GCA Staff Notes by Malcolm – 4

11:00-11:50 “Art of Lucasarts Singapore”
Matt Aldrich (Lucasarts)
Matt Here conducted a very dry, visual viewpoint on a few games that they have been producing at Lucasarts. He didn’t want people taking pictures and there were obvious reasons for this, some of the art was from games that hadn’t been released yet.
First up was the Xbox version [...]

GCA Staff Notes by Malcolm – 3

Part 3 of Malcolm Stuart Grant’s notes from GCA. Parts 1 and 2 were here.:)
10:00-10:50 “Games of the Future and lessons from the past”
Don Daglow (Interactive Entertainment)
Don, somewhat like Chris Taylor, had an inform style slides’n’talk. Having somewhat longer time in the industry, he had a lot to tell everyone. He wrote the first Baseball game ever [...]

GCA Staff Notes by Malcolm – 2

Part 2 of Malcolm Stuart Grant’s notes from GCA. Part 1 was here.:)
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16:00-16:50 "The challenge of Creating New UP"
Chris Taylor, Creative Director & Founder, Gas Powered Games.
Chris pulled out an interesting talk basically about how long he had been in the industry and not massively on topic about coming up with a new ip. [...]

GET Visit to EON Reality at Biopolis

EON Reality is one of the world’s leading solution providers of 3D imaging technology, and GET was invited to its office at the Biopolis by the Singapore office’s managing director Mr. Sridhar Sunkad to see its technologies, hardware, and some of the project work done using its solutions.
Three staff – Mr. Toh Da Jun, Mr. [...]

GCA Staff Notes by Malcolm – 1

Mr. Malcolm Stuart Grant is the most recent addition to the GET teaching team at Temasek Polytechnic, and is formerly from Guerrilla Games and worked on Killzone 2. I asked if he could write on his experiences. Here’s the first, and it’s for GCA.:)
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Thursday September 17
14:00-14:50 “The history of Cultured Localization:  Taking on the eternal challenge [...]

North Zone Cluster Gaming Talk

This is a late post, but better late than never! Two Senior Year GET students and myself were at Maris Stella High School on the 15 Sep 2009 for a bit of a publicity event. The talk and presentation was for HODs and teachers in the North Zone cluster of schools in Singapore, with Maris [...]

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 [...]

GCA 2009

Well, I’ll say, that was interesting, at the very least. Apparently, the GCA this year’s quite a bit smaller than it had been last year. Considering that there’d been two other Game Conventions held in other parts of the world, along with the economic downturn, several companies held back from taking part in the GCA.
Still, [...]

WCG 2009

Hi readers, been a while since I last blogged huh? Well anyways, I will be writing on WCG. I know Aaron has blogged about the WCG event he attended however, I would love to share my experience with you too. I was given the opportunity to be a student helper for WCG during those 3 [...]