Australia, SA, July 19th - Digital Art developer Hyperfocal Design has announced the release of its "Hyperfocal Skies 2" texture set. The product is the successor to the well received and popular "Hyperfocal Skies" collection.
Hyperfocal Skies 2 features 65 high resolution, photographic textures including hemispherical sky textures, alpha masked horizon lines and 3 bonus alpha masked sky textures. Hyperfocal Design maintains its extremely high resolution standard, the skies and horizon lines…
Hi all,
Gridwerx attended FreePlay in Melbourne over the weekend, where we presented on the "Lessons Learned of an Indie Start-up". For those who missed it, it is available as a read-only PowerPoint file on our brand spanking new site - www.gridwerx.com.au.
It was a great turn-out, thanks for the hospitality of all those in Melbourne who shared a beer, a business card or a point of view.
Further, Gridwerx is seeking some futher collaborators to supplement our growing team - please shoot me an…
Submitted by Galatea Manolitsas
The winners of the AIE Freeplay competition were
Tiffany Ho $300 E.B voucher
Daniel Wyld $120 E.B voucher
Cameron Bonde $80 E.B voucher
Could the winners please contact the AIE office to arrange pick up of their prizes.
Submitted by Scott Leaman
The Brisbane Game Developers/Qantm Meetup for July is on this weekend!
It'll be a great chance to meet old and new qantm peps and other gamedevs, especially if you missed out last time. So come along whether you're part of the BGDM group or not.
When:
Saturday, 23 July, 6:00 PM
Where:
Pavilion Bar - Stamford Plaza
Cnr Edward & Margaret Streets Brisbane CBD
Brisbane
A map of the location:
http://img314.imageshack.us/my.php?image=stam0eq.gif
Nintendo DSs welcome…
Submitted by Vincent
Modding and Game School
two great speakers share their work and experience
In this forum Damian Scott will discuss video game modification or 'modding' focusing on his work as a prominent Mod developer over the last 7 years. Cheryl Kiraly will talk you through her experience studying and graduating from the Academy of Interactive Entertainment in Canberra in 2004 working as Lead Programmer for the game Roach Rage, which won an award at AGDC for Best Unsigned Game (Indie)…
Team Bondi have been quietly working on their next generation game for quite some time now, and Gameindustry.biz have some news that they have finally announced the title of the game they're working on...
The Sydney-based development studio set up by The Getaway creator Brendan McNamara and some of his former team from SCEE's Soho studio has revealed its first title - a PS3 exclusive detective thriller called L.A Noire.
It's interesting to note that Team Bondi were one of the first Sony studios…
Australia, July 14th, 2005 - OnGameNet Pty Ltd today announced the commercialisation of Shot Online (Online RPG Golf Game)
OnGameNet are glad to announce the launch of Shot Online in Oceania and connecting it with the International Shot Online Service. Shot Online is an Online RPG golf game with innovative systems, capturing the swings and motions of professional golfers and applying them directly into the game itself. Shot Online also offers real ball movements that are greatly influenced by…
THQ Inc. (Nasdaq: THQI) today announced that it has engaged United Talent Agency (UTA), a leading Hollywood talent and literary agency, to expand the brand of THQ's recently-released, top-selling Destroy All Humans!TM video game title. UTA aims to guide the Destroy All Humans! property through its development into major motion picture and television projects, overseeing activities related to development, financing, production and distribution. This is the first time THQ has secured agency…
Free Play is happening tomorrow, and the Sydney Morning Herald has an article on the event!!
"Marcus Westbury, Next Wave artistic director, says Free Play was established to encourage more independent game development.
"Compared to cinema, music and other contemporary art forms where there is a strong tradition of independent productions and distribution mechanisms, games still need to fight hard to build that space," Mr Westbury says.
"Gaming is an incredibly centralised industry controlled by…
