Tag: Arts
Nullarbor 2008 Prizes
It was a great pleasure last night to hand out the prizes to this year’s Nullarbor winners. The standard of the games this year was outstanding and it is a credit to everyone involved that due to the incredibly high quality, we had the closest results ever.
This year we also decided to have a judges prize, which we awarded to Jack Casey (aka Beetlefeet) for his outstanding game “LadyBug” (video, game). I’m sure his prize — a copy of Maya Unlimited from Autodesk — will be very helpful in crafting next year’s entry!
The music prize was also very close, with fewer entries but all of them very nigh quality. Congratulations and $250 narrowly went to Simon Whitber (Nxus7) for his winning entry, beating out the competition by just 1 point. The final results were:
| Nullarbor Music Prize Results | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Title/Artist | Points | Links |
| 1 | RunningPsychoman Nxus7 |
49 | MP3 |
| 2 | ULTIM8 REMIX cTrix |
48 | MP3 |
| 3 | Neurotically Ill One_Volt_Sun / SyNtHaCY |
42 | MP3 |
| 4 | Genetic Disorder One_Volt_Sun / SyNtHaCY |
29 | MP3 |
| 5 | Elan in Hawaii Game Pride |
26 | MP3 |
As I mentioned, the people’s choice voting was the closest it has ever been, with only 3 points (potentially just one vote) separating the top 3 games.
| Nullarbor Game Prize Results | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Position | Screenshot | Title/Developer | Points | Links |
| 1 |  |
Buttons’ Grand Adventures ECU ML Red Team ‘08 |
43 | Game Video |
| 2 |  |
The War of Art AH,MD,SM |
42 | Game Video |
| 3 |  |
Morning Star Peter Alexander |
40 | Game Video |
| 4 |  |
Ladybug Beetlefeet |
38 | Game Video |
| 5 |  |
Thrust Harder Kransky Bros |
24 | Game |
| 6 |  |
The Things NoTime |
20 | Game Video |
| 7 |  |
Super Jesus Twelve Productions |
19 | Game Video |
| 8 |  |
Space Pirates First Empire |
19 | Game Video |
| 9 |  |
Retrovector Brad Power |
18 | Game |
| 10 |  |
Column Breaker OneTwentyThree |
11 | Video |
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- 03 Sep 2008 / 05:12 PM
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- Community
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- tagged Art, Arts, Australia, Community, game industry, games as art, getting into the game industry, IGDA, IGDA Perth, IGDA Social Night, independent games, indy games, Nullarbor, Nullarbor 2008 and Perth
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Mine the Creative Riches in Boom Landscape
Stephen Bevis wrote an interesting article today discussing Perth’s investment in the Arts during this mining boom. Premier Alan Carpenter allocated $73M last year to government-supported cultural activities and compares himself to Adelaide’s Don Dunstan. As a city and a state we definitely need to work out how to build a cultural base here; after each of the last mining booms were over St Georges Tce turned into a wasteland (it just needed tumbleweeds to complete the picture). It’s possible to develop our non-mining industries but we need to focus on them.
As one of the “Tsars” nominated as someone that might be play some part in developing a sustainable artistic and cultural ecosystem in Perth, I would call on everyone that has any thought to helping on this front to focus on infrastructure. Fast internet access, support services and decent workspaces are difficult in Perth at the moment. This is a temporary effect caused by the boom–soon fantastic office space with amazing views will be given away again–but it is having a terribly deletorious effect on Cultural activities.
Incidentally, to all those that say that this boom will be different to the last boom, I point you to the first Internet bubble. Pundits were claiming that due to the friction-reducing effects of the ‘net the business fundamentals were different. The Internet has changed business dramatically but every boom still has its bust.
It’s just a matter of time, so lets be prepared.
About this entry
- Published:
- 14 Jun 2008 / 10:25 AM
- Category:
- Rant, Media Coverage
- Tags:
- tagged Art, Arts, Australia, CUlture, game industry, Media Coverage, Perth, Rant, WA and Western Australia
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