HomelanFed has an interview with Brendan Mathews on all thiings about Destroy All Humans!, the B-movie themed console game under development at Pandemic Studios in Brisbane.
"After our last project, we were fishing for ideas for our next title. The Lead Designer on that project came up with the title, and the basic ideas for the game were really fleshed out in one email thread we still have saved for posterity on our intranet. The pitch pretty much wrote itself, the title and the B-movies on…
The Age has an article on game development education in Australia, which is burgoning along with the successful growth of the industry. The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) is mentioned as the forunner in the field, as more opportunities for students to study game development crop up through new courses...
"The Academy of Interactive Entertainment has become the leader in gaming education since opening in Canberra in 1996. More than 60 per cent of its 400 graduates are employed in…
Submitted by Binary Star
Auckland based video game developer Binary Star require a talented 3DS MAX (procedural) texture artist to work on their exciting Xbox and PC action adventure title, "Homeland".
If interested please email your resume to info@binary-star.com
The Games Development Teaching - An Industry-Education Forum is brought to you by the Game Developers' Association of Australia, and supported by Multimedia Victoria.
The purpose of the Forum is to bring together industry and education to share current information and knowledge about Victoria's electronic games industry.
The objective is to improve the skills base of the industry, and expand Victoria's electronic games industry.
The Forum runs over 3 days - October 19, 20 and 21, 2004. It will…
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AGDC has opened earlybird registration, and also put up a tentative conference schedule, including speakers and events such as the Big Party Night.
Pricing seems to be about the same as last year:
3-Day full delegate $800 (earlybird)
3-Day student delegate $250 (earlybird)
XboxWorld has an interview with Krome Studio's John Passfield on Ty the Tasmanian Tiger 2 : Bush Rescue! John reveals how much bigger the sequel is to the original Ty game, from the world size, number of characters, missions, dialogue lines, to the many minigames and other improvements.
John also comments on the challenges and the future of the local industry....
"Being independent in Australia is very tough. Robert Walsh, our CEO, has spent more time overseas this year than he has at home.…
Lead Designer, Paul McInnes, has made a post in the official Citizen Zero forums about character progression in Micro Forte's MMORPG called Citizen Zero. You'll find out about
attributes, techniques, implants, experience, and many other things that concern levelling up and skills in the game...
"OK, the core character progression system in CZ will be very familiar to anyone who has played MMOGs or similar RPG games. To advance your character you earn xp. Accumulate enough and you gain a level.…
Hello again! this is TyKeiL with the info.
The first one was a sucess now time to see if it can continue.
Date:
Sunday 26th September 2004 between 3pm and 6pm
Inquiry details:
Myself: samuelnicholas@airnet.com.au
Location:
SQ restaurant and lounge
55-67 Hindmarsh Square
Adelaide 5000
South Australia
T: 08 8412 3397
F: 08 8412 3344
E: sq.adelaide@pacificint.com.au
please email me or post in this thread: http://forum.sumean.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=2327
saying that you are coming so the venue can…
Irrational Games and Vivendi Universal are releasing a single player demo of Tribes: Vengeance sometime tomorrow. The demo will contain one mission from the game and Gamespot GLX get first dibs at hosting the demo file, which is reported at 374mb.
In other Tribes news, TribesEd (beta), the Tribes: Vengeance map editor, has been made available for download for those of you who want to get in early at making your own maps for T:V..
