Game Meet ---------------Update

For many years now there has been this big debate in the animation & gaming industry , about the difference between games and films. The people working in these diverse fields know what the differences are and why these two streams are different. The confusion has been amongst the so call animation training institutes, who offer both animation and game courses.
For some reasons, they keep saying that creating animation is the same as developing games, which is not true. The confusion is also there because ,some of the software tools, such as Photoshop, Flash & 3d tools like Max or Maya are used in the development of both Animation films & Games. Another reason is that we have a history of making films (not animation films), thus they believe that labeling everything under animation films makes it easy to explain.
The result has been that most students either join a wrong animation program or learn all the software believing that in this way they will be able to make a carrier in both Games & Animation

With the Game meet, our attempt is to educate all the game enthusiasts & players about Game design & Development carriers.
Our goal is to, provide valid proof that to make games one has to be a gamer first & secondly he has to learn the process involved in making games. The sessions will clearly showcase the carrier opportunities in game development & talk about the various skill sets needed for people from different streams to succeed in this field.

This will be the first time that, a large no of young game development professional from Rolocule Games (ex EA), Plassium, Shoonya Games ('Realtime Worlds'Dundee Scotland) , UI design experts from IIT & IIsc.

These experts have the expereince of having worked with game franchises like 'The Sims', Xbox 360 exclusive – Crackdown (http://www.xbox.com/en-GB/games/c/crackdown/) and the Electronic Arts published Action MMOG - All Points Bulletin (APB – www.apb.com), will interact with you all.

The speakers include Game professionals who have worked with ,  IIT & IIsc UI design Professionals , Online Game Experts & Educators.

Read more about the Game Professional Speaking at the Game Meet

For registrations visit 'www.idanimations.com' or mail to 'vrushali@idanimations.com'

Game Meet @Id

Small Wonders: People --------from the Game industry

A month or so back,  I received a email from this gentleman(if game professional can be called that) regarding his interest in some art work on our site, so I invited him over to visit Id.

This gentleman (Indian by birth), working in the game industry in Chicago, has been staying in Pune developing an online game for schools from Chicago. Before that we had briefly met at Asifa IAD (Pune) in 2007, which is annually held at MCCIA, when he had visited our stall on digital Painting.

I took him thru the school & we had a fairly long discussion on various topics related & unrelated to Games. Thus a small visit ended up going on for more than 3 hours. needless to say the exchange was interesting & engaging.

He also showed us, the online game he was developing, one of the reason why he was interested in the our art work as he was looking for artists to work for his game. The scale & scope of the online game he had developed, built on the flash platform was huge & & I told him so.

I don’t know much about Chicago, but the kind of game which helped students had huge scope in India and a lots of people would definitely be interested in his game. Also I liked the way the game looked, both in design & Play.

I had also shown him the board game ’Egyptian Myth’, which was designed by our students and he mentioned while leaving that he would like to come & play the game sometime.

Which he did in a week’s time, where again after playing the game we talked about his experience playing the game and some more other talk. As he was leaving he fished out a book on Realtime Rendering & a Casio digital camera which he quietly passed into my hands. He wanted the students to use the camera to take reference pictures for texturing & artwork development.

It’s pretty unusual for someone who you met just once, to gift you so thoughtfully, thus i had no qualms in accepting it and it is definitely being used in the school.

But that was not all, the next day i received a detailed review of the Board Game ‘Egyptian Myth’ which he had played the previous evening.

All i could say is

Thanks Deepak

Check out games made by Deepak (http://www.kongregate.com/games/enupgames/cabol)

& his site where he gives some tips on making flash based games (www.enupgames.com)