Video Games: A Talent Pool to Fix Australia’s IT Skills Shortage?

Australia’s $2 million boost for game development aims to solve the IT skills crisis, but talent loss to overseas tech roles raises concerns. Is it enough? Continue reading Video Games: A Talent Pool to Fix Australia’s IT Skills Shortage?

This hardcore gamer bundle includes Unity training and Xbox Game Pass

During our Spring Digital Blowout, get it all for just $25.
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Break into the game development business with this online Unity training bundle

The 2023 Unity Game Developer Training Bundle covers RPGs, arcade racers, 2D platformers and more for just $25.
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Finally! The ROM You Wished Your Sinclair Spectrum Had!

If there is one thing that Sir Clive SInclair was famous for, it was producing electronic devices that somehow managed to squeeze near-impossible performance out of relatively meagre components. This gave us some impressive products, but it’s fair to say that sometimes this philosophy pushed the envelope a little too …read more

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Simple Sprite Routines Ease Handheld Gaming DIY

Making your own handheld games is made much easier with [David Johnson-Davies’] simple sprite routines for the Adafruit PyBadge and PyGamer boards. Sprites can be thought of as small, fixed-size graphical objects that are drawn, erased, moved, and checked for collision with other screen elements.

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Game Builder Lets Kids — Even Old Kids — Build Games

One rite of passage back in the good old days of owning a TRS-80, Commodore 64, or similar vintage computer was writing your own game. It probably wouldn’t be very good, but it wouldn’t be much worse than most of the stuff that was out there, either. Today, trying to …read more

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