Is L.A Noire vapourware? Destructoid thinks so. The popular gaming website are calling out Team Bondi's detective thriller game as vapourware due to the lack of any real tangible footage, even after stumbling onto some never before seen concept art.
It looks like the guys at Destructoid have noticed that Sydney media/animation studio, Tui Studios, are showcasing their storyboard work on L.A Noire on their website. Although the concept work does not reveal a heck of a lot about L.A Noire, it is…
have changed to using ogre game engine, and this is after a few weekends of mucking around and making content, with smatterings of code
some history. got my own 'from scratch' game engine up to runing but was going to be a pain to support different render hardware and would still need an asset pipeline, so tried out torque.
was unhappy with torque so reworte quite a bit of it, at wich point was only using it's renderer and would need to write asset pipeline as had changed mesh format a lot, and…
(Sydney, Australia) Throughout the financial downturn several industries have continued to thrive as consumers spending on home entertainment grows. The strength of game development and film production in turn has prompted fresh interest in the relatively new careers of game development, 3D animation and visual effects, according to Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) CEO, Ian Gibson, “Enrolments are up across all our campuses, particularly in Sydney” he said.
Academy of Interactive…
Those of you who had tried Nooooo's Wiiware game, Pop, may have noticed its amazingly awesome soundtrack. Well, it's been announced that the entire soundtrack for Pop is now available for your hearing pleasure from the iTunes store.
Andrew Curnock of Beat Therapy has done a remarkable job at producing some really great mellow tunes, so if you're interested in getting the lot, grab it on itunes through here! http://www.beattherapy.com/itunes.html
You can also have a preview of some of the…
So what do I have here?
Well, freeplay is coming up this week and for the event I wanted to make something to promote myself with. Tower City is all well and good but for the context of small indie development it doesn’t quite fit.
As many developers showing up to the event are focusing on the iPhone as their development platform of choice I wanted to put my hat into the ring and give my idea of what might make a fun and enjoyable iPhone game.
The result is MOLE. A game in the same vain of some…
President of the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) and CEO of Tantalus, Tom Crago, has made an appearance at Triple R's Byte Into It technology focused radio segment. Tom talks about the upcoming Game Connect: Asia Pacific 2009 which is being held in Melbourne later this year, the trend towards casual gaming, the lack of the R rating classification in Australia, and all the latest at Tantalus.
MB: Do you see the trend towards casual or “snack” type gaming continuing, especially…
id Software's Wolfenstein RPG has been ported over to the iPhone by Melbourne developer, Firemint. It's just been released on the appstore, and it looks like the one and only programmer guru, John Carmack, is happy with the port. Here's what The Carmack said late last month to toucharcade.com about Firemint's efforts...
li: So Wolfeinstein RPG is ready to roll and EA is just sitting on it?
John: It's in the can, evidently there was some glitch where people were able to get it. It's based on the…
WANTED: Amaya Borghild ( A-my-a Bor-jill-da )
Agent in the order of the dusk rain, a guild of elite 'honorable' assassins. Amaya is 28 years old, 5'10 and 122lb and although only a lowly koyakunin rank within the guild, she is more than a match for dozens of our elite soldiers.
Its rumoured she wields the legendary Star Souba one of the 12 swords of creation. It is said that this blade was first weilded by Lord Ozutsu Borghild during our worlds creation, to slay the sun and bring about the…
Free Play 2009 tickets will be available for purchase online until Thursday afternoon. Updates are forthcoming on whether if there will be any tickets left available at the door, so if you haven't purchased yours yet, do so NOW before it's too late!!
The Free Play organisers have been filling in the Bios of the speakers as well as session details for the conference, so if you haven't checked out who's talking on what panel for this weekend's Indie game conference, head on over to the Freeplay…
