[In the latest Road to the IGF interview with 2010 Independent Games Festival finalists, Gamasutra speaks with Dejobaan Games' Ichiro Lambe about AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! -- A Reckless Disregard for Gravity, a finalist in the Excellence In Design category.] AaaaaAAaaaAAAaaAAAAaAAAAA!!! — A Reckless Disregard for Gravity is all about falling at high speed. Players navigate skyscrapers as …
Trying to replace programming talent with middleware is always a mistake, says Square Enix CTO Julien Merceron. Powerful middleware sometimes “gives producers or game teams a false sense of security,” according to Merceron. “And when they discover how non-adapted the technology they have chosen is, it’s far too late already for them,” he adds. Merceron, previously CTO of Eidos, took the …
MORRISVILLE, N.C.—-Vicious Cycle Software, a premier developer of interactive entertainment and game development technology, today announced that support for the Nintendo Wii™, PlayStation®2, and PSP® platforms is coming to Vicious Engine 2 in early 2010.
Orange County – Online middleware provider RakNet adds official Playstation 3 support.
Last October, Ready at Dawn Studios — developers of Daxter and God of War: Chains of Olympus for the PSP — announced that it will be licensing its engine tech out to third party developers. At that time, we spoke to co-founder Didier Malenfant, who is heading up engine development at the company. Malenfant founded Ready at Dawn with Andrea Pessino and Ru Weerasuriya, who both came from …
SAP: Reorg Will Restore Trust, Speed Innovation
Unigine Corp. announces the licensing of its top-notch Unigine engine to Lukewarm Media, an independent game developer. The first Unigine-based project by Lukewarm Media (”Primal Carnage” action shooter featuring dinosaurs) is currently close to the end of pre-production stage. Read more in the official press-release: http://unigine.com/press-releases/100205-primal_carnage …
Inside Contactless, a manufacturer of near field communications (NFC) chips, is releasing “Open NFC,” an open source version of its NFC protocol stack for mobile platforms including Linux and Android.
SAN FRANCISCO—-Havok™ today announced that it has signed Cohort Studios into its Independent Developer Program. Cohort will have access to the company’s full suite of cutting-edge, award-winning products and technologies including Havok Animation™, Havok AI™, Havok Behavior™, Havok Cloth™, Havok Destruction™, and Havok Physics™.
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