Animation Skillnet is an industry led training network for the animation, games and VFX sectors in Ireland. They run subsidised, high-end training courses delivered by industry specialists and organise professional networking events and conferences for member company employees and freelancers. The following courses may be of interest to gd.ie readers.[...]
Hugh, Bryan and Brian from DIT have been rendering the video from the State of Play 2014 September Special that happened last month. They have kindly provided it now at this link, or you can enjoy it right here on gamedevelopers.ie tv :) The talks were to a packed house,[...]
Over the past 3 years, The Women in Games conference has become the European forum for women working in and around the computer games industry.
The following was sent to us by Steve C in Trinity. ***** The Interaction, Simulation and Graphics Lab, School of Computer Science and Statistics, TCD, is delighted to announce, in collaboration with IBM Ireland and IBM T.J. Watson Research Centre, a workshop on the new Cell Broadband Engine (BE). The[...]
“Interactive direction of virtual actors” Professor Ken Perlin Media Research Laboratory Department of Computer Science New York University 7:00pm Monday 20th November Joly Theatre Hamilton Building 4, Trinity College Dublin For further details, please see the website at: http://isg.cs.tcd.ie/cosulliv/KenPerlin.html Presentation Abstract The Interaction, Simulation and Graphics (ISG) Lab in Trinity[...]
A freely downloadable game call 'NanoQuest' has been developed by Cando Interactive, Fable Interactive and Claire Fitch in association with CRANN, a nanotech research centre in Trinity College Dublin and the Discover Science and Engineering Project.
Part of the week of games related events in Dublin and the CGames conf., Ernest Adams will give one of his well-received workshops on Games Design in Dublin. For more details and to register contact the organisers via http://www.comp.dit.ie/cgames/program.html Saturday 25th November, 2006 09:00 – 10:00 Registration 10:00 – 12:30[...]
The David Perry Talent-lab event will take place on Thursday 30th November, 2006 at Queen’s University. Registration is via Cinemagic at http://www.cinemagic.org.uk/events_talent_lab.htm
Dave Perry - founder and CEO of gamesconsultants.com and formerly President of Shiny Entertainment.
Just received the following call for papers which may be of interest to some. ***** CALL FOR PAPERS “The Philosophy of Computer Games” An Interdisciplinary Conference http://www.fps.no/gameconference.html http://www.fps.no/cfp.html We hereby invite scholars in any field who take a professional interest in the phenomenon of computer games to submit abstracts to[...]
Call for Papers - Microsoft Academic Days on Game Development in Computer Science Education
Games development is perhaps one of the least explored areas of accessible design. A new aesthetics theme at the upcoming 9th International Computer Games Conference to take place in Dublin from 22nd to 24th November 2006, will provide an opportunity for contributors to address a broad range of questions in[...]
If you are involved in games education then you should be interested in know that Game Developer magazine is in the process of preparing Game Developer's Fall 2006 Game Career Guide, a special issue of the magazine directed at prospective and current university students.
Judging is on the 17th and the awards will be given out and projects showcased on the 18th of August in Dundee. for more see http://www.daretobedigital.com/about/importantdates.php
Hard to believe but the LUDO course in Ballyfermot College of Further Education is ten years old and this year students on the course will showcase their final work experience project as part of the wider Ballyfermot Senior College open day which will take place on the 1st of June between 2 and 8 pm in the Irish Film Institute (IFI).
at the Irish Film Institute from 2-8pm. screenings of game intro at 2, 4, and 6.30pm in cinema and playable demo upstairs. including animation and games.. Find the IFI – http://www.irishfilm.ie/location.asp Ballyfermot College of Further Education – http://www.scb.ie/
The next Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA) conference will be held in Tokyo during September 2007.
Dare to be Digital in the Rep. of Ireland has now been confirmed and the full list of dates released. The key dates are: