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.
Sneaky Bastards: The Stealth Gaming Blog is proud to be partnering with Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) and iFEST: The Independent Games Festival to launch Stealthjam: The World’s First Global Stealth Game Jam in Sydney!
Stealthjam is a 48-hour Game Jam in which participants will design, prototype and explore new avenues of stealth gameplay.
The Global Stealth Game Jam will kick off in Sydney, where Sneaky Bastards and AIE staff will host Stealthjam from the 22nd to the 24th of June…
The Greenlight Summit: May 21-27 2012- 100 Industry Leader's Presentations, Greenlight Pitch Sessions, Master Classes, the most important online training and networking event in the business.
Just a reminder for everyone that one of THE biggest events for games developers this year commences Monday, next week! No matter what kind of artist, designer, creative, or if you have any business in the the arts and entertainment industries (Games, film, toys, web, social, mobile, comics, interactive,…
For iOS games developers hoping to crack it into the top 25 downloads list on Apple's App Store, these stats may prove a little bit disheartening. Distimo have completed their research on the US iTunes App Store for April 2012, and the results have shown how disproportionally popular and competitive the games section is when compared to all the other categories available.
The charts by Distimo show that games developers will have to achieve roughly seven times the amount of daily downloads…
Games developers!! If you haven't checked out our Developer Services page, I highly recommend having a look to see what's available. We've got some really incredible world class locally-based audio services listed there, and all of them want to work with you! They include:
Emily Industries (Brütal Legend, Costume Quest, BioShock)
Kpow Audio (LA Noire, The Banner Saga)
Resonance array (original music for Terraria)
...and a whole lot more. They're all great. Feel free to listen to a whole bunch…
Flat Earth Games, a new indie games developer based in Sydney are working on a project which will please any of you who thoroughly enjoyed playing Civilization, Transport Tycoon, or Lightspeed in the 90's. The guys behind Flat Earth Games, Rohan and Leigh Harris, grew up playing those titles and they're planning to bring the exploration and crafting gameplay of those titles back with an added touch of building and strategy to their game mix.
(Rohan Harris) “These things have always held a…
As one of the more prominent indie developers in Australia, Melbourne-based Brawsome probably get a whole lot of questions from graduates and start-up hopefuls thrown at them on how they went about figuring out all this indie development stuff.
Founder and chief Brawsome guy, Andrew Goulding, has seen fit to write a highly informative response to the latest enquiry on their business model, how they approached marketing, and their decisions and strategies with the hopes of sharing this valuable…
Since the release of Team Bondi's L.A Noire last year, Hollywood has decided to respond by bringing 40's period crime drama back to our screens in a HUGE way, one year on.
First off, there's Frank Darabont who is currently developing a TV series called L.A Noir for 2012. While it has no connection to Team Bondi's game despite having a near identical title, could it be that the famed Green Mile and The Shawshank Redemption director was more than a little bit influenced by L.A Noire before taking…
Fresh from the announcement of his new mobile game development studio one month ago, games industry veteran and ex-Halfbrick Studios developer, Tony Takoushi, discusses the main concern for all iOS developers - Apple's App Store is way too crowded, and it's getting increasingly difficult to get your title noticed.
Tony's new studio, Total Arkade studios, launched their first game release, a word-based action puzzler called AbraWordabra, to consistently positive reviews with an average score of…
The early bird offer for Gametech (19 & 20 June, Sydney Luna Park) ends this Friday 18 May, so if you have not already booked your tickets you will save up to $200 if you do so by 5pm Friday.
Gametech is the only event convening all segments of the interactive entertainment space – these are 2 days you and your team cannot afford to miss, therefore when registering 3 delegates you can send a 4th delegate for free.
Quote code ASO10 to save a further 10% of the early bird ticket price!
How to…
Stephan Schutze's phenomenal Sound Librarian is a high quality audio resource for any form of media production or for educational purposes. It's quite an expansive catalog of sound effect libraries which has been licensed by the likes of Electronic Arts who have it available for use in their entire studio chain worldwide.
Stephan has been an incredible supporter and member of the local independent games development community, and the fantastic news coming out this week is that due to the…
