US has a lot of land, where are the game devs? Why are there no game studios in Australia?
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US has a lot of land, where are the game devs? Why are there no game studios in Australia?
US has a lot of land, where are the game devs? Why are there no game studios in Australia?
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The good ones go to America.
Regular software dev jobs pay about 3 times as much.
or other
As a developer, do you think AI will change a lot in game development and replace staff/ people?
1. no funding. despite the game industry being the biggest entertainment industry now, all our funding is in films and tv and other media. more grants and gov support exist for poetry than for video games.
2. the entertainment industry funding from gov is dominated by left wing stuff. it means even if you do come across one of the few gov grants for game making, you wont get it unless it is about aboriginal or minority representation. also the people creating it have to be minorities too. you also can't make a cool aboriginal story with dragons because it has to be ''accurate'' and approved by aboriginal representatives lol. (for money usually)
3. australia is a very hard country to make money in. you have regulations that demand certain expensive standards and minimum payments for anyone working on games that only big companies can afford. thus, no new companies in any industry. and meanwhile all our products come from overseas because thats a lot cheaper for people to make without those standards so they can sell it cheaper here.
>3. australia is a very hard country to make money in.
qrd on this? don't y'all have the mining boom?
If it's not mining or some other brain-dead garbage, the government wants none of it.
Should have done a trade instead of uni m8
Tradies are a dime a dozen. Not enough work going round to sustain them all.
Honestly based tradies for not falling for the endless education trap, gonna end up with the only jobs that can't be replaced with ChatGPT.
>Honestly based tradies for not falling for the endless education trap,
You won't get the interview without the degree from any of these unis
>The University of Melbourne
>The University of New South Wales (UNSW Sydney)
>The University of Sydney
>Australian National University (ANU)
>Monash University
>The University of Queensland
>The University of Western Australia
>The University of Adelaide
>University of Technology Sydney
>Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia)
>RMIT University
>University of Wollongong
>tradie job
>degree
Are you moronic?
tradies dont require a degree bro in fact its a way to ensure you do not get hired lol
wollongong is a hole and they let anyone pass and make it incredibly easy, you can easily cheat during tests and shit
did u go there or something? why is it on this list?
>wollongong is a hole
how bad is it bros?
its nice if ur a very typical "Australian"
if u just want to get shitfaced, frick bawds, ugly prostitutes, go to the beach, watch sports, and do some outdoorsy stuff
but if u are anything but that then its miserable
even all the foreign students and immigrants who go there are going there for the same thing.
I didn't think it was that bad until I left and I saw how many more other people I could find who weren't that extremely specific type of person and it made me really hate the place.
I visit some of my family in shellharbour still and stay for like a week or so occasionally, so il go do and stuff in wollongong and its the same shit still, its a little better than it used to be but jfc its so shit there.
if u actually meant the university, then yeah its just kinda shit and not that good, I think its apparently good for some stuff? but its mostly kinda shit and bludgey, but I guess apparently people don't think of it that badly like I do, so maybe if u want something cruisey and easy that wont look awful then it might be what you want.
Went there for my bachelor before I left, did my masters at UTS, absolutely night and day.
>Went there for my bachelor before I left, did my masters at UTS, absolutely night and day.
What is Australian college life like?
let me put it this way
every university in australia has an on campus bar
every university has an on campus bar you idiot
thats what I said moron
he asked for it compared to US college life
which from what I know, does not have bars on campus because of the legal drinking age and they are more of a house/dorm party culture compared to just going and doing shit at the nearby bars (and literally on campus if u live on campus instead of in the nearby city)
>thats what I said moron
IN THE WORLD MORON
idk anon thats not what iv heard from americans
I haven't exactly been to american colleges to verify it myself though
oh I guess if u REALLY are into tomboys u would probably actually really like it
because like legitimately ~60% of the women there are tomboys, the other 30% are bimbo bawds, and rest are bimbo tomboys
Nah. Tradies are the new wagecucks.
