Game development at rAge
It’s time again to talk about what is probably the largest game developer gathering event in South Africa. Professionals, indie developers and hobbyists will be getting together at the Game.Dev stand at rAge 2007 in Johannesburg and will be running talks and workshops throughout the 3 day event.
Free DVDs with game development content and resources will be handed out for those of you who are interested in trying your hand at making games at home and I think it’s particularly noteworthy that there are going to be a couple of talks on developing games using the XNA Framework and for the Xbox 360.
There will also be the prize-giving of Game.Dev Competition 15 (which ran from the beginning of June to the end of July) sponsored by Mindset Learn and valued at R10,000.
For this year’s event I’ll be dedicated to helping the Game.Dev community run the stand and giving demos on building games using GameMaker. I’ll also be giving a talk on “Re-playability through meta-gaming and achievements”.
To keep up-to-date with what the community will be doing checkout their official website at http://www.gamedotdev.co.za and follow the discussion on their forums. You can also check out the write-up and photos of what happened last year on their website.
