Starting off the new academic year with a bang Open Emotion Studios, in association with the IGDA Ireland chapter, are delighted to present the “National Sham Jam 2011” – a huge games jam in the Open Emotion Studios in Limerick city running from 12 A.M on the 10th of September[...]
There is only one week left to nominate your favourite online business in 14 categories for this year’s Dot.ie Net Visionary Awards. Nominations close Friday, 29 July 2011. Dot.ie Net Visionary Awards | Highlights * Healine sponsor IE Domain Registry (IEDR) * Awards Ceremony Friday, 30th September * Venue is[...]
The North West Institute for Further and Higher Education in Derry/Londonderry, became part of the North West Regional College in 2007. This course offers a one year Higher National Certificate in Interactive Computing Entertainment (ICE). It is aimed at students who wish to work in the computer games industry. Structure[...]
Ballyfermot College of Further Education’s Irish School of Animation which has produced international award winning graduates in animation and the film industry, are joining forces with Trinity’s graphics and virtual world experts in an Animation Hub this summer to produce an animated short movie. Students and graduates of the Irish[...]
This looks like fun *************** The Buzz Aldrin Allstars are a collection of like-minded musicians looking to keep the kraut rock tradition alive. They feature members from some of Dublin’s finest bands – Si Schroeder / 3epkano / Halfset / Strands / United Bible Studies / My Cousin Dale. Their[...]
2011 Net Visionary Awards | Nominations open The Irish Internet Association has announced details of the 2011 Net Visionary Awards. The awards, now in their 13th year, are a mainstay of the internet business calendar. This year the awards will take place on September 30th, at The National Gallery of[...]
the National Digital Research Centre at the Digital Hub in Dublin is seeking applications for its ‘launchpad’ programme with a deadline of 8th July. They are also running a workshop for applicants on 30th June at NDRC. NDRC’s LaunchPad Accelerator is an investment programme focused on supporting the next generation[...]
Q-Con is the annual Gaming & Anime Convention hosted by QUB Dragonslayers, the Queen’s University Belfast Gaming and Anime Society. The event takes place from the 24-26th of June this year in QUB’s student union building and includes a number of talks by industry professionals including Aaron Donaghey of Dark[...]
The National Digital Research Centre at the Digital Hub in Dublin has made a call for applications for their NDRC LaunchPad IV scheme. NDRC LaunchPad is an accelerator programme that helps small teams to bring their digital technology concepts to commercial reality over an intensive 12 week period. The programme[...]
The Digital Hub is calling all final-year students of Animation; Audio/Music Production; Digital Design; Film/Video Production; and Multimedia to send their final-year project to their best in show competition. Their work will be judged by The Digital Hub and also a panel of experts and the students whose work is[...]
This year Siggraph is taking place in Vancouver Canada from 7-11th August. This is one of the premier academic conferences and exhibitions on computer graphics and interactive technologies. It has previously taken place in TCD in Ireland. Gd.ie has been advised by the Canadian embassy in Ireland that the BC[...]
SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS GAMEON’2011 12th annual European Conference on Simulation and AI in Computer Games August 22 – 24, 2011 National University of Ireland Galway, in Cooperation with National University of Ireland Dear Colleague, This is a reminder that the submission deadline of JUNE 1st for GAMEON’2011 is in[...]
the iHCI conference has just announced that this year’s keynote speaker will be Paul Adams, Product Manager at Facebook, where he works on the design and development of new advertising products. He is recognized as a leading thinker on designing social interactions, and spent four years leading user research for[...]
CREATIVED AND THE CITY Date: May 10th 2011 Time: 10:00 – 13:00 Location: Wood Quay Venue, Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 2 EVENT DETAILS: CreativeD is Dublin’s only network specifically for the creative industries. We believe that collaboration with other creative industries-related projects underway in Dublin brings an added benefit[...]
Tickets for the third, and possibly last, Indie Games Space, are now available for free at http://indiegamesspace.eventbrite.com event. Attendance at the event is free and tickets were limited to approx 30 on a first come first served basis for this first event. A Ludum Dare challenge/jam also takes place this[...]
Irish mobile game service provider, Selatra, announced today that they have signed up with Mobile Streams to include their mobile games on the http://www.appitalism.com/ app store. The deal is an extension of Selatra’s existing distribution relationship with Mobile Streams that covers the UK, US and Asia Pacific. The Selatra portfolio[...]
