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Aus­tralian Gam­ing Industry:

1. Worth: AU$1billion in 2006
   1. Note: Film/Box Office in 2007 AU$900million in 2007
   2. Note: AU$330m is gam­ing con­soles [Update: 4^th January]
2. Industry is Grow­ing: >12% per year
3. 12.5m games sold in 2006
4. Gamer aver­age age: 28 years old
5. Gamers are 60% male, 40% female
6. In 2007, 67% Aus­trali­ans have broadband
7. 35% are par­ents, 8% will tell you to get off their lawn (ie: are grandparents)
8. Aus­trali­ans spend AU$2million per day on inter­act­ive games
9. In 2006 8,500 employed in the games industry
10. Estim­ated in 2010 18,000 employed in the industry

sources:

Game Developer’s Asso­ci­ation Aus­tralia: http://www.gdaa.com.au/docs/%20Submission%20to%20Government-June07-Coonan.pdf

Motion Pic­ture Distributor’s Asso­ci­ation Aus­tralia: http://www.mpdaa.org.au/customers/mpdaa/mpdaa.nsf/(PressReleasesByDate)/11–1-2008/$FILE/MEDIA%20RELEASE%20Year%20End%202007.pdf

ACMA: http://www.acma.gov.au/webwr/_assets/main/lib310631/0607commreport_complete.pdf

Bat­tle­field Com­pany Mul­ti­player Tutorial.

WoW not for me. Never got D&D. Haven’t seen a minute of any of LotR.

Bat­tle­field Her­oes might just be the time sucker I am look­ing for!

QuT has a Bach­elor of Gam­ing and Enter­tain­ment. Cool­ness does not begin to explain this course. More than C++, it is also about the social aspects, his­tory, design — the whole works.

Dr Ross Brown and Penny Dren­nan are really cool: pas­sion­ate about their areas of expert­ise (and geeks from deep in their lives) — and pass on this to the next gen­er­a­tion of games designers.