During the Game Connect: Asia Pacific 2008 conference held in Brisbane, Managing Director of Animal Logic, Zareh Nalbandian, let it slip that local developers Tantalus and Krome Studios were working on the game adaptation of the next animated Animal Logic feature during his talk about the convergence of movies and video games.
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole is being developed on the DS by Melbourne developer, Tantalus, while Krome Studios will be looking after the PS3, Xbox 360…
Think selling over 2 million copies of Flight Control, and developing the 5+ million downloaded Real Racing GTI for the iPhone/iPod Touch gives you any special treatment regarding iPad development from Apple? Think again!
Firemint, the Melbourne developer of those highly awarded and popular games, will be not be given any special help from Apple as they hammer out Flight Control HD designed specifically for the iPad. Currently, Apple have provided developers with a software emulator to develop…
Screenplay's Jason Hill caught up with Andrew Goulding from the Melbourne indie developer, Brawsome, at the Game Developer's Conference held at San Francisco just last week.
Andrew, who is at the GDC to talk to as many distributors as possible for his new game, Jolly Rover, discusses the latest on his journey as an independent game developer, as well as his new point-and-click graphic adventure game.
It looks like Andrew has hit a bit of a set-back as a publisher has dropped the second title…
Nocturnal has launched a new website, http://www.gameassessment.com.au which outlines details of the Game Assessment service.
Compared to the equivalent services in the US or Europe, the cost of classifying low-budget games in Australia can be prohibitively expensive for developers. By having a title pre-assessed by Nocturnal, the cost of a typical classification can be reduced by 50%.
The Game Assessment service is open to any company submitting a title for Australian classification. Visit…
South Australian Attorney General, Michael Atkinson, has announced that he is stepping down from his position to make way for "new blood" and to devote more time to family. Atkinson made the announcement this morning, according to Adelaide Now.
While Atkinson will remain in parliament until 2014, his enduring reign as the South Australian Attorney General and main road-block for the greatly needed R-18+ rating classification for games in Australia is now over.
Drop Spider have released the first 'work in progress' sneak peak of Golem Crusades at:
http://www.golemcrusades.com/videos.html#1
Golem Crusades is a direct follow-up to the Commodore 64 classic, Druid, and is making the transition to 3D using the Venom 3D Game Framework. It promises an arcade / real time strategy hybrid with you commanding multiple Golems over 16 levels.
Drop Spider Games was founded by Andrew Bailey in 2009, having left Tantalus (a game company he helped co-found) last year…
4 VISIONARIES IN SYDNEY, BOOK NOW! for this once in a lifetime event on Friday 19 March.
SYD MEAD - ROB COLEMAN - GRANT FRECKELTON - JASON BATH
LEARN FROM FOUR LEADING CREATIVE VISIONARIES WHO HAVE SHAPED BLOCKBUSTER FEATURE FILMS.
Join Syd, Rob, Grant and Jason for a one time discussion and Q&A at COFA this Friday 19 March.
Event Details
When: Friday 19 March
Time: 5.30pm registration. Session commences 6pm sharp.
Where: College of Fine Arts - Oxford Street & Greens Road, Paddington…
(posted on tsumea by Chris)
Hi everyone.
I want to make a call out to find out who’s out there in the local scene. I’m on the lookout to see who’s available for a project I’d like to get started midyear.
Project codename: Play-bit Heroes!
The proposal:
I’m currently writing an application to Film Victoria for a digital distribution funding due in mid April. The purpose of this funding is to kick start a medium scale indie game project. And while I can say with confidence we have bases covered…
A couple of quick unfinished images, I'd been consumed doing kids books so I'm starting to get back to unkids stuff.
and a cleanup of an old one .
Lach
http://lach-land.blogspot.com/
http://lach-land.com/
Hi everyone.
I want to make a call out to find out who’s out there in the local scene. I’m on the lookout to see who’s available for a project I’d like to get started midyear.
Project codename: Play-bit Heroes!
The proposal:
I’m currently writing an application to Film Victoria for a digital distribution funding due in mid April. The purpose of this funding is to kick start a medium scale indie game project. And while I can say with confidence we have bases covered in design and code. We don’t…
