Social Games Seattle Members, Thanks to everyone who came out to our Social Games Seattle Event on Wed. Feb. 24th at the King Cat Theatre! A special thanks to our sponsors and speakers who did a great job! Offerpal Media, RockYou, MS Windows Gaming Experience and Playdom. Event Recap: The event was a little more intimate than the first two, and this made for great networking and an open bar for all who attended. The crowd was awesome and people made some good connections, the speakers were i …

Work on your social and dating skills with us. Our meetups include hands-on presentations from world-reknowned dating coaches. At the tailend we have optional field trip outings, in which we go out to public venues, meet people, interact and get useful real-time feedback that helps us all improve our social skills -- especially with women. We have members who are as old as the most senior of senior citizens, but you must be at least 18 years old to join. We also have some female members. This gr …

This is the Seattle-wide discussion forum for technology (esp. IT, web, mobile, game, cloud, social, telecom ...). The forum is a platform for professionals to collaborate, share ideas, foster creative brainstorming. It is also a platform for companies to increase their branding and network. You could also join discussion and get event update at our Email group: http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-tech-forum

It's all about putting the right people together! There are programmers who need designers, designers who need programmers, and let's face it everyone can benefit from working with people who are great at business and marketing. The propose of the Software Entrepreneurs Meetup, is to bring together people who have a passion for software and business development. I have spent many years marketing some of the world's most exciting software, and I have seen the power of working with great program …

In five words or less: Nerdy Artists Hangout & Draw Comics! (does an ampersand count as a word? is "hangout" one word or two?) Our goal is to bring together people who want to make comics or video games to hang out over drinks and snacks, show off our latest works, share ideas and (of course) draw comics. Our attendees are comprised mostly of comic illustrators, with the occasional writer and game developer. We have had a few seasoned professionals at our table, but the vast majority of us do th …

Our focus is on the expanding HTML5 field 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. Meetings will be held in the greater Seattle area.

gsummitX - Gamification in Seattle 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 …

ENEM is currently closed to new member applications. For inquiries about membership, please contact our organizers. Eastside New & Expecting Moms (ENEM) is a circle of true friendship and support, comprised of FIRST-TIME new and expecting moms here on the Eastside & Northshore. Specifically, we are a group of first-time moms who first gave birth in 2012. We are a group of more than 35 new & expecting moms who have, since June 2012, begun to form solid friendships with one another. We often meet …

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 games. Please join our Meetup and pass the URL to other friends of yours in the local gaming space

Formerly: The Seattle Flash and HTML 5 User Group This is a user group for people interested in Interactive Media using Adobe software and other necessary skills. This group will gather to learn about creating Interactive Documents, Games, Responsive Websites and porting things to Tablet, Phone and Computer devices. The Seattle Flash User Group has been going for many years and with this change, we will be expanding our focus to incorporate HTML 5, JavaScript and the direction of the web with ri …

If you find yourself growing a bit jaded by the totally whack money-centric direction in which the larger games industry is headed and would like to help steer things back towards a more socially responsible route, keep reading! This group is being set up to bring us like-minded individuals together, face-to-face, so that we can utilize our skills and abilities to ultimately develop a game. So, regardless of your skill level, if you've got knowledge of programming, asset development, writing, an …

This is for anyone who loves stories and has a story to tell. Before TV and even before the printing press people listened to each other tells stories for entertainment. This group hopes to keep the person to person tradition of storytelling alive. Stories for a Thursday Evening begins with a short program by a featured teller after-which the teller answers questions. This is followed by a ten minute intermission with tea and a small snack provided. The evening ends with an hour long open mic. w …

This is a group for game developers, designers, artists, sound designers, musicians, and all other related disciplines. This includes everyone from the professional AAA workers to the independents, hobbyists, and those with an interest. We will have informal meetings in the Seattle area where people can demo and share their work, spend time working on projects, and interact with others with similar interests.

"All the brilliant people working at the same time, in the same space, at the same computer, on the same thing." - Woody Zuill, Mob Programming geezer. Read about mob programming at http://mobprogramming.org/. Every couple of weeks or so, Mondays 6pm-8.30pm, you can join us when you can, in downtown Seattle or Redmond (we're alternating for now). Our most recent session was at Nordstrom's Innovation Lab, where eight people had all sorts of fun and games coding up a browser-based chat applicatio …

The goal of this group is to come together as a community and talk about search based on open source stacks (solr/lucene/elasticsearch) and tie this into applications with emphasis on AI, machinelearning, games and more

The South Sound Game Developers is for game creators or developers using game engine technology, to connect, network, share techniques, and advance their craft. We'll meet regularly to discuss topics related to game development, game engines, programming, 3D modeling, texturing, animation and sound. We invite you to join us; Designers, artists and programmers are all welcome. Gathering up the South Sound designers, developers, programmers, artists, etc. to collaborate, network, and share how to …