I’m in south west UK, unfortunately, so Seattle is a bit far to go. I’m right in the middle of a geographic area with four universities running game design degree courses, two of which are in a city with a few indie studios operating. (Sadly the biggest studio in the area was shut down by its parent company last summer - lots of alumni from my university lost their jobs.) So I’m genuinely not sure if there are no events happening, or I’m just not searching properly!
Thanks for this. :) I dunno why, but the way you worded things here made it clear what I needed to use in a search engine, and I’ve now got a couple of promising options. One is a lot smaller, but is specifically for people working in games, and the other is much larger for the digital tech industry as a whole (but includes digital creatives). Both have events every couple of months.
And doing some online gamejams looks like a great idea too. Thank you for the suggestion! :)