Digital Art developer Hyperfocal Design has bowed to demands for a VHDRI sunset and twilight collection by offering a huge VHDRI collection with 20 sunset and twilight HDRs. The sky panoramas in Magic Hours weigh in at a huge 14,000 x 7,000 pixels with super high dynamic range - up to 20 stops. Magic Hours is the third product in Hyperfocal's "V Series" of products, which feature very high resolution, super high dynamic range, and industry leading image quality.
Jay Weston, founder of…
Australian Flash game developer, Binary Space releases "Zombie Outbreak Simulator" (ZOS), a sandbox application running on Google Maps(R). ZOS allows players to unleash waves of zombies on the unsuspecting people of Washington DC. Players can tweak a number of zombie and infection variables such as zombie speed, infection rate, number of civilians and shooting accuracy to create their own version of a zombie outbreak. Watch as up to 15,000 civilians are chased down, attacked and infected by…
The writing was on the wall when EA signalled staff cuts from various studios just last week, with "substantial" staff lay-offs from various studios including Pandemic Studios (L.A). The latest report that has been circulating on numerous websites is that all staff from Pandemic Studios L.A (some 200 employees, including the former studio CEO, president, and vice president of product development) have been let go today, with some core developers being relocated to other EA offices, thus finally…
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From time to time, we're privy to news about the latest round of staff redundancies from local game studios, and while I'm rather hesitant to post a news item every time that happens (which would be have been quite frequently lately), I'm certain this sort of information is helpful for those who are still actively approaching companies for game positions, particularly to others who have just been let go.
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For those who missed out on the presentation Paul Callaghan (Freeplay) gave at the huge IGDA Melbourne meetup earlier this week, check out Paul's blog for the slide of used for the presentation, including all the interesting stats collected on Melbourne developers and the kind of games they've released, their metracritic scores, and the platforms they were released on. It's pretty interesting to see the general trends and scores over the years from Melbourne game developers. From Paul's blog…
Chris Watts has written up his seven rules for those heading into the foray of independent game development. Having been in the neck of indie development with Mole and other projects this year, Chris is certain to have some valuable advice and tips worth adhering to, considering he's likely to have learnt them all the hard way.
Hi everyone,
I wanted to take the time to write out my experiences and lessons learned with the projects I've been working on for the better part of this year as an…
