Apparently Interzone Games are having some difficulty getting established in Western Australia.
Two days ago I attended I attended a cocktail function in order to hear a 'major announcement' from Interzone Games and the Western Australian Department of Industry & Resources (DOIR). The "Honorable Francis Logan MLA, Minister for Energy, Science and Innovation" was also coming along. Like the other attendees, I expected Interzone to announce they were setting up a studio in Perth, with assistance from the DOIR...
...but the Minister didn't even turn up! Hmmph. No explanation was given, other than "I'm sorry, we can't make the announcement we expected to" from Interzone CEO Robert J. Spencer. Weird.
This afternoon, I received a message in my inbox asking me to sign this online petition. It seems like someone inside DOIR changed their mind about the deal they were offering Interzone, which is really strange, as I believe that DOIR hosted and organized (read: financed) the function.
At least that explains the warm beer. :-).
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Popular Posts
-
These are the robots I've been working on for the last 12 months. They each weigh about 11 tonnes and have a 17 meter reach. The control... -
This hard-to-see screenshot is a Generic Node Graph Editing framework I'm building. I'm hoping it can be used for any kind of node... -
So, you've created a car prefab using WheelCollider components, and now you can apply a motorTorque to make the whole thing move along. ... -
Unfortunately I've not secured a venue for the GGJ. With 9 days left, things are not looking hopeful. It could be that GGJ Perth will no...
-
Often, when building a game, you need to test if objects are colliding. The objects could be spaceships, rocks, mouse pointers, laser beams....
-
Thank to Adrian Boeing I was inspired this morning to hack together a ripple shader for Unity3D. Thanks for the math Adrian. You can see th... -
MiddleMan: A Pub/Sub and Request/Response server in Go. This is my first Go project. It is a rewrite of an existing Python server, based o...
-
I've been investigating different .net languages for use with Mono. I've spent some time with Boo , and have decided I don't lik...
-
Update: This is another planet shader, with more physical fidelity. Shader "Planet" { Properties { _MainTex ("Diff... -
I made something which lets you render very large worlds with a small farClipPlane. https://github.com/simonwittber/scaled-origin The d...
2 comments:
The DoIR people I spoke to at the event said that they were still completely behind Interzone but that there was some bit of red tape that they hadn't realised they had to deal with. Everyone seemed very embarassed about it all -- but they were still there showing their support -- so I think it's all good.
Best to sign the petition though anyway, just to keep the pressure on them!
Warm beer! What has our government come to!
Post a Comment