Bretton Hamilton
Virtual Reality - Picking a New User's First Experience
Each VR experience acts as a portal into a new world. A user’s first few encounters with this technology should be carefully selected to...
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Bretton Hamilton
Apr 15, 20173 min read
Virtual Reality - The Evolution of Interfaces
The ability for early humans to tell stories and share information was necessary to our survival as a species. Spoken word is limited by...
Bretton Hamilton
Nov 4, 20164 min read
Game Convention - Melbourne!
UNITE 2016 Train Conductor World Paper Prototype Simon Joslin gave a talk about how paper prototyping was used to help design and refine...
Bretton Hamilton
Sep 16, 20165 min read
How I Applied Game Design to Teaching
In the Australian Spring of 2014, I began work at Evocca. Richard Hill, a close friend, and the first developer I met in Australia...
Bretton Hamilton
Aug 7, 20166 min read
Challenge - Designing a Hearthstone Card
I'm a huge fan of Blizzard and Collectible Card Games. Hearthstone is Blizzard's successful exploration of this genre. I've been working...
Bretton Hamilton
Jul 2, 20162 min read
A Strong Case for Bachelor's Degrees
In the game industry, like most creative industries, it is common knowledge that a good portfolio, proper networking, and passion are...
Bretton Hamilton
Jun 10, 20163 min read
Adventure Pals – Concluding the First QA Milestone
This week the Quality Assurance cycle ends for our first batch of testers. Overall it was a success! In the beginning, we had a team of...
Bretton Hamilton
May 21, 20162 min read
Adventure Pals - Australian Internship and Work Experience Laws
As mentioned in one of my previous posts, I was brought on-board the Adventure Pals project several months back to do some level design...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 22, 20162 min read
Unreal in the Australian Design Desert
When Halfbrick announced that it had laid off its last two designers, with no intention of replacing them, I feared that the gesture...
Bretton Hamilton
Feb 6, 20164 min read
Thoughts on Indie Game Development
Let me preface this information by saying that I have been developing and analyzing indie games for the past several years. I really went...
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