¿Estás preparado para adentrarte en lo más profundo del Survival Horror?
De la mano de David Canela, alumno del Máster en Desarrollo de Videojuegos UCM, analizaremos una de las sagas más emblemáticas del género. Tanto si eres adicto al terror, como si eres de los que se preguntan cómo hay gente capaz de disfrutar de un videojuego tan estresante... te invitamos a pasar un "mal rato" con nosotros.
La cita es el próximo martes 18 de diciembre a las 16:00 en el aula 12 de la Facultad de Informática UCM.
No olvides tu motosierra.
sábado, 15 de diciembre de 2007
domingo, 18 de noviembre de 2007
Charla-Coloquio: Echidna Studios - La aventura del desarrollo amateur
¿Alguna vez te has preguntado cómo montar un estudio de desarrollo de videojuegos? ¿Quieres saber cómo hacer frente a los retos de organización, programación, diseño y arte que aparecen siempre en cualquier desarrollo? ¿Qué te parece si invitamos a un conocido estudio amateur, nacido en nuestra Facultad y con más de un año de experiencia ininterrumpida en el tema, para que nos lo cuenten todo?
Este jueves 22 de noviembre a las 19:30 tienes una cita con el equipo de Echidna Studios en el aula 2 de la Facultad de Informática UCM. No te pierdas la presentación más esperada del año. ¡Nos vemos este jueves!
Este jueves 22 de noviembre a las 19:30 tienes una cita con el equipo de Echidna Studios en el aula 2 de la Facultad de Informática UCM. No te pierdas la presentación más esperada del año. ¡Nos vemos este jueves!
jueves, 25 de octubre de 2007
Inauguración del curso 2007/2008
Para inaugurar el curso académico, GUEIM ha preparado un evento muy especial:
El lunes 29 de octubre, a las 16:15 horas, en el aula 11, presentaremos las novedades y los objetivos de la asociación para este curso, pasándo inmediatamente a repasar -de la mano del siempre refrescante reportero Alejandro Dobeson :) - los videos de los lanzamientos más esperados y las frikadas más genuinas del mundillo de los videojuegos.
Aprovechamos para pedir la asistencia de todos los actuales miembros de la asociación que puedan, con idea de actualizar nuestro libro de socios ;)
¡Os deseamos el mejor comienzo de curso posible a todos!
El lunes 29 de octubre, a las 16:15 horas, en el aula 11, presentaremos las novedades y los objetivos de la asociación para este curso, pasándo inmediatamente a repasar -de la mano del siempre refrescante reportero Alejandro Dobeson :) - los videos de los lanzamientos más esperados y las frikadas más genuinas del mundillo de los videojuegos.
Aprovechamos para pedir la asistencia de todos los actuales miembros de la asociación que puedan, con idea de actualizar nuestro libro de socios ;)
¡Os deseamos el mejor comienzo de curso posible a todos!
lunes, 22 de octubre de 2007
Art Futura 2007
Del 25 al 28 de octubre se celebra Art Futura 2007 en Barcelona. Una buena parte del evento se podrá visionar en La Casa Encendida de Madrid.
Más información sobre los eventos relacionados con juegos en Vida Extra
Más información sobre los eventos relacionados con juegos en Vida Extra
sábado, 30 de junio de 2007
Talleres variados en Gijón
El Centro de Arte de la Universidad Laboral presenta LABworkshops: Modding, Reversing and Intervening in Today's Gaming Worlds una serie de talleres sobre temas variados de los videojuegos que se celebrarán en Gijón durante todo el mes de julio.
Os animamos a entrar en la web y ehar un ojo a la lista de títulos y apuntaros a aquellos seminarios que os interesen.
02.07.07 – 27.07.07
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
In July LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is organising four workshops exploring the intersections between videogames, art and reality today. A different side of videogames will be revealed by creators who can uncover their codes, subvert the standards imposed by the industry and can even address social and political issues through them.
Game hardware and software will be used for performances, activism and critique and participants will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the language of videogames and create new meanings and results.
MODDING
An intense workshop tackling the basic notions about modding and editing of Quake III Arena levels with the aid of open source code elements. In order to create fully redistributable games, participants will learn to generate interactive 3D contents for Quake III and to engineer new game features in the game engine's source code.
Workshop led by:
JULIAN OLIVER (NZ) is an artist, educator and media theorist specialising in the development of free software. In 1998 he set up Select Parks, an artistic game development collective.
