171109-Melbourne-Made-Game-Puts

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Thursday, 9 November, 2017 MELBOURNE MADE GAME PUTS THE ASHES AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Melbourne’s sporting and digital games industries have teamed up to create a groundbreaking new game that will give people of all ages the chance to strap on the pads and play for the Ashes. Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley today joined Bushrangers star Glen Maxwell at the Melbourne Cricket Ground today to launch Melbourne-made Ashes Cricket, ahead of its global release on 16 November. Created by Melbourne’s Big Ant Studios in collaboration with Cricket Australia and the England & Wales Cricket Board, Ashes Cricket uses the latest 3D modelling, motion capture and photogrammetry technology to bring both women’s and men’s Ashes series to the gaming world like never before. The game is part of Cricket Australia’s new strategy, capturing the imagination of a new generation of cricket supporters through digital games and content that fans can engage with all year round. Big Ant Studios have worked with several cricketers to develop the game, including Australia captain Steve Smith, Glenn Maxwell, Emma Inglis and Mackinley Blows – capturing their movements playing a variety of shots that players can use at home to lead their team to virtual victory. In addition to choosing their players, teams, stadiums, logos and match formats, players can live out their cricketing dreams, starting with a local club and progressing through the ranks as they work towards Ashes glory. Big Ant has a history in creating cricket games, including Don Bradman Cricket 17 and the Big Bash 2016 mobile game – which was downloaded more than five million times. Melbourne is Australia’s digital games capital, home to more than half of all games businesses in the country. Ashes Cricket will be available on Playstation 4, Xbox One and PC from 16 November 2017. Quote attributable to Minister for Creative Industries Martin Foley “Melbourne is the home of sport, and the home of digital games. This game shows how major brands are recognising the incredible growth and potential of games, as well as the talent that calls Victoria home.” Quote attributable to Minister for Sport John Eren "This Melbourne-made game will be played across the globe – showcasing Victoria's incredible creativity and technology that guarantees a big summer of cricket on the pitch, on your console and beyond.” Quote attributable to Cricket Australia CEO James Sutherland “We continue to look for ways to connect with new audiences. We recognise the role digital games can play in doing this, particularly reaching younger fans, and fuelling their interest in the game - and ideally seeing them pick up a bat and ball to play Australia’s favourite sport.” Media Contact: Matilda Edwards Jézéquel 0447 422 464 | [email protected] .

Copy Link

Recommended publications

Mathematical Models for Cricket Team Selection
Mathematical Models for Cricket Team Selection Hamish Thorburn Dr Michael Forbes The University of Queensland 26/02/2015 1 1 Abstract An attempt was made to try and select the Australian Test Cricket Team for then-upcoming series against India in December-January 2014-2015. Data was collected pertaining to 37 Australian cricket players, relating to both recent form (the 12 months prior to commencement of the project) and career form across multiple formats of the game. The team was selected using a mixed-integer- programming (MIP) model, after processing the statistics collected to create usable parameters for the model. It was found that the team selected by the MIP model shared only 5 of the 11 players with the actual team selected by the Australian Board of Selectors to compete in the series. When altering parameters of the model, it was found that the batting diversity of the team could be doubled while only losing 0.008 of the available talent of selected players. The reduced costs were calculated to determine how close unselected players were to being selected, and what they would have to increase their batting/bowling averages to be considered for selection. Finally, we compared the ICC player ratings to our calculated batting and bowling indices, to try to determine the optimal weighting between the diﬀerent statistics. It was found that batting average was most important in batting performance (but was more important in test matches than one-day matches) and that bowling average and economy were equally important in bowling performance. 2 Introduction 2.1 The Game of Cricket Cricket is a sport composing of opposing teams of 11 players each side.
