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I got to interview Funcom just before they closed – no I’d nothing to do with it – that was the summer of 2001
Aphra.
I’ll probably head across – esp. want to take a look at the Game Girl Initiative in Surrey. It would be good to encourage a more positive gender balance in the industry here as it grows..
Aphra.
PS a project here in DCU asked male 15-17 year olds what was the difference between games aimed at men and women…ans included
‘women’s games are boring and crap’
‘the difference is a dance game and killing people’
‘one is more shoot em up, the girls are more mentally challenging’
‘violence’
The men’s games are all guns and cars. Girl’s ones are designing stuff’and so it continues…
Thanks to all who attended the shindig on Friday night. There was a great turnout, although I didn’t do as good a job as skyclad on keeping tables..we’ll sort that one out for the next time..
a few things worth mentioning to those who couldn’t turn up or had to leave early..
1. a big welcome to the TKO crew who turned up and informed us they are still looking for 2 good java programmers…contact Will Golby if that is you
2. yet again Torc wins on the consistency with which they turn up to shindigs and the numbers who turn up…
3. although Ronny came down from Belfast and Dave made it up from Kerry..
4. best of luck to Ronny who is off to do a week’s work experience with Torc soon
5. good to have a couple more academics from NUI Maynooth and Trinity
6. found out some of the demonWare crew were formerly in Trinity in the Distributed Systems Group so me thinks Trinity is winning on the game company spin-off index..
7. much discussion of a surfing weekend in Donegal coming up either on the May bank holiday or the June bank holiday..not that many of us can surf and we are talking about a very cold sea but hey I hear the poitin is good!by the way the next shindig might involve a change of location in Dublin so keep an eye here for further information..
Aphra.
PS Tony did any of those pics from the night turn out?
not GAME, GAME STOP – who recently took over GamesWorld, an independent Irish retailer. There was one on Liffey Street in Dublin.
not sure what that will mean to prices in what was GamesWorld which used to offer some good deals..
Indeed, maybe GAME and GAME STOP are the same company for all I know…
I don’t think we have a VIRGIN in Dublin anymore – someone can correct me on that…
Aphra.
was looking at games in HMV this weekend and they seem rather expensive there..I think Smyths and GAME stop are cheaper in Dublin?
actually the cheapest place I’ve bought games was Blacks Toy Store in Portlaoise – just another reason to visit my home county!
Aphra.
I was chatting to Jim last night from Mahaffy’s and he said the pub might be a bit busy around 7.30 ish but will thin out later…
mm, no it won’t I thought cause we will all be arriving..
I hope to arrive around 7.30 and will be the sober person in the snug over to the left of the pub looking for friends..
come and join me!
Aphra.
I am keeping an eye on these resources and hopefully will soon be able to persuade someone to organise them for me and move them into the resources section proper or :( have time myself to do it…
Aphra.
I did a bit of research on games into movies and in the name of research watched the following fine examples..
Super Mario Brothers (1993)
Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)
Final Fantasy (2001)
Resident Evil….only missed out on ..
Double Dragon (1993)
Street Fighter (1994)
Mortal Kombat (1995)
Wing Commander (1999)we found that of the eight made before 2002 only two made any money at all in the cinema…Mortal Kombat and Lara Croft…
budget isn’t everything either…look at what they spent on Final Fantasy!
Aphra.
PS as to what I thought of them..will tell you over a pint on Friday
no the original plan was for the team to be based in the Hub for about 9 weeks of the development time and to video conference over to Abertay…they were only going to spend the last week or so in Abertay..
Aphra.
I am not sure if people are aware that there has been a change in the format of the Dare competition.
The winning Irish team will now travel to Scotland and spend the 10th week development period in Abertay with the other teams.
More info on the dare ireland website here
Aphra.
deadline for entries for the Dare competition is noon on the 29th of March….
time is ticking…
Aphra.
Thanks guys…I only have access to the admin data so I will have to get our computer people here to give me server side data…I just need to know what to ask for!
Aphra.
