Gamasutra has a wrap up of the 2004 Australian Game Developers Conference, including an interview with Jason Rubin, co-founder and former president of Naughty Dog on increased production costs and the EA Spouse letter The article also writes about what was on display at the floor, and the developers awards festivities...
Attending the Australian Game Developers Conference is a bit like taking a trip back in time. Walking around the Melbourne Convention Center, it suddenly becomes obvious that…
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The Adelaide Film Festival will again offer an extensive program of public forums and workshops including a workshop by the wonder boys of British animation Shynola who will share their creative and practical approaches to creating and then successfully pitching concepts.
Acclaimed for their promos and music videos and currently working on the animation for the upcoming feature film Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy, this is a unique opportunity to explore Shynola's…
Gridwerx is currently looking for budding artists, game designers, writers and programmers to work with us on an after-hours basis (as our team has "bread an butter" jobs in the day time to pay the bills) to develop a prototype to pitch at next year's Australian Game Developer's Conference in December 2005 with a view to getting publisher funding to develop a full commercial release.
Gridwerx Genesis (Working Title), a first person action sci-fi RPG thriller which immerses the player in a…
Hazard has just posted the news of the redesigned Kalescent website which looks very nice indeed! Some very impressive screenshots posted there as well, with the promise of an updated gallery appearing very shortly.
Also making news at Kalescent studios is their hand in working with Perception on the upcoming Stargate title..
"Stargate-SG1 : The Alliance
Kalescent Studios is proud to announce that we have entered into an agreement to work with Perception PTY Ltd. on the upcoming Stargate SG-1…
Licensed from Viacom Consumer Products, Jumbuck has created two games based on the cult classic series, titled Star Trek - The Birds of Prey and Star Trek -The Cold Enemy. Designed to appeal to Star Trek fans and gamers of all ages, the series has been brought to life in these two games, each featuring varying strategy, action and skill levels.
Awarded 8.9 out of a possible 10 on Wireless Gaming Review (WGR), Star Trek: The Birds of Prey was praised by Steve Palley, WGR Editor and Reviewer, as…
December 12th 2004, Jumbuck Entertainment today announced the release of two new thrilling wireless games, based on Star Trek: The Original Series.
Licensed from Viacom Consumer Products, Jumbuck has created two games based on the cult classic series, titled Star Trek - The Birds of Prey and Star Trek -The Cold Enemy. Designed to appeal to Star Trek fans and gamers of all ages, the series has been brought to life in these two games, each featuring varying strategy, action and skill levels.…
Twelve leading interactive game industry organisations and the Academy of Interactive Entertainment today announced a jointly funded industry placements program as part of new initiatives in the AIE 2005 curriculum at the Australian Game Developers Conference held in Melbourne.
AIE's Head of School, Canberra, Mr Ian Gibson said "We're responding to industry demand and offering our own graduate employment program in conjunction with key developers in the games and 3D industries.
Twelve leading…
Here are the results for the Australian Game Developers Conference 2004 Awards. Congratulations and well done to everyone on behalf of Sumea :)
WINNERS
? Career Achievement Award - John De Margheriti, Micro Fort?
? Award for Outstanding Innovation - Andrew Bailey, Tantalus. For Contribution to the Tantalus CRIS GBA Game Engine
? Award for Outstanding Industry Contribution - No Recipient
? Award for Best New Start-Up - Binary Star Limited
? Award for Best Game of 2004 - Tribes: Vengeance,…
Redwyre is having a mini coding competition for you programmers out there. Up for stakes is a copy of Full Spectrum Warrior for the Xbox!
From the forum..
Ok, here's the challenge: Demonstrate the best use of the STL. This will be in the form of a simple program that does a small task while taking advantage of the STL. Here is an example that reads white-space delimed input into a vector: (see link at the end of this news item)
Programs will be judged on code size (smaller is better), code…
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Venue: Festival Club
Thurs 9th Dec 6.00 pm
Hosts Mick Gordon of Lava Injection Studios, Luke Ilett and anyone who wants to play!
Much is made of the disappearance of the fourth wall in the game design field, you know, the bit that frets folk about 'active violence' : .. but what about the fifth wall? Audio so matters, from the creepy creaks in system shock to the rock and roll mayhem backdrop of GTA vice city ?
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