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, 2017
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 4 min
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, 2016
- 5 min
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, 2016
- 6 min
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, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 3 min
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, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 2 min
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, 2016
- 4 min
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...