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Sumea Update August 2005

  • In my first and previous post in this game dev log entry, I had written that I wanted to do a game which was a collection of simple retro games. Unity released a new major release (2019.3) while I was putting the initial project together, and I…

  • Well, I'm making a game . I'm spending the next few weeks on making a small game to showcase the gamedev log feature on tsumea where any member can create a game entry and other members can post journal posts with art, music or just development…

  • Just a test #2. Still working on the new section.

  • So, I got a Commodore 64 when I was in the 4th grade. It came bundled with a Rolf Harris picture building program on casette tape which never loaded properly but from what I could tell by its box cover, you could build pictures from a selection…

  • Yes, the site looks very different and I've had to prematurely switch to this new theme that I'm working on for a few reasons, the main one is that changing certain aspects of the site to fit the new theme will affect how the old one looks for…

  • (this is just a test, please ignore this entry)

    Here is some of my old work.. the first pic is of a 3d model of a human head I was working on about 2 years ago in 3dsmax, using nurbs. If I had to do it again, I wouldn't model a head with…

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Submitted by souri on
Forum

New plans for Sumea

Sumea Newstation
On the way to developing the Sumea Industry Timeline (which is going to use a mix of xml, asp, flash, and database action), I found some more nifty things to do for Sumea.

A new page on Sumea will be Sumea Newstation. Consider it a rss feed reader on Sumea. It'll grab all the latest headlines from tonnes of games and other news websites, and you'll be able to customize your news page. You can see a work in progress at:

http://www.sumea.com.au/snewsstation.swf

It's in its extremely early stages, but it IS working [;)] Other plans will include it spotting some keywords such as Australian/NZ games and developers and for it to automatically submit news onto Sumea.

My news searching days are nearly over, hurrah!

Sumea Creative Worldwide
I'm planning on opening up Sumea Journals to a world wide audience. It'll be a world wide creative haven for artists and programmers!

The main site will still be covering local content, but the journals will be international with a new subsite on it and hopefully accessed from journals.sumea.com.au. I'll be making the journals a bit prettier and making a lot of adjustments to cater the rest of the world and making it more user friendly, so this won't be appearing over night. Tonnes of other ideas planned to make Journals better. There'll most likely be an international section in the forum as well.

Sumea Timeline
Ok, I'm making another Sumea special page. This will be the Australian/NZ Industry Milestones Chart Timeline. It'll basically be a funky graphic chart listing some of the major milestones achieved in the local industry. It'll be tied to Sumea's database of games releases so we should automatically see a tonne of games listed in the chart. I may have to do this as an interactive Flash movie to cover the ideas I'm having.

It'll include things like when certain studios were created or shut down, dates of when all the great games were released from Exploding Fist to the latest Destroy All Humans! (and the sales numbers to go with it). Other things listed should include the first Free Play conference, when Sumea, the AIE and Qantm came, when Citizen Zero first started development , other trivia and anything else of importance.

If you think there's something that definately should be on that list, please post it in this thread. Accurate dates and info would be appreciated too!

Sumea Salary Survey
Should Sumea start an annual industry salary survey? All submissions would be confidential (anonymous, but you'll have to write down who you work for), and conducted anytime on Sumea.

Submitted by MoonUnit on Wed, 27/07/05 - 2:02 AM Permalink

Heh reminds me when i used to work for gamebiz, we essentially had a folder in our bookmark lists which we (the news team) would scour daily for interesting articles. That can take a loooooong time, so i feel your pain :P Good luck with this project!

Posted by souri on
Forum

New plans for Sumea

Sumea Newstation
On the way to developing the Sumea Industry Timeline (which is going to use a mix of xml, asp, flash, and database action), I found some more nifty things to do for Sumea.

A new page on Sumea will be Sumea Newstation. Consider it a rss feed reader on Sumea. It'll grab all the latest headlines from tonnes of games and other news websites, and you'll be able to customize your news page. You can see a work in progress at:

http://www.sumea.com.au/snewsstation.swf

It's in its extremely early stages, but it IS working [;)] Other plans will include it spotting some keywords such as Australian/NZ games and developers and for it to automatically submit news onto Sumea.

My news searching days are nearly over, hurrah!

Sumea Creative Worldwide
I'm planning on opening up Sumea Journals to a world wide audience. It'll be a world wide creative haven for artists and programmers!

The main site will still be covering local content, but the journals will be international with a new subsite on it and hopefully accessed from journals.sumea.com.au. I'll be making the journals a bit prettier and making a lot of adjustments to cater the rest of the world and making it more user friendly, so this won't be appearing over night. Tonnes of other ideas planned to make Journals better. There'll most likely be an international section in the forum as well.

Sumea Timeline
Ok, I'm making another Sumea special page. This will be the Australian/NZ Industry Milestones Chart Timeline. It'll basically be a funky graphic chart listing some of the major milestones achieved in the local industry. It'll be tied to Sumea's database of games releases so we should automatically see a tonne of games listed in the chart. I may have to do this as an interactive Flash movie to cover the ideas I'm having.

It'll include things like when certain studios were created or shut down, dates of when all the great games were released from Exploding Fist to the latest Destroy All Humans! (and the sales numbers to go with it). Other things listed should include the first Free Play conference, when Sumea, the AIE and Qantm came, when Citizen Zero first started development , other trivia and anything else of importance.

If you think there's something that definately should be on that list, please post it in this thread. Accurate dates and info would be appreciated too!

Sumea Salary Survey
Should Sumea start an annual industry salary survey? All submissions would be confidential (anonymous, but you'll have to write down who you work for), and conducted anytime on Sumea.


Submitted by MoonUnit on Wed, 27/07/05 - 2:02 AM Permalink

Heh reminds me when i used to work for gamebiz, we essentially had a folder in our bookmark lists which we (the news team) would scour daily for interesting articles. That can take a loooooong time, so i feel your pain :P Good luck with this project!