MIT has put students to work creating mobile applications for the iphone and android platforms among others. The results look impressive after a 13 week development period. They're predicting that creating this kind of application is only going to get easier over time. Read the article and see a selection of the applications featured here. [...]
Gamejam 08 is coming up very soon. A group of us are running a game pitching event this coming Saturday from 10am - 4pm at AFTRS in the Entertainment Quarter in Sydney. Come along and demo a game, pitch an idea for a game or virtual world or attend our rapid ideas development workshop. Among [...]
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 [...]
I instantly fell in love with Jenova Chen's game FlOw when I first played it last year. It's such a contemplative experience to play the game - a rare thing in an increasingly accellerated and anxiety ridden world. Tonight I discovered Jenova's earlier game Cloud which he completed while a student at USC. I had [...]
This is not an alliance that I would have predicted but boy does it have potential to produce something interesting. There's a great series of interviews available with both Corey and George (separately) on Ngai Croal's Level Up Newsweek blog which you can read here. The big news is that they are going to make [...]
I'm not a huge Oprah fan but this is an amazing video from a courageous and inspiring man called Randy Pausch giving his 'last lecture'. I've blogged about Randy Pausch before - he is one of the founders of the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and was jointly responsible for developing an amazing and [...]