Of course, the sensible thing would be to use an existing game engine, but after a certain point, there is some curiosity if learning and fighting yet another game engine is really quicker that just writing something from scratch.
Great news for everyone who couldn't make it to Game Masters exhibition launch in Melbourne last week and envied all the tweets and heightened activity happening during the Game Masters : The Forum. The two-day forum was host to a whole bunch of developer talks and panel discussions including one to one conversations with international developer superstars, Warren Spector and Tim Schafer.
The panel discussions involved some of the local games developer greats on a range of interesting topics…
PlaySide Studios, a new Melbourne based mobile games developer consisting of former Visceral Games Melbourne employees, have announced their first game, Catch The Ark.
Catch The Ark aims to push the endless-runner genre further, so expect fast paced obstacle dodging and a whole bunch of coin collecting, as well as some mini-bosses and dangerous creatures thrown in the mix as well. The visuals are coming along extremely nicely too and the game features three cute characters who command a raft in…
Mark Serrels has written up a great piece for Kotaku AU on Disparity Games, a new indie games start-up created by former Krome Studios employees, Jason and Nicole Stark.
After the collapse of Krome Studios in 2010 and finding himself going through another studio closure with KMM Games in Brisbane, Jason Stark had some rather tough decisions to make on where to go next.
The available options were few, but unlike some of his colleagues, he decided against packing up the family and moving…
At 23 weeks pregnant, a scan on Brianna Hammond's unborn child revealed an abnormality with her baby's heart. Diagnosed with Pulmonary Atresia with VSD (in layman's terms a closed vessel and a hole in the heart), Brianna's child will need immediate life-saving postnatal surgery. Independent game developer Samuel Cartwright has banded together with other local game developers to create Games for Growing a Broken Heart, a series of mobile games to raise funds for the Hammond family.
Brianna's…
True Blue Entertainment have announced Rugby League Live 2 today and it looks fantastic! The newly released screenshots of it show off some really detailed and customisable player models, weather effects (where mud stains will stick on player's uniforms), all set in some very scenic looking stadiums too.
Rugby League Live 2 promises an "innovative new gameplay experience, accurately capturing the speed, creativity and strategy of today’s Rugby league" and it's being developed by Melbourne's Big…
Saturday 14 July - Creative Industries Precinct
Sunday 15 July - QANTM College Brisbane
WHERE: The Block & The Glasshouse, Creative Industries Precinct and QANTM College Brisbane
WHEN: 14 - 15 July
TIME: 10am - 4pm
TICKETS: Free | Register now (RSVP essential)
CONTACT: ciprecinct@qut.edu.au
Download the Symposium program of events* (pdf, 201 kb)
Join us for the first Game On Symposium: Foreplay to Freeplay (423) for a full-weekend program including guest speakers, design challenges and…
When and Where:
Canberra - 1 July
Canberra Technology Park
49 Phillip Ave
Watson ACT
Melbourne - Sat 7 July
State Library of Victoria
Experimedia Room
328 Swanston Street
Melbourne VIC 3000
Sydney - Sun 8 July
Wentworth Park Grandstand
Wentworth Park Rd
Ultimo NSW
The iFEST 2012 indie games festival is kicking off this Sunday in Canberra, so if you haven't registered already, please do so now! The Canberra iFEST Program is available and they've got a bunch of interesting sessions available…
In November 2011, Digitallydownloaded.net gave Star Hammer Tactics on the iPad a glowing review with a four out of five star rating. Fast forward half a year later and you won't find it any longer in Apple's App Store, and the developer behind it is no longer working on games. What happened?
Black Lab Games was founded in 2009 by Paul Turbett, a Perth based games developer with 20 years of software development, most of which is in games development. He previously founded Silver Lightning…
Congratulations to Bubble Gum Interactive for securing a second round of investment of $2.5 million which will go towards further developing their virtual universe game for kids, Little Space Heroes.
From Bubble Gum Interactive CEO, Phil Mason…
(Phil) Little Space Heroes is experiencing incredible growth with tens of thousands of kids playing every day from over 80 countries. Closing our second round so quickly was a dream run, with plenty of capital to invest in rapidly establishing Little…
The original and incredibly inspiring Where the Hell is Matt video (which has since been removed but can be seen below) caused quite a sensation on youtube ever since it was uploaded way back in 2005. We made a post about it on Sumea since its creator, Matt Harding, was actually a former employee of Pandemic Studios in Brisbane and the amusing dancing jig he does throughout the video was something he routinely did in front of other workmates as he waited impatiently on them before they headed…
