Three Melons' Blog

Unite 2009: LEGO Star Wars Post Mortem

During the last days of October we participated in the Unite 2009 Conference in San Francisco. The event was hosted by Unity 3D and it was a meeting point for developers, artists and publishers who wanted to learn more about this technology and share thoughts and experiences of their use of Unity 3D.
Patricio Jutard, Technology Orchestrator at Three Melons, and Diego Ruiz, Lead Engineer, were there and gave a technical session in which they provided a post-mortem review of our game LEGO Star Wars: the quest for R2-D2.
We were also very happy to learn that the LEGO Star Wars game was runner up at the Unity Awards!
Looking forward to the Unite Conference 2010!

Expo de Videojuegos Argentinos 2009

El 4 y 5 de diciembre se va a realizar la 7ma Exposición de Videojuegos Argentina (EVA), en la Universidad de Belgrano.
La EVA es el lugar donde todos los participantes de la industria de videojuegos en Argentina se reúnen para intercambiar experiencias, dar capacitaciones y promover la industria.
Este año, además de los mas de 40 oradores locales, va a haber invitados internacionales como Nick Fortugno que va a dar un workshop sobre Game Design e Ian Bogost, que va  hablar sobre nuevos usos para los videojuegos.
Y Three Melons también va a estar presente! Pauline Morrison Fell y Alejandro Espinola, nuestros Melon Scrum Masters van a estar hablando sobre el desarrollo de videojuegos con metodologías ágiles. Acá se puede ver el cronograma completo de workshops y charlas.
Para mas información acerca de la EVA se puede visitar el website del evento, o seguir los updates via Twitter.

Three Melons at Agiles 2009

Today, the new Agiles conference is beginning in Florianopolis, Brasil. The conference aims to be a meeting point for IT professionals interested in software development-related topics using agile methodologies.

At Three Melons we use the Scrum methodology in our game development because we like the people focus approach and flexibility it encourages. 

This Friday Pauline Morrison Fell, Melon Scrum Master, will be at Agiles talking about her experience at Three Melons working in the development of videogames, using an agile methodology with cross-functional teams.
To see more information about her talk and the event, go here!

Videogames Going to College

We are extremely proud to announce that we just signed an agreement with ITBA University (Buenos Aires Technological Institute) to start teaching "Introduction to the development of video games".

The class will be a part of the Computing Engineering degree course.
We are very happy that we are able to introduce video games into the Argentinean academic scene, and think it's a big step towards the promotion of the local video games industry.

You can get some more info (in Spanish) here.

This is BIG news: gamers > moviegoers

It's rewarding to see that what you stand for and say is going to happen actually happens.

According to an NPD report, the percentage of American video game players (63%) now outnumbers those who have gone out to the movies in the past six months (53%).

The next big change: online gamers outnumber console gamers. We'll see if I'm right (and when!). My guess: before 2011.