Ideas for games: Inspiration?

With the bulk of similar games appearing on shelves these days, its no wonder that sometimes, you’ll feel like when you’ve played one, you’ve played them all.
Its true that if its tried and proven, don’t change it, but this formula only guarantees games that just follow a template and stick in the details later. FPSs start to differ only by the [...]

Social Gaming

Recently, the trend has been moving more and more towards “social gaming”. So you may wonder, what exactly does “social gaming” mean? And how does it differ from normal gaming and what exactly makes it “social”?
Generally, the term “social gaming” refers to gaming which includes a large social factor, e.g: games where you interact with [...]

GCA 2009 Conference Day 3 (19th Sept)

Well, that marks the end of my visits to Suntec for GCA 2009. Today’s conferences were aimed mainly for students and as such, most of the topics were focused on getting into the industry.
One particular talk that got my attention was “Lessons learned from 800 interviews” given by Mr Olivier de Rotalier (GM, Ubisoft Singapore). He [...]

GCA 2009 Conferences

Well, we’re into the end of the 2nd day of GCA 09 and I’ll cover the parts where ZX and Jonathan didn’t (or to be more precise, couldn’t), namely the stuff that people have to pay for to listen to. That’s right, the conferences. Besides, ZX & JT already did a good job of covering [...]

Your Future in Gaming

For most of us freshmen, we’re well into our ‘n-th‘ month in our Diploma in GET already. By now, things would have settled down and we’d have adapted to our life in a polytechnic already. Submitted a couple of projects and went through the whole process of studying for (or cramming for) the term tests. [...]

TGX & WCG 2009

TGX (The Games Expo) & WCG (World Cyber Games) 2009 was held recently at Suntec City Convention Hall 404 from the 3-5th july. Hosted by Games Exchange Alliance (GXA), a trade industry body in Singapore along with the Singapore Cosplay Club and Virtualand, it showcased a plethora of the latest games, gizmos and gadgets along with cosplay [...]

Board Games Cafe Visit

 
We recently had a class visit to a board game cafe located at SAFRA Tampines.
The Mind Cafe is a cafe-like establishment, much like Starbucks or Coffee Bean. It has a really nice ambience and it’s pretty suitable for gathering a few friends and having fun for a couple of hours. The cafe has a wide variety of [...]

E3: Sony’s Press Conference

I’d have to say that Sony’s Press Conference is much better visually than Nintendo’s. A lot more trailers and footage of actual games were shown.
There’s really too much great footage to describe in words, so I’d recommend viewing the trailers when they get released on the web.
Here are the games/trailers you can look out for:
Infamous
One [...]

E3: Nintendo’s Press Conference

I just caught Nintendo’s Live Press Conference at this year’s E3, online. Here are some of the highlights:
GAMES
Super Mario Bros. Wii (Wii)
For the 1st time ever, 1-4 players can play co-operatively (or competitively, if you want) in a Mario platformer.
Bower’s Inside Story (DS)
Another 1st time ever event, Mario and Luigi go on an adventure in….*gasp* [...]

Gaming and the Arts

Hi everyone!
Im honored to become a part of the GET community here and I hope I’ll be able to share with you all, some of the interesting things I come across as well as fun stuff and games related facts.
Well, for my first post here, I would like to talk about the spreading influence of [...]