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.
There's another review of of Blue Tongue's Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis over at PCGameWorld. It gets a favourable 82% score, and some thumbs up on its good looks and fun/busy gameplay..
"It may appear shallow at first, though once you begin playing Operation Genesis you realize that there is more than meets the eye. With such deep and busy gameplay, and an amazing graphics engine to boot this is a title that offers up more than its fair share of entertainment."
Read it over at PCGameWorld.…
The Sydney Mystery, by once Sydney based Twilight Software, has been released. It's available through web/mail only (at a pretty reasonable price too!) and sales so far have been great! Sydney Mystery contains..
"over 240 scenes, 17 different locations, 11 characters to meet, and lots more exploration, puzzles and clues."
There is a playable demo available as well, which allows you to play Act 1 of the game. You can find all the details at The Sydney Mystery website.
The results have been tallied up for Sumea Modeller Challenge #2, and the placements are thus:
1st - Challenger #1 - DrBadVibes 2nd Challenger #4 - Dan Ward 3rd Challenger #2 - Pantmonger 4th Challenger #5 - Malus 5th Challenger #3 - Idaho 6th Challenger #6 - David Coen
I'm sure you'll all agree that there's some fantastic work there. Check it all out if you haven't already!!
Gamenews.com.au is looking for some comments and opinions, after receiving confirmation from Justin Green, CEO of Evolution Games, that Evolution Games has indeed closed its doors. Jump on over to gamenews.com.au and let Tim know what you think.
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) has updated news on the AIE website to let us know that the Academy has received a grant of $100,000 from the ACT Government (the highest grant from 15 businesses receiving them). Also disclosed is what the AIE intends to do with the extra funds.
"The AIE, through Canberra Technology Park, plans to use the grant funding to build state-of-the-art facilities that will greatly assist the local computer games development and 3D animation industries. ?…
By Tim Richards [6 April 2003]
(Thanks to Tim Richards of gamenews.com.au for sending us this report. Gamesnews.com.au is a free resource for Australian game industry professionals and consumers.)
Sumea.com.au, through information provided on its online forums, has reported that Queensland based Evolution Games has just gone under. There are unconfirmed comments from industry focussing on the recent arrival of Evolution Games multinational publisher US-based THQ to Brisbane and its attempts to…
Ubisoft has launched the Warlords IV: Heroes of Etheria website, by the newly splintered SSG group, Infinite Interactive. Click here to view the website.
Just a quick note to tell you that TheyerGFX have been added to our list of known local developers. They're from Brisbane, and have released a fair few playstation 1 titles. Currently, they're working on California Surfing for the Playstation 2, hopefully to be released before Christmas. Visit their site to find out more!
Ok, this is for all the Infogrames Melbourne House people, and all other developers in Melbourne :)
hi I am trying to track down a guy called Adam Ryan, who worked for Infogrames Melbourne. We want to track him down for a work reunion from several years ago. I don't know if anyone knows of his whereabouts or what companies do similar work as infogrames in Melbourne I could contact. Thanks for your help....
If you know where he is, contact me and I will forward you to Peggy. Give me a yell…
Just got word of an Australian based community website for the very popular Quake 3 conversion, Urban Terror. I've always known there was a large contigent of Aussies doing maps and models for that mod, and this site seems to be the place to be for those people to communicate and share ideas with each other. There's news, a forum, and also some interview action happening there too.
So if you're into Urban Terror, and want to see what the local community is up to, head on over to www.ausurt.net…
