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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. Error creating thumbnail: Error creating thumbnail:	Noisebridge Game Archivists Noisebridge Game Archivists celebrating classic games and building NGALAC arcade cabinet.	VRBridge VR Guild: We had a VR Cart with Vive, Oculus and Windows MR headsets. Mostly Quests now. Simbridge VRChat version of Noisebridge linked to Internet Archive, Omni Commons, and other creative spaces.

GAME DEV COMMUNITIES ACTIVE AT NOISEBRIDGE

• Bay Area Developers Gamedev Collective organized by Arity

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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NEW GAMES GUILD EVENTS SCHEDULE PROPOSALS

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

• The days of the week are themed: gamedev Wednesdays, gaming Thursdays and game engine Saturdays! There will be rotating specific events once each month that fit the day theme.
• Our Games Guild calendar will also list external gaming and gamedev events in our communities including Oakland MADE/BAD and gaming events at barcades like Detour/etc.

Weekday	1st of month	2nd of month	3rd of month	4th of month
Gamedev Wednesdays	Gamebridge gamedev meetup / Noisebridge Gaming Archivists IndieSmash prep	Gamebridge	Gamebridge	Gamebridge
Gaming Thursdays	IndieSmash: gaming tourneys & Indie Showcases	Tablebridge tabletop gaming/design meetup	Ten Minutes of Game Talks / 5 Minutes of Fame talks	Songbridge Music Making Meetup / Resident Electronic Music open mic
Game Engine Saturdays	Unity meetup	Unreal meetup	Godot meetup	DIY Engines & Graphics

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