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London Geek Nights: Game Programming

Date
Fri, 21 Nov 2008, 18:00 (Add to calendar)
Venue
ThoughtWorks UK Office , London, United Kingdom, GB

This is a Geek Night dedicated to developing games. The core of the evening is going to revolve around the XNA platform.

We are also hoping to have talks on game development with Java, open source projects on the Cell/PS3 and also a talk by Iain Simons the author of Inside Game Design.

Keep an eye on the Wiki page for definite details as they emerge and I'll try and post here too.

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