The second annual International Conference on Game Jams, Hackathons, and Game Creation Events (ICGJ 2017) has decided to extend the final deadline for the Call for Papers. This conference builds on an expanding number of conferences, workshops series and research evaluating, enhancing, and improving game creation events. The conference proceedings[...]
Immersive VR Education has been in touch about their latest news. Immersive VR Education have recently won another international award for their educational experience, Apollo 11 VR. Apollo 11 VR gives users the ability to witness the moon landing first-hand, from the view point of Neil Armstrong. The Waterford-based company have taken[...]
Screen Training Ireland and Animation Skillnet will launch the next round of the VFX and Animation Graduate Traineeship Programme with a one day symposium packed full of exciting talks on the latest technological advances in the area of VFX, animation, games and VR. It will take place in Dublin on Saturday[...]
Check out these upcoming Sept/Oct evening courses in Dublin and please spread the word. 1) An Introduction to 3D with Maya (5 Monday Evenings): http://animationskillnet.ie/19-09-16-an-introduction-to-3d-with-maya-5-monday-evenings 2) An Introduction to Toonboom Harmony – with a focus on rigging (5 Tuesday Evenings): http://animationskillnet.ie/20-09-16-introduction-to-toonboom-harmony-with-a-focus-on-rigging-5-tuesday-evenings 3) Production Management for Animation (5 Wednesday Evenings): http://animationskillnet.ie/21-09-16-production-management-for-animation-5-wednesday-evenings[...]
IMIRT, the association representing game makers (digital and analogue) in Ireland, is holding elections in September and is seeking nominations now. The deadline for nominations is Wed 31st Aug 2016. The 2016 Board elections for Imirt will happen in late September. There will be three seats available for nominees (next year[...]
Animation Skillnet are delighted to team up again with Screen Training Ireland, the Irish Film Board and a host of top Irish Animation and VFX studios to run the second iteration of the highly successful graduate traineeship programme for the animation and vfx sectors in Ireland. The pilot programme[...]
The Network in Play partners (including Coding Grace, gamedevelopers.ie, Imirt, Pulse College, Dogpatch Labs and Maynooth University) are organising three FREE workshops in Dublin in August/Sept. aimed at beginners who are interested in learning about designing, writing and coding for games. These workshops follow up on our surveys which we[...]
The 6th Irish Conference on Game-Based Learning (iGBL2016) will be be hosted by Trinity College Dublin on 1st and 2nd September 2016, and bookings are now open. iGBL provides a forum for all stakeholders interested in exchanging ideas, projects, and best practice on the use of games and game-based approaches[...]
MusTWork16 – Music Technology Workshop 2016: Establishing a Partnership Between Music Technology, Business Analytics and Industry in Ireland Readers on gd.ie might be interested in the following one-day event which will be held on Friday June 10th 2016 in the Michael Smurfit Business School, UCD, Carysfort Avenue, Blackrock, Co Dublin. The[...]
We have received further information on the Insomnia event taking place in June, in the INEC in Killarney. The event which takes place from the 10-13 of June is a festival of game related activities including live stage shows, eSports tournaments, and panel talks. There is also a Minecraft Zone, Retro Zone, Retail[...]
Eimear Noone and her team return to Dublin with the globally successful Video Games Live and iDIG Music Festival on the 29th/30th of April. There is also an indie showcase featuring Imirt members and a game jam in this two day event. The festival runs April 29th and 30th at the[...]
Develop:Brighton are looking for submissions for their sixth Indie Showcase competition. The competition is totally free to enter and all 10 finalists will get the opportunity to show off their games to around 1,800 developers, publishers and media at Develop:Brighton, pre-event[...]
The annual Games Fleadh, an all-island games design and development competition for third-level students, takes place in LIT Thurles on March the 9th. Launching the event at the Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) campus in Thurles were 4th year Game Design students, Sean O’Connor and Tommaso Marenzi (in pic). This year[...]
To mark International Women’s Day on the 8th of March, Vicky Lee (Coding Grace) and Aphra Kerr (Maynooth and gamedevelopers.ie) are combining with Digit Game Studies and DogPatch Labs to showcase the creativity and skills of women working in the games industry in Ireland. In celebration of International Women’s Day, we[...]
Pewter Games Studios is a small Irish game development studio based in Dublin and focusing on the creation of unique and memorable story-driven games. Read more about them at http://pewtergamesstudios.com/press/ ‘The Little Acre’ is coming to PCs and consoles in 2016 and they have been previewing their work recently at Pax south[...]
Given the year that is in it this looks like a nice initiative revolving around games and creativity. Last week saw the launch of MindRising 2016, a competition celebrating 200 years of the island of Ireland. Teams of primary and secondary school children will work on their[...]
