Submitted by Matt Wheatley
AIE, Australia's leading 3D animation and games development training organisation, is pleased to announce a number of sponsored positions for its upcoming Certificate IV in 3D Animation for Games and Film at its Canberra campus. Sponsorships are worth $1400 to successful eligible applicants in the areas of:
? Women seeking careers in the Games, Film and related creative digital industries, or
? Students from disadvantaged backgrounds; or
? Practitioners in another…
Experience all the action of the AFL from the comfort of your living room. AFL? Premiership 2006 is the only official game of the AFL featuring all the teams, players, venues and competitions of the 2006 season and is back exclusively for PlayStation?2.
Play a single game for some quick footy action, participate in a whole season or play in Career Mode to develop your career, complete with player trading, national AFL draft and AFL Tribunal.
New features in this years edition include enhanced…
Submitted by Joseph Lieberman
Australian Game Developers (http://www.ausgamedev.com) has released The Omega Syndrome, a computer role-playing game for Windows 2000/XP that follows in the footsteps of classic games such as Fallout, Ultima 7, and Baldur?s Gate.
The Omega Syndrome?s story is a breath of fresh air for the RPG genre, as it is set in 1950?s America and the player works for a secret organization that hunts down aliens and UFOs. It was designed to appeal to the mature gamer, who…
Been working on this older project some more and made some good progress.
All crits n comments welcome.
Modelled in Maya (render is a test, not the final look!)
cheers,
Josh Bare
Submitted by Scott
SCA Sound Studios is creating audio content for "Jackass", on behalf of Sidhe Interactive and Red Mile Entertainment. More details to follow...
Sumea Maps is now open for service!
You may have glimpsed at it a while ago, but it's in a slightly improved state and worthy of a mention here. A big huge thanks must go to McDrewski for all his help with this!
With Sumea Maps, you can find local developers using Google Maps. Sumea Maps is also tied with Sumea Wiki, so if you want to add other locations, you're free to do that any time you like. You can click on the map to get the location co-ordinates, then click on the update wiki link to…
(repost - and a reminder that this is on Tonight!)
Submitted by Ash
IGDA IRC chat went for 2 hours and there was a lot of questions. It will be happening again next week at the same time Thurs 8pm, 25 May.
For web browsers use:
http://firefang.com/igdachat/java/
Or if you prefer to use an IRC client:
irc://irc.slashnet.org/igda
Television and Digital Media Sectors to Benefit
The President of Film Victoria, John Howie, has welcomed the Victorian State Government?s decision to provide an $8.6-million additional funding package to Film Victoria.
The Treasurer of Victoria, the Hon. John Brumby MP and the Hon. Mary Delahunty MP Minister for the Arts, announced the details of the package at an official ceremony attended by over 100 industry guests at Melbourne Central City Studios this morning.
The 2-year funding package…
The 38 publications voting for the Game Critics Awards: Best of E3 2006 are proud to announce this year's nominees. The committee has recognized 54 products from 20 different publishers.
Winners will be announced on this website and through other media outlets on the evening of Wednesday, May 31.
Best of Show
- Assassin?s Creed (Ubisoft Montreal/Ubisoft for PlayStation 3)
- Bioshock (Irrational Games/2K Games for PC and Xbox 360)
- Gears of War (Epic Games/Microsoft Games Studio for Xbox 360…
An invitation to game developers? pass it on:
We are pleased to announce a meetup for the Greater Brisbane IGDA chapter!
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Next event: What, who, when, where
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WHAT: A casual meetup for developers to relax, see new people, and share advice and stories. This time it?s a BBQ in the park. Bring something to eat or drink, toss it on the barbie, and spend a sunny afternoon. Special bonus: killer croquet!
WHO: Anyone active, once-active, or actively…
