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Skillset Games Showcase

For those of you who are in the London area/or willing to travel the Skillset Annual Animation and Games Showcase will be taking place in The David Lean Room, BAFTA, 195 Piccadilly, London on Tuesday 26 June from 4pm-7pm.

Irish Microsoft Tech Conf

Rob Burke from MS will be speaking at Cineworld in Dublin on Thursday the 7th of June at 6:15PM on Microsoft game developer technologies for Windows, the XBox 360, and Microsoft Robotics Studio: http://robburke.net/2007/05/22/robs-last-stand-xna-microsoft-robotics-studio-360s-wiis-and-dancing-robots/ It’s part of the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference, which is on all day. If you would[...]

Showcase Your Game Designs

Our friend Ernest Adams sent this in to me. He is looking to showcase commercial and non-commercial game designs this summer in London. For more read on. Aphra. **************** Ernest is looking for examples of groundbreaking game design work to show off at the Develop Conference this summer in Brighton.[...]

Iia Accessibility Day

20 June 2007 – 9am – 2pm: Alexander Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2 The IIA in partnership with Texthelp Browsealoud present an Information Day dedicated to ensuring that websites are accessible to all. Accessibility is becoming increasingly critical to the Internet experience. Web accessibility is about designing for everyone, independent[...]

Sandbox

The sandbox symposium on games will run alongside Siggraph, San Diego, CA in August 07. Focus is the theory and practice of game desgn. http://sandbox.siggraph.org/about.html

Edinburgh Interactive Festival

Edinburgh Interactive Festival ‘Expanding the Creative Culture of Games’ including an industry panel. 12-14 of August, 2007 http://www.edinburghinteractivefestival.com/

Demonware Summer Internship

Demonware are searching for top Computer Science / Computer Applications students to join their Internship programme 2007. The purpose of the programme is to bring recent computer science graduates up to games industry standards. Students will work on a project of their own choosing or choose from projects suggested by[...]

Birthday Shindig Review

Friday 27th April saw 40+ game developers and students gather in a lecture room in Trinity College to celebrate Gamedevelopers.ie fourth birthday. The event was hosted by the newly established GV2 research group in Trinity College headed by Steve Collins. Demonware’s Dylan Collins gave a short overview of the current[...]

Game Physics Innovation Competition

Following in the footsteps of the successful Eurographics 2006 Graphics meets Games competition, Eurographics is delighted to announce the Eurographics 2007 Game Physics Innovation competition which aims to showcase innovation in the use of physics technology in games.

3D S Max 9 Seminar

The seminar will be showcasing the latest technology from Autodesk 3D S Max 9 with extensions and Maya 8.5. Tips and Tricks for visualisation, games developers and VFX will be done Senior 3D specialists will be on hand to showcase the in depth technology behind both new versions of the[...]

Theory And Design Conf

Some people on the boards maybe interested in this. Aphra. Paper proposals are sought for the Theory & Design postgraduate digital game studies conference at Brunel University in Uxbridge, London to be held on 14/9/2007. Any postgraduate Masters or PhD student is invited to send a proposal. The deadline for[...]

Ace 2007

——– June 13-15, 2007 Salzburg, Austria http://www.ace2007.org/

Games 4 Change

————– June 11-12, 2007 New York, NY, USA http://www.gamesforchange.org/conference/2007/

Award Nominees

Below are the nominees for the annual gamedevelopers.ie awards. I have decided not to award a humour award this year given that the nominees have mostly been previous award winners and there was no clear favourite. Thank you for taking part in the nomination process. Thank you also to our[...]

Birthday Invitation..

gamedevelopers birthday shindig please feel free to cut and paste invitation below and to circulate to your own networks ****** Yes it is that time of year again and the community website gamedevelopers.ie is four years old this month. To mark the occasion we would like to invite you and[...]

Darklight Symposium

Each year the Darklight symposium gives people working in film, television, animation and games a forum to meet and discuss their work. As always there are talks of relevance to games during the three day event which will be held at Film Base in Temple Bar in Dublin from the[...]

