Natcoll’s three campuses are offering open days and taster events—what better way to explore the possibility of a career in the creative digital arts?
Open days and open weeks are held several times throughout the year and allow you to find out more about studying game development with Natcoll. You’ll get to visit the facilities, check out work done by current students and talk to instructors about your particular interests. This is a great opportunity to see if Natcoll is right for you!…
Took a break from programming to do some artwork, and kind of happy with the result of an afternoon mucking about with normal maps. possibly should learn mudbox or zbrush, but found a workflow that suits me, even if i get to swear about polygon limits on lightwave and 3ds file formats. i'm modelling the normal map and then rendering with blue, green and red lights.
recent programming tasks have been a max cloth modifier, which is prictured on the iphone, though the 20fps are mostly doing…
Games studio Firemint today announced that it has acquired fellow Australian studio, Infinite Interactive. The move further boosts Firemint’s strength in designing and developing original games, while providing the Infinite Interactive team with a channel for independent publishing.
Firemint was founded by Rob Murray in 1999. It became a highly regarded work-for-hire mobile games studio before shooting to fame with iPhone hits “Flight Control” and “Real Racing” in 2009. Firemint has recently…
If you love sci-fi then you owe yourself to play Black Market. It's a flash based game currently still in Beta which is a mix of space trading, RPG, and a long story arc containing a whole slew of missions in a universe that's been richly layed out by Big Block Games, an independent games developer based in Wellington, New Zealand.
The game is expansive and visually stunning, and it's quite an extraordinary effort for a small team of just four main developers. I caught up with Michael…
Chris Watts from Play-bit entertainment has written a personal retrospective, outlining some of the achievements he's had this year and where he fell short in 2010. This is the second year of his journey as an independent games developer and it's always been great to follow Chris's progress since he's been pretty open about how and why he went into indie games development and the plans he has for Play-bit entertainment through blog entries like these, his tweets, as well as the panel…
well, that is a way to spend my time.
had another go at asset pipeline, using what i had learnt over the last few months and getting the information to the engine for the shaders, as well as preserving non shader rendering.
excitement included getting a workflow to make plugins for 'gimp' (what can i say, wanted my own 'normalise' and 'height map to normal map' plugins.
got antialising of sorts on the iphone (cough, rendering to a larger than screen layer since the iOS collects application…
At this moment, many gamers around the world are caught up in the pre-Christmas game sales frenzy happening in the DLC space. There are some enormous savings to be had in the Appstore and Steam marketplace with publishers dropping prices on a whole range of their games and independent games developers collaborating on game bundles for incredibly affordable prices. While the sales drops are a drastic cut for games developers, the initial results can extremely rewarding and a successful way of…
Trainz iPad Holiday Sale!
N3V gets in the holiday mood by slashing the price of Trainz Simulator for the iPad.
Australia, 21.12.2010 - N3V Games, developer of the world’s best train simulation game, “Trainz” today announced that as a special holiday gift they will be reducing the price of Trainz Simulator for the iPad by 30% on Christmas and Boxing Day.
Trainz Simulator for iPad has roared up the charts and is regularly in the top 50 highest grossing apps in many countries around the world.…
Giselle has decided to end her duties as the main organiser for IGDA Melbourne today. If you've been part of a volunteering effort for any kind of event, you'll understand how much is involved behind the scenes and the amount of work it takes for all the correspondences and follow ups required in getting sponsors onboard, the venue organised, promoting the event and getting the word out.
It's a whole lot of work, and a lot of it can go unthanked. With the numerous IGDA Melbourne gatherings,…
Today Aussie App Sale is hosting its Cheap A%$# Tuesday event. All day the website will be posting and tweeting links to the huge collection of Tier 1 ($1.19) and Free apps featured on the website – www.aussieappsale.com
As well as promoting all of the great Aussie bargains for the Christmas break, Aussie App Sale has Promo Codes for fifteen of the featured apps, including PhotoCaddy, Posted, Magnetic Shaving Derby and the entire Gamebook Adventure series. Many of these codes will be given away…
