Who's Who in Australian Gaming

Interesting list - no offense to the people listed, but I can think of way more creative and successful people from the Aussie game industry:

Mike Fegan
Tom Crago
John De Margheriti
Graham Edleston
Bill McIntosh
George Fidler

There are plenty more!

Robert Walsh and Chris Mosely.

I think its nice that a bunch of actual developers get highlighted for once rather than the usual bunch of business guys who run the local companies.

Bu Bu Bu I thought Cameron Davis was going to get fired waaaaah

Wait, do you like him or not?

about as much as anyone could love a rectal wart

They should have listed some of the colourful QA guys we have in our industry. Those guys rock.

Haha, the QA guys are the best.

They're always the ones that get all the girls, have the best parties and seem to always have a ball.

I miss those days. --sniff

Scott.

i'm sure they make the job more fun. a game would get boring after playing it for months on end.

How about the story of a QA lead getting fired because he bought a case of beer to the office on a Friday afternoon? Perception, I'm looking at you!

I think most jobs you'd get fired from for doing that. Duty of care, workplace health and safety, liability, the list goes on.

When it comes to alcohol in the workplace, best to let management sort that out.

(No I'm not management anywhere)

Good companys provide the cases of beer on the friday afternoon

and let the staff get so smashed they vomit all over other peoples desks or go head first down flights of stairs, awsome stuff!!

LOL people that can't handle their liquor

Hmm, one of the best games this year to contain Australian content is Bioshock, you may have heard of it, but apparently Gameplayer has not.

Some lame ass website being run by a bunch of spotty little geeks asked a few studios "who are your good guys?" and then stuck them in a list. And then had the balls to call that Australia's cream of the crop.

Gameplayer is by the people who make the official Xbox 360 and PS3 magazines and T3. Spotty little geeks they are not :)

Good list.

Maybe they'd like to enlighted us on how they chose their list. Writing game reviews in magazines does not qualify someone to publish game developer A lists.

Jeez guys, remind me not to make a similar list in the future. It's all subjective anyway, but I thought it was all good.

Oh, I think Gameplayer are aware of ˜BioShock™. They've given it plenty of coverage, including a 10/10 review back in August. A thorough reading of the ‘Who's Who' article makes it clear that additional developers will appear on the list in the future. Although Irrational / 2K Australia were apparently unavailable to participate in the article when it was being compiled, it is probably safe to assume that a representative of the studio will appear on the list at some point.

The remark suggesting that Gameplayer isn't qualified to express a view on the talent of games developers is strange. That's like saying you can't offer an opinion on your favourite photographs unless you know how to build a camera.

So they went ahead an published the list, titling it “Cream of the Crop” knowing they had major omissions. Professional, very professional.

it's got you lot all ranting. mission accomplished really.

Any list representing creative talent and success that opens with Cameron Davis has no credibility

I think this news post has been worded a bit wrong. I have nothing against magazines or whatever coming up with lists of developers but the words "article identifying the most creative and successful talents" should have been more like
"article identifying creative and successful talents"
"gameplayer's most creative and successful talents"

since this is just gameplayer's opinion it needs to be conveyed as such.

"Spotlight on local developers" maybe?