In 2009 AFTRS is offering 3 brand new courses in game design, virtual worlds and animation directing. Be a part of these innovative new courses and discover new opportunities to express yourself in an exciting collaborative environment where film meets games worlds.
Graduate Diploma: Game Design - Invent captivating play; investigate new genres, interfaces and emotional story experiences
Graduate Diploma: Virtual Worlds - Build immersive story spaces for film pre-visualisation, machinima,…
Los Angeles (September 3rd, 2008) – VastPark, a white label virtual world platform company, unveiled plans today for a Developer Program aimed at the needs of professional virtual world developers.
VastPark is now accepting registrations from virtual world developers with a strong track record in virtual worlds, games or related fields to join their developer program.
Bruce Joy, CEO and founder of VastPark explained “We have already had two development companies’ sign up before we have even…
Steve Fawkner's mom is a huge fan of Puzzle Quest: Challenge Of The Warlords. She's finished it six times and maxed out some of the characters. These details and much more are yours if you listen in to the The PALGN Podcast, Episode 42! The guys at PALGN has special guest, Infinite Interactive CEO and lead designer, Steve Fawkner, on board to chat about Puzzle Quest and everything else that is happening at Infinite Interactive at the moment.
Steve talks about the death threats blowing out of…
Jason Hill has written a fantastic article for the Sydney Morning Herald on the rise and rise of casual games. Jason has compiled some great insights and stats on the casual game market, from the 10 million unit selling popular Bejeweled title, the 200 employee strong company that developed it, and the large percentage of females that buy their range of casual games. The article looks back at the games industry with Atari founder Nolan Bushnell and how the audience for games has shrunk over the…
A reminder about the September gameOn program and an invite to consider fielding a team for the 48hr game making challenge in october - the sign-up is now open - feel free to on-spam
more information and maps: http://www.igda.org/brisbane/game_on_get_game.html
Next gameOn event: Sept 10th Developing the Story: Talk + Workshop
Time: Sept 10 2008, 5.00 - 7.00 pm
Venue: the Glasshouse, CIP Kelvin Grove, Brisbane
Free Public Program - all welcome
If you’d rather write the story and build the…
Los Angeles (September 3rd, 2008) – VastPark, a white label virtual world platform company, announced their new generation web-based virtual worlds’ player called Immersion today.
VastPark announced that the Immersion player will be open source from its first release.
The Immersion player will enable virtual worlds created using VastPark's open specifications to be embedded into websites and explored, using one of the major web browsers. Web-based virtual worlds have gained a lot of interest…
I have some terrible news. I've been given the word from a colleague of his that Krome Studios artist, Ian Lovell, has died in a tragic stunt plane accident in Brisbane during the weekend. It's understood that Ian was celebrating the flight as a birthday gift.
Ian's credits at Krome Studios include King Arthur, Ty, the Tasmanian Tiger3: Night of the Quinkan, The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning, and The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night, as artist, character artist, and cutscene animator. His…
This is my original idea for modeller challenge no. 10 He is a Super-villain who is infested with disease and has still not been overcome by death. Living in such a horrid state he has come to resent the world and has grown to believe that he is living well and those who are healthy are the ones that carry the "one true disease." He struggles against the super-hero as he attempts to "cure" them.
Student Researcher at University of Ballarat, Julie Ross, is conducting a survey which asks the question "Do Games Technology Graduates have the right skills for the Games Industry?". The questionaire is specifically aimed at people involved in the hiring of graduates, so if you don't fit that criteria, kindly pass it along to someone who does! It'll only take a few minutes to complete and you can do it all anonymously too...
This study will investigate whether games technology graduates have…
