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Sesame Tree, Belfast based Sixteen South’s co-production with Sesame Workshop is a finalist at the prestigious 25th Prix Jeunesse International.
Taking place in June in Munich, the Prix Jeunesse International is a biennial festival which celebrates children’s television from around the world. Sesame Tree is a finalist in the pre-school fiction category. |
BBC Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Screen bring viewers Primetime, two original dramas penned by new local writers.
The two 60-minute dramas, filmed on locations in Northern Ireland, by Mammoth Screen, are on BBC Two Northern Ireland on Sunday, 26th February and 4th March at 9pm.
The first, Primetime - At Water’s Edge, tells the story of Beth (Andrea Irvine) who has been trying for years to have a baby. |
Inside Pictures, the leading film industry business training and leadership skills development programme, launched its 2012 programme on 7th February 2012. In its ninth year, Inside Pictures is open to applicants from across the whole of the European Union. The National Film and Television School, the UK's national centre of excellence for postgraduate education, and Qwerty Films have teamed up again in order to deliver the ambitious programme. |
 It has been two weeks from the last blog post, so we’re one overdue and we’ve got progress to show! First of all the game actually lives up to its name now (yes, about time) as there are finally wizards in the game!
The little guys on top react to things like firing at the enemy and restoring the vines. |
The gaming industry offers students some of the most viable and exciting career opportunities in Ireland today. That’s according to Dr. Stephen Brennan, Director of Marketing and Strategy with the Digital Hub Development Agency (DHDA), who was speaking today at the launch of the Irish leg of Dare to be Digital. |
February 10, 2012 |  |
 Billy Goat Entertainment Ltd are proud to announce that Outfoxed, their new 3D cartoon videogame, is now available to buy on the Apple® App Store, coming soon to Mac and PC.
Featuring the voice of Northern Ireland’s own Jackie Fullerton, players assume the role of a crafty fox tasked with raiding the local chicken farm for lunch. However, the residents aren’t going to let this happen without a fight...
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 Batpigs: The Winged Menace
Nothing will get past your defenses? When pigs fly, you say? Well I have bad news for you…
Batpigs are the latest addition to the Wrorc forces. |
January 27, 2012 |  |
 Last week we were very pleased to announce our work on the Infurious “appController”. This was a means to remote control our gaming apps allowing you to sit in comfort while playing the game. In that article we briefly mentioned having the game screen reflect its contents onto a large screen display. |
January 26, 2012 |  |
 NEWRY based television production company, Big Mountain Productions, has been nominated for the IFTA’s (Irish Film and Television Awards), to be held in the convention centre Dublin on February 11 for their 4 part series THE TENEMENTS, presented by actor Bryan Murray.
The series was a massive hit for TV3 when broadcast last August and being nominated is a great honour for the company and the production. “Fingers crossed, we’ll do well on the night but to be nominated by our peers in this hugely competitive awards is great,” MD Philip McGovern. |
January 25, 2012 | |
 Newry-based Big Mountain Productions is targeting £2.4 million worth of export sales over the next three years with support from Invest Northern Ireland.
Big Mountain Productions is an independent television production company which makes programmes and also sells original programme formats to major broadcasters across Ireland. |
 Belfast, Northern Ireland - THE SHORE, written, directed and produced by Belfast native and double Oscar-nominated screenwriter and director Terry George, has this afternoon received an Academy Award nomination in the prestigious Live Action Short Film category. THE SHORE is among five nominees in the category with the Oscar winner set to be announced at February’s 84th Annual Academy Awards® ceremony.
The film, part-funded by Lough Shore Investments, was named among 10 short films that would advance for judging by Academy Branch members in December. |
 A Northern Ireland web company has launched a major new education initiative called Game to Learn. Bangor based business, Omnisoft Services, which specialises in social media and gamification, was at the BETT (British Education and Training Technology) exhibition in London last week to launch ‘Game to Learn’ and its sister initiative, Game to Change which is aimed at community groups.
Game to learn offers learning solutions for Key Stage One and Key Stage Two pupils through trackable gaming solutions that integrate gaming and learning into a single package which can be used in the classroom and at home to complete homework and extend the learning experience. |
 The Creative Industries Innovation Fund (CIIF) supported by Northern Ireland Screen and Digital Circle aims to stimulate innovation, R&D and creativity in the economy, and encourage export focused growth, by developing the creative industries.
The 3rd round of CIIF funding opens for applications today, Monday 16th January, and is open to ALL sectors within the Creative Industries wishing to deliver project that will develop commercially viable content, products, services and experiences. All projects must be completed by 31st March 2013. |
January 12, 2012 |  |
 By John Walker - www.rockpapershotgun.com
If you were attempting to find casual gaming gold, you might well think about trying to create a game at the midpoint of Plants Vs. |
January 28, 2011 |  |
Is the new stat that amazon sold more kindle book downloads than paperback books last year worrying? skim reading is more likely on handheld devices research shows…which coupled with gaming mania (which has been coined as failure based learning, would suggest that a dumbed down future population is a real possibility! |
January 25, 2011 |  |
With over 573 million active users across the globe, Facebook continues to dominate social networking. Below are stats taken from checkfacebook.com, which show that the United States still remain ahead of the pack when it comes to users, followed not so closely by Indonesia and the United Kingdom. |
January 17, 2011 |  |
<p>Invest NI has been working closely with DCAL and Digital Circle to develop Mobile and Internet Gaming in Northern Ireland.</p>
<p>They want to see if there is interest from the Industry in attending this year’s<a href="http://www.gdconf. |
January 04, 2011 | |
With over 573 million active users across the globe, Facebook continues to dominate social networking.
Below are stats taken from checkfacebook.com, which show that the United States still remain ahead of the pack when it comes to users, followed not so closely by Indonesia and the United Kingdom. |
November 16, 2010 |  |
The huge interest in the "Serious Games" area, where gaming technology is used for serious or business purposes, has made it feasible for far-sighted organizations to gain enduring competitive advantage by creating their own unique business simulation labs where they can present their senior teams with all kinds of challenging business scenarios to improve decision making capabilities by allowing the big mistakes to be made in the simulator rather than in the business.My new white paper explains how.... |
October 22, 2010 |  |
 Aren’t we the lucky punters? With the next patch from Derry based Dark Water Studios comes the first new craft for their DogFighter game since release. The beast below is called the “Mongoose”. |
September 22, 2010 |  |
I’m sure there is no such term, but I wanted to invoke a hint of “Social Networking” to get your attention. Did it work? So, Nepotism? |
August 24, 2010 |  |
Ok, so it's unlikely that any council is going to gain more than the 2.2 Million Fans that Cheryl Cole currently has for her Facebook Page. But the fact the pop-star has been able to build-up such a following using the Social Networking site shows that people are increasingly using Facbook to connect with public figures/organizations that interest them and in turn allows them to establish a vast market upon which to sell their brands. |
July 20, 2010 | |
Having covered the likes of Twitter in the past I wanted to delve back into the world of social networking and have a look at a section which is really starting to catch on – Location Based Networking. In particular I would like to take a look at the two main contenders: Foursquare and Gowalla. [... |
May 26, 2010 |  |
Unfortunately everyone in the world is not honest and from time to time we get people trying to game the system.
Gaming the system
There are a number of ways we’ve noticed people trying to game the system. The main two are:
Someone leaves a good review for their own business and a bad review for their competitors
Someone [... |
May 06, 2010 |  |
Whether you’re embarking on a freelance career or launching a business, winning awards is a great way to get noticed. Not that I’ve won any mind you. Unfortunately, most awards schemes tend to highlight – particularly in the creative industries – already established people and businesses. |
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