On Sat. the 6th of Feb. some regulars on gamedevelopers.ie, Aphra Kerr from Maynooth University and Jamie McCormick from Advanced Marcomm Services joined with Colman Noctor, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist and Lecturer in Trinity College Dublin to discuss games, online culture, children and parenting with Sarah Carey on her show Talking Point[...]
More high level short training courses on offer in Dublin from Animation Skillnet. Feb/March evening courses in the Guinness Enterprise Centre, Dublin. 1) Introduction to Toonboom Harmony (5 Tuesday Evenings) – http://animationskillnet.ie/09-02-16-introduction-to-toonboom-harmony-5-tuesday-evenings/ 2) Introduction to Nuke Compositing (5 Wednesday Evenings) – http://animationskillnet.ie/10-02-16-introduction-to-nuke-compositing-5-wednesday-evenings/ 3) Lighting and Look Development for CG Production (5 Thursday Evenings) – http://animationskillnet.ie/11-02-16-lighting-and-look-development-for-cg-production-5-thursday-evenings/
Get school students excited about coding and participate in I’m an Engineer, Get me out of here Ireland! I’m an Engineer is an online activity where engineers talk to school students from all over Ireland at imanengineer.ie. Games developers are wanted for the Coding Zone in the next event, funded by SFI Discover and running between 29th February–11th[...]
Deadline for Creative Europe Media Videogame Fund is 3/3/2016 at 11am (local time) or 12.00 noon Brussels time. A total fund of €2.6 million is available for narrative driven games on any platform. An individual project can apply for up to €150,000. Previous Irish awardees include StoryToys and Tribal Interactive.[...]
The next Midlands Information Technology ( MIT) meeting will be held on Tuesday 26th January at 7pm, Old Reading Room, Annebrook House Hotel. Mullingar. MIT are delighted to announce Rob Acton as a guest speaker who will be giving a presentation entitled “The Midlands as a Gaming Technopolis”. Rob will discuss the current gaming[...]
Richard Barnwell from DIGIT is speaking at Startup Grind Dublin next week. Richard is CEO and founder of DIGIT Game Studios, based in Dublin. He was interviewed for gamedevelopers.ie recently. StartUp Grind Dublin events are focused on delivering an inspirational and educational meetup for aspiring entrepreneurs, or those looking for[...]
As many of our readers already know Brenda and John Romero moved to Galway in the West of Ireland this Autumn, just in time for our torrential rain and floods. When did they last see rain like that! They have been busy. They have established Romero Games Ltd. Brenda was[...]
Imirt, The Irish Game Makers Association has announced that it has awarded €46,150 in tuition scholarships to 25 of its members in partnership with the Game Developers Conference (GDC) and UBM Tech. The Game Developers Conference (gdconf.com) is the premiere conference for game developers in the world and is held each Spring[...]
There are currently two ways to try and reduce your costs for getting to GDC in San Francisco next year. IGDA scholarships The IGDA Scholarships program have announced that 18 scholarship recipients to GDC will receive a travel reimbursement stipend courtesy of the IGDA Foundation’s generous donors and recent fundraising efforts[...]
A new book aimed at younger coders will provide source code for twenty classic game types. Young coders can type in the code directly and then run it. “I wanted to createa book that would get non-coders interested and allow them to have fun creating games using code.” – Gary[...]
Execution Labs in Montreal, Canada is now taking applications for the winter 2016 cohort of the Execution Labs Accelerator programme. The deadline is November 22nd. Execution Labs is run by a team including Jason Della Rocca and it brings indie teams with a commercial orientation into a three month mentorship[...]
The IGDA and the IGDA Scholarship Committee are delighted to announce that the 2016 IGDA Scholarship Program is kicking off with applications for the Game Developers Conference (GDC) in 2016. The program is open to all students and recent graduates in fields related to game development. Applications should be[...]
Pulse College launches FREE Course in Gaming & Interactive Technologies for long term unemployed Pulse College, the education faculty of world renowned Windmill Lane Studios, specialising in education programmes in Music, Audio, Filming, Gaming and Animation announced a FREE 33 Week Course in Self Employment for Gaming & Interactive[...]
Imirt: The Irish Game Makers Association represents game makers from all disciplines throughout Ireland, both analog and digital. They have just held online elections to elect their first board. The board members are: Chris Gregan – has worked in the games industry for 13 years. He is currently a founder at Fungus[...]
Two Irish companies have been nominated for the 2015 Game Industry Awards. TIGA is the non-profit trade association representing the UK’s games industry. Members include independent games developers, in-house publisher-owned developers, outsourcing companies, technology businesses and universities. Each year they organise the TIGA’s Games Industry Awards to focus on the[...]
It has been announced this month that Microsoft has acquired Havok, the Dublin based physics company, from Intel. Below is the press release. ************* As we welcome Havok to the Microsoft family, we will continue to work with developers to create great games experiences, and continue to license Havok’s development[...]