>study from home so you can sit on your ass 24/7 collecting the dole
Why you'd work wheb you don't need too is beyond me, but thanks for using your taxes to pay for my drugs
Lmfao. Not for almost a century, and its all privately owned and run. If the government had balls and someone intelligent in charge theyd take them over, alas they dont and havent so a handful of rich wienersuckers can stay rich.
yeah if you're one of the 2 people in the country who own a mining corporation you are a billionaire. lol.
hell most people will never be able to afford even a bit of land and you cant exactly mine on it if you do, lol. requires approval that is expensive so only big corps can.
as a regular employee you can make a good wage working in the mines in the middle of the desert 15 hours drive from the nearest city but thats not the same thing as starting and running a business.
We did about 17 years ago, but we coincidentally elected a pro-China Prime Minister at the same time who sold the mines off to the CCP. He tricked brainless suburbanites into supporting him with a catchy slogan.
>but we coincidentally elected a pro-China Prime Minister at the same time who sold the mines off to the CCP. He tricked brainless suburbanites into supporting him with a catchy slogan.
Kevin 07 was based m8
I can see why you would think that, Xi.
No. Howard was. Putting Labour back in charge was the death knell for australian progress. Every time we put labour into power we get fricked over. We need a change that isnt the same old pooftahs from the lubs or labour.
Get rid of democracy and you might have a chance, till then all you get is red v blue dildo selection.
Isn't Howard the gay that took all your guns
He put out a ban. Guns are still legal to own, you just need to jump through more hoops than the average american can to own and be licensed for one.
That's a straight up lie, there are classes of gun that will never be legal to own again in Australia thanks to Howard
Yeah, but I did technically say "all" your guns, which isn't accurate so anon isn't wrong
>there are classes of gun that will never be legal to own again in Australia thanks to Howard
examples?
Any semi-automatic long gun
pump and lever action, and semi automatic shotguns with a capacity of over 5 rounds, semi automatic rimfire rifles with a capacity of over 10 rounds, any semi automatic centrefire rifle. Any type of automatic weapon, Any firearm "adapted for military purposes". Pistols over a .38, a self-loading pistol with a barrel shorter than 120mm/4.72 inches, a revolver with a barrel shorter than 100mm/3.94 inches
Yeah! We need those fully automatic assault rifles for roo shooting! Fricking government!
You can't even own a semi-automtic duck hunting shotgun, or even a pump action shotgun in most states.
And you need that for what? All the wild boars attacking you? The hoodlums holding you up at gunpoint?
>Moving the goalposts this hard
Maybe for hunting ducks, idk lmao. I'm a leaf, semi-automatics are completely normal here for all kinds of uses and you guys treat them like contraband. It's like seeing games banned and censored in Australia, it's nutty
Who do we need the guns to protect ourselves from? We border no other nation. Nobody can surprise attack us. What use would there be for a shotgun that a regular pistol couldnt also accomplish?
Criminals dumbass.
They’re just Sudanese and abos, they’re weak as piss.
>noo you have to have honorabu fisticuffs with the home invaders
Actual moron.
If Queenslanders had any guts they would have put the fear of Christ into those c**ts a long time ago. That shit wouldn’t happen in NW Tasmania because we wouldn’t allow it.
Into who?
A hypothetical. Not a sufficient argument.
You can still own shotguns and rifles. Depends what type and for what purpose. One state isn't the entire country, but if it is then every americ**t is an aids riddled paedo because comifornia decriminalised infecting people with HIV.
Can't use it for self defence so its worthless. 2A gays are so deluded.
>Can't use it
So what, you're in a situation where you need to use your sporting gun or whatever to save your life, and you're going to prison if you don't allow yourself to be murdered instead?
May as well just have an illegal one if thats the case.
