Wellington, NZ ? January 9, 2004. ? Amongst strong competition, New Zealand developed videogame "Rugby League" has been the top selling game title in Australasia for the past 4 weeks since its release on December 12, 2003.
"We are very pleased with the success of the game", said Mario Wynands, Managing Director of Sidhe Interactive, the game development studio behind the title. "Very strong competing products were introduced onto the market during the Christmas season, but we took the number 1…
"GameBiz has lots of first hand footage and material from the AGDC (Australian Gaming Developers Conference), if you're interested in seeing where the gaming industry is going to head in the next few years."
What makes the AGDC so important to the Australian gaming development and publishing industry is the opportunity for independent developers to showcase their talent, to progress into career paths and publishing agreements with studios in Australia and internationally. The AGDC gives the…
Next Wave Independent Game Developers' Conference - Melbourne 2004
The conference will be held from the Friday 21st to Sunday 23rd of May this year at a venue in inner city Melbourne as part of the Next Wave Festival. The conference is designed to cater for indy and DIY game developers, game modders and mappers, creatively frustrated professionals, game development students, animators, and new media artists from every state in Australia. The aim of the conference is to bring together these…
Discreet is looking for submissions from our users for our game developers show reel for GDC in San Jose..
follow this link for more info or email peter.moxom@discreet.com for more info
www.discreet.com/events/gdc2004/submissions.html
Submissions close 23rd Feb
Post mortems on games are a great read, especially when they're from local game developers. RPGVault have one such article on the recently released Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria, by Melbourne's Infinite Interactive. It's written by lead designer, Steve Fawkner, and it's a great insight into the aims, achievements, and lessons learnt on the development of Walords IV. Read it at RPGVault!
I have been sketching some quadruped vehicles recentily (a topic that I have not had a lot of practice with.) I am also experimenting with colouring techniques > Aiming for a fast technique that helps to describe the forms/volumes, and matches my sketchy pencil work. I might submit this image in the forum too as I would appreciate feedback/crit's.
You can hide under the bed for only so long... It has been quite some time since I last shared my illustration work with a audience! This one was done for the 2D quick activities. I have been getting into character sketches recentily and have started experimenting with adding colour to sketches with photoshop.
I just noticed that the AGDC site has the conference photos and video up.
Also, there is mention of Sumea's own Blitz (Lyndon Howie) on the Awards page. Blitz took out first place for the Micro Fort? Programming Awards and will receive an all expenses paid trip to the Game Developers Conference held in San Jos?, USA in March 2004.
Photos can be found here.
Video can be found here.
List of Awards can be found here.
As you can tell, it's a very quiet time for the website, being the holiday season and all. It's probably at it's most quiet during the period between Christmas and New Years Eve, so I guess now is a pretty good time to summerise the highlights for the local industry in 2003, as well as comment on what Sumea Launchpad has achieved in the last 12 months. It may be a bit long winded, but hopefully a few of you will find it a little bit interesting! In any case, it'll be a good chance for me to let…