Wave of 90’s nostalgia forecast, following announcement of a new Biker Mice from Mars smartphone game. If you grew up in the early 90’s in Ireland, chances are you tuned into ‘The Den’ on Network 2 to watch Lawrence Limburger’s latest plot to wreak havoc on Chicago and the efforts of[...]
Games Fleadh 2016 will take place on Wednesday March 9th 2016 in LIT Thurles, Co. Tipperary. Supported by Microsoft Ireland, EA Games and the Irish Computer Society, the 13th annual Games Fleadh will feature Robocode and the Game Studio ‘Tower Defence’ competitions. Games Fleadh will also feature games development and research talks[...]
Public Vote now open! Rocket Rainbow is an independent games studio founded by experienced game developers who grew up in the mobile space. Some of them were based in the Dublin PopCap office until that closed. Their game Hay Ewe has been nominated for a TIGA Games Industry Award, 2015.[...]
Imirt, The Irish Game Makers Association, represents game makers from all disciplines throughout Ireland, both analog and digital. They are currently holding elections for their first board. Voting will take place from Monday 21st to Friday 25th September (voting closes at midnight on the 25th). Anyone who is a member[...]
With new speakers being added all the time there is now an extensive list of speakers for the Sept. 10th event in the Mansion House, Dublin which this year has a focus on product innovation. Games Ireland, Riot, Digit, Enterprise Ireland and the IDA are co-organising the event. Tickets (€49)[...]
Animation Skillnet provides subsidised training solutions to the animation, games and VFX sectors in Ireland. They run high-end, bespoke training courses designed and delivered by industry specialists and they organise and support professional networking events and conferences for these sectors in Ireland and internationally. Check them out here: http://animationskillnet.ie/[...]
Early stage games companies have until 4th September to submit their application and get a chance to pitch in front of 10-12 high level international equity investors with a track record of investing in the video games industry or who have a financial interest in the sector (business angels, family[...]
The German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce is hosting a trade mission from Germany at the beginning of September aimed at establishing and maintaining German-Irish business partnerships in the Software Development and Online-gaming sector. On the 8th of September there will be a “German-Irish Digital Innovation Summit”. Speakers include: 1[...]
Zombie Ablockalypse, by Gazzapper Games, is a fast arcade action game with colourful cartoon graphics. The premise of the game is that your civilians are under threat from a Zombie Virus that is spreading fast throughout the towns. The game is an entry for the 2015 IGMC (Indie Game[...]
Recently Lord David Puttnam opened the exhibition BOOLEAN EXPRESSIONS which is currently at the Glucksman Gallery in University College Cork. This exhibition explores the ways in which artists use mathematical concepts and systems in their work. Inviting audiences to investigate ideas of Boolean algebra, the impact of ‘big data’ on contemporary life, and how[...]
The German-Irish Chamber of Industry and Commerce is hosting a trade mission from Germany at the beginning of September aimed at establishing and maintaining German-Irish business partnerships in the Software Development and Online-gaming sector. The Irish Digital and Software space is one of the fastest growing sectors in Ireland[...]
A Dublin-based company that makes social video games for a range of different devices is to create 100 jobs over the next three years. KamaGames has said the new roles will include positions in game design, marketing, finance, HR and business development. The first 50 roles will come on stream in the next[...]
Galway-based 9th Impact, who build games for mobile phones, have released their newest game to the App Store today, July 1st. Robotory is an endless arcade game, exclusively on iOS, which features a group of Robots who are trying to escape their factory as the floodwaters rise. They must jump[...]
The first general meeting of Imirt, The Irish Game Makers Association, will be held on the 30th of June in Odessa at 5.30pm (before DubLudo). This is a chance to get talking about Imirt directly. We’re going to gather the seats around to create a comfy and open meeting for anyone who[...]
Occasionally gamedevelopers.ie organises informal social gatherings. What is infrequent is special – and on Thurs the 25th we aim to bring all the different groups together for a summer meet up, some drinks and if you wish, some food. Find out what is happening, see who is hiring, discuss courses and[...]
Ubisoft Montreal the first to adopt new Havok FX technology in upcoming shooter – Tom Clancy’s Rainbow Six Siege Havok needs little introduction on this site. The award winning Irish technology company based in Dublin and leading provider of interactive 3D game development technology, has launched a new product[...]
As presented at State of Play 2015 in Dublin by Chris Gregan, Fungus is an open source tool and we are delighted to hear that it is now available via the Unity Asset Store. Add colourful characters and craft gripping storylines for your game – for free and with no[...]
Exciting news for Colm Larkin, Gambrinous and the Irish indie game dev scene. Gambrinous, an independent game development studio located in Dublin, Ireland and indie publishing powerhouse Versus Evil have announced a July 14 release date for the highly anticipated dungeon-building role-playing game (RPG) Guild of Dungeoneering. The game will[...]