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.
Gamespy has a review of Blue Tongue's Jurassic Park : Operation Genesis, giving it a 'fair' score of 65 out of 100.. PS2 review here, and Xbox review here.
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.
The Australian government is currently seeking to pass the Copyright Amendment (Parallel Importation) Bill 2002 through the Senate, a proposed law to allow the importation of software from overseas, so called 'parallel importation'.
While the newspapers reported this morning that the Bill was expected to be passed by the Senate today…
Submitted by Kelli Hagen for the Guildhall at SMU
Paul Jaquays, an industry expert who helped inspire the Guildhall Founder?s Scholarship Fund available to the first cohort of students, says the Guildhall will give students a ?direct knowledge transfusion from the minds and experience of established game making pros.?
The entire Jaquays interview is posted on the Guildhall website at http://www.guildhall.smu.edu/news/jaquays-qa.htm
Here are a couple of questions from the interview:
3. You have…
Gamespy reports that Blue Tongue's Jurassic Park : Project Genesis has been released to retail outlets across North America.
There's also a review of Jurassic Park over at Game-over.net. It's fairly critical, explaining some inconsistencies, along with the inevitable comparisons to other building/managing games.
"Gamers on the PC platform see a new game like this every month; good or bad. Genesis makes an earnest effort to bring new vigor to the genre. There are some roars to be found in…
There's a great article over at Gamespy that lists their top ten dying game genres. It's sad to see the demise of some of the genres listed there, such as Graphic Adventures. Puzzlers are still fun to play, and Shoot em ups / Beat em ups will make a come back any day now ;). Thankfully, Full Motion Video games are dead and buried. I never enjoyed those at all. Virtual Reality games would still be awesome though. Anyway, enough of my rant, view the Gamespy article here. Slashdot has a discussion…
Kaine, from Brisbane based Boxhead films, has sent word of a new short film called 'Fragged'.
"FRAGGED is the story of Seth, a deluded soldier, confused and misguided. Living in his surreal world, Seth talks of the horror that is his existence. Acting upon impulse he causes havoc to satisfy his thirst for destruction."
You can download the short film at Fileplanet or Ausgamers.
If you haven't been following Gamespy's Gaming University section, then you should definately check it out if you have an interest in a career in the games industry. Currently it is up to chapter 8, with Chris Carollo of ION answering the questions "Will a college degree help you when seeking a job in the gaming industry? What needs to be in your portfolio? Who writes the product manuals?".. Other industry types featured there include Cliff Bleszinski (Unreal Tournament), and Warren Spector (…
Gamasutra is featuring Blue Tongues' Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis in their post mortem section. As you would expect, it covers the interesting details on what went right, and what went wrong during production of that title.
"Operation Genesis was bigger than our previous projects, and was our first experience at developing for multiple platforms simultaneously. While there are still features that we would like to add and tweak, we finished with a product that we are happy with, and hope…
Concept designs have been revealed for recently canned Jet Moto 4 (a futuristic racer). Wes Louie, who was working on that title, has the concepts up on his website. He's very talented, so head on over to his website to see the level some game concept artists are at overseas.. weslouie.com
