Brisbane IGDA and Game On announce season 2 2011
Game On Season 1 2011
Free Public Programs – All Welcome – Venue is The Glasshouse, QUT Creative Industries Precinct, Kelvin Grove unless otherwise indicated
Game On Aug 3rd 6.00 – 7.00 pm the glasshouse – Marketing your game – ninja style
The man behind Halfbrick’s world wide hit Fruit Ninja’s quirky internet ads comes to Game On to chat about the world of mobile and casual games marketing and his own somewhat unique approaches as well as Halfbrick’s rather interesting Friday afternoons …
Fruit Ninja – http://www.fruitninja.com/
HalfBrick – http://www.halfbrick.com/
Game On Sept 7th – Bringing the lads back
The first year we ran the fabulous 48 hour game making challenge we had four teams – our winning team that year was SIF90 – they came – they coded – they conquered. Much adored and beloved the SIF90 lads have since gone their own separate directions and we want to bring them back! A chat on making games, going indie and all stops in-between starring Tom Killen (The Voxel Agents - creators of Train Conductor) and Luke Muscat (Halfbrick Studios and lead designer on Fruit Ninja) with special guest star Henrik Pettersson the viking half of the team from QCA (The Sword Lady and The Viking) who won the 2010 Freeplay best design award for Up-Down-Ready … and whose team won the overall indie winner in the 2010 48hr game making challenge …
Fruit Ninja – http://www.fruitninja.com/
The Voxel Agents – http://www.thevoxelagents.com/
Join us for some stories and be inspired … and prepare for ….
Sept 30/Oct 1/ Oct 2 – The return of the fabulous 48hr game making challenge! Now in its fifth year …
Team registrations opening soon – watch our sites:
Brisbane IGDA: http://igdabrisbane.org
48hr game challegne: http://48hrgamecomp.com
Brisbane IGDA fb: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=319387216329
Twitter: @igdaBrisbane – @48hrgamecomp
Want to be involved – Why not enter our logo competition?
The 2011 48 Hour Game Making Challenge is pleased to announce the launch of its annual logo competition. The winner of this competition will have their logo on the official competition marketing materials as well as this year’s prizes and t-shirts. Your logo must include the text ‘2011 48 Hour Game Making Challenge’.
You must submit one image for each prize winning category:
- Winner 2011
- Best Audio
- Best Graphics
- People’s Choice
- Pro Team
- Who Dares Wins
Please submit your logo designs as Photoshop files (.psd) with a resolution of 300dpi.
more: http://igdabrisbane.org/2011/06/fab-48hr-game-making-challenge-logo-competition/
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E-mail submissions to Olivia at cippublicprograms@qut.edu.au
Logo submissions are due by 5pm on Friday August 5th. Winner will be notified by e-mail on Monday August 8th
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Game On and the 48hr game making challenge supported by:
Brisbane IGDA
QUT Creative Industries Precinct
iCi – Inst for Creative Industries & Innovation
Griffith Universtiy QCA
Qantm College, Brisbane
Southbank Institute of Technology
Many Thanks to all our lovely supporters – here is to another great season