Light, Camera, Motion Capture: iPi Soft Announces Monthly Filmmaking Contest Winner

iPi Soft, the leading developer of the markerless motion capture software solution, iPi Motion Capture, announces the iPi Soft Filmmaking Competition. Geared to motion capture filmmakers and animators, the monthly contest is designed to shine a spotlight on the innovative ways both creative professionals and amateurs are relying on motion capture techniques to create compelling digital entertainment content.

Each month the iPi Soft team will select one winning entry based on the quality of the film submission. Entries must be created in part using either the free trial version or a full version of the iPi Motion Capture software. Winners will receive 1 (one) free license of the iPi Motion Capture software (Standard Edition), plus a year of support.

At GBR, we will highlight the monthly winner of this contest and show how they are using the iPi technology to create and capture motion data.

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This is big: Unity coming to Sony consoles this year

Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. and Unity Technologies have entered into a strategic partnership. Through this partnership, SCE will offer Unity for PlayStation with optimized deployment for PlayStation4, PlayStation3, PlayStationVita and PlayStationMobile. Unity’s development environment is currently used by over 1.5 million developers and the PlayStation platform development tools are scheduled for release this fall.

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GBR Interview: Marcus Krüger of Goo Technologies

Goo Technologies may not be a company you have heard of, but they are doing some very interesting work and GBR was able to catch up with Marcus Krüger, the company’s Chairman. Located in Sweden, Goo Technologies has developed the Goo Engine, an HTML5/WebGL game platform for browser-based, cross-platform development. Check out GBR’s interview to find out more about this interesting company. (more…)

Hey Game Investors: Take a Look At South America!

As an independent game studio CEO and professor of game design from an Argentinean University,  every day I hear about the emerging South American game industry.  Brasil, Chile, Argentina, Uruguay, Colombia and Perú are clearly aware of the potential for outsourcing services  for video game development, especially casual ones.

Have you heard about us down here? (more…)

5 Key Lead Generation Strategies For Game Industry Tech Start-Ups

Recently I was asked to pull together a simple “one-pager” on lead gen for a game industry start-up. While lead gen has been always been a big part of offline marketing (outbound marketing for sure), today any study of lead generation primarily focuses on online tactics (called inbound) lead generation. (more…)