Lots of chocolate, time with the family and a number one. What a nice way to spend the Easter weekend.
www.passfieldgames.com
Monday, March 24, 2008
Easter Weekend Surprise
I was chuffed to see Brainiversity sitting at number one on Big Fish Games' brain teaser Top 100 list this week.
Lots of chocolate, time with the family and a number one. What a nice way to spend the Easter weekend.
www.passfieldgames.com
Lots of chocolate, time with the family and a number one. What a nice way to spend the Easter weekend.
www.passfieldgames.com
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
PS3!
My PS3 finally arrived - and it's very cool. Yeah, I know, "welcome to 2007" (or 2006 in Japan).
Unfortunately the PS3 is at the opposite end of the house from my wifi - so I'm going to have to invest in a wireless bridge. Still, I get just enough of a signal that I've managed to sign on to PSN.
So what have I been playing? Well, I've been playing Portal and Burnout Paradise. Both are great games.
And of course the PS3 does Blu-ray. Man, is Blu-ray gorgeous. We've joined Quickflix, the Aussie knock of of Netflix and have a list a mile long of cool Blu-ray movies to get through. First up was Cars and it looked amazing. Ah, I love technology.
On a side note it's interesting watching the trends in the casual games space. Right now the Hidden Object game genre is hot. Gamers seem to be consuming these games with a passion. As with Match-3 games I wonder how long the trend will last, but then I think about the First Person Shooter trend that really kicked into high gear back in 1993 with Doom.
And you know what? It could last an awful long time :-)
www.passfieldgames.com
Unfortunately the PS3 is at the opposite end of the house from my wifi - so I'm going to have to invest in a wireless bridge. Still, I get just enough of a signal that I've managed to sign on to PSN.
So what have I been playing? Well, I've been playing Portal and Burnout Paradise. Both are great games.
And of course the PS3 does Blu-ray. Man, is Blu-ray gorgeous. We've joined Quickflix, the Aussie knock of of Netflix and have a list a mile long of cool Blu-ray movies to get through. First up was Cars and it looked amazing. Ah, I love technology.
On a side note it's interesting watching the trends in the casual games space. Right now the Hidden Object game genre is hot. Gamers seem to be consuming these games with a passion. As with Match-3 games I wonder how long the trend will last, but then I think about the First Person Shooter trend that really kicked into high gear back in 1993 with Doom.
And you know what? It could last an awful long time :-)
www.passfieldgames.com
Monday, March 10, 2008
Go Brisbane!
This is pretty cool.
iWin has two Aussie made games in the Top 10 this week.
At Number 4 is Magical Forest by 3 Blokes and at Number 6 is Tumblebugs 2 by Wildfire Studios.
Duncan and Marko from 3 Blokes did an awesome job of creating a brand new IP and launching it onto the global stage in less than a year. And this is their first game!
Congratulations to both 3 Blokes and Wildfire Studios for cracking the Top 10.
www.passfieldgames.com
iWin has two Aussie made games in the Top 10 this week.
At Number 4 is Magical Forest by 3 Blokes and at Number 6 is Tumblebugs 2 by Wildfire Studios.
Duncan and Marko from 3 Blokes did an awesome job of creating a brand new IP and launching it onto the global stage in less than a year. And this is their first game!
Congratulations to both 3 Blokes and Wildfire Studios for cracking the Top 10.
www.passfieldgames.com
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Back in Oz!
Woo hoo - I'm home in steamy hot Brisbane again. It's been raining a fair bit, but that's okay. It's welcome after the years of drought we've been experiencing.
As I mentioned in my last post, GDC was great, and I learned a lot.
Speaking of conferences, gameOn is on again this year. It's a series of free lectures presented by Creative Industries Precinct in conjunction with Kelvin Grove urban village and supported by the IGDA, Griffith QCA and QANTM. Anyway, I'm doing a talk on creating gamses on Wednesday 2nd April 5-6pm.
Click here and scroll down for more details!
www.passfieldgames.com
As I mentioned in my last post, GDC was great, and I learned a lot.
Speaking of conferences, gameOn is on again this year. It's a series of free lectures presented by Creative Industries Precinct in conjunction with Kelvin Grove urban village and supported by the IGDA, Griffith QCA and QANTM. Anyway, I'm doing a talk on creating gamses on Wednesday 2nd April 5-6pm.
Click here and scroll down for more details!
www.passfieldgames.com
Saturday, February 23, 2008
At GDC
I've been quiet this last week because I've been at GDC in San Francisco.
I've had a great time learning a lot of cool new stuff and catching up with a lot of good friends. It's ironic that I get to meet more Aussies here in the USA then I do back home. I got to say hi to Mark Bracken and Ross Symons from BigAnt, Steve Fawkner from Infinite Interactive, Mario, Jos and Tyrone from Sidhe Interactive - the list just goes on. It's great to see the Aussie industry has a strong presence at the show. In fact, the Queensland Games stand was one of the best - it even made front page of Wired.com.
The conference had some amazing speakers and my only complaint is that there are so many talks that I wanted to see scheduled at the same time. On one day I had five different sessions that I would have loved to sit in on - all at the same time! Luckily the GDC conference produces audio recordings of all the sessions, so I'll be able to catch up on these later.
Well, I'm about to pack my bags and check out of the hotel... then I'll be on my way home to Australia!
www.passfieldgames.com
I've had a great time learning a lot of cool new stuff and catching up with a lot of good friends. It's ironic that I get to meet more Aussies here in the USA then I do back home. I got to say hi to Mark Bracken and Ross Symons from BigAnt, Steve Fawkner from Infinite Interactive, Mario, Jos and Tyrone from Sidhe Interactive - the list just goes on. It's great to see the Aussie industry has a strong presence at the show. In fact, the Queensland Games stand was one of the best - it even made front page of Wired.com.
The conference had some amazing speakers and my only complaint is that there are so many talks that I wanted to see scheduled at the same time. On one day I had five different sessions that I would have loved to sit in on - all at the same time! Luckily the GDC conference produces audio recordings of all the sessions, so I'll be able to catch up on these later.
Well, I'm about to pack my bags and check out of the hotel... then I'll be on my way home to Australia!
www.passfieldgames.com
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