[Show full text]
Page Fast to Rebuke Pitch Slur
62 SPORT SUNDAY DECEMBER 10 2017 I HAVE LET MY Mitchell Starc Page fast COUNTRY DOWN England all-rounder Moeen Ali has had a poor tour so far to rebuke Picture: AAP pitch slur BRADEN QUARTERMAINE CURATOR Matt Page wants the ball to “fly through” when the third Test starts at the WACA Ground on Thursday and expects world cricket’s most famous pitch to be quick- er than last summer’s strip. Page hit back at criticism of his wickets after former bats- man Dean Jones described re- cent WACA pitches as “dribble dead crap”. Spearhead Mitchell Starc led a groundswell of calls for Page to prepare “the WACA of old” as Australia attempts to win its first Test in Perth for four years and regain the Ashes. WA coach Justin Langer wants green grass to be left on the pitch for the last Ashes Test at the venue, describing the Sheffield Shield strips this season as flat. Jones tweeted: “Memo to WACA curator, please prepare a fast, bouncy traditional WACA wicket for the 3rd Test. Not the dribble dead crap you have served up over the last 4 years or so!” Page fired back: “Every- one’s got their opinion on it. PAUL NEWMAN cuse. I didn’t want to get car- You talk to players and some ried away last summer and say it’s quick and some say it’s MOEEN Ali believes he has Fresh booze bother for England cricket say I was a world-class spin- slow. There’s always pressure. let England and his captain ENGLAND’S Ashes campaign has year-old batsman, who has ner because I knew how hard “Obviously this time of year Joe Root down by failing to been rocked by another booze- played four Tests and three it was going to be in Australia.
[Show full text]
Maxwell Helps Australia Edge out India in 1St T20 Afp Visakhapatnam, India Scoreboard India Glenn Maxwell Hit a Crucial R
Sports Monday, February 25, 2019 17 Maxwell helps Australia edge out India in 1st T20 AFP VISAKHAPATNAM, INDIA SCOREBOARD INDIA GLENN Maxwell hit a crucial R. Sharma c Zampa b Behrendorff .......................5 K.L. Rahul c Finch b Coulter-Nile ....................... 50 half-century as Australia edged V. kohli c Coulter-Nile b Zampa .......................... 24 out India by three wickets in a R. Pant run out (Behrendorff/Handscomb) ...........3 Afghanistan bowler Rashid Khan thrilling last-ball finish at the M.S. Dhoni not out ............................................. 29 first Twenty20 international on D. Karthik b Coulter-Nile ........................................1 K. Pandya c Maxwell b Coulter-Nile .......................1 Sunday. U. Yadav lbw b Cummins .......................................2 Khan hat-trick seals Pat Cummins hit a four Y. Chahal not out ...................................................0 and took two runs to complete Extras (lb2, w9) ................................................. 11 a nervous 127-run chase after Total (7 wickets, 20 overs) ...............................126 Afghanistan T20 Fall of wickets: 1-14 (Sharma), 2-69 (kohli), 3-80 his fellow paceman Nathan (Pant), 4-92 (Rahul), 5-94 (Karthik), 6-100 Coulter-Nile restricted India to (Pandya), 7-109 (Yadav) Did not bat: M. Markande, 126-7 in Visakhapatnam. J. Bumrah Bowling: Behrendorff 3-0-16-1, sweep against Ireland Maxwell, who made 56, put Richardson 4-0-31-0 (w5), Coulter-Nile 4-0-26-3 (w1), Zampa 3-0-22-1 (w2), Cummins 4-0-19-1 AFP together 84 runs with D’Arcy (w1), Short 2-0-10-0 18th over when the world’s Short for the third wicket to put AUSTRALIA (target 127) DEHRADUN, INDIA top T20 bowler became the Australia on course before Jas- D.
[Show full text]
Database Management Systems SQL – Basic Features
Outline Basics of SQL SQL programming { Data Definition SQL programming { Data Manipulation Problems Database Management Systems SQL { Basic Features Malay Bhattacharyya Assistant Professor Machine Intelligence Unit Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata January, 2019 Malay Bhattacharyya Database Management Systems Outline Basics of SQL SQL programming { Data Definition SQL programming { Data Manipulation Problems 1 Basics of SQL 2 SQL programming { Data Definition Principle structure Database creation Database modification 3 SQL programming { Data Manipulation Principle structure Relational operations Logical operations Set operations Other features 4 Problems Malay Bhattacharyya Database Management Systems Note: The SQL keywords are case-insensitive, however, they are often written in uppercase. In some setups, table and column names are case-sensitive. Outline Basics of SQL SQL programming { Data Definition SQL programming { Data Manipulation Problems SQL SQL or structured query language is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL uses a combination of relational algebra and relational calculus constructs. SQL is not only for querying, rather it also helps in defining the structure of the data, modifying the data and specifying the security constraints. Malay Bhattacharyya Database Management Systems Outline Basics of SQL SQL programming { Data Definition SQL programming { Data Manipulation Problems SQL SQL or structured query language is a special-purpose programming language designed for managing data held in a relational database management system (RDBMS). SQL uses a combination of relational algebra and relational calculus constructs. SQL is not only for querying, rather it also helps in defining the structure of the data, modifying the data and specifying the security constraints.