Birthday Shindig Speakers

We are pleased to announce that Dylan Collins, Demonware (Dublin), and Mike Brown, DarkWater (Derry) have confirmed that they will speak at the gamedevelopers.ie annual birthday event. As readers of these pages will know Demonware have recently completed a very exciting deal with Activision while DarkWater is the newest development[...]

Iia Annual Congress

Tickets for the IIA’s Annual Congress, taking place this year on 17 May in the Fitzpatrick Castle Hotel, Killiney, are selling fast. The Early Bird member rate will expire on April 13. The theme for this year is Buy, Sell and Do Business Online. Speakers will include senior figures from[...]

Gd.Ie Annual Awards

The annual gd.ie birthday will take place on Friday the 27th of April in Trinity College Dublin at 7pm. We are busy sourcing speakers and sponsorships for the annual gd.ie awards but you have a role to play too. We would like you to go to the birthday shindig thread[...]

Cybergames 2007: International Conference On Games Research And Development

CyberGames 2007: International Conference on Games Research and Development There is something for everyone at this conference, should be of interest to some gd.ie readers. ***** The Third International Conference on Games Research and Development 2007 (CyberGames 2007) will be held during 10-11 September 2007 at the Manchester Metropolitan University,[...]

Netgames 2007

6th Annual Workshop on Network and Systems Support for Games: Netgames 2007 September 19th and 20th 2007, Melbourne, Australia http://caia.swin.edu.au/netgames2007/ Again this looks like it might be of interest to some. Calls for conference papers are coming thick and fast at the moment. ********* OVERVIEW ======== The NetGames workshop brings[...]

Women In Games Prog

Draft programme for Women in Games conference is now online at http://www.womeningames.com/

A Game Of Two Halves

How a small start-up studio, located over a tattoo parlour in Dublin, went from being one of Ireland’s brightest game development hopes to another casualty of a ruthless industry. Pavel Barter reunites Dave Stafford, Shane Whelan, Gearoid Coughlan, and Ger Lawlor, of Kapooki Games.

Dcu Tech Week Talks

Tuesday 13th Multimedia Showcase, Seminar Room, 1pm Declan Tuite, a lecturer in the School of Communcations, presents a series of entertaining projects by previous multimedia students including Blown Away, a DCU project which has been featured at the Wired Expo in recent times Playstation 3 Talk & Demo, Seminar Room[...]

Interlan

Event Details Location – The Hub, DCU Event Duration: 24 Hours Doors Open: 12 PM Saturday April 7th 2007 Places available: 150 Entry fee: €15 prepaid, or €20 on the day Sign up and Pre-Pay at our Booking Page For more see http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/forums/viewtopic.php?p=31106#31106

Dare To Be Digital Deadline

Deadline for teams to make their submissions to Dare to be Digital 2007. Submissions are made through the main Dare website.

Robocode Reminder

Just a quick reminder that the Robocode Registration Deadline is tomorrow, Friday 2nd March. Please ensure your college or university has registered for the Robocode 2007 competition, by close of business Friday 2nd March. See http://www.robocode.ie for further details. There are prizes such as a laptop, cash and music players[...]

Dark Water Update

As reported in the games press in January Dark Water is the newest games development studio on these shores. I caught up with Mike Brown recently to ask him briefly about recent developments and of course job opportunities. Located in Derry/LondonDerry in Northern Ireland the studio is ‘related’ to Instinct[...]

Futureplay 07 Looks For Game Ideas

This may be an opportunity for people to reuse game projects or Dare concepts. FuturePlay 2007 is asking for teams to submit games for their competition this year. They are asking for games in the following categories: Indie Games, Student Games and Serious Games. Important dates: March 16, 2007 –[...]

Women In Games 07 – Final Call

This year women in games is being held in a design school in the University of Wales, Newport and will focus on ‘Aesthetics in play: new platforms, new perspectives, new players’. This year will see some high profile industry people from the US, the UK and Europe speaking as well[...]

