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Noisebridge Games Guild encompasses game development, VR, classic retro games, and tabletop gaming. LOCATIONS: Arcade MAINTAINERS: ACTIVE: LX 1/5 (4 more needed Volunteer) (INACTIVE: Ryan, Bernice, Mark) SUBGUILDS: VRBridge, Noisebridge Game Archivists EVENTS: Gamebridge Gamedev Wed 5-7PM, Tablebridge Tabletop Wed 5-7PM, Godot Meetup 3rd Sat 2-6PM

GAMES SUBGUILDS

Gamebridge Wednesdays Gamebridge: Weekly Wednesday nights 7-9pm meetup and beginner-friendly Game Design and Development class.	Tablebridge Tabletop Wednesdays Before Gamebridge 5-7pm meetup for playing, designing and hobbying / modeling / painting tabletop games including miniatures, cards, boardgames, RPGs and more!	Godot Meetup 3rd Saturdays Godot developers meet at Noisebridge third Saturdays every month! Learn about the powerful open-source game engine with other devs and share your work in progress.	Noisebridge Game Archivists Noisebridge Game Archivists celebrating classic games and building NGALAC arcade cabinet.	VRBridge VR Guild: We have a VR Cart in the Arcade and lockers with Meta Quests, Windows MR headsets and our original Vive. Simbridge VRChat version of Noisebridge linked to Internet Archive, Omni Commons, and other creative spaces.

NEW GAMES GUILD EVENTS SCHEDULE

The Games Guild is growing after hosting IndieSmash at 2026 GDC! We're organizing new weekly events for 3 days of every week.

• Days of the week are themed: Gamedev Wednesdays, Gaming Thursdays and Game Engine Saturdays
• There will be rotating specific events on these days of the week each month that fit the day theme.
• Games Guild calendar lists gaming and gamedev events in our communities like Oakland MADE/BAD and gaming events at barcades like Detour/etc.

Weekday	1st of month	2nd of month	3rd of month	4th of month
Sunday-Tuesday	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking
Gamedev Wednesdays	Gamebridge Wednesdays7-9pm meetup/mentoring	Gamebridge Wednesdays7-9pm meetup/mentoring	Gamebridge Wednesdays7-9pm meetup/mentoring	Gamebridge Wednesdays7-9pm meetup/mentoring
Gaming Thursdays	Gaming Archivists 5-7pm classic games Indiebridge 1st Thursdays 7-11pm tourneys/Indie Showcases	Tablebridge Tabletop 2nd Thursdays 7-9pm playing / designing / hobbying / modeling / painting minis / cards / boardgames / RPGs / wargames	Ten Minutes of Game Talks 3rd Thursdays6-7pm / 5 Minutes of Fame talks 8-9pm	Songbridge 4th Thursdays Music games & music Making before every Resident Electronic Music open mic
Gamedev Coworking Fridays	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking
Game Engine Saturdays	Unitybridge Unity meetup	Unrealbridge Uneal meetup	Godot Meetup 3rd Saturdays Open source engine dev	Graphicsbridge DIY Engines & Graphics

GAME DEV COMMUNITIES ACTIVE AT NOISEBRIDGE

• Bay Area Developers Gamedev Collective organized by Arity and friends
  • BAD Collective Events Calendar: Updated often with the latest events BAD is organizing and other gamedev events in the bay area.
  • #events: Discord hannel where many gamedev events are shared and announced.
• MADE: Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment is an amazing
  • MADE Events Calendar: There's events for gaming and gamedev every day at the MADE in Oakland.

GAME HARDWARE MADE AT NOISEBRIDGE

Noisebridge Game Archivists have created custom game hardware like the NGALAC arcade cabinet and Coffee Table arcade surface.

• Gaming hardware made at Noisebridge
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GAMES MADE AT NOISEBRIDGE

We've hosted Global Game Jam since 2018 as well as GameJamCamp our mentored game jam bootcamp.

Here are some examples of games made at Noisebridge. More detailed game writeups are on the jam pages.

• Games made at Global Game Jam @ Noisebridge
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GAMEDEV WEDNESDAYS

ontinues as Gamebridge catchall gamedev coworking & mentoring, game guild coordination, Noisebridge Game Archivists console/cabinet projects, setup for Gaming Thursdays

GAMING THURSDAYS

• 1st Thursdays: Console Tournaments / indie showcase / PC gaming / LAN parties (featured tournaments will vary week to week but all gaming categories are welcome space allowing)

 * Console Tournaments:
   * Smash / Fighting Games
   * Halo / action games
 * PC game tournaments:
   * Starcraft
   * Quake
   * Marathon
 * Indie Game Competitions: 
   * Starbuster
   * Vermin Genesis
 * Propose new competitive games
   * Games of the Month Club: 
 * Play different games together all month.
 * discuss the game of the month at the event.
 * propose the next games and vote on it.

• 2nd Thursdays: Tablebridge tabletop gaming (board/card/RPG/wargame/party/LARP/ARGs)
• 3rd Thursdays 5:30-6:30pm: 1 hour of 10 Minutes of Game Talks before every 5 Minuntes of Fame 7:30-9:30
• 4th Thursdays 5-7pm: Video game music making before Resident Electronic Monthly Open Mic (you could play at that!)
• 5th Thursdays: They happen once or twice a year, we should have a wildly silly event for those, maybe like the PAX Omegathon, nerd duels, nerdy comedy and ARGs. https://east.paxsite.com/en-us/features/omegathon.html

GAME ENGINE SATURDAYS

• Unitybridge Meetup 1st Saturdays: Learning, talks and coworking with unity game development at Noisebridge.
• Unrealbridge Meetup 2nd Saturdays: Learn and cowork Unreal development.
• Godot Meetup 3rd Saturdays:
• Graphics/Engines/Demos 4th Saturdays: Roll your own game engines, shaders and graphics hackery with other mad coders.
• 5th Saturdays: The first rule is, we don't talk about 5th saturdays.

LOGISTICS:

• Event runners need help!
• Every event needs to go on Meetup, it displays on the entrance monitor.
• Wiki pages need to be kept updated
• Organizers / maintainers groups need to seek 3-5 members each so the events happen consistently.
• Events listings