The first Game Connect: Asia Pacific conference was on last weekend, and we have some footage of the event on Sumea! All coverage was taken by our attendee, Peter Davis, and we'll be posting some more later on.
Game Connect: Opening with Evelyn Richardson (31mb) CEO and President of the Game Developers? Association of Australia, Evelyn Richardson, opens the conference with some brief comments on the industry, including the closure various studios since last year. Evelyn also talks about the results of the national survey the GDAA recently made (with support by the Victorian and Queensland goverment) on the Australian games industry.
Game Connect: Opening part 2 with Gary F. (40mb) Gary is the MP Parliamentary secretary to the Ministry of State Development, Employment, and Industrial Relations in Queensland. Gary chats about the support the Queensland government has provided for the games industry, as well as talks up a fair bit about the games industry in Queensland.
Jungle Escape demonstration (30mb) Jungle Escape was an entrant in the Best Unsigned Game (Independent) category in the GD:AP awards. The platformer game was developed by the AIE students in Canberra calling themselves Alien Technologies.
If you have footage of the Play Station party let me just say...... I DENY EVERYTHING, you can't prove anything.....it's all done with computers!
Looking forwards to seeing the rest of the videos, thanks.
naw im not enough of a big-wig to get into the sont party.
Sony party == camo hoes + free booze + shenanigans. Video must be posted.
You always deny everything Dobele! :P
The AIE Canberra game is called Jungle Escape.
The development team for it is called Alien Technologies.
I like games
#5 whoops, it's corrected now. I told you that I was in a hurry ;)
I had organized Peter to attend the Sony party, but it looks like he didn't go. I can't make anyone go, of course, but it would've been cool to see what happened there :) Maybe next year I will go!
It was kind of sad - hiring women to just "hang around" is juvenile, and also misses the point of the whole get-together.
I would've preferred to be able to talk to my colleagues while getting happily drunk.
That's pretty much what I did, they didn't get in the way..
I thought it was nice of Sony to go the extra mile, considering how much money they've lost recently ;)
Sony have always been strong supporters of the AGDCs and now the GCAP. I was surprised to see such a limited MIcrosoft presence though.
I have heard that the new conference wasn't organised as well as it should have been. Is anyone going to do a write up of the event?
Peter Davis is finishing up a write-up of Game Connect for Sumea, and I'll be uploading the closing presentation and also some footage of Fury sometime tonight or tomorrow.