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This looks like a good gaming community for those learning Unity - https://www.meetup.com/London-Unity-Usergroup

DMC Tate late group meeting Mon 11th Dec
Members from each group attended and Chris to discuss what each group was wanting to present, the logistics of this and how we can work collaboratively between groups. We discussed possible positioning and were informed of each groups ideas. We spoke a lot about sound and how we could manipulate game music to encourage movement and possible use of sensors that trigger sound, we also might have to curate the sound so that aspects of each group can be heard. We also set some dates for after christmas: 11th a meetup with all groups to see progression and test, 18th a crit and test run, 23rd final test. I will send an email out with full details of these meet ups as we will also be having meetings just for the gaming group between these.

Gaming group meeting 12th Dec 17
Jazmin, Irina, Miles, Freya
We shared our ideas and progress and had a look at some gaming music and a game Irinas friend's have created and given permission for us to feature in Tate if it's relevant, we also looked at a virtual room for a game Jake has created.
We discussed the three questions the AI group requested.
We discussed future meet ups and decided we will probably have a game group meet on tues 9th after xmas before the group meet on 11th.
We tested our AR interaction idea with the HD webcam and it works greatly! We tested it with existing images on my laptop but we are all going to aim to create 10 images to present to the audience.
We realised 'gaming themed images' was too broad to work with so we have set the criteria of it being an avatar of some sort as this confronts the main concept we were interested in as a group- the relationship between gaming and the self.
On the night viewers will stand infront of the webcam and choose an avatar they want to be featured with in AR (we are using paint 3D to achieve this which needs no wifi) viewers can then interact with the avatar. We are going to create the avatars over xmas ready for the meet on the 11th Jan.
We will test the technology with a TV screen in the meeting on the 8th.
For tate in March we hope to develop this idea into a game where you can create your own avatar but time is too tight to develop this for Jan.
We are thinking of adding a social media element to the installation, we would snapshot the image of the viewer and their avatar then upload it to a DMC Gaming account and use hashtags. This would create awareness and accessibility to the group and also allow viewers to save their images.
We discussed printing them physically but it might be too late to request that.
We need to speak to Chris about social media
We all need to work on avatars!
Thanks everyone! X

Made this for Chris to send to Tate but thought it was cute and worth putting on here to help us visualise our installation :)

How women in gaming are changing the male-dominated narrative
Read more at http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/technology/women-in-gaming-566922#MoKcW7RDBg1OPLLP.99 - http://www.marieclaire.co.uk/entertainment/technology/women-in-gaming-566922

Please send me any meet -up dates you have planned asap today so I can add to the list and share with the collective - http://digitalmakercollective.org/node/242

09/01/2018
GAME MEETING
Myself, Irina, Kristina are really just getting on with things now, we've decided to keep it all as simple as possible and just work towards the event!
We are still working on creating the visuals of the avatars for the event using paint 3D and possibly sketchup. We are going to look into avatar generators. We still want to have a social media element to our installation so in the next meeting we are going to make an instagram account and think about how we can get the public to interact with it on the night. We are also keen to get some amazing sound for the event, we have the game music but we spoke about adding game sound effects and possibly some dance music for the event, we will discuss this with the other groups on Thursday. Kristina also showed us her VR project and me and Irina loved it! Looking forward to working more closely with her. We are now working towards Thursdays prototype meet where we are going to test the webcam and the software with a TV screen! There will be a game meeting next Tuesday, time tbc

Gaming group meeting/DMC prototype 11/01/2018
Myself, Irina, Benny
We did a technical practice run for the avatar AR installation and everything works fine and looks good which is great. After speaking with Chris we decided we want to have a bit more content and viewer interaction in our workshop. We discussed the possibility of having the VR headset and the UAL social space set up for exploration and the gaming computer. It would also be better if we could be producing avatars on the night as well as allowing viewers to pick from the existing database. The music side of things seems to be going okay, particularly if we can get a budget for it as myself, Izaak and Florentine can contact producers easily then. Worst case scenario if that falls through we have the gaming music alone. Things seem stressful and slightly incomplete but as long as we get some avatars made and investigate the music over the weekend we are on track. I and Irina (and anyone else that wants to join) have decided to meet @ 9:30AM 16TH JAN in the CHELSEA MAKER SPACE to finalize things, test more ideas and make the social media account.

Game meeting 16/01/2018... Myself, Irina, Kristina, Jimena
Today was a very long, progressive meeting. The gaming group have most things in place ready for Tate late, we sorted a lot of the logistics in today's meeting.
- We made an instagram account for the game group so we can post teasers and images on the night to help build feedback and a hype for the event in March.
- We created a list of questions in the form of an online survey for the audience at the event, we can look at the feedback and feed it into what we create for the exchange.
- We are using paint 3D and sketch up to create masks/scenes/avatars to be experienced in augmented reality at the event.
- We have a DJ working on the sound for the event; need to work out the logistics of how we play it and ensure the sound is available offline.
- We are looking into also using the VR kit at tate, we would like to have the social space to spark conversation around virtually socializing in gaming, if this does not work we are going to look into putting our 3D creations into a space in VR.
Everything is looking good and going well we just need to sort out a few logistics and mainly get on with creating the 3D drawings for the event :)

The DMC collective will be meeting on Thursday 18th Jan 10am-12pm in the Chelsea maker space for a group kit and test run.
The DMC will also be getting together for a final test onnTuesday 23rd Jan 1pm-2.30pm in the Chelsea maker space
The gaming group will then meet again the day before the event on Thursday 25th Jan (time to be confirmed) to finalize everything for the event!
Thanks for everyone's participation, getting excited now!

DMC Prototype meet 18/01/2018, Myself and Irina + many other members of the collective
As well as sorting out some of the final bits for the event, todays meeting was also a chance to see the development of the other groups. Everyone's doing really well with their projects and when all of the different elements and technologies come together it's going to be great! People were interacting with the first scene the gaming group have made and it was really nice to see it in action. Someone suggested that we make villains as well as scenes and facial avatars and I really like this idea! When our installation was presented to the group it was highlighted that there is a lot going on and a viewer might become confused or overwhelmed, Chris suggested we make a poster to help prevent this. We were introduced to Phil who creates experimental sound, it would be great if he could get involved with the collective within or outside of the gaming group! We spoke about the survey we created and everyone agreed that it would be more useful to have post it notes and pens on the night of tate late as it's less formal. We also explored the social space in VR and it does work without wifi so we are going to take this to tate, it involves the participator becoming an avatar in VR and exploring a social space and we can ask questions about the experience on the night as it's very relevant to our development.

To Do Before Event:
- Create more gaming/avatar scenes for augmented reality
- When music has been created by the music collaborators I need to download it onto the mac mini that's playing the music on the night
- Begin to post teasers and follow people on the instagram account
- Buy post it notes and pens
- Create a poster and get it printed large scale
- Work out how to control the VR social space professionally and explore the create your own avatar setting
- Decide whether to have the VR or AR plugged into the large TV... work out logistics of whichever decision