[Show full text]
Aussie Stars Pledge to Mo This Moustache Season
Monday 20 October 2014 Aussie stars pledge to Mo this moustache season Twelve famous Aussie faces are pledging to grow a Mo (Mo Bros) and encourage (Mo Sistas) everyone around Australia to sign up as the countdown to get hairy on 1st Movember draws closer. The Movember Ambassadors are showcased in a photo series by internationally renowned fashion and portrait photographer Simon Upton revealed today by the Movember Foundation Sporting top lips decked with shaving foam to demonstrate how men around the country commence their hairy missions, the ‘I Pledge To Mo’ series features: § Olympic swimmer James Magnussen § Dual international cricketer and soccer star Ellyse Perry § Cricketer Aaron Finch § Channel V host and DJ Danny Clayton § Bondi Rescue stars Trent Maxwell, Jesse Pollock and Ryan Clark § AFL players Nathan Fyfe and Drew Petrie § Professional rugby league and rugby union player Timana Tahu § My Kitchen Rules star Scott Gooding § Masterchef 2014 winner Brent Owens The result is a fun, striking series of individual images and an impressive group shot all captured by Australian Simon Upton, who has snapped the likes of Cindy Crawford, Eva Longoria, Miranda Kerr and Ian Thorpe amongst other high-profile stars. “When I was approached with the idea of the simple yet powerful shaving foam Mo’s in combination with the stylish suits that’s similar to this year’s Made in Movember campaign, I knew we could have a lot of fun with the concept,” Upton said. “Photography can be a powerful medium for storytelling and I hope the images we’ve created inspire people to find out more about men’s health issues and get involved with Movember,” he added.
[Show full text]
Inside the Video Game Industry
Inside the Video Game Industry GameDevelopersTalkAbout theBusinessofPlay Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Randy Nichols, and Ryan Kaufman Downloaded by [Pennsylvania State University] at 11:09 14 September 2017 First published by Routledge Th ird Avenue, New York, NY and by Routledge Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX RN Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa business © Taylor & Francis Th e right of Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Randy Nichols, and Ryan Kaufman to be identifi ed as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections and of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act . All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. Trademark notice : Product or corporate names may be trademarks or registered trademarks, and are used only for identifi cation and explanation without intent to infringe. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Names: Ruggill, Judd Ethan, editor. | McAllister, Ken S., – editor. | Nichols, Randall K., editor. | Kaufman, Ryan, editor. Title: Inside the video game industry : game developers talk about the business of play / edited by Judd Ethan Ruggill, Ken S. McAllister, Randy Nichols, and Ryan Kaufman. Description: New York : Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an Informa Business, [] | Includes index. Identifi ers: LCCN | ISBN (hardback) | ISBN (pbk.) | ISBN (ebk) Subjects: LCSH: Video games industry.
