http://www.igdassc.org Games development for Singaporean students and the young at heart! Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:54:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.igdassc.org/2008/07/29/contrast-game-competition-is-upcoming/ 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. http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/26/take-a-simple-survey-and-win-a-razer-piranha-headset/ 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! http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/23/freefall-11/ 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, ... http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/19/we-are-looking-for-web-developers-and-webmasters/ 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 ... http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/16/a-short-history-of-war/ 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 ... http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/12/new-resources-vault-is-up-and-zerox-for-download/ 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! http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/10/rojak-institute/ 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 ... http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/06/contrast-game-design-workshops-for-august-and-september/ 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! http://www.igdassc.org/2008/08/06/boardgame-in-testing-strife-and-steel/ The world of gaming is wonderful! So it's the world of making games too! http://www.igdassc.org/2008/07/29/i-love-the-whole-world-gaming-style/