Iia Online Marketing Event

The IIA and Online-Marketing.ie present the second in a series of four Online Marketing seminars. The second in the series focuses on Pay Per Click (PPC) campaigns and Google Adwords. It explores the advantages of a PPC campaign, how the process works with the most frequently used search engines, and[...]

Dare Comp Now Open

The call for applications for Dare to be Digital this year is now open. Applicants can enter online and find out more applications at the following URL: http://www.daretobedigital.com/applications/apply.php If interested don’t forget the information day is this Thurs and there is an industry talk that evening. All events take place[...]

Latham To Speak In Dublin.

William Latham will be coming to Dublin to speak on the evening of Feb the 8th at 7pm in the Digital Hub. Sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and Digital Hub the talk will be part of a day long event to launch the Dare to be Digital Competition in Ireland.

Latham Talk

William Latham, CEO of Games Audit Ltd., in the UK, will be coming to Dublin to speak on the evening of Feb the 8th at 7pm in the Digital Hub. Sponsored by Enterprise Ireland and the Digital Hub the talk will be part of a day long event to launch[...]

Groove Games Establish Skillground In Ireland

It appears to be a good month for announcements of game related startups in Ireland. Groove Games, of Toronto, Canada, and publisher of Xbox and PC games like WarPath (2005) and Playboy: The Mansion (2004), has established a presence in the Digital Hub in Dublin, Ireland. Operating as SkillGround, the[...]

Dare To Be Digital Info. Day

The Dare Information Session for students, tutors and industry takes place on Thurs, Feb. 8th in the Digital Exchange, Crane St, in The Digital Hub, in Dublin. The event kicks off around midday and includes time for networking, a guest speaker and presentations by judges and participants who have taken[...]

Dare To Be Digital Info Day

The launch of Dare to be Digital this year will take place on the 8th of February in the Digital Exchange, Crane Street in Dublin 8. Start time – Midday More information at http://www.daretobedigitalireland.com/details.htm

Magee Appoints Ernest Adams

During the November shindig and CGames Ernest Adams was in Ireland doing his highly popular workshops and he revealed that he had been appointed visiting professor at the University of Ulster, Magee, Derry.

Dare To Be Digital Info

The following has been forwarded to us by the Digital Hub. More info to follow shortly. **** The Digital Hub hopes to hold the biggest Dare to be Digital competition to date in 2007. For the first time Dare to be Digital is an all island competition with one team[...]

Demonware Support Gd.Ie

Those who are awake this morning will have noticed that we have a new logo on the top of the homepage! Gd.ie is pleased to announce that DemonWare has kindly agreed to support gamedevelopers.ie in an agreement which will see the website not only able to pay its ongoing maintenance[...]

Internet Assoc Events In Jan.

Introduction to Online Marketing Date: Thursday, 18th January 2007 Time: 9am – 1pm Venue: Engineers Ireland, 22 Clyde Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 Cost: €145 Members (€195 Non-Members) The IIA are delighted to present this half day seminar in conjunction with Online-Marketing : http://iia.chtah.com/a/tBFo2HMAbbNMLA47y2lAbc-ciFH/online The seminar is an introduction to the[...]

Mobile Games Forum

Date: 23rd & 24th January 2007 Venue: The Waldorf Hilton, London Contact: paul_osmond@osneymedia.co.uk Overview: http://www.mobilegamesforum.co.uk/tracker.asp?magazineid=432v

The Mobile Games Forum 07

This event may be of interest to mobile companies and students interested in the area. It isn’t cheap to attend. *** Date: 23rd & 24th January 2007 Venue: The Waldorf Hilton, London Contact: paul_osmond@osneymedia.co.uk Overview: http://www.mobilegamesforum.co.uk/tracker.asp?magazineid=432 Not just another mobile games event – with over 180 delegates attending last year,[...]