Homelanfed has a GREAT interview with Micro Forte founder, John DeMargheriti. They chat about everything, from how Micro Forte came to be, what the early days were like, and all their initiatives like the Academy of Interactive Entertainment, The Australian Games Developer Conference, and The Games Developer Association of Australia, and right through to their Bigworld Technology and the Xbox..A very interesting read!
Gamespy and Homelanfed have previews of Blue Tongue's Jurassic Park : Operation Genisis game. Gamespy points to some slight niggles with their Xbox preview, but sums up the game with
"....despite my apathy towards both dinosaurs in general and the Jurassic Park license in specific, this game has kindled my imagination. It's an excellent match for the license and looks to be one of the higher-quality outings it's yet had, to boot."
.. and both previews praising the gaphic quality of the game...…
Graphite 2003 - International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques in Australasia and South East Asia. Victorian Minister for ICT, Marsha Thomson, will launch a new initiative for the Victorian computer game industry called 'Game Plan: Game On' at the opening of Graphite 2003.
When: 9.00am on Wednesday 12 February
Where: Cinema Two
Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Federation Square
Cnr of Flinders & Swanston Sts (Flinders St entrance)
Copies of…
Gamespy has a small Question and answer with Raven Software's Kenn Hoekstra on getting your foot in the door in the game industry. Some tips on how to stand out from the crowd, and what you need to show in your portfolio. Some good advice there, especially if you're in the level design or quality assurance field! Read it here.
The entertainment depot puts forth a question to numerous game designers on the lack of standards in game design, such as a common interface and other basic guidelines. A good thing or not? Read here for the comments!
Congrats to the Irrational people on getting nominated for the Excellence in Visual Art award at the IGDA on their Freedom Force game. I'm sure it's enough to be nominated for such a prestigious award, but we've got our fingers crossed for ya!! :)
"Freedom Force has been nominated by the IGDA for the Excellence in Visual Art award! The Game Developer's Choice Awards represent the most recognized peer nominated and voted industry awards, and are therefore the most highly respected in the…
We've posted news about the footage of the Jurassic Park : Project Genesis earlier, but an actual playable demo has also been released. It's 78MB big, and contains 12 missions from the game! So if you want to see what those hard working Blue Tongue people have been working on, check out these links.
3d Gamers File front Gamershell AusGamers
Some of the speakers at the AGDC have posted their presentations (slideshows) on the web. There is a couple of items here that could be interesting to those of you that missed it.
View the schedule with links to the notes here
I hope you have been following Gamespy's 'Getting into the game industry' series of articles. The final part of the series was up on Friday, so if you haven't looked in to it yet, now's a good chance :) ..
As you know, Blue Tongue are nearing the completion of their eagerly awaited Jurassic Park: Operation Genesis game. They've also put up a trailer for you to download on their website. The entire trailer is of ingame footage, so be sure to have a look! You can also try here! Gamershell also has the goods!
