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
Tripitaka posted this news item in the forum, which I think is good news to post on the site..
"COMPUTER games enthusiasts have new heights to aspire to with Australia's first degree in computer games technology....
But the degree is far from three years of playing computer games.
Programming skills, physics, vector calculus, algorithm design and analysis, artificial intelligence, mobile computing and modelling behaviour are all in the textbooks for students enrolled in the La Trobe University…
Submitted by Kelli Hagen
The Guildhall has announced the formation of a $200,000 Founders Series scholarship fund designed to assist outstanding students enrolled in the Digital Games Guildhall at SMU. Individual scholarships within the fund will be named for game development industry icons who have been instrumental in the founding and growth of the Guildhall.
Scholarships will be awarded to students in the cohort that begins in July 2003 on a combined need and merit basis. In order to be…
The very kind people at Infogrames have decided to donate a copy of Grand Prix Challenge (PS2) to be given to the winner of the 3rd Sumea 3D challenge - due to start around mid April.
So get into the current challenge round here to brush up on your modelling skills before the next round.
Just in case you've been living under a rock the last few months:
Grand Prix Challenge is a Formula 1 racing game created right here in Australia by the talented guys at Infogrames Melbourne House. The game…
