The Gaming & Mobile Entrepreneurship get-together's started a few years ago at Stanford and meet every quarter in the Bay Area. The idea is simple: get together on a regular basis people who are interested in gaming, mobile and entrepreneurship. The event is open so feel free to pass around. The last events saw over 500 people from:  A Bit Lucky, Blizzard, Nexon, Google, ZipZapPlay, PopCap, PlayFish, Activision, Zynga, Apple, Unity, Neowiz, EA, Booyah, Trion, Sifteo, Raptr, Playdom, Playspan, …

We welcome anyone interested in social gaming on mobile (Android & iOS). Whether you love to play the games or sit in your garage and write code to create these games, we'd love to have you join us! Majority of our events cater to developers and helping them socialize, monetize, and increase users for their games. Our topics will range from discussing gamification of games, current games and technology, and analyzing market trends. Its a great causal place to network and pick up some interesting …

Greetings web, social, console, mobile game and application developers, game designers and entrepreneurs. You will recognize the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, East Bay IGDA Chapters and other Bay Area Game and application developer group friends here. All are welcome. Join us to grow and present your games and apps and related tools and platforms. Find other game developers for your projects. Get or give advice on design, funding, art, technical architecture, careers for your game or applicatio …

Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on?   Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developer …

This is a meetup of Android Game Developers. Meetup for a chance to win funding, a how to guide to meet and convince VC's to fund your app and possibly a chance to sell your game.

BIG strives to demystify the video gaming industry for people of color. We assist individuals in evolving from consumers to producers of video games and apps. To accomplish our goals, BIG provides networking, outreach, mentoring, and entrepreneurship guidance to professionals and students.

The purpose of this group is to get together and play Bunco! If you don't know how to play, it's very easy to learn. I want Ladies to join who are interested in building long term friendships. There will be a $5 fee per year to be a part of our group. This helps offset the cost of the meetup website and is payable when you join the group and every January there after. We will have a monthly game. The location will be determined at each game for the following month. Everyone who joins this group  …

Playing the card game Nertz is fun, a bit competitive, fast pace and a great way to meet new friends. The purpose of this group is to 4-6 people who would like to play Nertz once a month (more if we really get hooked!). If you want to play the card game Nertz with other Nertz players then join our group. It is easy to pick up and learn. All you need is one deck of playing cards per person.

Play the Asian board game Goe with new and interesting People. Sponsored by American Ing Goe and the San Francisco Go Club to promote the spread of goe playing in the San Francisco Bay Area. Strong players will often attend to provide instruction.

We started this group to connect with vuHunters who are interested in real-life mobile social games, want to contribute ideas and challenges to the game, and develop and grow the user community. We'd love to have ambassadors in every city in CA and the US to organize real-life challenges in the game. Anyone with an iPhone or Android phone or tablet is welcome. Real and game rewards will be offered in every meetup.

We're creating this group as a way to meet with FarmVille players in the SF area. We'll trade stories, talk about play tips, talk about what people want to see in the game and hear what the development team is thinking about the future Play FarmVille at http://apps.facebook.com/onthefarm or go to http://www.farmville.com (hit the play now button).

… In this group we will plan a calendar of events that will include various activities like lunch and games, fashion shows, dinners, movies, social service, henna days etc. As a member of this meetup you will be able to suggest new activities that you think will be enjoyable by all. This group is all about girls having fun and getting good deals to enjoy life together with like minded ladies. We also want to make good friends during the process.   We only have one Group Policy that is: As a member …

Purpose of this group to enable a forum for discussion of new approaches to bridging online and offline marketing strategies. Special focus on gaming, social media, e-commerce and mobile. Entrepreneurs and marketers who are working to build on-to-off bridges should join.

Happy New Year All, I'm working on a kickoff event for this quarter, if you are interested in sponsorship let me know. Jon jwong@oogalabs.com and by popular demand here's the link to the song stylings from WonderHill's Nathan Germick, "Flash Love Letter" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yo7nTxFxCaE   jwong@oogalabs.com

Meet nearby Boardgame Players! Come to The Oakland Fridays Boardgames Meetup to play old and new favorites with new friends. We meet first & third Fridays at It's Your Move Games. Bring some snacks or drinks to share, and any game you want to suggest we play.

Monthly get together for gaming tournaments.