March 26, 2013, Game Developers Conference, San Francisco—A group of lecturers from industry and academia talked about applications of AI in game development. The speakers were: Luke Dicken (University of Strathclyde), Dino Dini (NHTV University of Applied Sciences, Breda, Netherlands), Brian Schwab (Blizzard Entertainment), Steve Rabin (DigiPen Institute of Technology), Jeff Orkin (Independent), Daniel Brewer…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013, we met with Stefano Corazza CEO of Maxiamo (http://www.mixamo.com/ ) which has brought a new dimension to character design and rigging to the game development community. Their cloud based service utilizes standard and custom 3D character generation complete with rigging for motion, going into the games and animation. Starting…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013 in San Francisco, we met with Geometrics to see their new lighting middleware that is designed for users of the Unreal Engine V4 (UE4) and their own graphics/rendering engine.. The middleware which is currently available on the Unreal Engine V3 (UE3) has been around for over 5 years. The…
April 2013 – In the content creation world, the transmedia market is now opening up the development to professionals working on projects that are sharing both files and completed content assets. One of these areas of convergent is the gaming and broadcast industry. We had the opportunity to meet with Content Creation Specialty VAR ALT…
At GDC2013, the focus was on the globalization of the gaming industry and the resulting tools and development successes that drive this system. As a result, many foreign governments were promoting the “pro gaming” culture and economic strengths in their region, to help bring new jobs and economic growth. Some of these exhibit areas were…
“Real Boxing is our biggest success, the most valued brand for Vivid Games so far” – said Remigiusz Koscielny, CEO of the company during GDC 2013 in San Francisco. He added that even though the company developed over 150 games over the years, their recent strategy is to design one big hit game as a core…
March 2012- San Francisco, CA – At the Game Developer Conference in SF, Turtle Beach was showing their marketshare leading wireless headphone products and thier unique features that have been implemented for developers. The company, which has been a leader in the audio products since 1975 (pre-gen 1 of the gaming industry) currently has over…
March 2012 – San Francisco, CA – Autodesk held an event at their San Francisco Gellery to give an overview of their new enhancements to their middleware and workflow product line Gameware. The enhanced workflow tools are bringing a larger portion of the development cycle in to a common platform to allow developers to have…
March 2012, San Francisco, CA – At the Game Developer’s Conference in SF, a major focus was the rise in mobile gaming and mobile devices – both tablets and phones – as the fastest growing platform. These platforms are challenged by the power limitation imposed by the rechargeable battery for the device. The fixed and…