Of course, the sensible thing would be to use an existing game engine, but after a certain point, there is some curiosity if learning and fighting yet another game engine is really quicker that just writing something from scratch.
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As a new month rolls on do to does the Game Design Folio - Tower City
I'm pleased to showcase the many highlights of this months hard work on the project. So lets get started. :)
Video
Tower City's second video log is now online. Titled "The Game pitch." It elaborates what the concept behind the Tower City is. Coming in at under 5 minutes to watch, this video is designed to give you a general overview of a component of the game and in this case the game in a nutshell.
Audio is a…
Next Wave today announced that the management of the Freeplay Independent Game Developers Conference will be handed over to Australian indie game experts, Paul Callaghan and Eve Penford-Dennis. Paul and Eve are spearheading plans for a 2009 conference and are developing a range of ancillary industry-building and social events.
Freeplay was founded in 2004 by Next Wave’s previous Artistic Director, Marcus Westbury, and a dedicated team of indie game developers. The conference took place 3 times…
Melbourne developer, Firemint, have released some very comprehensive sales stats on their iPhone hit game, Flight Control. The 16 page PDF document breaks down Flight Control's sales between March 24th and April 25th, showing off some interesting numbers like total sales by day, total sales by country, sales trends, and chart performance.
The report shows that the biggest consumers of Flight Control were the Americans who took a whopping 57% of the total sales, with Great Britain at second…
I'd like to give a big heartfelt thanks to our competition sponsors for the tsumea THQ AI programming challenge and the tsumea modeller challenge 10.
THQ Australia have provided substantial cash prizes as well as copies of their hit games, de Blob and Barnyard, to both winner and runner up challengers, Manix and SJ. I know the programmers are pretty chuffed in receiving their prizes.
For the modeller challenge, Big Ant Studios and Infinite Interactive sponsored the latest and final tsumea…
Part of a recent dinosaur bender. Some would say I'm always on a dinosaur bender.
I'll be doing more soon.
(Looks like the size or aspect ratios a bit much for the page- if you click on it you see the whole thing.)
Lach
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The games industry event Design Aikido was held on Wednesday the 22nd. As a fellow industry designer I wanted to share my views on this event.
Held at a classy little Bar & Club on the Melbourne docklands, it was a good place to hold such an event. The space fitted the 50 odd attendants quite well. Most attendants were industry developers and a small sprinkling of press and students as well.
I myself was fortunate enough to score a free ticket via being the TSumea cameraman. You’…
This is a minor update to the Spore creature demo. I've added a thumbnail view so you can see what the creature looks like when properly rendered. I also removed a crash bug that occurred when trying to render buildings or vehicles.
Firelight Technology's FMOD, the choice for many developers for creation and playback of interactive audio in their games, is one step closer to world domination. After winning Game Developer magazine's 2008 Front Line award for best Audio Tool, Firelight have decided to team up with Garage Games and is offering FMOD EX for a super cheap $100 (US) if you're an indie Torque developer. FMOD EX for commercial Torque developers can snag FMOD EX for a measley $500, which is a huge discount from the…
