Beers For Indies

Beers For Indies!

We are often asked “What game developer meetups do you regularly attend?”. Unfortunately for us in Southern Vermont, most of the “local” meetups are in the Boston, MA area with the exception of a couple non-game specific events in Western MA. Fortunately for Vermont Digital Arts, we also work in Cambridge, MA at the Indie Game Collective and thus attend a lot of game development events out there.

Our personal top 5  Boston area game developer meetups are (in alphabetical order):

Boston Post Mortem http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/
Boston Indies http://www.bostonindies.com/
Boston Unity Group http://www.meetup.com/B-U-G-Boston-Unity-Group/
New England Game Circle http://gamescircle.org/
Mass DiGI http://www.massdigi.org/category/events/

Our general top 25 Boston area game developer meetups are (in alphabetical order):

AAUGA Boston http://www.aaugaboston.com/
Boston Art and Code http://www.meetup.com/BostonArtCode/
Boston Blender Users Group http://www.meetup.com/BostonBlender/
Boston Games Forum http://gmsfrm.com/
Boston HTML 5 Game Development http://www.meetup.com/Boston-HTML5-Game-Development/
Boston Indies http://www.bostonindies.com/
Boston Post Mortem http://www.bostonpostmortem.org/
Boston Unity Group http://www.meetup.com/B-U-G-Boston-Unity-Group/
Boston Virtual Reality http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Virtual-Reality/
Boston Windows App and Game Developers http://www.meetup.com/Boston-Windows-App-Developers/
Cambridge Hack Space http://www.meetup.com/Cambridge-Hackspace/
Drinks on Tap http://www.meetup.com/DrinksOnTap/
Game Makers Guild http://www.meetup.com/Game-Makers-Guild/
Game Over Boston https://www.facebook.com/GameOverBoston
HTML 5 Boston http://www.meetup.com/html5boston/
Mass DiGI http://www.massdigi.org/category/events/
Mass Innovation Nights http://mass.innovationnights.com/
Mass TLC http://www.masstlc.org/
MassMobile – Mobile Developer’s Meetup http://www.meetup.com/massmobile/
Mobile Monday http://www.momoboston.com/
New England Game Circle http://gamescircle.org/
StoryCode Boston http://www.meetup.com/StoryCode-Boston/
Women in Games Boston http://wigboston.wordpress.com/

Please let us know if you have any favorite game developer meetups in the Boston area that we may have missed. I’d be great to have a giant comprehensive list to share online perhaps as a wiki.

We hope there will be more going on in the Vermont / Western MA area to populate a list half this long in a few years! VERMONT / Western MA -> Let’s make it happen!