Pistols are harder to own in Australian than shotguns dickhead
Yet you can still own them both. Lmfao. Btfo the anons argument moron.
It's almost impossible to own a pistol you dumbass, you don't even know what you're arguing for
>Almost
Again with the dicklessness. Youre wrong anon. On every account. Guns are still legal in australia. Shotguns, pistols and rifles are all ownable. Australia has had 0 mass shootings since port arthur, we even have to ship our boys off to foreign countries to do that. These the facts. You dont like it, go pull a crazy queenland shootout like those moronic schizos a few months back.
AR15s or bust kangarootard
I know a few fellas with guns
a mate of mine regularly goes hunting and has a bunch
they are hardly illegal, u just need to actually put in some effort to get them, not just go to a supermarket and pick one up.
You haven't even taken 5 minutes to look into the gun licensing in Australia
not impossible, but INCREDIBLY inconvenient. However if it's not an olympic target pistol, or a blackpowder breach loading pistols as part of a historic collection, then yeah forget it
Shotguns are much more effective for killing literally anything, whether you're hunting, or protecting yourself from wildlife or other people. Foreign invaders are the last thing I was thinking of.
The goalpost moving was going from
>You don't need a fully automatic assault rifle
to
>You don't need a duck gun
How is it moving the goal when the anon even said himself "some" states?
duck hunting is for victorians
I don't know what your hunting culture is like. Point being your ban is way beyond "machine guns"
You need a machine gun for what exactly? You gun nuts can go to another country with less restrictions if you dont like it here. The results speak for themselves.
Yeah, the "conservatives" took them and sold all of our infrastructure to China
>sold everything to china
>start war with china
What did you Aussies mean by this
we're not the smartest bunch
That was Hawke and Keating, though. They sold off every government asset.
Glad I rolled a Kevin 07 FTTH NBN connection early on, been enjoying gigabit for years now.
Booms long over. Coal bans and metal prices got fricked.
Eastern morons look down on all the plebs in the mines while the mines keep the country afloat
Been that way since like 1880
Maybe if you traitors werent so money hungry and tried to secede at every opportunity people would care more about youse.
Those "traitors" didn't sell everything off to Chinese and Singaporean companies, including public assets
Yeah they did. They voted just like the rest of us. Its everyone who voted for labors fault.
MUH LABOR
Wasn't labor who sold off the port of darwin to the chinks then quit politics and got a job at the company he sold the port to 🙂
No it wasn't. Wasnt labour that brought us the gst either, that was unfortunately howard.
Does Australia have class culture or city vs urban?
Kinda. Rural is where the whites retreated when the importees started increasing, now the cities are all pocs and foreigners so theres that hatred
What do you define as culture?
I also heard that the Australian Government has a Germany-style autistic fixation about video games being the root of all evil among the youth. Is that still true or have they moved on?
No and hasnt been for a long while.
Its victorias fault. Stop sucking down americ**t wiener.
Not so much since we got an R18 rating, but they do still have some moronic rules around real names for drugs I think.
Those fossils are dead for the better. The last of the insufferable leaders will be snuffed out by old age in the next decade.
I'm half Aussie half Asian and it took my dad dying to obtain financial stability to start the mortgage journey. Everyone I know are losing half their houses due to relationships gone bad thanks to Gillard. O yeah and the laws are too strong to crunch anything, you suffer as an employer paying for crazy overtime.
There are a few studios, mostly on the indie side of things, but generally rather small. Black Lab Games is fairly local to me for example. Bigger ones get snapped up by international companies like EA and 2k. Which inevitability leads to them getting shut down once they are no longer needed.
There is some funding that goes out at a state and federal level, mostly Victoria way. However these go to the worst kind of hipster shit that either never makes it to market or is just a plain mismanaged disaster that it makes the actually corrupt politicians look competent. And since covid hit I don't think they funded anything again.
>stuff is made a lot cheaper overseas
Slave labor will do that. Should ban imports while we're at it and force shit to be made here.
