Media Design School has been one of the more prominent gaming institutions in New Zealand for quite a while now, so it's pleasing to find out how rigorous and demanding their courses are for students looking into a challenging career in game development. So, how intensive is it? Well, first year drop out rates are very high, as remarked by a student currently studying there in an article over at voxy.co.nz.
Media Design School's Marketing Executive, Stephanie Dunant, also provides some harsh…
AustralianGamer has the trailer for the canned Pandemic Brisbane game, The Next Big Thing. Pandemic Brisbane had two teams working on two equally big titles. One was the Batman movie licensed game which has since been greatly talked about, and the other was the previously unknown Wii title called The Next Big Thing.
Upon Pandemic Brisbane's closure, it was heard around the grapevine that The Next Big Thing was being shopped around to numerous publishers with the hope that this title could be…
Dissecta and the State Library of Victoria present The Business of Games - Part
The Business of Games - Part 1 with Brad Giblin, Film Victoria and Grant Davies from Endgame Studios
Sponsored by the International Digital Entertainment Festival 2009 featuring eGames Expo and Freeplay Independent Games Festival
Wednesday 5th August 2009. A free event from 6:30pm to 8pm. At the State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.
Dissecta presents Brad Giblin, Manager of the Digital Media Fund, Film Victoria…
Mudbox Workshops - Foundations and Advanced
AIE Sydney, Canberra & Melbourne
Mudbox is a digital sculpting and texture painting software that allows 3D modeling professionals the ability to quickly and easily create highly detailed organic and inorganic 3D assets using an intuitive interface. AIE and Dave King are offering two one-day workshops which will teach digital sculpting foundations and advanced techniques using Mudbox through a series of practical exercises. Dave King's work…
GO3 Electronic & Entertainment Expo is the biggest event of it's type in the region. Last year 13,000 people attended the 3 day event.
This years GO3, runs from 1-4 October at the Perth Convention Exhibition centre. GO3 offers the biggest platform for companies to showcase, promote or sell products or services from the electronics or entertainment industries.
It includes...
· Home Entertainment
· Communication
· Electronic Games
· Audio/Music
· Computers
· Pop Culture
· In-Vehicle…
If you have an Xbox 360 with a Live Gold membership (Silver members will be able to grab this in a few days), then you can grab Ashes Cricket demo to check out the latest sports offering from Transmission Games.
Having checked out the screenshots, I have to say it doesn't look too bad! The player models look quite good and I can definitely recognise some of the players in there. The stadiums are great as I'm sure Transmission Games are well used to modelling those things by now.
Ashes Cricket…
Workshops, panels and lecture details for Freeplay 2009 are now available at the Freeplay website! Head on over there for what's in store for Australia's main indie development conference this year. From the Freeplay website:
With August 14 & 15 fast approaching, we're happy to announce some of the sessions taking place at Freeplay. With a new venue for the event this year, it's given us the chance to open up the program a little bit, with longer panels & workshops to fully explore the…
It appears that Edge of Twilight, Fuzzyeye's third person steam-punk themed RPG, is still going ahead, despite experiencing some legal issues with the title containing the word "Edge". It appears that having "Edge" as part of your game name crosses some trademark boundaries with Edge Games...
FUZZYEYES™ approached EDGE® Games several months ago, with the intent to resolve any issues arising out of both companies use of the mark "EDGE." Fuzzyeyes, developer of the game titled "Edge of Twilight…
A few years ago, we had the chance to interview Australian game development icon, Alfred Milgrom, and one of the things we asked him was what he would do differently if he could do it all over again at Melbourne House. Alfred paused briefly to give the question some serious thought, and replied that he wished his company was better prepared for the rapid expansion of staff. Management was not coping with employee numbers doubling every year to over one hundred and twenty eight.
That weakness at…
Firemint are taking a cautious approach with the new contender in the handheld market, the PSPgo, as a game development platform. Sony's latest gaming gadget is set to take on the iPhone and Nintendo dsi, although it seems Sony may find it tough getting independent developers on board for it.
In an article featured at Gameindustry.biz, Firemint CEO, Rob Murray, talks about the differences in the games expected for the PSPgo compared to what's on the iPhone, and expresses some concerns on the…