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…
Startupsmart.com.au reports that Federal Arts Minister, Simon Crean, will make the case for extending the 40% producer tax rebate enjoyed by the films sector to the games industry to the expenditure review committee before the next budget. The 40% producer tax rebate was successful in securing film productions such as Happy Feet Two and The Great Gatsby and it's hoped to spark similar revitalising activity for local games developers.
Startupsmart reveals that the 40% tax rebate for games…
DATE: THURSDAY 1ST DECEMBER 2011
TIME: 4:00PM TO 7:00PM
LOCATION: Level 8 / 14 Queens Road
Melbourne VIC 3004
FACEBOOK: www.FaceBook.com/AIEmelbourne
The Graduate Showcase event will be held on Thursday 1st December from 4 - 7pm at the AIE Melbourne Campus.
Graduates will be showcasing their work and will be available to discuss their projects to everyone.
We would like to invite our colleagues in the industry as well as members of the public to come along to the AIE Melbourne campus and…
Some great news for the local games industry with a new studio opening up today in Canberra. Dreamgate Studios is founded and managed by industry veterans with a combined 40 years of experience, and they are focussing on self funded development and publishing, as well as projects and specialised jobs for industry and non-industry clients. The studio says it will be concentrating on a long term strategy with a strong focus on its employees with a greater company culture and team environment…
There are small time patent trolls like Tim Langdell who are a minor annoyance for developers in the games industry, and then there are patent trolls like Lodsys who are a considerable force to be concerned about.
While the likes of Tim can easily be avoided (particularly since Tim has lost his trademark on the word 'Edge'), what do you do when you're hit with a patent infringement from a considerably powerful and notorious patent troll, Lodsys, for very common app functionality like in-app…
AIE lecturer and former Blue Tongue animator, Kate Inabinet, will be facing some serious life threatening challenges if restrictions on certain forms of medication goes ahead. Kate is a mother and cancer survivor. After the removal of her thyroid, she was subscribed Levothyroxine, a synthetic thyroid replacement hormone. Levothyroxine caused her disastrous symptoms and considerable pain as her body reacted adversely by producing thyroid antibodies...
(Kate) By the eighth week every last…
