At the closing of the Studio doors on Wednesday 10th August 2011, I had been with THQ Studio Australia since the very beginning.
In mid 2002 I was working in the London animation industry but my wife and I couldn’t stand the thought of another long cold winter and decided to return home to Brisbane by the end of the year. The TV animation scene in Brisbane at the time was ok but this whole new industry had sprung up, games, and it was thriving. If you wanted a stable long term job with decent…
Now You Can Take the Mark of the Year on your iPhone!
Specky has hit the app store today, grab it will its still 50% off.
Here's the link:
http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/specky-mark-of-the-year/id458244379?mt=8
An interesting article over at Arstechnica covers the ongoing trend of games industry veterans making the move into independent games development. Indie development has been seen as a highly attractive alternative for many of these developers who have been through the drudge of studio acquisitions and the changes in company culture, the heartache of working on game titles spanning many years that eventually get cancelled, the lack of any support from the publisher to market the games they've…
When: 12 September · 7:30pm - 20:30pm
Where:
The Goody
75 Goodwood Road
Goodwood, South Australia
Adelaide's Really Good Gathering of Game developers (ARGGG) are having their 6th meetup in September when the weather is warm, and where schnitzel specials and beers can be had at The Goody. Come along to see and chat with Adelaide's finest games developers, and bring your laptops to show off your work as well.
From the ARGGG Facebook page...
Well we are up to Adelaide's Really Good Gathering of…
It's certainly been a long wait for a new original title by the studio that brought us Flight Control and Real Racing, but Melbourne based developers, Firemint, have released their long awaited new title, Spy Mouse. It's been two years in the making, and as you can see, it boasts some incredibly beautiful and stylish art, typically appropriate music, and it features the intuitive line-drawing mechanics pioneered by their breakout title, Flight Control.
Here's just some of what you can expect…
Simmersion Holdings Pty Limited, Canberra, Australia, has recently launched Mycosm, a real-time 3D visualisation and simulation platform.
Mycosm provides a great real-time 3D add-on for 3ds Max users and those that want to build interactive environments. The workflow is smooth, especially for 3ds Max users who can import fully animated models through fbx. Mycosm provides the ability to connect to SQL data bases, via Python script.
A free 33 day evaluation download of Mycosm Studio is available…
Freeplay finished up yesterday, sounding off another successful independent games festival with over 1800 people making it along for the week long event this year for an excellent showcase of local indie games, talks, panels, workshop sessions, and much more.
The finalists and winners for the 2011 Freeplay Awards have also been announced. Director of Freeplay, Paul Callaghan, has had this to say about the Freeplay awards this year...
(Paul Callaghan) The awards reflect both the values of the…
The Game Developers’ Association of Australia today announced the call for abstracts for Game Connect Asia Pacific (GCAP) 2011.
With it’s theme of ‘The Journey’, GCAP 2011 aims to establish the foundations on which the Australian industry will grow to become a major international game development territory in the future. The event will explore the lessons learned in the past 30 years of Australian development, how they have led to the current development landscape, and how those lessons can…
Truna has sent the word that registrations are now open for indie league of The 48 Hour Game Making Challenge!
If you're a team of indie developers looking to take part in the challenge and you have some free time between the 30th of September (Friday) to October, the 2nd (Sunday), then come and sign up!
Make sure you check the entry rules and conditions, and also be aware that registering your team's interest doesn't mean you are confirmed to take part just yet! The organisers will be letting…
Freeplay is on this weekend!! It's a big one and there's a whole lot happening. For those of you not subscribed to the Freeplay newsletter or haven't been following the Freeplay updates, then please read below for the latest news and update from Freeplay! Just a reminder, if you haven't ordered your tickets online yet, please do it soon! Last year's event was completely sold out, so do hurry!
It’s here! Festival week. We’ve been updating our blog on all things Freeplay including speaker…
