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Games Fleadh ’09 will include Ireland’s first Orchestral Games Music Concert……the concert will be an all ticket event and located in a very special historic building; adding to the acoustic quality. More soon on Games Fleadh website in the coming days.
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Cool, I’ll watch out for it.
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presumably the rock of cashel right? :)
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presumably the rock of cashel right? :)[/quote:c86a745585]
Close……. :wink: all I’ll say for the moment is your warm
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Hope to be able to announce exciting news about Games Fleadh ’09 to GD.ie members in the coming days. Looks like we have a theme for the next XNA Ireland Challenge. Planning is also progressing for Ireland’s first orchestral games music concert, now scheduled for Wednesday 11th March 2009.
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Hey SocksUp!
fantastic news !
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Ears are pricked!!
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Right some news on the Games Fleadh schedule.
11th March
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Games development workshops – presented by games industry specialists.An orchestral games music concert – almost there on a performance announcement.
12th March
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Portfolio competitions judged by games industry specialists – some of last years entrants are now working in the games industry. Almost there on an the announcement of a portfolio theme. -
Cool Phil, Ill try to make it up for this, will be interesting to see who you got after all that leg stretching….
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This sounds cool actually. Any sign of a theme?
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Bags a ticket! :)
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Dont think ill be able to make this next year, as Ill be in Canada but definately worth going to check it out guys. Last years one was a great day :)
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Bags a ticket! :)[/quote:8ac39aa92c]
I was going to give some concert tickets to Aphra, to raffle on the site…does that seem fair?
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Its been a busy summer – I was kinda glad it was raining as I spent most of the time either on the phone or in a plane. Glad to say that we have some interesting games industry speakers lined up for the 11th March :D . Working on getting the details to public announcement stage.
A venue has been finally secured for the planned concert, anyone that can point me towards potential sponsors – please PM; the heads up is much appreciated. I met with a AV guy who wants to use the roof of the venue as a screen, I thought he’d gone mad for a millisecond and then I looked up :roll: 8) and went that’s an awesome idea – I cannot publicly confirm the venue, just yet.
One other detail, that I’m excited about, is the possibility that game(s) created for Games Fleadh events ‘may’ be published.
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Games Fleadh Games Music Performance, venue The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, 11th March, 8.00pm to 10.00pm. Tickets from Euro 40 and on sale in the coming days, more on http://www.gamesfleadh.ie/music .
As promised there are 2 Vip tickets for GD.ie, I’ll leave it to Aphra to decide how to draw for them.
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The theme for the XNA Ireland Challenge 2009 is…………..Asteroids (c) Atari Interactive Inc. 1979, 2009.
To get started please see http://www.gamesfleadh.ie || competitions || xna
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What does a secondary school student need to enter this competition? It will probably be just myself.
Can I use other peoples sprites? with their permission of course.I have developed an engine with a team across seas, can I use that?
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Bags a ticket! :)[/quote:86ec89cca2]
I was going to give some concert tickets to Aphra, to raffle on the site…does that seem fair?[/quote:86ec89cca2]
No :)
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I met someone yesterday who said a DIT team won the XNA competition yesterday at the Fleadh..
there are updates on the fleadh website which say DIT won the XNA challenge and TCD the Robocode challenge. see http://www.gamesfleadh.ie/
anyone got any updates? I did not make it down this year.
Aphra.
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DIT won the colleges XNA, and Lucan won the schools XNA compo. Wasn’t there for the 2nd day, but according to the twitter feed, Loreto secondary school from Kilkenny won the schoolbots challenge, and Trinity wont the college robocode challenge
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yes i was on the dit team that won xna, we where over the moon , we are currently looking at the possibly to put our game online , if we get the go ahead i will link everyone to it . till then i will post some screen shots and maybe a video of our game later today.
YEA DIT !
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An amazing team from DIT won the XNA challenge @ Games Fleadh this year, but some serious work on display from all the teams. Very impressive!
The DIT team made a novel version of Asteroids playable with the drum kit from Guitar Hero. Here are my photos/vids of the event, where you can see the game in action:
http://picasaweb.google.com/skooter500/GamesFleadh2009
Well done everyone and big thanks to everyone in Tipperary Institute for putting the whole thing together
Bryan
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nice pictures byran
http://www.e-metro.ie/e-metro-ie
look for yesterdays issusegreat i see the wondefull metro :shock: , managed to print a picture of the team , without myself in it :( …..to add insult to injury they dont even name me with the rest of the team.
…….. angry email time
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This is probably a better time than any to register. (Zachary Davison)
Was absolutely ecstatic to win XNA Ireland, we were basically treated like kings for the enter duration by both Bryan Duggan and TI, and everyone else, and it was absolutely amazing to see people genuinely enjoy playing something we’d created, we were really happy when one guy played our game for ages and became so good at it he was doing stuff we didn’t even think of.
It was very enjoyable talking to the judges as well, for me, the music guy from Popcap, it was really cool to hear someone in the industry uses basically the same set up as me.I have absolutely no idea what is going on with the game and our ability to release it online at the moment, and I’m not even sure what I’m allowed to say about it, all I know is soon someone is going to tell us what’s going on.
edit: There was a guy wearing a self destructing gameboy t-shirt who did a lot of the footage for the games on the day, if anyone knows who this guy is that’d be awesome cause I need to get in contact with him.
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I think we should be able to print some screenshots , and there might be some screenshots in the next edition of Click magazine, if we are able to.
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It looks from screenshots etc that there was some nice entries. So what was the industry representation like this year. Last year when I attended as a judge there was alot of judges from various other studios. Did they contribute to the workshop day? Any programming tracks etc?
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It looks from screenshots etc that there was some nice entries. So what was the industry representation like this year. Last year when I attended as a judge there was alot of judges from various other studios. Did they contribute to the workshop day? Any programming tracks etc?[/quote:07028e96d0]
The judges were from Blackrock Games, Popcap, Microsoft, and I don’t remember who the 4th was. There were 3 speeches, including lead design of Popcap talking about choosing studios to work for and elements people don’t think about looking for game design employment, and Jamie Mcormack talking about the Irish market and the potential it holds.
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talking about the Irish market and the potential it holds.
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talking about the Irish market and the potential it holds.
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What potential the only potential in the irish market at the moment is online games and middleware???[/quote:8f4e9102cb]I think he just wanted to get us all to stay in Ireland when we graduate rather than going to a better country.
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