[Show full text]
Playing for Keeps Enhancing Sustainability in Australia’S Interactive Entertainment Industry © Screen Australia 2011 ISBN: 978-1-920998-17-2
Playing for Keeps Enhancing sustainability in Australia’s interactive entertainment industry © Screen Australia 2011 ISBN: 978-1-920998-17-2 The text in this report is released subject to a Creative Commons BY licence (Licence). This means, in summary, that you may reproduce, transmit and distribute the text, provided that you do not do so for commercial purposes, and provided that you attribute the text as extracted from Screen Australia’s report Playing for Keeps: Enhancing Sustainability in Australia's Interactive Entertainment Industry, November 2011. You must not alter, transform or build upon the text in this report. Your rights under the Licence are in addition to any fair dealing rights which you have under the Copyright Act 1968 (Cwlth). For further terms of the Licence, please see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/. You are not licensed to reproduce, transmit or distribute any still photographs contained in this report. This report draws from a number of resources. While Screen Australia has undertaken all reasonable measures to ensure its accuracy we cannot accept responsibility for inaccuracies and omissions. www.screenaustralia.gov.au/research Cover picture: Gesundheit! Developed by Revolutionary Concepts and published by Konami Report design: Alison White Designs Pty Limited Contents EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 2 BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE BASE 4 ECOLOGY OF THE SECTOR 6 High-end console games 7 Games for digital distribution 8 Publishing and distribution 9 Creative digital services 10 Middleware and related services 11 FACTORS IMPACTING SUSTAINABILITY 13 Shifting demographics 14 Growth factors 18 Industry pressure points 20 OPTIONS TO SUPPORT SUSTAINABILITY 23 Current government support 23 Future support 24 Alternator character Courtesy: Alternator Pty Ltd 1 Executive summary The challenges facing the interactive INTERACTIVE INDUSTRY entertainment industry are intrinsically ENTERTAINMENT IS A PRESSURE POINTS linked to those of the broader screen MAINSTREAM ACTIVITY Despite growing participation, the sector.
[Show full text]
Kirkwood Justin
JUSTIN EXPERIENCE Freelance character artist 2019 - Current KIRKWOOD Creating high-quality real time characters for such clients as: CHARACTER ARTIST - Next-Gen Dreams - Studio Mayday - Samurai Punk Big Ant Studios - Character Artist 2018 - 2019 Production of player heads including photogrammetry processing, sculpting, wrapping & texturing. Creation of hair assets. Wymac Gaming Solutions - Lead Artist / Lead Character Artist 2016 - 2018 Managing an art team of 6, inclulding work overview / approvals, ticket creation, and hiring. Creating workflows and art pipelines for multiple projects. Development and production of game characters, including Hi-res sculpting, Retopology, UV Mapping and Texturing. Wicked Witch Software - 3D Artist 2014 - 2016 3D generalist on various mobile / console titles. Work included creation of in-game sports stadiums, player likenesses, clothing and other game development for console and hand painted assets for mobile titles. CONTACT SHIPPED TITLES [email protected] www.artbyjustink.com Cricket 19 - The official game of the ashes - Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC. Melbourne, Australia Big Bash Boom - Playstation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC. +61 406 971 615 Fortunes of the brave - Custom hardware, Gambling Machine. AFL Evolution - Playstation 4, Xbox One, PC. Rugby Challenge 3 - Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC. - iOS, Android. SOFTWARE Warhammer: Snotling Fling Maya Z Brush EDUCATION Photoshop Substance Painter Marvelous Designer Computer Graphics Masters Academy - CGMA
[Show full text]
GDAA Submission to the ECRC Inquiry Into the Future of The
Submission to Senate Environment and Communications References Committee Subject Inquiry into the Future of Australia's Video Game Development Industry Date 18 September 2015 Game Developers’ Association of Australia Submission to Inquiry into the Future of Australia's Video Game Development Industry INTRODUCTION The Game Developers’ Association of Australia (GDAA) welcomes the opportunity to respond to the Senate Environment and Communications References Committee’s (SECR) inquiry into The Future of Australia’s Video Game Development Industry. This submission addresses the Terms of Reference as provided by the SECR: a. How Australia can best set regulatory and taxation frameworks that will allow the local video game development industry to grow and fully meet its potential as a substantial employer b. How Australia can attract video game companies to set up development operations in Australia and employ local staff c. How export opportunities from Australia's local video game industry can be maximised d. Any other related matters. In this submission we have provided: • A brief description of the GDAA • An insight into the local and global digital games industry • An overview of the state of the interactive game development sector in Australia • A synopsis of the challenges and opportunities faced by the interactive game development sector in Australia For the purposes of clarity, the use of the term ‘games’ or ‘gaming’ in this submission does not refer to the gambling sector in any form, but rather the products, and the development of those products, in the digital games industry. Additionally, the terms ‘interactive games’, ‘video games’ and ‘digital games’ are interchangeable and refer to games that are created for and/or played on digital devices, including but not limited to, mobile and tablet devices, personal computers and home consoles.
