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Romero on 3D Nomenclature
While discussing the UE3 editor, some friends and I wondered where the term “brush” came from to describe the pieces of 3D geometry that make up the base mesh of... (more)
DM-Rankin Remake
A colleague of mine is working on a remake of the original Unreal Tournament map favourite DM-Rankin for UT3. He’s already sunk 150 hours into it, and it’s only one... (more)
Pre-fab Game Design
There is something missing from most modern games. I have written a lot about this, and spent a long time trying to understand it. The last time I visited a... (more)
GDAA Lobbies Australian Government for Tax Breaks
From developmag.com:- The Game Developers Association of Australia has written to the Government’s arts minster and opposition minister demanding that the state extend its generous film tax credits scheme to include... (more)
Flagship Q&A
Ex-Blizzarder Bill Roper talks to Gamasutra about upcoming Diablo-esque FPS Hellgate: London and sister title Mythos.
IE 7 Workaround
If you are having trouble with IE 7 throwing up the Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage page anytime it encounters a website that does a USER_AGENT check to find... (more)
Design Exploits
Sometime MMO designer Damion Schubert recently spoke to a team member on the Shadowrun Demo about the decision to make it an FPS. It turns out some of the demo’s... (more)
Going Triple A
After six years working in the Australian games industry, I decided to cast my net overseas. For several years I had been following a vague game plan to get OS.... (more)
eGames & Entertainment Expo
Byron Scaf wrote: Australia’s largest electronic games and digital entertainment expo, the eGames & Entertainment Expo, is coming to the Melbourne Exhibition Centre from the 17th – 19th of November this... (more)
Melbourne House Future in Doubt
SMH.com.au/blogs have provided a gloomy update on the future of Atari Melbourne House… The future of one of Australia’s oldest and best-known development studios looks grim as its troubled parent company... (more)
Console Wars hits E3
This 2 minute (!) video of the line-up at E3 to play with the Nintendo Wii says something about the interest out there. Meantime, Kutaragi is defending the high PS3 pricing... (more)
Head-Tracking Game Dev Competition
Seeing Machines and the Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) are hosting a competition to develop ideas into working examples of how head tracking technology can be used to enhance interaction... (more)