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.
ANNOUNCEMENT November 8th 2005
Rugby League 2 on PS2 & PC Ready for December 8th Release
Tru Blu Entertainment has announced today that the highly anticipated Rugby League 2 game for Playstation 2 and PC will be released on December 8th 2005.
Developed by Sidhe Interactive, and produced by Tru Blu Entertainment, Rugby League 2 will be distributed in Australia by HOME ENTERTAINMENT SUPPLIERS PTY LTD and is rated G. For more information please visit http://www.rugbyleague2.com.
Can you believe that a locally designed game console is set to launch in Europe THIS Christmas?! A Melbourne tech company of 50 employees called Grey Innovation has developed things like calculators, on-board systems in cars, and WiFi internet radio, but it's their game console called digiBLAST that has overseas Toy stores excited. Running on Linux and retailing for a very affordable $US89.95 ($122.75 AU), it's perfect for the younger market that it's targetted at..
BRITISH toy sellers have…
Thanks to Lorien for posting in the forum about this...
"I've got an email telling me there is a likely panel discussion on political games on the ABC program "Vulture" at 10pm tomorrow night. I gather it includes Street Survivor and Escape from Woomera."
Broadcast Date: Tuesday 8 November 2005
Channel: Free to Air / ABC
Broadcast Time: 10.05 pm
Classifications: Other, (CC)
Timeslot Duration: 30 mins
Official title / weblink if available: VULTURE
Hosted by Richard Fidler, Vulture offers up an…
Submitted by Stephen Berg
Howdy folks,
I just assumed control of the Brisbane Game Developers Meetup. This next meeting will be the Last One!........organised by Scott Leaman. His schedule is getting a bit more hectic, so he will be stepping down as organiser after this meetup. If you've come before, or if you've missed out then come along and help make this meetup the best BGDMG Meetup ever!
Same place as last time. Out the back in the beergarden!
When: Saturday, November 26, 2005, 5:00 PM…
Anne
Perception is looking for able airmen to rid the galaxy of an Ancient Evil. These elite men and women will serve Stargate Command and lay their lives on the line in the service of defending the...
Actually, it's really nothing as dramatic as that. Perception is looking for a number of lucky gamers to help out with some game testing taking place from mid December 2005 at Perception's Sydney office. If you live in Sydney, or will be in Sydney in December and want to get your hands on the…
Bond University's Centre for New Media Research and Education polled 2009 households and 3708 individuals revealing that Australians overwhelmingly (88%) want an R rating for games, but most were not initially aware about the lack of a classification for games. It showed that parents were responsible when it comes to their kids and games, with 68 per cent of parents using the classification system, 76 per cent set rules about the games their children could play, and 87 per cent were present…
(Kizza wrote in the forum)
Just wanted to let people know about Marshmallow Duel: Mowbray's Revenge. A MOD for UT2004 and an officially endorsed sequel to the 1996 classic Marshmallow Duel. We're running a character design competition and are hoping people might spare some time to mash together a robot for the game. The best part is if you model and texture your character you've pretty much done, the animation system requires no rigging or painting of skin weights, each limb is parented to the…
Submitted by Control Freaks
Can't make AGDC in Melbourne this year? Don't panic! Log on to www.control-freaks.tv between 1st and 3rd December and you can watch video reports direct from the conference.
And owners of Telstra 3G handsets can receive daily video updates directly to their handsets!!!
For more details visit www.control-freaks.tv.
The BSIT 3rd year Exhibition 2005 is a high quality exhibition of work produced by graduating students of the Bachelor of Multimedia Systems. The Exhibition will be open to the Multimedia industry, Secondary school students and the general public.
Location
The BMW Edge at Federation Square, Melbourne.
Date & Time
Tuesday November 15th 2005, 9am-5pm (Industry Night 6.30pm-late).
Details
BSIT 3rd year Exhibition 2005 aims to:
Show off the talents of the Bachelor of Multimedia students, their…
