The Polygons Christmas special is just a few weeks away. Join us on Thursday the 13th of December, not only for game dev discussion and free beer, but also mince pies and more entertainingly bad photoshoppery. Doors open at 18:00, with the panel to start at 19:00.

Guests on the panel this time will include Bruce Everiss, writer of the excellent blog Bruce On Games, and Dave Wilson, recently departed from Evolution Studios and now lecturing at the University of Derby. Our team captains this time are Iain Simons from Gamecity and Rob Yescombe of Free Radical Design.

Rare , magnificent as ever, are once again sponsorsing the bar, along with bluegfx, Autodesk, and CIN.

We'll also be in a new venue this time, Derby University's freshly opened Markeaton Campus, who are kindly offering us space to do this in style. Here's a google map to the venue, note that it is actually further along Markeaton Street than the postcode marker: it's the very large building that's still under construction in the google satellite imagery. There is also *very* limited car parking at the back of the building via Pybus Street.

We look forward to seeing you all there, meanwhile stay up to date via the mailing list and facebook.

The poster for NMTP #9 can be downloaded here.