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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 GUILD EVENTS SCHEDULE

The Games Guild is growing after hosting GDC 2026 IndieSmash. We're organizing new weekly gaming and gamedev events for 4 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-Monday-Tuesday	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking	Gamedev Coworking
Gamedev Wednesdays	Gamebridge Wednesdays 7-11pm gaming meetup / gamedev mentoring	Gamebridge Wednesdays 7-11pm gaming meetup / gamedev mentoring	Gamebridge Wednesdays 7-11pm gaming meetup / gamedev mentoring	Gamebridge Wednesdays 7-11pm gaming meetup / gamedev mentoring
Gaming Thursdays	Tablebridge	Hackergames	Ten Minutes of Game Talks 3rd Thursdays 5-8PM + 5 Minutes of Fame talks 8-0PM	Songbridge Music Games Karaoke 4th Thursdays 5-8pm
Fighting PVP Fridays	School of Melee 1st & 3rd Fridays Cyberbridge Neo Cyberpunk XR 1st Friday Bay Area Developers Collective Discord Fridays	Showcase Showdown 2nd & 4th Fridays Indie Game Showcase & Competitive Games Tourney Bay Area Developers Collective Discord Fridays	School of Melee 1st & 3rd Fridays Self Improvement Expert Mentored Smash Tournament Bay Area Developers Collective Discord Fridays	Showcase Showdown 2nd & 4th Fridays Indie Game Showcase & Competitive Games Tourney Bay Area Developers Collective Discord Fridays
Game Engine Saturdays	Unitybridge Unity meetup	Unrealbridge Uneal meetup	Godot Meetup 3rd Saturdays Open source engine dev	Graphicsbridge DIY Engines & Graphics Graphicsbridge

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.

GAMING EVENTS IN SF

• Smash Brothers Events
  • SF State Smash Smash Brothers every Thursday at SF State University (Smash Melee, Aether: Platformer fighting, Project M Modded Brawl fighting)
  • Detour Barcade: Smash brothers at Detour

Bay Area Gaming Groups

• https://bayarea.games/resources/: Bay Area Games has links to a lot of good stuff, groups and events and a beginning of a curated steam page of games developed in the bay, great ideas.

GAMES SUBGUILDS

Noisebridge Game Archivists

Noisebridge Game Archivists celebrating classic games and building NGALAC arcade cabinet.

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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NEWS

GAMEDEV WEDNESDAYS EXPANDS TO 4 DAYS A WEEK

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

GAMING THURSDAYS

• 1st Thursdays: Tablebridge tabletop gaming (board/card/RPG/wargame/party/LARP/ARGs)

• 2nd Thursdays: HackGames hacker-themed games and challenges
• 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

FIGHTING GAME FRIDAYS

Fridays alternate between School of Melee and Showcase Showdown tourneys/showcases

* 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.

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