Game Development
EgoAnt’s “Connecting to Edmonton at GameCamp”
Jul 19th
Local indie developer Aaron Clifford (aka EgoAnt to those of you on twitter) wrote a fantastic blog post about this past weekends GamePub Talk , Q&A and Beers event that GameCamp Edmonton recently held.
If you are curious what goes on at one of our GamePub events, or if you were one of the many people that normally attends but happend to miss it, you can read Aaron’s thoughts on the event at http://www.egoant.com/blog/3-video-game-junky/67-connecting-edmonton-gamecamp.html .
July 2010′s Gamepub Event Another Success
Jul 19th
We want to give a special thanks to everyone who took the time to come out on a fantastic Sunday after a week of rain here in Edmonton and attend Gamepub. You guys helped make for another awesome event.
We want to give a special shout out as well to our three presenters at the event: Victor Rubba from Crazed Coders for demoing their soon to be released iPhone and iPad game Funner Gunner (and his artist Lisa Lindsay for demoing). Andrew Czarneitski for showing us another awesome serious game, an interactive training simulator on snubbing for the Oil & Gas industry More >
Seek Your Own Proof Featured in the NY Times!
Jul 19th
Ken Bautista sends us word that the NY Times has featured his game, the locally developed Seek Your Own Proof, in an article in their Sunday edition of their paper (http://mediadecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/07/18/making-museums-fun-for-all/) discussing how the Discovery Channel is trying to help make museums more fun for everyone by converging games with history and learning.
“The secret-agent themed game has been in a trial phase for several months, and won’t officially start until fall. But beginning Monday, players can take part in a hunt for clues at the King Tut exhibit at the Discovery Times Square Exposition in New York City. Once children find answers to More >
Bioware’s Zeschuk calls AAA development ‘a poor goal’ For Studio Culture
Jul 14th
Gamasutra has posted an article on Bioware’s Zeschuk thoughts on the goal of AAA game development and studio culture from his keynote speech at the Develop game developer conference that is currently taking place in the UK. Instead of focusing on simply becoming a AAA game developer the studio head recommends that you develop a studio culture instead that reflect’s your teams current goals and games.
“Think of company structure and culture like a game designer,” he encouraged. “Start by identifying what you want to be and the steps you need to take in order to get there, just like you would when More >
Windows Phone 7 Tools go beta
Jul 12th
Add another mobile platform to your arsenal with Win Phone 7. Check out the Windows Phone Developer blog.
Animation Week at the AGA
Jul 8th
We almost missed posting news about the fact that in celebration of the Warner Bros animation exhibit at the Art Gallery of Alberta, that the AGA is holding animation week, this very week (http://www.youraga.ca/programs-events/animation-week-at-the-aga/)!
While most of the week is over there is still time left to check out a few very cool presentations that are going on:
- Thursday, July 8th – 7pm: the AGA presents Gary Panter. An emmy award winning comic, Gary is also a painter, illustrator, designer and underground comic legend.
- Friday, July 9th – 7pm: the AGA will be running a film “Road Runner vs Wile E. Coyote” (various More >
Indie Fund looking for “unique” games
Jul 7th
The Indie fund started by Jonathan Blow, Kellee Santiago and the 2D Boy founders is looking for unique games to throw some money at. You can now apply on their site. It would be great to see some cool ideas from Edmonton getting funding. The budgets are most likely under $200,000US, but that’s still a fair amount for a small, but exciting title. Don’t be shy, go apply.
Digital Economy Action Plan
Jul 5th
There is only 3 days left to submit your suggestions and ideas on the Government of Canada’s “Digital Economy” Action Plan to help give your feedback on how the federal government can improve our digital industry here in Canada (which is ranked 17th out of the G20 nations). You can do so at http://de-en.gc.ca/home/
July 2010s Gamepub Talk, Q&A and Beer
Jul 5th
We ran into a few unfortunate circumstances that prevented us from holding a June GamePub event, so we hope that everyone is eagerly anticipating the July 2010 GamePub event!
If you are new to GameCamp Edmonton and/or have never heard about Gamepub Talk, Q&As and Beers, it is a monthly event that we organize to gather the various game developers that are in Edmonton & area. Its an opportunity for everyone to come together to network with peers, check out some great product demonstrations, technical talks and of course get away from the computer for some great food and drink at a fantastic local venue!
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BioWare co-founder talks about launching Beamdog and MDK2 HD
Jul 1st
BigDownload recently did an interview with local Edmonton developer Trent Oster about launching Beamdog and working on the in-development MDK2 HD. Trent talks about a variety of subjects including lauching Beamdog, what’s in store for MDK2 HD and more. (Read the Interview)