Kenn Hoekstra has published the final page of his on going series on getting a job in the game industry. This one is titled, "Take Me There and Make Me a Part of It, Part III: Foot-in-the-door skills for the games industry and beyond". This seems to be written for someone who has a contact and a first interview in the works for a gaming company. Aht to expect, what to prepare and how to prepare it is discussed. You can find the article on
I found a new game in the making that I never noticed before.
nuCLEARvision is working on PSYCHOTOXIC which they call "
A hard-hitting and innovative, innovativer (First Person Shooter) featuring an equally hard-hitting and innovative babe as main character!"
It is based on 4 apocolyptic horsemen. It is now schedules to be released in the early 2003 year.
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From the
HAVOK website:
MOPP (Memory Optimised Partial Polytope) is a completely new way of compressing bounding volume data for arbitrary polygon meshes. It has a dramatically reduced memory footprint compared with traditional bounding volume approaches without sacrificing any runtime performance.
Bigger and faster games are on their way.... [
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Looking for game engines to develop your new game? Add this one to the list:
Shark 3D. They claim to be
a complete system for creating interactive online 3d content. The engine can be used immediately to create and run new content by creating artwork in combination with configuration and scripting.... [
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As the year 2001 finally comes to a close,
HomeLAN got a chance to ask number of game developers two end-of-year style questions:
1. Besides your own game, what PC or console game released in 2001 was your favorite and why?
2. Besides games you are working on, what PC or console game due out in 2002 are you most looking forward to playing and why?
See what they had to say on
Part II: The structure of a game company and where you fit in by Kenn Hoekstra. Check out
CGOnline for what Kenn suggests you do to further your carreer.
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Westwood Studios has announced that the next release of Command & Conquer will be accompanied by the support for GMax. GMax is
Discreets free version of 3D Studio Max that is to support game modification. User creations will be playable in both single and multiplayer modes.... [
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WOW! I just found out that a new television network station is about to be launch in my area.
G4 MEDIA will be a television network dedicated to the gamer.
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G4 is a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week television network dedicated to creating a lifestyle brand that is the source of entertainment, news and information about the interactive entertainment industry, including video, computer, online and wireless games,
for men (18-34) and... [ There's more ]
John Scott added to his .plan file today. He wanted to point out great offer to Voodoo Video card owners.
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NVIDIAŽ Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA - news), in conjunction with PNY Technologies, announced today the ``Got Voodoo - Get Verto' online redemption promotion for 3dfx(TM) Voodoo(TM) graphics card owners. For a limited time, end-users can trade in their Voodoo graphics cards with the purchase of select models of PNY Verto graphics cards for a cash-back rebate. In addition, an NVI... [ There's more ]
As some of you know, I have been looking for a game controller that could possibley meet the needs of an online action gamer like myself. I realize that the keyboard is an awesome tool, but I still think there could be improvement. So, rather then build my own controller, I am testing out what I can afford.... [
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