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CONTRAST Game Competition is Upcoming!

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:25:57 +0000

The time has come for all good game designers and developers to unleash their creativity. The CONTRAST Game Competition will be held on 12th September, and the main theme is environment. Of course, there will be many sub-themes to add spices to the design, so be prepared! Here’s a poster for you to pass around.

Take a simple survey and win a Razer Piranha Headset!

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 04:14:57 +0000

Stand a chance to win one of 3 Razer Piranha™ Gaming Communicator Headsets by filling out a simple one page survey!

Here’s the link and the access code you need is rgamer4.

Freefall 1.1

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Sat, 23 Aug 2008 16:25:04 +0000

A simple tile-based Flash game - you are falling down an endless pit, try to collect as many points as possible without getting hit by spikes. The source code demonstrates keyboard input handling, random spawning of items, collision detection and other basics of Flash games development. Download it here!

We are looking for web developers and webmasters!

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 22:19:56 +0000

We are looking for more people to maintain the website and make it more useful and lively!

The site currently runs on WordPress 2.6, with a couple of plugins as well as a few customised pages. If you know (or want an opportunity to learn) how to customise WordPress with PHP, and are interested in giving a hand, please contact extrakun@yahoo.com.sg

If you wish to help out in contributing articles, resources and so on, do not hesitate to contact us too!

PS. You have, of course, to be in Singapore ideally Students and working young adults are welcomed!

A Short History of War

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:18:28 +0000

An understanding of history, civilisation, human nature and economic are some of the essential knowledge for game designers, and for those interested in RTS or war-games, “A Short History of War”, a free online book touching on the various aspects of warfare throughout history (from as anicent as Sumer, no less!), will defintely find it helpful!

New Resources Vault is up and ZeroX for download!

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 12:34:00 +0000

A new Resources Vault has been added to the site’s content! This is where we hope to offer you with tutorials, source code for games, sprite arts, music and other essentials for game design and game development. And to go with the launch of the Resource Vault, we have our first Game Maker game for download, ZeroX, a vertical shooting game for download! Check it out!

Rojak Institute

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Sun, 10 Aug 2008 06:11:17 +0000

The Rojak Insititue is amauter game development studio consisting of Singaporeans and Malaysians; so hey yes, there are people out there making games! If you are into Japanense anime and visual-novel styled doujin-games, be sure to check them out!

CONTRAST Game Design Workshops for August and September!

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:38:31 +0000

The IGDA.SSC and the NUS Games Development Group are once again holding another round of Game Design and Development workshop in prepartion for the 24 hours CONTRAST game competition! If you have missed it in July, here’s your chance again. The workshops cover all the fundmental aspects of game development - design, game art and development. Check out the posters below for more information!

Boardgame in Testing - Strife and Steel

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:33:11 +0000

Here are some photographs from Strife and Steel, a board game in testing done by eh, yours truly. If you are interested in testing the game, do let me know via email!

“I love the whole world” - Gaming Style!

IGDA.SSC Webmaster — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:38:52 +0000

The world of gaming is wonderful! So it’s the world of making games too!