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.
The Global Game Jam is on! For 48 hours over the weekend of Jan 27-29 a group of over 100 game designers, developers and artists - both amateur and professional - will come together for an intensive Jam Session, forming small creative teams to design and prototype innovative game ideas.
Registration for the 2012 Global Game Jam is underway, allowing interested people to secure their spot at one of the many locations worldwide. This will mark the fourth year of the event, which brings together…
Well, I hope you've all enjoyed our video coverage of this year's phenomenal GCAP conference. We captured 50 gigs of raw data, compressed it down and uploaded all 12+ hours of footage on to youtube. Thankfully, Google had upgraded our youtube account for hour long videos so we didn't need to chop each session into pieces and manage them into playlist's like we had to previously.
While we did manage to get over 12 hours of footage, it represents only a tiny fraction of what the conference had…
The Aussie App Sale kicks off this weekend! For the holiday season, many Aussie app developers will be dropping the cost of their apps down to a measly 99 cents for an entire month. If you ever wanted to check out some home grown apps, this is the place to be.
There's a whole variety of apps to grab from there, with productive applications that cover photography, property, TV guides, gamebooks to music tappers. And there are plenty of awesome games from local games developers too.
Tin Man…
After a month on hiatus, due to exams, I've created a new episode of Designer's Playbook. In this episode I focus on Halo: CE Anniversary.
The key topics I look at in this episode are:
- Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey.
- Its application to the story structure of Halo: CE Anniversary.
I hope you enjoy the show and feedback is always appreciated. YouTube link: http://youtu.be/6PGj8BDwTuE
An anniversary painting, marking one year since I first posted on my DeviantART account. The woman is my original character, Venella "The Vulture" Bonnet, a warlock set in Blizzard's Warcraft universe.
In a feature at the Financial Review, Mad Max and Happy Feet director, George Mlller, says that if the 40% tax rebate for games is given the green light in Australia, he can start the production of two big games here right away. He lists one of the titles as the long rumoured game adaptation of the new Mad Max film which was originally planned for development in Sweden until Miller saw what Team Bondi was capable of with L.A Noire.
The other title is Whore of the Orient, a previously…
