I just got free tickets to the Independant Game Developers Conference in Australia - FreePlay and turns out Binh Nguyen from Atari is teaching classes inside the conference using 3d Gamestudio and promoting it as the best engine for independant developers. It's one of the conferences main events - quite suprised really

Freeplay

Any other Australian Gamestudio users coming to this on Saturday?

I went to the first Free Play and AGDC (before they moved). At the Free Play I went to there was a guy doing a section on Machinma and used A5 I think at the time. It was about Robots and he used it commercially. We took one of our games to AGDC and spoke to a few people there, a couple had heard of Torque but not of A6.

Wish I had known of it earlier, I might have gone. It's good now that they're at the ACMI, when I went it was a 2nd story of an art building (very small and didn't look to safe on the steps) and another conference room down the street!

Oh I remember that guy, nanoflix, he's made a new machinima with the A6 engine starring Chris Jones from Tex Murphy and a main character from farscape, forget her name.

It sounds like it'll be good this year and the ACMI is really handy to get to. They still have tickets going for it if you're interested in attending still

@Matt_Coles: Maybe you could provide a little write-up what the session was like if you are attending that is.

Sounds quite interesting indeed, to bad I live all the way in Europe
A little write-up like Marco indicated would be great !!

Cheers

Frazzle

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Did you attend that year one too? (2004 I think)

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No, unfortunately I didn't get a chance, A while back I was interested in the prospect of Machinima in 3d Gamestudio and ran across his website and found on Gamasutra that he originated from Sydney. Here's his site

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Maybe you could provide a little write-up what the session was like if you are attending that is.

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I'll mostly be going just to have a peek at that session so, yeah I'll post you guys what it was like and what happened in the session

Hey guys,

I was the person that presented the session at FreePlay. Please let me know if you have any questions. The session was aimed at helping people who are absolute beginners to get started.

In the session I spoke about how 3DGS helped me learn how to program after nearly failing first year programming. I spoke about how I then moved on to other middleware and eventually came back to 3DGS.

I took the group through a point and click workshop on how to make a first person shooter and then wrote a small behaviour script to demonstrate how easy it is to get started in the engine.

I finally spoke about the strengths and weaknesses of 3DGS as I see them and then proceeded to get a lot of questions.

PS. I'm not from Atari, though I would have loved to work for them when they had a development house in Melbourne. I'm just an amatuer games developer and I'm doing my PhD in artificial intelligence at La Trobe University.

Thank you Chance!