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Weekends, Modding & More

MOTY time is here and with Christmas fast approaching, the weeks become dev time for avid modders trying to get their mods released before the storm of voters hit the profiles with force.

So what's the best way to get noticed at this time?

• Media, Media, Media lots of media followed by more sexy media.
• Release the beast, release the beta or alpha get servers up and players online.
• Videos and media, patches and addons, expand your mods release with more content to enhance the players experience and prolong the playtime of your mod.
• Fast bug releases and more content and media, be a pr whore and abuse the news system as much as you can.
• Post your news on forums, other sites modDB is a massive hub of news so dont expect it to be on the front page longer than 2 days, pimp it around.

Game courses come to WA

As most aussies might know, Australia doesn't really have a large amount of game developers theres 2k and the guys that made tribes and a few other small name companies that no one can quite remembers, the main issue has been the lack of decent uni courses and places to get the diploma, that you need to work at a games company like 2k and the lack of talent and people looking for work in the industry in places like perth.

As someone that was looking at moving to the UK in 6 months to get a bachelor of arts diploma in games design, i would have been moving half way around the world for a course if they had it, could be done in Perth or any other state in Australia.
Issue is or in this case was the demand isn't great enough, so the uni's skimp out with a games development course suited only to people that want to code and know how to code the engine, not make the art assets.
TAFE and the other 3D courses on offer arn't any better as these are more multimedia focused and you work with super high poly models in MAYA and make animations with effects and what not.
All good for movie production, useless for game art.

These new TAFE courses promise to suit level designers and 3D artists and this has me excited at the possible draw it will bring to game companies to setup shop in our small city.

I guess only time will tell.

G2MODs

G2MODs is almost back a quick domain cleanup is needed and a small site update but all is back and all is the same, so please bare with me and it will be back soon.