We have just received news that the recently founded Dublin based games studio, Digit Games, has created a space for promising startups to develop their titles. The first two teams to take up residence are Batcat Games and Bitsmith games, both of which received CSF funding from Enterprise Ireland recently.[...]
Have you ever wanted to make a computer game but don’t have the time? Just said to yourself “I bet it takes forever to design and write a game.” You don’t need forever. You only need a weekend and a few friends. This year Darklight, running from the 23rd-26th of[...]
Bright Head Games are a start up Educational Games company. They are holding a story game workshop for research purposes this Saturday the 28th of July in exchange dublin. For more see http://brightheadgames.com/2012/07/20/story-game-workshop-at-exchangedublin-28th-of-july/ Facebook http://www.facebook.com/events/319620601465750/
Great to see that BatCat Games have released their twin-stick shooter, P-3 Biotic, on PC today. It is available via: IndieCity – http://store.indiecity.com/game/P-3-Biotic and IndieVania – http://www.indievania.com/games/p-3-biotic P-3 Biotic was released on the Xbox LIVE Indie Games marketplace in January 2012 and since then has been undergoing radical cellular mutations[...]
First call for academic papers and demos for this games conference. Aphra ******************** 14-17 May 2013 Chania, Crete, Greece http://www.fdg2013.org/ We invite researchers and educators to submit to FDG 2013 and share insights and cutting-edge research related to game technologies and their use. FDG 2013 will include presentations of peer-reviewed[...]
The new PEGI age ratings system for video games will go live in the UK on the July 30th. This will replace the current system whereby games are rating both by PEGI and, if they contain mature content, the BBFC. PEGI will assume sole control from the end of this[...]
First up the deadline for proposals for the game exhibition is fast approaching – next Monday, 2nd July. Get your thinking caps on for this weekend and get some proposals in to them at http://sciencegallery.com/game There current exhibition is HACK THE CITY and there are a lot of intereesting events[...]
Digit Game Studios is a new company in Dublin and they have 10 roles and up to 20 openings at the moment…see under jobs, all posted 3rd June http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/jobs/ Yesterday saw the official press launch in Dublin city centre and the announcement that Digit Game Studios has acquired significant funding[...]
Nice to hear that 2PaperDolls, the Irish based mobile games studio, have gotten inside the Mind of Man, at least on Twitter. Mind of Man for Twitter®, the Twitter discovery game will be launched this week and reveals how the world sees you by turning your text and behaviors into[...]
The European Serious Games Awards aim to celebrate the best videogames for learning created in Europe. We will rely on scientific evaluation of the submitted games in order to award prizes not only to the best Serious Games, but also to the best academic works in the field. The Awards[...]
The industry speakers line up for Q-Con in Belfast, weekend of the 22nd of June has been announced. They include: John Hope of Project Zebra: www.projectzebra.com Jim Murray of Troll Inc: www.troll-inc.com Kevin Beimers of Straandlooper: www.straandlooper.com Gawain Morrison of FilmTrip: www.filmtrip.tv Alan Hook of University of Ulster: www.ulster.ac.uk Sean[...]
We have just posted eight positions at various levels from senior to junior in programming and art on gd.ie. The company hiring is Digit, a new comer on the scene which is backed by venture capital but with four veterans from the industry in charge. Their founders have experience in[...]
Pulse College is hosting a free event on career opportunities in the computer games industry. Guest speakers will include Owen Harris of Bit Smith games and John Joyce CEO Seoige Technology. Date – Wednesday 30th May Location – Studio one at Windmill Lane Recording Studios. Time – 10am-12pm
Science Gallery at Trinity College Dublin, Ireland is seeking proposals for an upcoming major exhibition GAME. Call Opens: Wed 23rd May 2012 Call Closes: Monday 2nd July 2012 Exhibition duration: 26 October 2012 – 18th January 2013 See call at http://www.sciencegallery.com/game Calling all gamers from casual to hardcore, newbies and[...]
Today sees Irish company OteetO Ltd. launch a new form of poker with the much anticipated Texas Ask’Em Poker on Facebook at the Social Gaming Summit in Berlin, Germany. Texas Ask’Em PokerTM combines poker with trivia to create a new poker game with a big difference – players can now[...]
The Ballyfermot College Animation Showcase 2012 is on Wednesday 23rd May at 7pm in the IFI, Temple Bar. The showcase will include a mixture of third and fourth year short animations from the BA (Hons) Animation course.The showcase will be officially opened by Andrew Kavanagh of Kavaleer Productions. See http://www.isa-bcfe.ie/
The founder of Games Music Ireland, Mick Kiely, in association with Windmill Lane Recording Studios will be offering a short course in Composing for Games, June 11-12-13 2012 in Windmill Lane, Dublin. The module will take place over three days. The course offers up skilling and training in technique for[...]
