http://www.torps.com/blog/ The weblog of Kevin 'Zaph' Burfitt. Game Development, Cthugha, The Torps, and more en-us Copyright 2007 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:14:00 +1000 Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:28:59 +1000 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.15 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss The Demo for our game Viva Pinata: Party Animals has been released on Xbox Live - head on over and download it to see what we've been up to.... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/09/viva_pinata_par.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/09/viva_pinata_par.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:14:00 +1000 Finally, it has been announced that we (Krome) are working on the Wii version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (along with the PS2/PSP versions previously announced). I can't tell you anything beyond that, such is the life of NDA's... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/09/star_wars_the_f.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/09/star_wars_the_f.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:08:07 +1000 I've been pretty slack in posting any updates this year, so here's a glut of them to keep you busy!... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/09/time_for_some_u.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/09/time_for_some_u.html Fri, 21 Sep 2007 12:07:01 +1000 It's been a hectic few months, so I thought I'd bring people up to date with whats going on my world of game development: Test Drive Unlimited PS2+PSP should be heading to store shelves real soon. I've been writing developer... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/02/a_small_update.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2007/02/a_small_update.html Thu, 22 Feb 2007 20:39:28 +1000 Announced today, Krome Studios has purchased Melbourne House. It's been a rough ride with Atari, we've done some awesome stuff while part of Atari (Lemans, Grand Prix Challenge, Transformers) but the last few years have been bumpy - now it's... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2006/11/krome_purchases.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2006/11/krome_purchases.html Fri, 03 Nov 2006 10:02:31 +1000 High Moon Studios have won an award for workplace excellence thanks to their use of the agile method known as SCRUM I'm a big fan of agile methods being used in Game Development, and have proved that even just taking... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/11/agile_developme.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/11/agile_developme.html Tue, 22 Nov 2005 11:19:40 +1000 Recently I've been playing a lot of GuildWars with our usual crew of gamers. I find it a nice halfway house between an offline game and something like WoW or CoH. Moles has posted some screenshots of our intrepid Guild... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/09/what_ive_been_p.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/09/what_ive_been_p.html Thu, 29 Sep 2005 07:35:38 +1000 I've praised Burnout in the past - it's an awesome game, but... I've been driving cars for over 20 years (yes, I'm that old) and have never had an accident. For the last year I've been playing Burnout 3 in... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/08/gamer_sues_eacr.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/08/gamer_sues_eacr.html Thu, 18 Aug 2005 10:02:24 +1000 I've been a little sidetracked lately, here is the result!... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/07/its_a_boy.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/07/its_a_boy.html Sat, 23 Jul 2005 09:29:04 +1000 Right now I'm in a dilemma with PSP Homebrew: On the one hand things are progressing nicely out there in the world of homebrew - highlighted for me with todays release of a working build of Rogue for the PSP... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/07/psp_homebrew_di.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/07/psp_homebrew_di.html Mon, 04 Jul 2005 19:11:36 +1000 Nothing to do with games, sorta... iTunes 4.9 has been released, and it supports Podcasts natively (grabbing the latest episode, removing old ones, transferring to iPod, etc) Damn, thats fine :-) I'm subscribed to Dr Karl from triple j, but... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/06/itunes_podcasts.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/06/itunes_podcasts.html Wed, 29 Jun 2005 19:19:31 +1000 Last week I purchased a Sony PSP (Japanese, v1.50). I've been playing some Tony Hawk but I think I'm getting old because the game uses so much skateboarding terminology with the assumption that you know it - and I don't... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/06/sony_psp_part_i.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/06/sony_psp_part_i.html Tue, 28 Jun 2005 08:46:56 +1000 I've just been reading the latest Develop Magazine "Develop 100", the list of the top 100 worldwide game developers based on their sales in the UK. Melbourne House landed in 87th place, which wasn't too bad when you consider we... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/05/transformers_sa.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/05/transformers_sa.html Mon, 23 May 2005 16:36:32 +1000 I've recently bitten the bullet and have now got an Xbox Live account (Gamertag: Zaphus). So far I've only played Forza on it but I'll also be playing Burnout3 soon. Xbox live is pretty easy to set up, but I've... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/05/xbox_live_driva.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/05/xbox_live_driva.html Tue, 10 May 2005 08:39:47 +1000 I've been playing with the Sony PSP over the last few days, and I've got to say that it is a beautiful device. The PSP gets released in Australia on September 1, for $430 (I believe), but you can get... http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/05/sony_psp_awesom.html http://www.torps.com/blog/archives/2005/05/sony_psp_awesom.html Thu, 05 May 2005 08:22:40 +1000