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Monday, November 10, 2014

Boast: My Talented Games Project Students!

On Friday the 31st October our games degree had its industry showcase at the QUT Cube. Gaute Rasmussen from SAE spoke and a great night was had by around 300 people playing the games created by our students.

Photos are available here: http://1drv.ms/1EnRtZ2.

Our students also published their games that week to the web and generated some great outcomes. At one stage one of the games, "Primitives," was sitting at number 2 on IndieDB! I counted six of our games on the IndieDB banner, highlighted by the site. Great stories have ensued of teams being reviewed on Rock Paper Shotgun and other leading blogs, and of course, the regular YouTube playthroughs from our Russian fans.

Matt Ford and I had a ball supervising them this year. They have been the best we have ever seen in this unit.

But, don't take my word for it, here is a list of the games available at IndieDB, please download and enjoy!

Sunday, November 9, 2014

Boast: You know you have the best job in the world...

...when your employer buys five Oculus Rifts for you to use. :-)

Ross

Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Invite: QUT Games Degree Showcase

QUT’s Science and Engineering Faculty is pleased to invite you to the QUT Bachelor of Games and Interactive Entertainment (BGIE) End of Year Showcase.

Date:Friday, 31st October, 2014

Time:5:00pm – 9pm (5:30pm Proceedings Start)

Venue: The Cube, Level 4, P Block, Gardens Point Campus, QUT, 4001

Map - GP Location Map

RSVP:Please RSVP to Ross Brown

(Email: r.brown@qut.edu.au)

Come and see demonstrations of the best polished and published games created by BGIE degree students. The show is an opportunity for you and other industry to meet our graduating students and see their outstanding work.

Have fun playing these new games and catch up with friends and colleagues from the industry!

Saturday, October 27, 2012

Brag: zOMG IndieDB, it’s teh QUT Pwns!

This has been a great week for our QUT Games and Interactive Entertainment students. The final year project students are made to release their games to a popular independent game development site called IndieDB (www.indiedb.com). IndieDB is used as a distribution channel by a number of very popular indie games, such as Minecraft.

A number of our teams have had some amazing results this week on the IndieDB site, with at one stage nine teams being in the top one hundred, two of them making the top ten and three (Applied Science, Crank and Torak) being featured on the main site banner at the same time.

But my favourite is seeing one QUT game, Rotation Fixation, briefly climb to number four, just above Minecraft!

We have also heard many stories of games sites running reviews of their games and a magazine planning to package a QUT game on a DVD they are giving away for free.

For our student teams, these are great achievements, showing that they are doing some excellent work. Matt Ford and myself, as unit supervisors, are very, very proud.

So, you are all welcome to come along to the BGIE Industry showcase on Friday, 2nd Nov., to play these games, and mingle with the students and local industry reps.; or you can download the games from the links below.

Ross