This event should be of interest to some on gd.ie. ********************* Registration is now open for the second Irish Symposium on Game-Based Learning (iGBL2012)! This one-day event will be held in Waterford Institute of Technology on Thursday 7th June 2012, and bring together teachers, students and researchers with an interest[...]
Q-Con is taking place in Belfast from 22nd to 24th June this year, and the weekend is attended by a mixture of enthusiastic gamers, fans, and game creators. The event is hosted by QUB Dragonslayers, the Queen’s University Belfast Gaming and Anime Society. The event attracted over 1800 people last[...]
So finally we can talk about the gossip. We have received official news to say that 2PaperDolls, a mobile games studio in Dublin, has hired Paddy Murphy (of the red hat) to its development team as a Community Manager. Murphy, former CEO of Open Emotion Studios, is well known here[...]
We have just received notice of an event aimed at building links between game developers and composers of music. The discussion will focus on identifying music challenges in casual games. Attending will be composers wishing to network with game developers. The evening will open with a panel discussion between developers[...]
A group of indies are putting together an Irish indie bundle for the PC. It is envisaged that up to six games will be included in the first bundle and those to be included will be selected by some well known developers. Currenctly the group are looking for a logo.[...]
It has been an exciting 12 months in the Irish Games Industry, what with the Forfás report and action plan, the rise of the Indie Developer and lots of networking events so it was with great enthusiasm that I made my annual trip to GDC 2012 in sunny San Francisco.
The Science Gallery in Dublin has issued an open call for submissions to IDEA LAB, a specific programme strand within HACK THE CITY. IDEA LAB is a ten day workshop in partnership with Dublin City Council and IBM that will take place in a vacant city space from the 14[...]
The world’s premier social media research conference, ICWSM, will be held at TCD in Dublin, Ireland from 4-7 June 2012. ICWSM-12, the 6th International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media brings together researchers from the disciplines of computer science, linguistics, communication, and the social sciences. It will start with[...]
This day-long event will focus on Irish animation and is comprised of screenings, panel discussions, meeting the animators and new work. 11.00: A Special Programme of Shorts curated by animator Steve Woods for the Annecy International Animated Film Festival 2012 and presented in association with the Screen Directors Guild of[...]
The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Tipperary is collaborating with LIT-Tipperary to host Games Fleadh:Evolved. This gives the visitor the chance to play-test games created by LIT-Tipperary students and independent in-house game studio NeverMind Games. Games Fleadh Evolved juxtaposes student created games developed for Global Game Jam and Games Fleadh 2012,[...]
Jolt Online games ceased trading this week in a further blow to employment in the industry, following the layoffs at Blizzard in Cork in the last few weeks. Jolt Online did game development in Dublin. Jolt Online Gaming was bought by OMAC industries in 2008 and from mid 2009 became[...]
At the Fleadh in Tipperary we heard that Microsoft, in conjunction with the Dublin ALT.NET, are holding a Windows 8 Camp in Sandyford in Dublin on March 24th, 2012. Attendance is free but sign up via http://win8camp.eventbrite.co.uk/ ********** Do you have an idea for a great app that you’d like[...]
Andrea Magnorsky, of BatCat games, was pretty happy with the turn out for Gamecraft in DIT Kevin Street last Sat, the 25th of February. A few weeks of frantic twittering and facebooking and the event had registered over 200 interested attendees. On the day about 120 turned up with computers[...]
The government’s action plan for jobs 2012 was released yesterday, the 13th of February. One section of the report deals specifically with digital games (pgs 94-96). While the first part of this repeats some of the details from the recent Forfas report, the following are some specific actions to be[...]
The Irish School of Animation, IADT, IFB and JDIFF have joined forces to organise a free animation event called ‘Stories Worth Telling’ as part of the Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2012 programme. More information on the event is available here: http://jdiff.ticketsolve.com/shows/126522919/events Or from the JDIFF catalogue (page 127 of[...]
Enterprise Ireland have announced a new call for the Innovation Voucher Programme which is open for applications from 12th March to 28th March 2012. The Innovation Voucher Programme was developed by EI to build links between Ireland’s small businesses and the public knowledge providers (i.e. higher education institutes). Innovation Vouchers[...]
On the 15th of February, the IGAI are organizing a games industry event at the Gibson hotel (opposite the 02) in Dublin. The event will build upon a high level global game executives and politicians meeting held in Dublin last Sept. and provide more details on the development of an[...]
Enterprise Ireland – Games Master Class Series Game Design led by Phil Campbell To coincide with Games Irelands gathering on February 15th Enterprise Ireland is pleased to host a Games Master Class –Game Design led by Phil Campbell – Creative Director on major licensed franchises ‘The Godfather’, ‘James Bond’ and[...]
