The Queensland Univeristy of Technology seems to be one of the new emerging places to study game development in Australia to rival establishments like the AIE and Qantm, and it looks like they now have some extra support from Microsoft. Reported from AustralianIT...
"QUEENSLAND University of Technology plans to teach students to design games exclusively for Xbox, following a research grant from Microsoft...
QUT received a $US15,000 ($19,500) grant from Microsoft Research Asia to fund course…
Zoot posted in the forum...
Hey everyone, like we said earlier Free Play really needs more of your ideas!
What do you want to hear, who do you want to see... As well as general discussion we need to throw around heaps of concrete suggestions. ie "we need a workshop on coding play-by-SMS games" or "we need a jerry-springer style punch-up about [insert controversial topic here]" or "I want to see Jeff Minter from the UK speak because llamas are cool" etc
This kind of feedback is important for the…
Local Aussie blogger, Robin, recalls a PSP technical presentation at the GDC by SCEA's manager of developer relations, Mark DeLoura, called "PSP Advanced Software Overview".
DeLoura reveals that the PSP's CPU and bus clockspeeds are configured by software, with the CPU being locked at 222 MHz. PSP?s specs released last year claimed a top speed of 333 MHz.
It is believed that limiting the PSP in this way will help maintain battery life until new longer lasting batteries are in the market. You…
Submitted by The Australian Writers' Guild
AUSTRALIAN WRITERS' GUILD
Writing for Games
Are you Game?
The Australian interactive games industry has developed substantially over the last ten years and this growth has created opportunities of employment for game developers and publishers, writers and designers in game art.
The Australian Writers' Guild is at the forefront of these industrial developments recognising the need for representation and education in interactive writing. The Guild's…
Submitted by karin hannigan
The competition is on! A chance to take your idea for a computer game and develop it to the next level, as well as pitch it to industry professionals and win some money. Basically what we're on about is putting the basics of good, solid story back into games.
Just click on the hot button for Writing for Games on the Fantastic Queensland website
www.fantasticqueensland.com
Sorry to interstate folks. Because it's funded by Arts Queensland it's for Queensland residents…
Nocturnal has just released Catapult v1.41.4, the latest version of their Game Boy Advance(tm) development system / middleware. The latest version includes new GBA compression support (custom RLE, ADPCM, etc..), support for a user-defined sound cache, improved GBA display compatibility and much more.
In all, there are more than 100 improvements over the previous release.
A freeware version can be downloaded from Nocturnal's website, and includes several games with complete source, the latest…
From AustralianIT...
VICTORIA'S bid to become the nation's games capital will be given a boost tomorrow with the official opening of the national centre for games development.
The Australian Games Innovations Centre, to be opened by Victorian ICT Minister Marsha Thomson, will play host to an educational centre, peak industry body the Game Developers Association of Australia and showcase for games innovation...
"This national games hub is designed to attract more industry leaders and developers…
Fuzzyeyes Studios
Fuzzyeyes Studio is proud to present the latest Hotdogs Hotgals game trailer..
http://www.fuzzyeyes.com/hotdogs/images/gameplay_online(final).mov http://www.fuzzyeyes.com/hotdogs/images/webversion240.avi
HotDogs HotGals is a Strategy/Simulation game from Fuzzyeyes Studios. The primary objective of this game is to manage and dominate the fast food industry city by city until the players' chain of stores dominates the country. Using beautiful franchise girls as the primary…
Red Tribe was founded by veteran game developer and entrepreneur Chris Mosely. Red Tribe will be at E3 and is able to meet with suitable applicants. Please see our website for the relevant job postings.
Red Tribe is Australia's fastest growing game development studio. The studio is a developer of AAA quality games focusing on the highest production values and entertainment experiences.
The company works with some of the world's largest publishers across all skus.