[Show full text]
Weekly News Digest #3
Jan 18 — Jan 24, 2020 Weekly News Digest #3 Hi everyone, The investment activity in the gaming market continues to accelerate with the recent IPO announcements of Huuuge and Krafton. The latter may become one of the biggest gaming companies worldwide with a $27B rumored valuation. Furthermore, Microsoft, Google, and Amazon consider acquisitions in the gaming space, as reported by Brad Sams. Tencent is also on the edge to acquire some large gaming business (U.S. or South Koreabased), considering debt financing of several billion dollars, as reported by TMT Finance. Such a step is what you can expect from the #1 strategic investor, based on the InvestGame Annual Report. Our colleagues at Niko Partners have published an update on Tencent deals over 2020. We’ve integrated the Niko Partners’ and Master the Meta’s data into our deals database and published it here. Huuuge shared IPO details: planning to raise $150m Polandbased social casino game developer and publisher Huuuge Games has officially announced its intention to raise approximately $150m via IPO on the main market of the Warsaw Stock Exchange. The company plans to use most of the future proceeds to support further potential acquisitions expanding its core social casino games portfolio and publishing capabilities; In addition to the sale of new shares, shareholders will publicly sell existing shares leading to a freefloat rate of over 25%. Founded in 2014 by Anton Gauffin, Huuuge Games is a F2P mobile game developer and publisher, mainly known for social casino titles. Huuuge operates through 3 core business divisions: Mighty: development and publishing of social casino games; Brave: publishing of casual games; HuuugeX: research and earlystage development of casual games.
[Show full text]
Csk Vs Srh Post Match Presentation
Csk Vs Srh Post Match Presentation Unpathetic Chancey coupes: he cose his hints sorrily and filially. Martyn often concelebrated overnight when demographic Austin bodings piously and wrangling her anointing. Jeremias travelling pillion. Its my batting at the importance of money brackets for partnerships and stripped michael clarke as young brigade wins a batting unit, csk vs srh post match presentation the summer. The wicket looks on the slower side so form was lovely looking double bowl shred the stumps rather not give more room. Dhoni also play and was one game in the csk vs srh post match presentation towards sunrisers hyderabad in all the likes of illegal match. Very good for sports skills, and you will not permitting srh, but we won on price performance against csk vs srh may not going to enter the bowling in. Even if you get, csk vs srh post match presentation meet: nikki tamboli refuses to see our website. Ipl match on to bowl one too many positives in your next two of csk vs srh post match presentation chahar. When you have an injury, csk vs srh post match presentation on mutual fund schemes and youth performances of a difficult for csk has been honing her skills as a few players amid covid teams. In their favourite players. Chennai super kings to ensure you get a really well, request help in the teams, sun tv has sent fans with saving quite clear in. Latest cricket captain his side falling short yet another failure for desperate measures and it too, mark is guy wearing dress, you are looking to buy and.
[Show full text]
P20 Layout 1
Vettel storms to Brazil win Malaysia17 win feisty19 friendly MONDAY, MARCH 30, 2015 Djokovic survives tricky test in Miami Page 17 MELBOURNE: Australia’s players celebrate after winning the 2015 Cricket World Cup final between Australia and New Zealand. — AFP Australia win fifth World Cup MELBOURNE: Michael Clarke hit 74 in his last removed Aaron Finch for a duck in the second one-day international to lead Australia to World Cup Champions over, Trent Boult taking an easy return catch their fifth World Cup title with a seven-wicket as the ball lobbed off the batsman’s bat and win over New Zealand in a disappointing final 1975 — West Indies pad. yesterday. Left-hander David Warner slammed seven A record crowd of 93,013 at the Melbourne 1979 — West Indies boundaries in his 45 off 46 balls, adding 61 for Cricket Ground saw power-packed Australia the second wicket with Smith. 1983 — India bowl out the Black Caps for 183 and then gal- But the pugnacious opener was unable to lop to victory in the 34th over. 1987 — Australia build on his fine start as he pulled seamer Clarke, who announced his retirement Matt Henry down Elliott’s throat at deep from the one-day format on the eve of the 1992 — Pakistan square-leg. Smith, who scored a century in final, added 112 runs for the third wicket with the semi-final against India in Sydney last his likely successor Steve Smith, who returned 1996 — Sri Lanka Thursday, continued his good form to help unbeaten on 56. Clarke take charge of the match.
[Show full text]