News just in of the ISA Animation and Games Convention 2012 which takes place from 6-10pm on Friday 3rd February in Dublin at the Printworks @ The Morrison Hotel, Ormond Quay, Dublin 1. 6-7pm: Patrick Redmond – ‘Lighting and Compositing for Broadcast’. 7-8pm: Nanette Kaulig – ‘Game Animation – Creating[...]
The Digital Hub Development Agency, with support from the Department of Education and Skills and in association with the University of Abertay, Dundee, Scotland are inviting students from the island of Ireland to enter Dare to Be Digital 2012. Dare to be Digital is an international games development competition for[...]
The Dublin Unity3D Development Discussion takes place on the 26th of January, 2012. It came about due to two events: Mark Aherne had reached a milestone in his UNION game development with the creation of a networked physics system, and discussions with other game developers at the BitSmith Games Christmas[...]
SAT 07.01.12 12:30-17:30 CODER DOJO – FREE CODING CLUB Coder Dojo – where Ireland’s smartest young tech-nerds learn coding from each other! Each week, this youth coding club will have a hands-on session with technologies like HTML5, PHP or Python. Admission: FREE. BOOK ONLINE AT http://www.sciencegallery.com/events/2012/01/coder-dojo-free-coding-club
The School of Media at Dublin Institute of Technology, in association with gd.ie, are hosting a ‘State of Play’ seminar on Indie game development in DIT, Aungier Street, on Friday 25th November (6pm – 8.30pm). The event will see a range of companies, some well established and some new, talking[...]
Max Howard (former President of Warner Bros. Feature Animation, an executive at Walt Disney Feature Animation, Executive Producer at DreamWorks Feature Animation, Producer at Exodus Film Group and consultant through his company Max Howard Consulting Group) will visit Ballyfermot College from the 7th to the 10th November next to deliver[...]
The call for sites in 2012 is now open for the IGDA’s Global Game Jam. Last year in 44 countries, at 170 locations, the dev community created 1500 games in one weekend. We had at least two sites in Ireland – in Thurles and in Dublin. The next GGJ will[...]
The Irish School of Animation at Ballyfermot College has teamed up with KINOPOLIS, the Polish Film Festival in Dublin and Pegbar to bring you an event that is open to animation students: a Q&A session with multi-award winning Polish animator Tomasz Bagiński on Sunday 6th November at 2pm in Filmbase,[...]
Darklight 2011: Strictly Roots 20-22 October 2011, The Factory, Grand Canal Dock Darklight Festival is in just two weeks time! Festival passes are on sale now for €20 via the Darklight website http://www.darklight.ie/festival-2011/buy-tickets/ / / / 1. DARKLIGHT CALL FOR VOLUNTEERS Darklight is currently recruiting enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers to[...]
New in the company database of gd.ie, Dublin based game developer, PufferFish Games Ltd, are pleased to announce the release of their first title, PowerGRID, on the app Store. Inspired by the classic game Bridges, also known as Hashiwokakero, PowerGRID delivers a truly addictive gameplay experience to those players who[...]
Games Fleadh 2012 (http://www.gamesfleadh.ie) is scheduled for 14th and 15th March 2012. The theme for both of the main events: * DirectX Ireland Challenge * XNA Game Studio Ireland Challenge is Chopper Command (c) Activision 1982, 2011. StarterKits for these events will be available when approved by Activision. Robocode will[...]
A new call for applications to the Competitive Start Fund will be launched tomorrow on Wednesday 28th September. The fund is open to applications from the ICT & Industrial sectors including the following sub-sectors: Internet, Games, SaaS, Cloud Computing, Enterprise Software, Telecoms, Lifesciences, Cleantech and Industrial Products. The call close[...]
ATOPIC FESTIVAL – 3° EDITION – Les mondes virtuels font leur cinéma ! – CALL FOR ENTRIES Machinima is the first genre comes from virtual worlds and video games. Following the two previous editions, the Atopic Festival is the only Machinima Film Festival in Europe. Hybridization between GameCulture, cinema and[...]
Ballyfermot College of Further Education’s Irish School of Animation, are joining forces with multi-award winning animation studio Brown Bag Films to deliver a range of evening courses targeted at specific needs within the animation sector in Ireland. The evening courses, which are due to start on Monday 3rd October, will[...]
The Internet Growth Acceleration Programme (iGAP) is an intensive management development programme aimed exclusively at high potential internet/games companies and run by Enterprise Ireland. Over six months, iGAP will equip key promoters within the Irish internet/games industry with the practical tools needed to formulate aggressive international growth plans and scale[...]