Deadline Extension and Final Call for Papers, Panels, Workshops and Presenters: IRL 2011: In Real Life Challenging, Changing and Hacking Practices of Human-Being Hosted by the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art [IMOCA] International Conference July 13, 14 ,15; Exhibition opens Friday July 15th EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS IS 5:00 PM,[...]
The second indie games space event takes place in Filmbase, Temple Bar in Dublin on the 26th of March, 12.30-5pm. Tickets are free and still available at http://indiegamesspace.eventbrite.com The event which is aimed at, and organised by, indie developers, is providing a social and work space for indie developers to[...]
Call for papers published for Audio Mostly 2011– “A conference on interaction with sound” in co-operation with ACM – SIGCHI September, 7 – 9 – Coimbra, Portugal. **************************************************** Audio in all its forms – music, sound effects, or dialogue – holds tremendous potential to engage, convey narrative, inform, create attention[...]
OmniMotion Technology, the Irish games and digital services company, has released Sumo, a new casual and social game for iPhone, iPad and Online. The launch of Sumo represents a broader R&D investment of in excess of €2 million, and is the first in a range of next-generation casual and social[...]
This is a Call for Papers (CFP) for a Symposium on Game-Based Learning (GBL) which will be organised at Waterford Institute of Technology on 19th -20th May 2011. The purpose of this symposium is to: – Report on the use of GBL in Irish primary, secondary and third-level education –[...]
Update****4th March, 2011 Important update for teams applying from the Island of Ireland: you now only need to have one team member who is from the other region – please read the full update on this and how you can find other team members at http://www.daretobedigital.com/applications/how.php . You should also[...]
One event done and another in the offing. The Games Fleadh festival is nearly upon us and the following is an outline of the planned events talking place. All roads lead to the Tipperary Institute in Thurles in March! See the great line up of professional talks at http://www.gamesfleadh.ie/gamespro/ including[...]
The film festival may have started in town but we are going to see if a group of indie game developers can make indie games in one day. Tomorrow, Sat. the 19th February, will see the first in a series of three “Indie Games Space” days between now and April[...]
We have been sent the following call by the Science Gallery in Dublin who are looking for people to pitch ideas for the design, design, development and delivery of a visitor experience game for the new Science Gallery exhibition HUMAN+ The Future Of Our Species (April 14 – June 24[...]
The first indie games space event which is to take place in Filmbase, Temple Bar in Dublin on the 19th of February, 12.30-5pm is booked out after only one day. The event which is aimed at, and organised by, indie developers, is providing a social and work space for indie[...]
Well the weekend’s IGDA Global Games Jam has come to an end and over 48 hours, teams all over the world worked to create games based on a common theme. This year the theme was ‘extinction’. In Ireland there were two venues for jams, the Tipperary Institute and Griffith College[...]
Gd.ie members and Filmbase are coming together to organise three days where indie developers and enthusiasts can come together and work on projects. The events will take place on the 19th of February, the 26th of March and the 30th of April. The event is amed at full-time or part-time[...]
Wordsnap Contraption, a new iPhone game from Irish, and Limerick based, video game company Digital Sideburns, goes on sale on the 14th January, 2011. The game costs just 79¢ (Europe), 99¢ (North America) and 59p (UK) through your iPhone, iPod Touch or iTunes. Wordsnap Contraption is a fast-paced, addictive word[...]
We have just received this press release about a social games weekend in Limerick aimed at 15-21 year olds. Takes place on the 15th of January, 12-5pm and 16th of January, 1-4pm at the Belltable Arts Centre, 69, O Connell Street, Limerick. Entry is free. Read on. ********** To launch[...]
This year Griffith College Dublin are holding a Global Game Jam ( http://www.globalgamejam.org/) event and they are extending invitations to students from other Dublin institutes. See the event site at ( http://www.gcd.ie/JAM/index.html) where entrants can get information on the event and what is required of them. Entry is free, but[...]
Gamedevelopers.ie is happy to support the second Irish School of Animation (ISA) Convention, an animation and games event for students and industry professionals. This year it will take place at the Anna Brett Hall, Media Building, in Ballyfermot College of Further Education on Thurs the 6th and 7th of January,[...]
As noted on the forums Enterprise Ireland, the industrial development agency has launched a new Internet and Games Competitive Start-up Fund, with an initial pot of €500,000 to invest in 10 internet and games start-ups. In particular it is noted that companies can apply for funding to ‘Build a prototype,[...]
