Edinburgh International Games Festival
by James Arthur · in General Discussion · 07/21/2004 (10:24 am) · 3 replies
Hello all
I was just wondering if anyone from GG will be attending the Edinburgh International Games Festival this year?
http://www.eigf.co.uk/
I was just wondering if anyone from GG will be attending the Edinburgh International Games Festival this year?
http://www.eigf.co.uk/
#2
-James B.
08/16/2004 (9:09 pm)
Well Alex, this is ashame. NO REALLY. The expence it would have cost GG would have easilly been re cooporated. I asure you. I was at the EIGF last year and intend to go next year. (this year is out of the question due to new born baby). I know alot of people (well 23) that are going. they all love ames and are all interested in starting out development.-James B.
#3
However, there were some really cool companies showing off stuff to developers and the public. One company, for example, showed off some face-scanning tech that was really, really cool - it didn't use anything more specialised than a pair of digicams and would build a fully textured face mesh with full bone animation support after a few minutes of image processing. It would also do full facial mo-cap without those annoying white dots. They'd never used it in games before, and I think they won several contracts right there and then.
The public showings and talks would probably be more useful to GG than the conference, though. For example, the advice given at the "How to get into the games industry" talk was along the lines of "Learn C++, grab a game engine off the net, create a simple demo game, show it to developers". GG could quite easily stick their logo on the information pack that was handed out to attendees.
Dare To Be Digital is another great thing. This is a competition run by the University of Abertay, whereby teams of 5 students create a business plan for a game to build over the summer. The ten best business plans get funding to build a prototype of that game over 10 weeks. At the end of the ten weeks, many of the teams actually form proper companies to develop their games properly and are helped by the University's business incubator. Almost all entrants get jobs in the games industry.
Now the budget for each team (apart from wages and standard hardware and software) is only
08/17/2004 (3:17 am)
Well, you didn't miss much regarding the conference. Games are the new rock & roll! Games aren't the new rock & roll! Are games really art? Women in Games - hurrah! Nothing new there.However, there were some really cool companies showing off stuff to developers and the public. One company, for example, showed off some face-scanning tech that was really, really cool - it didn't use anything more specialised than a pair of digicams and would build a fully textured face mesh with full bone animation support after a few minutes of image processing. It would also do full facial mo-cap without those annoying white dots. They'd never used it in games before, and I think they won several contracts right there and then.
The public showings and talks would probably be more useful to GG than the conference, though. For example, the advice given at the "How to get into the games industry" talk was along the lines of "Learn C++, grab a game engine off the net, create a simple demo game, show it to developers". GG could quite easily stick their logo on the information pack that was handed out to attendees.
Dare To Be Digital is another great thing. This is a competition run by the University of Abertay, whereby teams of 5 students create a business plan for a game to build over the summer. The ten best business plans get funding to build a prototype of that game over 10 weeks. At the end of the ten weeks, many of the teams actually form proper companies to develop their games properly and are helped by the University's business incubator. Almost all entrants get jobs in the games industry.
Now the budget for each team (apart from wages and standard hardware and software) is only
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