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Yesterday we were very excited to receive Chaim Gingold at our headquarters. Chaim worked in Will Wright’s latest game, Spore, as game designer. And in spite of the hot Buenos Aires summer weather, he was really eager to answer all the questions we had about his work, his studies, game design, team work and programming among many others.
Let’s hope we have many other cool visitors stopping by!
The Sapo awards Ceremony took place last Saturday, during the Argentinean Videogames Expo, and we were very happy to find out that our LEGO Indiana Jones game won the prize for best web development of the year.
The Sapo award recognizes the most outstanding local professional developments.
Above you can see the picture of the prize ( note that sapo in Spanish means frog) and here you can play the game.
The past 10-12 of November, the 7th Brazilian Symposium of Games and Digital Entertainment, took place in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brasil.
This is an event that is organized by the academic environment, this time by the PUC Minas and UFMG universities. And all universities that have some sort of involvement in the videogames industry participate too. It also has the support of the SBC (Brazilian Computing Society) and ABRAGAMES, the association of Brazilian game developers.
This year we were among the 600 attendees, and went to a lot of interesting conferences and workshops. The award ceremony on the top of a morro, and the “Festival de Jogos” were very fun too!
Sony, Ubisoft and Microsoft, are some of the international companies that were there.
Rio is the city chosen to hold the event next year.
The Argentinean Video Games Expo will be taking place this weekend at Centro Cultural San Martin, in Buenos Aires.
This event is aimed at developers, publishers, researchers, students and gamers. There will be a stands sector, the opportunity to test new games, the award ceremony for the contests CODEAR and COREAR and many interesting conferences by local and international speakers.
Of course, we will be there! Patricio Jutard and Nicolas Cuneo, Three Melons’ Technology Orchestrator and Development Manager, will be speaking on Saturday about the bases for the development of multiplayer games. And on Sunday, Augusto Petrone, our Game Crafter, will speak about Object Oriented Game Design, and Diego Ruiz, Lead Engineer, will be discussing the free to play model, and what opportunities it presents for the region.
For more information on EVA, follow its updates on twitter.
Last month we participated in Agiles 2008, and we wanted to share with everyone some of the things we did there, because it was a really interesting event, full of rich and inspiring content.
First of all, Guido Vilariño and Juan Bettini (technology crafter and game developer at Three Melons), obtained the Scrum Master certification (congratulations guys!) and Patricio Jutard, our Technology Orchestrator participated in the “Lean Software Development” course, which was taught by Tom and Mary Poppendieck, worldwide consultants on Lean principles for software development.
Also, many of us melons, attended several conferences and met a lot of cool people. We are already applying everything we learned and are looking forward to next year’s event!
We are very proud to announce that Three Melons has been selected to participate as start-up representing Microsoft Latin America at Le Web in Paris, next December.
Together with us, there will be other 8 start-ups, also selected by Microsoft, from India, France, China, Russia, UK and Germany.
Le Web is Europe’s number one Internet event and this year it will be presenting speakers that include Chris Anderson, Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis, Gary Vaynerchuk and Robert Scoble, among others.
To find out more about Le Web, check out its website.
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