More success for animators from Ireland and in particular Ballyfermot. Irish animator and graduate of Ballyfermot College, Seamus Malone, Supervising Animator, Aardman Animations/Sony Pictures, collects the Children & Young People Award for ‘Shaun the Sheep’ at the 2010 International Emmy Awards. Mind you he is British according to the Independent…[...]
The Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) in Seville is a research arm of the EC and has just issued a report on the competitiveness of the European games industry. The full report is available to download for free and is a good source of up to date statistics. There[...]
The National Digital Research Centre in the Digital hub is seeking tech entrepreneurs and start-up promoters to take part in the Spring 2011 ‘LaunchPad’ programme. LaunchPad is a three-month accelerator programme targeted at enabling great people to launch great ideas in the digital space. It provides individuals or small teams[...]
The Irish Internet Association is running a workshop in Galway and one later in Dublin on digital marketing etc. that might be of interest to some. Non members can attend See below Aphra. ********* Digital Marketing Strategy and Planning Workshop 10th November; 9am to 1pm; Radisson BLU Hotel, Lough Atalia[...]
Gd.ie is happy to publicice that Irish indie developer Ballardia has their first title, World of the Living Dead, in closed beta. Gd.ie have five beta keys to give away to the first five people who e-mail aphra at gamedevelopers dot ie. World of the Living Dead is the work[...]
Gareth Lee has just been in contact about this forthcoming master class taking place in BCFE. There are a small number of places left and you can contact him directly if you are interested in attending at glee [at] bcfe [dot] net Aphra. *************** Bruce Block (Hollywood Producer and author[...]
Digital games comprise a large and fast-growing part of the global entertainment industry. This new MSc programme will prepare graduates to become innovators in this exciting field. It provides a multi-disciplinary and well-rounded education in game conception, design and manufacture, uniquely building on the combined expertise of the Digital Media[...]
Last year Phil and the gang in Thurles hosted a games jam. Now is the time for others to sign up to do it too. Companies can do it too! Full call for hosts below Aphra ************** The third installment of the GGJ – Global Game Jam 2011 will take[...]
Darklight Transmedia Symposium 2010 Friday 29 October, 9.30am-6pm Filmbase, Dublin. Official Festival Industry Partner Bord Scannan na hEireann/Irish Film Board, producer Katie Holly and Darklight festival director Nicky Gogan put their heads together to programme a day of information, discussion, workshops and advice open to all aspiring and practicing creative[...]
Following their presentation at last week’s shindig the NDRC’s Game Brains project is going beta. If you’re interested in Behavior Trees or video game AI please check out their Beta release. Game Brains is a behavior treed editor and runtime (in C++). Integrate it into your game engine of choice[...]
The winners of IndieCade 2010, the international festival of independent games, were announced over the weekend and Terry Cavanagh, from Ireland, won the Fun and Compelling award for VVVVVV. ‘In VVVVVV, you play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension-exploring scientists who are separated after inadvertently crashing their[...]
Not to far away and should be of interest to some Aphra. ******************* Following on from its successful launch last year, the one-day Develop in Liverpool Conference returns by popular demand on Thursday 25 November 2010. Develop in Liverpool is designed to meet the demands of the thriving game community[...]
Sorry but this has just come to our attention. Looks like some interesting events around Dublin. Aphra. ****************** OFFSET2010 is a week long programme of club nights, live performances, gallery shows, in-store events and much more taking place all over the capital. Showcasing world-class creatives in design, illustration, fashion, photography,[...]
Last week the winners of the Your Country Your Call competition were announced. One of the winners was Neil Leyden, who people here on gd.ie might remember was on the panel with Peter Molyneux for the games event which was hosted as part of the Jameson Dublin International Games Festival.[...]
The Game On exhibition will open in Dublin’s Ambassador Theatre from 20 September for a limited run. The exhibition includes rare memorabilia and the chance to play your way through over 100 playable games from the arcade classics to the latest releases. Tickets cost from 10 euro including booking fee[...]
The team behind Games Fleadh have announced that Games Fleadh 2011 will honour a classic from the ‘Golden Age of Video Arcade Games’, Frogger © Konami Digital Entertainment. Frogger was released by Konami in 1981 and is still recognised as one of the iconic games from the past three decades.[...]
Those near the capital might be interested in taking a look at the Irish Human Computer Interaction conference which this year takes place in DCU from the 2-3rd of Sept. Registration for iHCI 2010 is now open and details can be found on the conference website: http://www.clarity-centre.org/iHCI2010/ Friday will showcase[...]