developments in the industry or life in general. This meetup is for getting indie game developers to meet and connect.

Are you making educational games and apps, thinking about making them or just interested in the application of new technology to education? The aim of this group is to link people involved in or interested in getting involved in making educational games and apps. Often people in this field have a particular skill (e.g. teaching, coding, subject-matter expertise, design) but need to find others with complimentary skills. This meetup group would help people get together and share knowledge and ide …

Why not grab some lunch with fellow developers / designers / artists all interested in Game Development? Get out of the office, talk about what you're working on (Unless its NDA'ed or breaking contract!) and have a chat with others with similar mindsets. Bring your laptop along if you'd like to show off what you've made! Logo provided by the wonderful Iain Gillespie!

This a group for game developers making games using HTML5. We organize get-togethers in central London, to talk about and show-off games made using Javascript and HTML5.

Setting up programming jam sessions usually after work hours. Come for feedback on your ideas, support on your code, the odd lecture on a technical topic. Current focus is around Game Dev, Apps, HTML5, OpenGL, iOS, Android, Qt, NodeJS, SocketIO and more.

Nights of networking, food, beer, demos and speakers aimed at the UK's fast-growing numbers of development talent

The Khronos UK Chapter is a non-profit group to promote knowledge sharing and best practice amongst users of the Khronos specifications, including; OpenCL, OpenGL, OpenGL ES, WebGL, WebCL, Collada, OpenVG, OpenSL ES, OpenMAX AL, OpenMAX IL, EGL, OpenVX. In order to attend all you need is an interest in these specifications. If you would like to organise a local event or propose a speaker please get in touch. The Khronos UK Chapter is chaired by the Samsung R&D Institute UK.

For people interested in transmedia storytelling and creating  participatory stories. That is, stories in which the audience plays an active role in some way. It might be clicking a button or going to a real location or watching a video...

Are you thinking about gamification at work? Are you wondering how to go about gamifying your team, organisation, product or service? Or do you just want to use gamification in your marketing campaign? Well this meetup is for you! A chance to meet others involved in gamifying their workplace, team or online community. We'll be holding meetups for about an hour or so in a centrally located coffee shop.

London Lua is a friendly welcoming group for anyone who uses or wants to learn about the Lua programming language. Lua is perhaps best known for its use in games such as World of Warcraft and Angry Birds, but is also used for high performance web applications, mobile applications like Spotify, embedded systems, desktop applications like Adobe Lightroom, or embedded into systems like Redis or Nginx and in financial services. We arrange talks and informal chats, and welcome all people whatever the …

Designed for developers from any and all backgrounds, with an interest in app programming and marketing, with a particular but not exclusive focus on mobile.

The Nexus Project is an initiative to bring together the creative talent of different disciplines to share techniques, solve problems and build networks of collaboration. The events will happen every month inviting young designers, architects, engineers, programmers, game designers and visual artists. We will also have one guest connected online to keep the project open to international collaboration. You can also apply to present at the Nexus, making the Nexus an opportunity to showcase your wo …

gsummitX - Gamification in London is a meetup for anyone involved in and/or interested in the topic of gamification, engagement and/or loyalty. A few times each year, we'll ask the community to come together to hear a speaker from the gamification space, 1-2 demos from companies using gamification in their business model, and our unique workshop-like game called "Play for a Cause." We'll have some grub and beverages for everyone as well. This meetup is run by the Team at Gamification.co and the …

This is a meetup for people who want to participate in the London Haskell User Group LambdaWars project to create a Robo Wars game entirely in Haskell and learn some Haskell in the process.

The Bill Hicks Ride gives anybody and everybody the opportunity to partake in whatever venture takes our fancy and flies with it. We plan seasonal events, for those living, visiting, breathing London, on both sides of the river, with the occasional getaway outside the city limits !! We are a unique & eclectic crowd touching on activities and topics encompassing the macro and the microcosm. We find that enjoying life is not just a priority, but mandatory, so follow the bubbles and join in the fun …

The Idea behind Project Startup is to create a Startup and in the process learn about starting and running a company through the sharing and exchange of skills. Just as with the London Skills Exchange, we aim to bring together talented people who can mutually benefit from each other's experience. The Project: The Startup is iToucan Help, based on iToucan Talk (Pronounced "I too can talk") a free Android Phone and tablet app which helps Autistic Children and others with communication difficulties …

Are you aware that whatever you do, 80-90% is psychology and sub-consciousness related concerning success whilst 10-20% is for the conscious or logical part? What this means is that you can have a higher success rate for anything, if only you re-set and re-program your subconscious mind and its psychology. If you don't, you may lose the battle. There are principle rules to win the game of life and you can also learn and apply these at our meetups. If you would like to be the best golf player ar …