There's some exciting news coming from Wicked Witch with the announcement that they have produced the first mmorpg on wireless mobiles!
"Wicked Witch Software has finally finished it's first Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game for wireless! We believe it is the worlds first true real-time mmorpg on wireless allowing thousands to play together on a normal gprs data connection with amazing results! Resurrecting our beloved IP of WarMonster, we have created a complete mini-ultima-online…
AIE Canberra Mid Year Intake
This is an exciting opportunity to complete the Certificate IV in 3D Animation for Games and Film full time (40hrs per week) over 20 weeks. On successful completion of the course, students will have the opportunity to enter the Diploma course of their choice and keep in line with the students who began the Certificate IV course in February. This is an excellent chance for you to get ahead of the pack and fast-track your career into the rapidly growing Animation,…
Rat Bag Studios just recently scored the deal to develop a The Dukes of Hazard game, but it comes as a surprise when The Advertiser reports that game developers from Adelaide are having trouble filling their programmer positions with local talent! Rat Bag Vice-president Mark Bracken sums up the situation...
"We're in the bizarre position of having 15 overseas, mostly British, people apply for work to every one Australian," he said.
"While it's good to have this international recognition and we…
For those of you who use an application to receive RSS feeds or have a blog entry, you can now receive the News feed from Sumea. Sumea's News feed updates 3 times a day and will bring you the latest local game industry news and job posts on the site.
Simply point your reader/blog to http://www.sumea.com.au/sumeanews.xml !
You might have noticed some new icons and links appearing on the main page here and there. It usually means that I've been busy working on some more functionality for the website. The new features are pretty useful, so I will give a brief summary on each of them.
Sumea News Feed - I'm particularly happy to get this working. Basically it will allow any website or homepage to receive the latest news and job headers from Sumea for display on their site. Sumea automatically updates the feed every 8…
(This is was posted in the forum and it's definately something worth voicing your opinion on!)
Hi guys,
I'd like to hear from anyone who would be happy to answer a few questions on game classification for a feature in The Age newspaper about the absense of an R18+ game rating.
Please email theflyingdoormat@yahoo.com if you would like to have your say on the issue.
Battle Report #2: The Jawbone of Sartek
pc.ign.com/articles/508/508541p1.html?fromint=1
Warlords Battlecry 3 demo
www.fileplanet.com/files/130000/139558.shtml
Lead Designer Steve Fawkner talks creatures, spell-casting, gameplay systems, and more.
I've decided to put together all we know so far about the conference in one page until the official website is launched. I'll be updating this page as more information is received. Be sure to keep an eye out on Sumea for further developments!
21-23 May 2004 10am onwards.
Free Play will cater for independent and DIY game developers, game modders and mappers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students and digital artists from every state in Australia. Its aim is to bring…
The Free Play: Next Wave Independant Game Developers Conference website should be up next week with all the official information, but for the meantime, some more speaker and session detailes have been announced!
State Support for Game Development: The Official Low-down
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State representatives holding the purse strings give indies and startups advice on how to access state support through grant programmes, investment, sponsorship and other…
