It’s been an exciting 2 months for IDM as our fundees from NUS beat 56 teams from 17 countries in a competition lasting10 months to win the The Star Challenge@Fusionoplis organized by A*STAR, students from Team GAMBIT beat 350 other teams from over 100 countries to win the top prize in Microsoft’s XNA Dream-Build-Play Competition, [...]
A VIDEO game made in Singapore could soon have its debut on the world stage, after it beat almost 350 other entries in a global game development competition. The puzzle game, made by a team of seven young local developers from the Singapore-MIT Gambit Game Lab, came out tops at a contest organised by technology [...]
EVEN though the gaming scene in Singapore is still in its infancy, three Singapore Management University students are ready for a career in this new but promising industry. Jonathan Zhan, Alexander Chong and Muhammad bin Mohsin, all from the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at SMU, recently completed a gaming internship in the United States [...]
In this month’s issue, Advisory Council on the Impact of New Media on Society The Move to Fusionopolis $18m boost for IDM projects International Experts Impressed with IDM Efforts KooBits and PGK Media Wins the InfoComm Singapore Awards 2008 Developments of GAMBIT
The Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Games Lab produced its second batch of students from the recent 2008 Summer Internship Programme. 45 students from the local Institutes of Higher Learning interned at MIT for 9 weeks to produce a total of seven games. Practical hands-on experience learnt throughout the course of the internship helped nurture creative thinking among [...]
Many organisations have benefited from tie-ups with the Media Development Authority’s Interactive Digital Media Programme Office. Five benefactors share their success stories. A special report produced by the Special Projects Unit, Marketing Division, SPH.
MDA’s move to its new home this month helps it to play an even bigger role in growing Singapore’s media industry to become a global player over the next decade. It also consolidates in one place its offices from four different locations previously – MICA building, The Adelphi, Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA) Centre and Novena [...]
i.JAMMING Networking Session IDMPO’s bimonthly networking session is here again. The event provides a conducive environment to meet and explore collaboration opportunities in the IDM sector. We are expecting over 400 participants, ranging from industry practitioners, researchers to startups. In this session, we will be announcing Stream Global as our new incubator, and new partnerships [...]
Game development is never an easy process. Many people see the game industry as a fun sector to work in. It is fun, but the path to gamemaking is rocky. As students participating in the Gambit (Gamers, Aesthetics, Mechanics, Business, Innovation, Technology) Summer Programme 2008, we had the opportunity to experience the thrills and heartaches [...]
Faculty and post-doc researchers from Singapore and MIT are invited to submit proposals for consideration and funding by the project steering committee. Researchers participating on GAMBIT-funded projects will be expected to submit articles, whitepapers, journal submissions, and conference presentations annually to encapsulate and present each year of work within an academic context. Research projects will [...]