Thanks for joining us for some ghoulish fun, drinks and snacks while you created your very own Halloween-themed video game, Halloween treat bag, mask or bookmark, and enjoyed other fun Halloween activities at our Capitola Mall site.

Schedule:

• 6:30   Welcome
• 6:35   Mike Parisi Presentation (details below)
• 7:00   Design a Halloween video game, or make a Halloween treat bag, mask or bookmark
• 8:30   Closing

Guests socialized, learned about the making of a video game app, and had Halloween fun. Ages 3+ were welcome!

Outline of Mike Parisi's talk:

• Brief overview of what I did in the corporate game world
• Why did I make "Isopod: The Roly Poly Science Game"?
• Demonstration of the game
• What is programming? How does programming make ideas come to life?
• How does programming enable your characters to be believable? (i.e., use physics from real life, etc.)
• How does tilt/bump work in Isopod? How does launch/crash work in Angry Bird?
• Q and A