Dates: 02. – 07. 07.2007
Hours: 10 am – 2 pm & 4 – 7 pm
15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and motivation letter in English
Registration fee: 100 €
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Deadline: 15.06.2007
Working language: English
Prior experience in programming and 3D modelling will be valued
BORDERGAMES
The Fiambrera Obrera team will work with digital cameras and image editing, teaching basic levels of 3D modelling as well as some "tricks" and activities related with their software: narrative design and characters, modelling and remodelling of scripts and characters. Participants will be involved in field work in the area of Gijon.
Workshop led by:
LA FIAMBRERA OBRERA (ES) is an open group that works in areas charged with a high degree of political and social conflict. Their methods are primarily direct action and intervention.
Dates: 09. – 13.07.2007
Workshop limited to members of Asociación Mar de Niebla
Hours: 12 am – 2 pm & 4 – 8 pm
Working language: Spanish
ENTERING THE TERRITORIES OF SECOND LIFE
Second Life (SL) is an online virtual world currently inhabited by over six million "residents". This workshop explores SL as a platform for art expression, activism and critique. It will be led by a machinima professional, two media artists and a programmer who work on SL on a practical and theoretical level using it as an ideal platform to share ideas and to perform. Participants will learn through collaborative work how to make machinimas, how to write basic scripts and how to use SL as a platform for social action and artistic expression.
Workshop led by:
RICARD GRAS (ESP) is an artist, producer and director of machinima Europe Board. He explores new creative uses for technologies and relationships between art and the media. In 2003, he founded LA-INTERACTIvA, one of the companies that are officially in charge of the development of SL.
KRISTIAN LUKIC (SERBIA) is a writer, artist and a cultural and game researcher. He is a program manager in New Media Center – kuda.org and the founder of Eastwood – Real Time Strategy Group and also of Napon - Institute for flexible culture and technologies.
ILIAS MARMARAS (GR) is a new media artist and a leading member of the international group Personal Cinema. He has been working in gaming environments and game art since 1999.
YANNIS SCOULIDAS (GR) is a technical director, administrator and programmer of Personal Cinema and specialist in software and hardware.
Dates: 17. – 21.07.2007
Hours: 10 am – 2 pm & 4 – 8 pm
15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and motivation letter in English
Registration fee: 100 €
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Deadline: 03.07.2007
Working language: English
Experience in on-line game environments and especially familiarisation with SL will be valued
CHIPTUNES – 8BIt MUSIC
8bit sound and music is a distinctive feature of early videogames, and has become a seminal contemporary music style utilized by artists and DJs in engaging live audiovisual performances and remixes. This workshop will bring together creators from US and Spain who will work with young people to create music using Gameboys. The workshop will close with an evening of Chiptunes performances with sounds by the artists, the workshop participants and visuals by media artists Entter.
Workshop led by:
HAEYOUNG KIM (BUBBLYFISH) (KO) is a sound artist and composer who explores the textures of sounds and their cultural representation. Her work has been presented in art venues, clubs and new media festivals around the world.
CHRIS BURKE (GLOMAG) (USA) has been making 8bit music since 2001. He has performed in many countries and his music has played in films, on television and on the Internet. The machinima series "This Spartan Life", features his music as well as other 8bit artists and is featured in Gameworld.
RABATO(ESP) composes music with the famous software Littlesounddj created by Johan Kotlinski for a Nintendo Gameboy consoles. He is the co-founder of microBCN and has participated in festivals and concerts in various cities.
YES, ROBOT (ESP) mix Gameboy sounds with other instruments like synthesizes, samples and toys modified by themselves. They are founding members of the 8bit collective microBCN.
ENTTER(ESP) is formed by Raúl Berrueco and Raquel Meyers. Entter was formed to create a collective space for the expression of the common restlessness felt by many creative people in the interactive media art field. Their fields of research include AVperformance, installations, non-linear narrative, videogames, interfaces, experimental music, VJing and net.art.
Dates: 26. – 27.07.2007
Hours: 11 am – 2 pm & 4 – 7 pm
15 participants, age +18, selected by CVand motivation letter
Registration fee: 50 €
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Deadline: 16.07.2007
Working language: English and Spanish
Prior basic programming experience and music ability will be valued
Concept and Coordination of workshops:
Daphne Dragona, independent new media arts curator, Athens
Carl Goodman, Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media,Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Activities will take place at the labs and workshops of the LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight in production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined.
