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.
Sorry Canberra, you now have one less indie studio based in your territory. Irrational Games co-founder, Jonathan Chey, has made the move with his new indie studio to the fine city of Sydney. Things are getting a bit more serious for the Card Hunter developer as they're also busily setting up an actual studio too. From the latest entry in their blog...
Yeah, there's a bit of spare room in here at the moment, but hopefully we'll be adding some more people as the year goes by. That's Ben there…
When: Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Where: The Arthouse Hotel
275 Pitt Street
Bits & Pieces is a night of playtesting games, swapping game development war stories and chilling at the Arthouse Hotel!
NOTE: This time we are downstairs in the larger Gallery Bar! We even get a stage :)
Never been to a Bits & Pieces before? Upstair Studios did a fantastic job capturing the feel of the event: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3GFRQQqhvQ
More details and RSVP at the Meetup group here: http://www.meetup.…
Letsmakegames have announced the return of What's Up Pitches?!, their lightning paced 3-minute game dev presentation pitching event, for 2012. New for this year is the Video Pitch. If you can't attend What's Up Pitches?! in person because you're located remotely or out-of-state but you'd like to pitch to the Perth games development community, then here's your chance to still get involved. Simply register at Letsmakegames.org then send the organisers the video link of your pitch and you're set…
IGDA Brisbane is making a call for expressions of interests for a new Freeplay inspired event called Foreplay to Freeplay. They've locked in one day for the event with a possibility of making it run for an extra day, but they want your input for any ideas or suggestions you may have, or if you're interested in taking part in any way...
At the moment we plan a couple of local Game Dev speakers and a whole slew of short sharp challenges, possibly some workshops and definately an opportunity to…
A sculpture I did for the Diablo III Portrait of a Champion contest. It's a female wizard character from the game.
This isn't a digital model created in 3D software, I used super sculpey clay, wire, foil and apoxie sculpt. You can see progress of the sculpture here: http://www.elisemartinson.com/process/week-diablo-iii-sculpture-challen…
Thanks for looking!
-Elise
PS: If you like it please give it some love by liking it on the official competition site: http://www01.reveal.diablo3.com/en_US/…
Based of Diablo concept art
Modeled in Maya. The screen shot is taken from Maya. Used some Zbrush for the trees normal map and Crazy Bump for the rest of the normal maps. There are 4 texture maps all 1024 each. Could probably atlas them into one 2048. There is also one 2048 Lightmap.
More at my portfolio - blakedwan.weebly.com
cheers
Special "Elements of Games" session on WRITING for Games
Date: Wednesday May 9th
Time: 5.00 - 6.00
Venue: the glasshouse CIP, KG [Musk Av, Kelvin Grove - Z2 level 4 - take the big blue lift to the top :]
Featuring our own very adored Leanne Taylor. Leanne has a whole slew of game writing credits under her belt and is one of our most articulate commentators on the business of writing for games. Come and learn about her craft at this special Game On session.
and stay for:
Panel Presentation:…
Melbourne, Australia - Games for Gummie today is pleased to introduce Shuriken Chicken 1.0 for iOS, their new, stylized, side scroller game where players control a ninja chicken. All backgrounds, objects, and characters are made from hand cut felt, then photographed for use in the game. There are several 2D animated layers, as the black clad chicken with a red comb tries to run as far as possible, leaping over or sliding under obstacles, and bouncing off trampolines and springboards. He…
Well, it was only released yesterday for the iOS platform, but you may have noticed that Defiant Development's latest release, Ski Safari, is featured in the "New and Noteworthy" section on Apple's Appstore. It's also game of the week in the US which is excellent news and most deserving for such an incredibly fun and finely polished title.
Ski Safari, developed by Brendan Watts and Shaun Eustace, started as a tech prototype back in October last year before it was entered in the Unity Flash in…
