In the latest postings over the last week, Gamasutra's jobs board plays host to roles across the world and in every major discipline, including opportunities at Rockstar North, Gazillion Entertainment, Tencent Boston, and more.
Wednesday, 22 December 2010
Round-Up: Gamasutra Network Jobs, Week Of December 10
Browser Game Pick: Time Pygmy (deepnight)
In Time Pygmy you play as a caveman who discovers a time portal inside his cave on a rainy day. Being rather inquisitive he decides to jump into the portal without thinking twice, and finds himself teleported to a cosy house sometime in the distant future. Our protagonist is also given only four minutes to make as many discoveries as he can, before he is forcefully returned to his own timeline to reflect on the amazing adventure he's just had.
Every new discovery that you make will light up a bulb at the bottom of the screen, although the first two discoveries are pretty much given to you as a gift during the tutorial sequence. Some puzzles are solved by placing two objects side by side, while others may require a certain amount of brute force before players can add them to their row of achievements.
The game is also rather short in length, but you'll need at least a couple of playthroughs to figure out every discovery there is to find in this Ludum Dare 19 competition submission.
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2011 Independent Games Festival Reveals Nuovo Award Finalists
The Independent Games Festival (IGF), the prestigious GDC-held video game industry event highlighting and awarding the talents of independent game developers, has announced the finalists for the 2011 Nuovo Award, which honors "abstract, short-form, and unconventional game development."
Some of this year's finalists include unconventional party game Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now (B.U.T.T.O.N.), first-person dinner simulation title Dinner Date, Messhof's chunky 2-player fencing title Nidhogg, and zen-like tree simulation title Bohm.
The Nuovo Award, the top video game art prize, is announcing an increase to $5,000 for this year's award winner, thanks to the quality of this year's entries. The winner of the award will be revealed at the Independent Games Festival Awards on March 2, 2011 at the Moscone Convention Center in San Francisco, during Game Developers Conference 2011. In addition, all Nuovo finalists will be playable in a special section of the IGF Pavilion on the GDC show floor from March 2nd to 4th.
Now in its third year, the Nuovo Award allows more esoteric art games from among the almost 400 IGF entries to compete on their own terms alongside longer-form indie titles, and has been newly expanded this year to include eight finalists.
The full list of this year's Nuovo Award finalists, with links to screenshots and videos of the titles on their official IGF.com entry pages, is as follows:
- Bohm, created by Monobanda - ("Gives you control over the life of a tree. It's a game based on slow gameplay and the act of creation.")
- A House in California, created by Cardboard Computer - ("A surreal, narrative game about four characters who bring a house to life... with environments and activities drawn from a combination of memory, research, poetry, and fantasy.")
- Nidhogg, created by Messhof - ("A 2 player fencing game with football & platforming elements".)
- Dinner Date, created by Stout Games - ("You play as the subconsciousness of Julian Luxemburg, waiting for his date to arrive. You listen in on his thoughts while tapping the table, looking at the clock and eventually reluctantly starting to eat...")
- Loop Raccord, created by Nicolai Troshinsky - ("Manipulate a series of video clips in order to create... continuous movement.")
- The Cat and the Coup, created by Peter Brinson and Kurosh ValaNejad - ("A documentary game in which you play the cat of Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, the first democratically elected Prime Minister of Iran.")
- Brutally Unfair Tactics Totally OK Now (B.U.T.T.O.N.), created by Copenhagen Game Collective - ("A one-button party game for 2-8 players. ... rather than let the computer carry out all the rules, the players are themselves responsible for enforcing (or not enforcing) the rules.")
- Hazard: The Journey Of Life, created by Demruth - ("A philosophical first person single player environmental puzzle game. The game presents no goals directly to the player, but they create goals for themselves based on what they know of the world.")
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Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Hudson Launches TurboGrafx-16 GameBox Featuring Bonk, Gradius, and More
Veteran console games publisher Hudson has released TurboGrafx-16 GameBox, a free download featuring many of the classic NEC console’s greatest hits available as in-app purchases priced at $2.99 each. Known elsewhere in the world as the PC Engine, the TurboGrafx-16 was a not-quite-16-bit console that waged war with Sega’s Genesis and later Nintendo’s SNES in [...]
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GDC 2011 Announces Art, Audio Talks From Final Fantasy, Pixar, Gear Of War 3
Organizers of the 2011 Game Developers Conference have debuted initial lectures from the Art and Audio Tracks for the Main Conference, spanning Gears Of War 3, Pixar, Limbo, Final Fantasy and beyond.
As the overall session list for the event further expands, organizers are specially highlighting the initial Main Conference session announcements around these two areas.
The Art and Audio Tracks take place from Wednesday March 2nd to Friday March 4th, 2011 during the pre-eminent, San Francisco-based event, alongside other discipline-specific Tracks dedicated to programming, design, business and management, and production.
All of the above Track sessions are open to those with a Main Conference or All-Access Pass, with a special Audio Pass also available, and some of the top sessions debuting in the Art and Audio Tracks are as follows:
Art Track
One of the notable Art Track reveals at this early stage is 'Fast and Efficient Facial Rigging in Gears Of War 3' by Epic Games' Jeremy Ernst, showcasing the methodology used for the much-awaited action title.
The lecture is designed to "show developers of any level how to create and think in a way that leads to faster and more efficient ways of building not only face rigs, but any kind of rig or tool."
Zynga's CityVille is boom town
"CityVille" is the fastest growing Facebook game ever with more than 17 million people playing it during its first 12 days on the social network. The game's creators at Zynga say a new strategy at the company has helped make it a booming success.
Sony To Launch Official App Store App For iPhone, Android
Smartphones have fast become a major arena for video game industry players, and now Sony is looking to get on board with a free PlayStation app for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android, which it plans to release in the near future. Sony’s official PlayStation mobile app will be primarily geared at enabling users to access [...]
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