Whilst on my usual wanderings around the internets, I happened to land on a site about an extraordinary guy called Matt...
Matt is a 28-year-old itinerant deadbeat from Connecticut. In February of 2003, he quit his job in Brisbane, Australia to go walk the Earth, like Caine from Kung Fu. He made this site so he could keep his family and friends updated about where he is in his travels. He realizes that Caine from Kung Fu probably wouldn't make a web site about walking the Earth, but he accepts…
The Dystopia team have a trailer teaser of their highly anticipated Half Life 2 mod available for download...
"The recent flood of gamers to Dystopia's web server kicked the team into over drive to put the finishing touches on the teaser video. This 1 minute purely in game video shows off our special flavour of cyberpunk action. This video was created from demos recorded during our nightly playtest sessions and features a backing track created by our very own Graincloud."
Keep your eye on this…
Game Chronicles has an interview with Perception project manager, Radek Majder, on all things about Perception and Stargate....
"Radek Majder: Perception is based in Sydney, Australia. We have about 60 staff on board full time and work with a number of external contractors. We are currently working on Stargate SG-1: The Alliance as well a 2nd unannounced project. The company started off developing coin-op games, Thunderboats and Top Down Racer. We also worked on a number of contract jobs over…
This news item is totally about Queensland. Sure, they humiliated us in the first State of Origin match for this year, but the support for Sumea from Brisbane game developers has been extremely overwhelming, so thank you Brisbane!!
You might have noticed the new Pandemic logo around the site (you may have to refresh or clear your cache) - well, Pandemic Studios is the latest of local developers to join in the support for Sumea Launchpad! Make sure you all buy a dozen copies of Destroy All…
Codemasters have released some new screenshots of Heroes of the Pacific, the WW2 flight combat sim in development at IR Gurus (also joined by fellow Melbourne developers, That Game). Check it out at Voodoo Extreme!
We have hit jackpot again this week. Jon Newell from VR solutions will be doing a demo on "Realtime Motion-Catpure, Performance animation and Alias Mocap/MotionBuilder"! If time permits, he says he might even go into some Maya stuff and character rigging for Mocap ;). I don?t know who he has tricked *cough*.. persuaded into wearing the mocap suit, but I know its going to be some fun J
6:00 Monday 6th June
QUT Gardens Point Campus,
Room J203
Till Monday - cya
Troy Pinkerton
3D Designer
troy.…
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Art and animation seminar with Steve Middleton from THQ Australia!
QUT Kelvin Grove campus, Z2-226 (The Hall)
Fri 3 June, 9am
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Art, animation, programming, design, and more! Talks and panels!
Level 9 - QANTM House - 138 Albert St. Brisbane
Sunday June 19 1pm-6pm
Open invitation!
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More sessions and details as they become available. Stay tuned!
Melbourne based Dissecta announces a series of regular game industry related events for keen game fans and game makers (and other interactive entertainment creators and businesses).
The first event (28 June 2005; 7-8:30pm) is a post E3 Expo review titled "Next Gen War - Reports from the E3 Expo Frontline", featuring a panel of speakers drawn from the game industry including IR Gurus, developers of soon to be released AFL Premiership 2005 and Heroes of the Pacific, represented by Mike Fegan,…
IGDA Brisbane Student Chapter Forum
The IGDA Brisbane Student Chapter is for students, ex-students, and other non-industry people who want to develop games and get into the games industry. There is currently a mailing list that involves chapter suggestions for setup, and general dev discussion. If you're interested in joining the list please send an email to Ash, Ein_Stein, or LiveWire. Also check out the new Sumea Forum. The chapter is being run by Matt (THQ), Travis (QUT), and Ben (Krome).
Warcry.com had a chance to look at Krome Studio's Ty, the Tasmanian Tiger 3 at E3, and has some details of the new features seen from the demonstration, such as The Gunyip Cruiser, boomerang upgrades, and opal power ups...
"In the game's current state, about 60-70% done, there are still bugs. Don't let that get you down, however, as work continues and the game ends up in the hands of focus groups frequently. Krome has gone to lengths to assure the game is fun and kid-friendly, even if the…
