Tag: Games

  • SPAA 2009 Reaching Your Audience – LAMPicks

    Australia’s leading screen conference, run by SPAA, is in Sydney this week and many multi-platform folk associated with LAMP & AFTRS in the past are in force with a record number of panels and sessions. The heavily featured 360 Media (and by implication Social Media) track sits nicely in the theme of this years conference ‘Reaching…

  • AFTRSTalks – LAMP Seminars Now Up on Vimeo

    It is always hard to decide on a good video sharing network for longer format material as YouTube &  many others have time and quality limitations. LAMP has put up its videos via iTunes store since 2005 as well as running a JWPlayer on it’s own virtual server. So we also just started an AFTRSTalks…

  • Social Media Counts

    LAMP’s Gary Hayes created, posted & paged (on his top 5 Australian AdAge blog, Personalizemedia) this simple flash app a few weeks ago to demonstrate the tsunami of content, communication and commercial activity across Social Media, Mobile and Games. The widget, embedded below, rather ironically went viral itself as it is was linked to from Wired,…

  • Surviving the Forest of Kellor

    Huge poisonous spiders lie ready to pounce as you carefully traverse a forest lit only by moonlight. This is one of the initiation rights you will face in One Night, a new game that has been prototyped by AFTRS lecturer Ian Brown using Unity3D software. He recently gave a presentation of the project at Gamejam09, the…

  • GameJam 09 – Come Play Talk Pitch Listen Invent

    AFTRS in conjunction with the IGDA Sydney are running GameJam 09. An interactive event by gamers for gamers – a day of playing, learning about and making games. Come be a spectator, play to win, or get involved in the creative jam session.  This free one day event features gaming competitions, seminars, networking and creative…

  • Vodcasts – Seminar: Art & Craft of Machinima

    STUDY GAMES AND VIRTUAL WORLDS part time at AFTRS in 2010 All video and audio below recorded at the AFTRS Theatre April 2009. LAMP pod and vodcasts are published through iTunes – click on the icon on the right if you have iTunes to subscribe now! SIX SEMINAR VIDEOS – Click the skip arrows to…

  • Vodcasts – Doco 2.0: Serious Games

    STUDY GAMES AND VIRTUAL WORLDS part time at AFTRS in 2010 All video and audio below recorded at the AFTRS Theatre April 2009. LAMP pod and vodcasts are published through iTunes – click on the icon on the right if you have iTunes to subscribe now! FOUR SEMINAR VIDEOS – Click the skip arrows to…

  • Podcast – Interactive Narratives

    The Practise of Interactive Narratives – Mark Stephen Meadows Mark provides us with a very accesible and compelling investigation into new forms of interactive narrative – alternate perspectives, interaction and user journeys. Using the analogy of “stories are about someone who has a problem more interesting than your own” he takes us through the conceptual…