IGDA Brisbane have been publishing a series of quick "fast five" interviews with some great local developers in the lead up to their Game On Symposium: Foreplay to Freeplay event which is happening on Saturday and Sunday, this weekend in Brisbane.
If you haven't made up your mind yet on going then I'm sure these phenomenal folks who'll be participating in discussion panels, show'n tells, open mic's, or showing off their work on the floor at GoS will help convince you to register right away!…
Hi All, I'm a freelance artist based out of Melbourne, I work mainly in publishing and advertising but I would love to branch out into some game art. All comments welcome.
When: 7pm-11pm, Tuesday 17th, July
Where: 1000 Pound Bend, 361 Little Lonsdale St, Melbourne (round the back)
IGDA Melbourne have organised an event with one of, if not THE most prominent game audio artists in Australia, the one and only Mick Gordon. He's worked on some incredibly well known multi-million dollar franchises out there including the Need for Speed series of games as well as big licensed titles (The Last Airbender and Marvel Super Hero Squad: Comic Combat) for some of the…
NEW WORKSHOP WELLINGTON, NZ LAUNCHED!!!
A blockbuster event featuring the stars of WETA Workshop with a special once in a lifetime meeting with Robh Ruppel. Come rub shoulders with the concept elite!
September 3-8th 2012
Te Whaea: National Dance and Drama Centre
Check out the website for more info:
www.conceptdesignworkshop.com
I'm looking to make contact with a programmer in the Melbourne area while programmers from other states are welcome too for the purpose of developing an iPhone app. I'm a 3D artist and I'd like to develop an app idea I've been working on in my free time.
This iPhone app will be for a niche market with special emoticon graphics and designs. The app will allow users to create emoticons, for people who love to chat and share them with others. The app will involve social interactive components,…
Great news for everyone who couldn't make it to Game Masters exhibition launch in Melbourne last week and envied all the tweets and heightened activity happening during the Game Masters : The Forum. The two-day forum was host to a whole bunch of developer talks and panel discussions including one to one conversations with international developer superstars, Warren Spector and Tim Schafer.
The panel discussions involved some of the local games developer greats on a range of interesting topics…
PlaySide Studios, a new Melbourne based mobile games developer consisting of former Visceral Games Melbourne employees, have announced their first game, Catch The Ark.
Catch The Ark aims to push the endless-runner genre further, so expect fast paced obstacle dodging and a whole bunch of coin collecting, as well as some mini-bosses and dangerous creatures thrown in the mix as well. The visuals are coming along extremely nicely too and the game features three cute characters who command a raft in…
Mark Serrels has written up a great piece for Kotaku AU on Disparity Games, a new indie games start-up created by former Krome Studios employees, Jason and Nicole Stark.
After the collapse of Krome Studios in 2010 and finding himself going through another studio closure with KMM Games in Brisbane, Jason Stark had some rather tough decisions to make on where to go next.
The available options were few, but unlike some of his colleagues, he decided against packing up the family and moving…
At 23 weeks pregnant, a scan on Brianna Hammond's unborn child revealed an abnormality with her baby's heart. Diagnosed with Pulmonary Atresia with VSD (in layman's terms a closed vessel and a hole in the heart), Brianna's child will need immediate life-saving postnatal surgery. Independent game developer Samuel Cartwright has banded together with other local game developers to create Games for Growing a Broken Heart, a series of mobile games to raise funds for the Hammond family.
Brianna's…
True Blue Entertainment have announced Rugby League Live 2 today and it looks fantastic! The newly released screenshots of it show off some really detailed and customisable player models, weather effects (where mud stains will stick on player's uniforms), all set in some very scenic looking stadiums too.
Rugby League Live 2 promises an "innovative new gameplay experience, accurately capturing the speed, creativity and strategy of today’s Rugby league" and it's being developed by Melbourne's Big…
