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[Noticia] Sean Murray galardonado con el Develop:Star Award 2019

Artículo publicado en la revista especializada GameLegant.com

El padre de No Man’s Sky, ganador del Develop:Star Award 2019 (more…)

A couple of weeks ago, I travelled to Brighton for my yearly trip to Develop.  This is the sixth year I’ve attended, and the second that I have gone as an attendee, instead of a volunteer. It’s interesting to look back and see just how the industry has changed over that time, and the trends and companies that have come and gone.

For a few years VR was all the rage, and it was about to make us all millionaires, luckily this year wasn’t quite so VR heavy. The indie track is growing in popularity, however, with brutally honest stories of how everyone makes mistakes, but it’s ok, which is quite refreshing.

As I’ve said before, I always prefer stories and theory talks as opposed to technical talks, so I really enjoyed most of the indie talks. For the Friday, I was given a full pass by someone who had to go home early, so I could see some of those talks too.

I particularly liked a talk on urban design in games. I play a lot of city building games (A LOT) so I found this incredibly interesting. The speaker discussed how cities, towns, and villages must make sense, they must have been built in that place for a reason, and ancient reasons are often quite different to modern ones. Cities are made more interesting by incorporating a variety of styles, after all every single house wasn’t built at once and different districts may house a different class of person.

There was also a talk on how to pitch your game to investors and publishers, which I found very useful, it basically boiled down to being prepared, knowing your stuff, and being human. By being honest about your failures and communicating your passion, people will be much more likely to warm to you.

I was able to try out a few games and tech demos on the show floor, I did some VR sword fighting with a guy in a motion capture suit which was pretty awesome. Although I’m not really sure about the practical applications of this, you’re unlikely to be able to afford all that equipment. I also tried a VR puzzle game called Tin Hearts, where you move around pieces of a toy box in order to direct a little trail of tin soldiers to a door, in a Lemmings style.

PlayStation'un gelecek planı: Sanal gerçeklik

İngiltere’nin Brighton şehrinde düzenlenen “Develop Conference”e katılan Sony Computer Entertainment firmasının müdürü Andrew House, PlayStation’ın geleceğinden bahsetti. House bu geleceğin üç sütun üzerine kurulacağını söyledi: Streaming, yaşam tarzı ve sanal gerçeklik. Streaming kısmını şimdide...

Microsoft has clarified that it will not be scrapping plans to make every retail #XboxOne a legitimate development kit.

A Microsoft representative has told Digital Spy that the company is not looking to abandon its promise of making every retail Xbox One a development kit via a future update.

“The comments [made] today were inaccurate,” they said. “We remain committed to ensuring the best possible solutions for developers and hobbyists to create games for Xbox One. We will share more details at a later date.”

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Develop Indie Showcase Submissions Now Open

The fourth Develop Indie Showcase is now open for submissions.

The Showcase gives indie studios an opportunity to gain exposure for their games – and receive direct feedback from a panel of judges.

Last year’s Indie Showcase featured Paladin Studios’ Momonga Pinball Adventures, Nyamyam Games’ Tengami, 232 Studios’ Epic Eric, and Greenfly Studios’ Drop That Candy .

Criteria for applying to the…

Last week Jeff went down to a not-so- sunny Brighton for the Develop Conference 2012. Not only was he attending the conference, but he also gave a talk on the evolution of casual gaming and the rise of IPTV.

For those of you who don’t already know, Jeff had a special guest with him during his talk – Warwick Davis! Warwick joined Jeff on stage to talk about his upcoming app Pocket Warwick.  It has been a fantastic experience working alongside Warwick in producing the app, and his comedy/acting skills have really helped give the app that unique edge – keep an eye out for it hitting an app store near you very soon!

We would like to thank Warwick for participating in the talk and taking part in the panel – his opinions on the experience of working with Matmi to develop his app made for some interesting discussion! Also a big thanks to Warwick for taking part in this unusual stunt – it was great to see the shocked audience reaction most of whom were not expecting to see an international film star take the stage.   

Finally, a massive thank you to the other panellists, Volker Hirsch (Head of Games at Blackberry) and Mike Hawkyard (Chairman of Casual games at TIGA and New Business Director of 4T2) whose contributions helped make the panel a great success.

 Jeff’s talk focused on the convergence of media, potentially the biggest change the digital landscape has seen since the first smartphones appeared. The talk also touched on Matmi’s predictions for the future  of end user content - “content belongs to the user not the device” which is particularly relevant to us now due to the  imminent release of Rollabear which will be published across more devices than Matmi has ever attempted  before.

Jeff really enjoyed doing the talk – especially some of the slightly surreal questions from the audience at the end!  It was also really interesting for him to see the division of peoples’ opinions on the subject of IPTV, with some people believing IPTV will be a huge success, and others believing it won’t take off at all.

Some closing words from Jeff himself “ The rest of the conference was fantastic, jam packed, informative and really enjoyable-It was nice to see the Oliver twins who made Dizzy Games and hear their take on the industry, both now and in the future and it was great to meet the rest of the TIGA team. " 

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It’s a busy week for Jeff this week , today he’s heading down to Brighton for the Develop Conference . Not only is Jeff attending the conference he is also really looking forward to giving a talk tomorrow (Tuesday 10th, 10:20) on the evolution of casual gaming and the rise of IPTV, and let’s not forget that this will be no ordinary talk, this will be a talk with a very special twist…

For those of you lucky enough to be going to the conference why not pop along to Jeff’s talk and find out what this twist is.  Other than that it will be a whirlwind week of business meetings , and networking for Jeff. Keep an eye out for him if you’re down there!

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