Okay the question is up in the air.
does anybody in the games industry know we exist ?
That was the query made by Australian Interactive Media Industry Association (AIMIA) spokesperson, Andrew Fitzsimon, on Sumea back in 2002. Almost a decade later, the same question is likely to prompt a similar answer. Does anyone in the local games industry even know the AIMIA exist?
Morgan Jaffit, ex-Lead Designer at Pandemic Aus and currently director of Defiant Development, has written an open letter to…
When: 6:00 PM, Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Where:
Media Design School
92 Albert St Auckland
Selected By: sknightly
How to find us: Come up to Level 16
NOTE: We are at a NEW VENUE. The Media Design School has moved to new premises.
At the May Game Developer's Meetup we'll:
6.00 Arrive and mingle
6.15 Showcase: Gaming projects and news happening locally.
Panel: How to Market your iPhone game
Several local iPhone games have been released lately - but how can you make your fortune on the AppStore? An…
Hideo Kojima, VP of Konami Digital Entertainment, is eagerly awaiting the release for Team Bondi's detective thriller, L.A Noire. In fact, he has such high expectations for it that he's described it as the ONLY game he is looking forward to, and he's willing to wait out the extra two months after the initial May release for the Japanese translated version.
So why is the developer behind the extremely successful series of Metal Gear Solid games so eager for L.A Noire? From his tweets, he…
April 27th, 2011. Westminster Abbey, United Kingdom. Binary Space have just released their spin on the Royal Wedding using their game, Class 3 Outbreak to simulate a zombie outbreak during the wedding ceremony. William and Kate are shown standing outside the Abbey, surrounded by onlookers, and appear to be unaware of the oncoming zombie hordes. Undercover agents and body guards are scattered throughout the crowd, however they are greatly outnumbered. Visit the Royal Zombie Wedding map now to…
COURSE CODE: GM4
DURATION: 36 Hrs, 6-9pm
12 Weeknights
COST: $570 inc GST
COURSE DATES AVAILABLE:
3, 10, 17, 24, 31 MAY, 7, 14, 21, 28 JUNE, (no classes due to Schools hols 5, 12 July) continues 19, 26 July, 2 Aug
Create the games YOU want to play using the latest Unity games development software in this intensive 12-week course.
Unity supports all levels-from simple 2D games through to full 3D games with physics. You are encouraged to work on your own ideas and with expert advice and guidance…
and so the quick 2 week project to recover from a big project/ experement with stencil shadows is now up to the 4 week mark.
wrote a gui/ font system and tools pretty much from scratch which is a good way of making a 2 week project take 4 weeks, now considering quickest ways of finishing it though, but trying to get maximum quality of result for time spent on it. fun.
should be able to have it finished soon, trying to understand the ethos of iPhone games, starting to think that pretty 'do…
All eyes are on Halfbrick Studios and the success of their early adoption of a new cross-promotion feature offered by social gaming network, OpenFeint. In what will surely become the latest of many strategies for game app developers to get more consumer eyes on their releases, OpenFeint's Developer Announcements feature allows developers to promote their other titles to gamers whilst in-game. With a simple tap of a promo, gamers are able to immediately install and play the new game.
Halfbrick…
The next round of the Film Victoria Games Investment program closes May 9th so get your pitches and prototypes ready!
Funding of up to $100,000 is available, capped at 50% of the project budget. We'll fund full games, prototypes and anything in between. We'll also happily contribute to the marketing costs associated with launching the game.
Full guidelines, eligibility, application forms and contact details can be found here:
http://www.film.vic.gov.au/game
