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.
In conjunction with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Screen Australia is offering travel grants of up to $2,500 for producers with advanced projects to attend the upcoming Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) Frames Convention in Mumbai, 14–16 March 2012.
Frames is a three-day event for broadcast, digital entertainment, animation and gaming with nearly 2,000 Indian and 800 foreign delegates expected to attend.
Television, animation or documentary producers…
Magnetar Games has brought back Auran's popular 1997 RTS game, Dark Reign: The Future of War. The Canadian based developer made a deal to remake the game with publishing giant, Activision, to produce an accurate remake for the Xbox 360 console. It seems they had encounter a small hitch with bringing it to the Xbox Live Marketplace, but it looks to be all sorted out now...
(Magnetar Games) We have worked out a deal with Activision to remake the game. The art assets are fully authorized. The…
Game developers now have access to the freelance design and music services of one of the industry's most experienced game designers and musicians, Adrian Moore.
With over twenty years experience working in the games industry Adrian has worked on some classic and extremely well known games. He also boasts impressive experience in the commercial recording industry working with artists such as Sade, Seal and Pearl Jam.
He began his games industry experience in 1988 in the small Guildford offices…
DSO Gaming has confirmed that this cloudy video production is of Stalker Online running on the BigWorld Tech engine. Stalker Online isn't related to the S.T.A.L.K.E.R ip, mind you, and has been worked on by another game developer entirely for quite some time. And while there are plenty of Stalker Online videos available for viewing on places like youtube, this particular new video stands out for its leap in visual aesthetics for the game, despite being filmed off another monitor.
Most…
We're looking for a unity visual FXs specialist for a short term contract that has the potential to grow into a long term position.
The ideal candidate would have detailed knowledge and experience working with the unity particle system to create visual FXs. Both scripting and art are required.
Please send your job request to chris@redtribe.com
This coming weekend will be a huge milestone for games development as many around the world are prepping up for the biggest Global Game Jam event ever. If you're in Melbourne, in the game sector or media, and you're eager to check out what Melbourne developers come up with at this year's GGJ then you'll definitely be interested in the GGJ Melbourne awards presentation + BBQ and drinks event organised for this Sunday by IGDA Melbourne. You will need to let organiser Giselle know that you're…
Cubemen is an original game that melds some of the core principles of Tower Defense and Realtime Strategy genres.
It’s the age old struggle between Good vs Bad, Blue vs Red, Little men vs Little men.
Use your own little Cubemen to defend your base from other little Cubemen that are trying to run it over. It’s the usual story, but with many very interesting twists.
Play a purely defense game in various modes on a sweet selection of levels, or go into Skirmish mode and play a new type of TD game…
Long time friend and hugely talented, Chris from Fraktalvoids, is holding the launch party of his new ios / Android game called Speed Blazers at the Mana Bar in Melbourne this Friday. Come help the developers celebrate by joining in with some drinks, developer chats, small competitions, and hands-on play of their new fantastic mobile game. All the details are on the flyer!
I love guns what can I say,
Made this for fun, real time screen grab.
Also made a low res version for fun.
The high res one is 2000 tris, the low res is 350 tris.
Has a fully working action and also a removable magazine.
Full res can be seen here http://mikeclephane.com/images/tommy.png
Available for freelance: http://www.mikeclephane.com/
