HUB Studio Game Academy

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Blind Faith

Blind Faith is an experiment in rapid game production, focused on balancing high narrative agency for effective player immersion with high narrative agency and effective player immersion with low resource requirements for feasible production.

...a 2D side scrolling, point and click adventure where the player assumes the role of Nina Renner, a young systems analyst. The game is set in the year 2029, during an era in which the afterlife has undergone privatization by an ominous corporation named, “The Company”. 

... inspired by works like Gone Home and The Silent Age and anything by Telltale Games!

This project was led by Vidhi Shah, an Honours student with HUB Studio and QUT.

Mentors

Don Kirkland, John Passfield, Dan Vogt, Deb Polson and Peter Laurie

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Silent Grove

Planned release on the AppStore and in GooglePlay in January 2015!!!

Take a journey through a mysterious, ominous world as a defenseless but brave paper plane. You will glide and spin your way through strange shadowy creatures to delve deep into the thicket of this forsaken forest. 

Brief

Create a simple yet engaging game inspired by an existing Right Pedal Games, Tail Drift. 

Industry Partners

Right Pedal Studios and River City Labs

Mentors

John Passfield, Dan Vogt, Deb Polson, Cameron Owen, James Bowling and Peter Laurie

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Scuttled

A mobile game made by a team at HUB Studios in 2014. Planned release on the AppStore in March 2015!!!

"After an epic battle, the Pirate Bunnies are in trouble! Help us save these brave heroes by throwing them to safety! Be careful though, these Pirates don't know how to swim and their greatest enemy is fire - and don't make any mistakes or they'll never trust you again!"

Brief

Design and develop a game played on a single screen only

Industry Partners

Right Pedal Studios and River City Labs

Mentors

John Passfield, Steve Baxter, Deb Polson and Peter Laurie

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Powers Above

A project focused on the experimental use of Motion Capture technologies for game character development in 'epic' game environments.

This team is led by PhD students and relies on the contributions of undergraduate art, animation and design students.

Commenced in 2014, this project will continue into 2015 and 2016.

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This photo was taken after our final presentation of the game prototype to senior stakeholders at the Halfbrick Studio in Brisbane... so as you can see, we were euphoric... partly because it was finally done... and mostly because the students did an awesome job and the response from the stakeholders was very positive.

We would love to show you images of the THREE games we made with Halfbrick... but unfortunately, all work was conducted under a strict NDA.

The student team:

CL Terry (now is an artist at Halfbrick), Vidhi Shah (Designer), Hamish Camileri (sound designer), Corey Taylor (now a programmer at Halfbrick) and Bethany Kaing (now a producer at Halfbrick)

"what I have learnt from the project, couldn’t be taught in a classroom"

Industry Partners

Halfbrick Studio

Mentors

Alex Butterfield (Product Owner), Jason Harwood (Producer/Product Owner), Ben Marrinan (Designer), Hugh Walters (Artist), Peter McNeil (Programmer), Cedar Jones (Sound Designer) 

and Deb Polson and Chris Cater of QUT

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We created the academy to find the best, brightest and most passionate game dev team the universities had to offer. This game dev team is going to get their chance to be taught be one of the most successful game studios in Australia and have real life skill training, support and advice to give their career in Game Dev a kick start!

Tom Murphy. 
Human Resources Manager, Halfbrick Studio

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Preparing for the final presentation to the Halfbrick project stakeholders... it has all come down to this!!!! Starting at the QUT studio, then later at Halfbrick Studio...

"It was great to see the team come together to present such a professional standard of work, field some of those tough questions, and impress our stakeholders with what we have accomplished"  Bethany Ward, Student Producer

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The recruitment process was rigorous but great, because the team that was put together were the students who were the best in their field and it was such a pleasure to work with such talented but really kind and great people.

Student Producer, 2013 Cohort