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
Director: Rosina Gómez-Baeza
Universidad Laboral s/n, 33394 Gijón, Asturias – Spain
T. +34 985 185 577 F. +34 985 337 355
labworkshops (arroba) laboralcentrodearte.org
Os animamos a entrar en la web y ehar un ojo a la lista de títulos y apuntaros a aquellos seminarios que os interesen.
02.07.07 – 27.07.07
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
In July LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is organising four workshops exploring the intersections between videogames, art and reality today. A different side of videogames will be revealed by creators who can uncover their codes, subvert the standards imposed by the industry and can even address social and political issues through them.
Game hardware and software will be used for performances, activism and critique and participants will have the opportunity to familiarise themselves with the language of videogames and create new meanings and results.
MODDING
An intense workshop tackling the basic notions about modding and editing of Quake III Arena levels with the aid of open source code elements. In order to create fully redistributable games, participants will learn to generate interactive 3D contents for Quake III and to engineer new game features in the game engine's source code.
Workshop led by:
JULIAN OLIVER (NZ) is an artist, educator and media theorist specialising in the development of free software. In 1998 he set up Select Parks, an artistic game development collective.
Dates: 02. – 07. 07.2007
Hours: 10 am – 2 pm & 4 – 7 pm
15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and motivation letter in English
Registration fee: 100 €
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Deadline: 15.06.2007
Working language: English
Prior experience in programming and 3D modelling will be valued
BORDERGAMES
The Fiambrera Obrera team will work with digital cameras and image editing, teaching basic levels of 3D modelling as well as some "tricks" and activities related with their software: narrative design and characters, modelling and remodelling of scripts and characters. Participants will be involved in field work in the area of Gijon.
Workshop led by:
LA FIAMBRERA OBRERA (ES) is an open group that works in areas charged with a high degree of political and social conflict. Their methods are primarily direct action and intervention.
Dates: 09. – 13.07.2007
Workshop limited to members of Asociación Mar de Niebla
Hours: 12 am – 2 pm & 4 – 8 pm
Working language: Spanish
ENTERING THE TERRITORIES OF SECOND LIFE
Second Life (SL) is an online virtual world currently inhabited by over six million "residents". This workshop explores SL as a platform for art expression, activism and critique. It will be led by a machinima professional, two media artists and a programmer who work on SL on a practical and theoretical level using it as an ideal platform to share ideas and to perform. Participants will learn through collaborative work how to make machinimas, how to write basic scripts and how to use SL as a platform for social action and artistic expression.
Workshop led by:
RICARD GRAS (ESP) is an artist, producer and director of machinima Europe Board. He explores new creative uses for technologies and relationships between art and the media. In 2003, he founded LA-INTERACTIvA, one of the companies that are officially in charge of the development of SL.
KRISTIAN LUKIC (SERBIA) is a writer, artist and a cultural and game researcher. He is a program manager in New Media Center – kuda.org and the founder of Eastwood – Real Time Strategy Group and also of Napon - Institute for flexible culture and technologies.
ILIAS MARMARAS (GR) is a new media artist and a leading member of the international group Personal Cinema. He has been working in gaming environments and game art since 1999.
YANNIS SCOULIDAS (GR) is a technical director, administrator and programmer of Personal Cinema and specialist in software and hardware.
Dates: 17. – 21.07.2007
Hours: 10 am – 2 pm & 4 – 8 pm
15 participants, age +18, selected by CV and motivation letter in English
Registration fee: 100 €
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Deadline: 03.07.2007
Working language: English
Experience in on-line game environments and especially familiarisation with SL will be valued
CHIPTUNES – 8BIt MUSIC
8bit sound and music is a distinctive feature of early videogames, and has become a seminal contemporary music style utilized by artists and DJs in engaging live audiovisual performances and remixes. This workshop will bring together creators from US and Spain who will work with young people to create music using Gameboys. The workshop will close with an evening of Chiptunes performances with sounds by the artists, the workshop participants and visuals by media artists Entter.
Workshop led by:
HAEYOUNG KIM (BUBBLYFISH) (KO) is a sound artist and composer who explores the textures of sounds and their cultural representation. Her work has been presented in art venues, clubs and new media festivals around the world.
