I've got to admit it, like a lot of iPhone and ipod Touch owners, I'm totally addicted to Flight Control. Like many addicts I can rationalise my addiction easily because this is an Australian game developed by Melbourne company Firemint. I'm not wasting time, I'm just supporting good old Australian digital media know-how. I'm also locked [...]
This has been a familiar refrain around my house all year and now I get it from my four year old after he's blown a few tunes on the Ocarina and Tap Tapped out a few more on my iphone. It all started last November with a concerted campaign by my eleven year old to [...]
It's worth checking out the Studio GameOn site which runs between Jan 5th and Feb 13th following the trials and tribulations of a team who are making a playable game during this six week period. The studio runs alongside the GameOn exhibition which is now in Brisbane fresh from its season at ACMI last year. [...]
On Friday we launched a new range of courses at AFTRS to be run in 2009. More information can be found here. Among the new courses are Graduate Diplomas in Game Design, Animation Directing and Virtual Worlds. The unique approach of these courses is to share core coursework in Directing Concepts and Skills, Emerging Media [...]
Connectivity is changing everything. Have been looking at some presentations from the Austin GDC conference and one slide of Raph Koster's presentation stood out for me. The game has changed The hot platform is the net The hot audience is the non-gamer The hot feature is other players The hot technology is connectivity The hot [...]
Ever thought that there are more popular activities than social networking and media sharing on the web? Apparently online gaming - particularly of the casual variety - is the most popular activity on the internet as attested in a recent article in gamesindustry.biz which you can read here. And for those hardcore gamers who don't [...]