Late last year, Melbourne developer Endgame Studios wrote about the long and troubled history behind their 2D platform shooter, Fractured Soul, and the difficulty they endured to get it onto store shelves. If you don't know the entire backstory then read their blog entry here or read our summary to fill yourselves in.
Let's just say that it's been quite a challenging seven years to get Fractured Soul released, one that's been fraught with a variety of issues. Endgame Studios ended their…
Apple's latest iPad offering has at least two local games developers excited about the prospects for their upcoming games on the new hardware. Smartcompany.com.au has the responses of two of Australia's leading mobile games developers on the new Ipad and both have remarked on its stand-out 2048 x 1536 pixel screen resolution and what it means for their games.
For Firemint CEO, Rob Murray, even testing for their new retina-enabled iPad games brings about an unusual challenge. From Smartcompany.…
Last year at the 2011 Game Developer Conference, Game Audio Australia's Mick Gordon tried something quite unusual. He approached fellow conference attendees to make any sound they wished into a microphone which he recorded. Some grunted, whilst others moaned or screamed. These sounds were collected and used to create a track called "Voices of Devs" which is unlike any heard before. Every sound in the song is created from human voices...
(Mick Gordon) Absolutely everything you hear in this track…
I seek to contract an experienced Flash/AIR programmer to do a full evaluation of a game project in a polished proof-of-concept state. The first, guaranteed phase of the contract would be to evaluate the code and give an estimate of the time it would take for a programmer to expand on the project and add more mini-apps to the game system platform. I reckon this phase would take several full-time days or more. This may result in a second, long-term phase in which the same person would actually…
somewhat random, got up to speed with SDL (simple media layer) to see what it could do for me to make my life easier, also rewrote my game engine to be a lot more generic and support unittest.
grey image is having fun bluring the depth buffer then using it in a shader to make drop shadows, opengl
black image is a javascript prototype exploring some of the solutions euflorias uses to make a single touch rts work
http://www.davidcoen.au.com/prototype014.html
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As Game On enters its sixth year as the penultimate provider of all things game making on the Queensland indie scene, we get all reflective and examine the influence of the industry on the cultural zeitgeist. We discus monsters, zombies, cyberpunk and the apocalypse and ponder life’s big questions in a year of wide ranging talks about how us gamers and game makers do what we do …
AND, returning this year, We bring you a very special supporting series to our 2012…
Congratulations are definitely in order for Halfbrick on achieving the #2 position in Apple's Top 25 All-Time Paid Apps list with their immensley popular Fruit Ninja game. As part of Apple's 25 billion apps downloaded promotion, the lists published by Apple showcase the most successful apps to ever hit the App Store for both paid and free categories, and for both the iPhone and iPad.
In the coveted Top 25 All-Time Paid Apps iPhone list, Rovio's Angry Birds takes the #1 spot, followed by Fruit…
Melbourne indie developers, Walk Through the Clock, have laid down the smack on fellow Melbourne-based games developers, Kumobius. After a highly successful thread on Reddit with nearly a thousand 'upvotes' to promote their two-year-in-development platformer game, Beans Quest, Kumobious has been challenged by Walk Through the Clock for a bout of VIOLENT ARMED COMBAT.
You see, Walk Through the Clock have finished their own indie game, the very polished Call Connect, however it didn't receive…
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) launched their games business incubator program to turn games development students into entrepreneurs late last year, and if there's any proof that they're taking things seriously, the AIE have flown their incubator students to the Games Developers' Conference (GDC) to experience the process of pitching their games and creating valuable industry contacts. It's a path well taken by many local games developers and start-ups over the years, so it's…