CHRIS BURKE (GLOMAG) (USA) has been making 8bit music since 2001. He has performed in many countries and his music has played in films, on television and on the Internet. The machinima series "This Spartan Life", features his music as well as other 8bit artists and is featured in Gameworld.
RABATO(ESP) composes music with the famous software Littlesounddj created by Johan Kotlinski for a Nintendo Gameboy consoles. He is the co-founder of microBCN and has participated in festivals and concerts in various cities.
YES, ROBOT (ESP) mix Gameboy sounds with other instruments like synthesizes, samples and toys modified by themselves. They are founding members of the 8bit collective microBCN.
ENTTER(ESP) is formed by Raúl Berrueco and Raquel Meyers. Entter was formed to create a collective space for the expression of the common restlessness felt by many creative people in the interactive media art field. Their fields of research include AVperformance, installations, non-linear narrative, videogames, interfaces, experimental music, VJing and net.art.
Dates: 26. – 27.07.2007
Hours: 11 am – 2 pm & 4 – 7 pm
15 participants, age +18, selected by CVand motivation letter
Registration fee: 50 €
Registration: www.laboralcentrodearte.org
Deadline: 16.07.2007
Working language: English and Spanish
Prior basic programming experience and music ability will be valued
Concept and Coordination of workshops:
Daphne Dragona, independent new media arts curator, Athens
Carl Goodman, Deputy Director and Director of Digital Media,Museum of the Moving Image, New York
Activities will take place at the labs and workshops of the LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries is a space for artistic exchange. It is set up with the purpose of establishing an effective alliance between art, design, culture, industry and economic progress and the goal of becoming a space for interaction and dialogue between art, new technologies and industrial creation. It throws a special spotlight in production, creation and research into art concepts still being defined.
LABoral Centre for Art and Creative Industries
Director: Rosina Gómez-Baeza
Universidad Laboral s/n, 33394 Gijón, Asturias – Spain
T. +34 985 185 577 F. +34 985 337 355
labworkshops (arroba) laboralcentrodearte.org
miércoles, 20 de junio de 2007
Fin de Máster 2007: ¡Vota por el mejor y gana una Wii!
El Máster en Desarrollo de Videojuegos UCM lanza un concurso para poner a prueba los juegos que han desarrollado los alumnos de la presente edición.
Para participar tan sólo hay que descargar los juegos de esta web, probarlos y votar por el mejor, enviando un único mensaje por persona antes del 28 de junio a mastervj [arroba] fdi.ucm.es, donde aparezcan vuestros datos, comentarios sobre los puntos fuertes y débiles de todos los juegos y vuestra opinión sobre cual es el mejor de todos.
Entre todos los participantes se sorteará una apetecible Wii, que se entregará durante el Acto de Fin de Máster 2007, a celebrarse este 29 de junio a las 16:00 en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Informática UCM.
Esperamos veros a todos en el Acto, ¡y mucha suerte a los participantes!
Para participar tan sólo hay que descargar los juegos de esta web, probarlos y votar por el mejor, enviando un único mensaje por persona antes del 28 de junio a mastervj [arroba] fdi.ucm.es, donde aparezcan vuestros datos, comentarios sobre los puntos fuertes y débiles de todos los juegos y vuestra opinión sobre cual es el mejor de todos.
Entre todos los participantes se sorteará una apetecible Wii, que se entregará durante el Acto de Fin de Máster 2007, a celebrarse este 29 de junio a las 16:00 en el Salón de Actos de la Facultad de Informática UCM.
Esperamos veros a todos en el Acto, ¡y mucha suerte a los participantes!
viernes, 1 de junio de 2007
Post-mortem: e-Adventure
Que el desarrollo de videojuegos es un área en auge en España y en el mundo entero no supone hoy en día un secreto. Por desgracia, la representación de este ámbito profesional es escaso en entornos académicos. Desde GUEIM queremos reivindicar la seriedad y presencia de dichos proyectos, y para ello queremos despedir este año lectivo con un evento especial.
Para ello, Francisco Manuel Pérez, Eduardo Sollet y Bruno Torijano nos hablarán de
Lunes 4 de Junio a las 17:00
Aula 11 de la Facultad de Informática UCM
Para ello, Francisco Manuel Pérez, Eduardo Sollet y Bruno Torijano nos hablarán de
Lunes 4 de Junio a las 17:00
Aula 11 de la Facultad de Informática UCM
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