Sauce

Well I rocked up for a lecture today at university and the guy in front of me opens up his laptop and loads some game game which appears ot be using the Source engine! Alright I didn’t think the Orange Box was out yet, but it does appear that he was playing portal. The entire lecture nobody sitting near me was paying attention to the lecturer, we were all watching this guy play portal. Must say that it looks pretty cool.

What I’m surprised about is the lack of enthusiasm about the Orange Box! Seriously, I forgot that it was coming out, but I am still waiting until next week for the Xbox 360 version 🙂

Australian Gaming Industry

I would like to write a little about the gaming industry here in Australia, and in Queensland in general.

Many of you who are interested in game development might not realize what the bigger picture is like and who is involved. I myself was quite surprised to discover the number of game development companies in Brisbane alone. Quite interesting.

Firstly I would like to draw attention to the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) and to the Australian Game Developers Conference (AGDC).

Focus Testing

Got my first chance today to take part in a focus test for an unannounced game being developed by Halfbrick Studios. We were originally going to test two games but what was supposed to be a one hour focus test session turned into a few hours of playing and talking about ideas which was really fun. So we only got a chance to play with one of their games.