UUG TORONTO: November 10th and 11th, 2009

October 26, 2009

In line with the premiere Unity Users Group launch, Toronto will be a two-day event, beginning with an afterwork networking event featuring a keynote from Tony Garcia (Head of Unity Business Development):
The event will be held on Tuesday, November, 10th at the celebrated Gladstone hotel. More than a hotel, The Gladstone is a social and cultural [...]

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UUG SAN FRANCISCO: October 28th, 2009

October 26, 2009

The first of these initiatives is a networking social that will be held during the Unite 2009 conference in San Francisco and will cater to Unite attendees; local Unity enthusiasts unable to attend conference, and those wishing to rub shoulders with the future of social web and mobile gaming. The event will be held Wednesday [...]

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Go Go Communist China.

October 14, 2009

This week China has decided that it will ban outside investment in its social games industry. The claim is that it will allow them to censor content and “protect” the Chinese public. This decision means that outside investors are even forbidden from indirectly influencing Chinese social game companies even through offering [...]

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Zynga’s Cafe World goes from 0 to 8.6 million users in a week and Friendster shifts their focus towards social gaming.

October 9, 2009

The increasing importance of social gaming is starting to take center stage. The world of  gaming is held in increasing sway by Zynga (facebook) and Playdom (Myspace) . Despite the rapid growth in audience of these games many of the games bear striking resemblance to each other. This is not just in reference to [...]

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Shout Out to Matthew “Math” Miner

September 5, 2009

For the last 6 weeks, OMI had the pleasure to host Matthew “Math” Miner – Unity’s “Summer of Code” winner.  With the lure of a borrowed desk and the threat of constant distraction, he bravely moved in.  Tasked with creating a cut-scene editor for Unity, Math’s creativity, initiative, and skill knocked it out of the [...]

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Unity TGIF & Workshop, Vancouver Chapter Launch

July 30, 2009

Big thanks to all of you who came out last weekend to dimeRocker’s premiere Unity TGIF & Workshop in celebration of the Vancouver Chapter launch of the Unity Users Group.

We hope that everyone had a great time learning and connecting with like-minded Unity enthusiasts from Vancouver, Seattle & Portland.
We would like to give a huge [...]

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Unity “Summer of Code” Candidate now in-house!

July 30, 2009

OverInteractive Media would like to congratulate and welcome Matthew Miner, Unity’s Vancouver “Summer of Code” candidate who had his first day working alongside us in dimeRocker HQ yesterday.

Matthew, or Math as we like to call him, will spend the next 6 weeks working on his innovative Unity App that is sure come in handy for [...]

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SUPPORT for UNITY SUMMER of CODE CANDIDATE !

July 7, 2009

In support of Unity’s Summer of Code initiative, we at dimeRocker would like to offer free office space for a lucky Vancouver candidate who receives support from Unity for their project.  You will be surrounded by like-minded Unity heads, given a desk and chair in a cozy corner for you and your laptop as well [...]

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UNITY TGIF & WORKSHOP

July 3, 2009

Not-to-be-missed event for Unity developers, those wanting to learn about Unity, and those looking to network and socialize with like-minded peeps.
To celebrate the  launch of the Vancouver Chapter of Unity Users Group,  dimeRocker.com in partnership with Unity Technologies invites all local game, web, and iPhone developers to a premiere industry Unity Networking TGIF followed the next day by [...]

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RESERVE YOUR HANDLE! PLAY DEFCON-Z!

June 26, 2009

We at dimeRocker Headquarters have planned some cool releases to keep our eager members from getting restless while we are in stealth mode.
Yesterday we announced the free MasterServer we set-up for Unity developers , today we have something for the players: a brainless multiplayer Zombie killfest entitled “NOMBZ: Defcon-Z”.
Developed in house by our VP of [...]

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