SIGGRAPH’s Montreal chapter felt like having a big pre-SIGGRAPH:06 party on Friday. All the local digerati were invited and geared up for some sponsored boozing. While I was invited, I had opted to not go (or, rather, I was guilted in not going because I had to be a good daddy and stay home to help with the kids and all that good stuff :) Since the IGDA chapter’s own event with BioWare was the night before at the same venue (Society for Arts and Technology), I didn’t feel too left out of the local community vibe - for this week.

That was the plan. As it turned out, I mistakenly dropped my wallet on stage during my welcome speech at the IGDA meeting. After freaking out some and looking everywhere for it, I called the SAT to see if they had it. They did. So, I just had to go back to pick it up… After the kids were asleep, of course!


There was a healthy ~400+ person crowd…


…enjoying the hip DJ tunes and VJ visuals.


EA Montreal was one of the party sponsors and brought in FIFA to play on a big 9′x12′ projected screen.


A few of the game dev folks at the party: Heather Kelley (Ubisoft), Damien Di Fede, James Everett (A2M) and Philippe Poisson (A2M).