>while we're at it and force shit to be made here.
What happened to Ford and Holden?
Got outsourced to chinks like everything else. You can't compete with slave labor.
Same thing happened to the textile industry in Tasmania back when Gough Whitlam opened us up to his beloved Chinese market. Textiles employed more than 10% of Launceston at the peak of the industry.
>Why are there no game studios in Australia?
Because Australia has one of the most authoritarian governments in the world, and any kind of art that's edgy in any way would probably cause a full-scale government investigation.
Australia's hostility to video games, both because of importing and their anti porn laws means anyone reasonably competent leaves.
Gov is very hostile to indie makers as well.
Australia has fallen
>Your rent will be AT LEAST 60% of your income (now more like 66%), and if you don’t want to pay those exorbitant rates you’ll have the pleasure of a 2 hour commute, BOTH WAYS, on our fricked up australian roads. Did I mention it will cost you almost $1000 just to get your paperwork finalised so your car can even be driven on the road??
>the law abiding, boot licking, working aussie that allows his government to spit all over him, while doing absolutely nothing about it
>go to uni and rack up $80k+ in HECS debt that you will never pay off, getting thrown into a never ending chain of group assignments with derros and foreign students on daisy chained student visas
>Outsource to India and China
>WMAF everywhere
>Politicians that sell your future down the river for the short term to stay in power or inflate their real estate portfolios
>Red tape on every fricking thing; good luck trying to open a business
>She'll be right culture that just becomes subservient bend me over a frick me in the ass when it comes to actual rights
>No fricking civilian rights in a dogshit constitution that was clearly written for a group of people never expected to have significant rights
>Everyone is paying over half their income to their rent or if they're lucky a mortgage their boomer parents helped them get a hold on, at least the latter have an asset
>Need to take out a loan for groceries
>Floodgates were opened to India and Chinese, major cities are fricked
>Anti intellectualism culture where people take pride in being ignorant
>No ingenutiy or emerging industries; entire economy is built around selling rocks overseas and our land to Chinese
The state of the roads in country vic is a fricken travesty
Do ISPs still throttle speeds in straya?
Only if you are using some dirt cheap overprovisioned ISP
>Why you'd work wheb you don't need too is beyond me
Literally the only good aspect of Australia is this. I'm living pretty fricking comfortably on the dole with rent assistance and a friend who's doing the same.
>Verification not required
there's plenty of australian gamedevs. silksong any day now.........!
Did you know there's a special US work visa just for Australians so they don't need to compete with the rest of the world for H1B slots?
Aussies truly are our greatest allies
Yeah, same thing for Canadians. Some countries get more privileges than others, that's how it works
Australia recently spent 8x their defenes budget to buy a few submarines that they want place next to Shanghai or along the Chinese coastline.
They have signed up for war
Are you c**ts ready for the draft?
I can’t wait to mow down chinks while their Chinese guns backfire on them and their ships collapse due to being made of cardboard.
I hate the US so much, id willingly join the cccp and kill my aussie "brethren". I know theyd reward me greatly and i could easily fake allegiance to communism.
>Pay is shit compared to any other IT work and
>Minimal government gimmes that all rely on your game being diverse, specifically featuring abbos and normally having an abbo on your team.
Mostly that and living expenses here being fricked.
-This post was posted on flubba wubba nigar goon land and we acknowledge their invention of the rock, stabbing stick, throwing stick, and tapping sticks as the greatest things ever and they have an unbroken culture reaching back 150 bazillion years, we won't mention the child rape, general violence, and inbreeding, even though the tribe was wiped out long ago and everyone saying they are part of it now is more white than I am and I am so white you need sunglasses to stare directly at my lilly white ass in sunlight.
>Go to Brisbane
No whites
>Go to Sydney
No whites
>Go to Melbourne
No whites
What happened to the White Australia policy?
Kinda hard to stay only white when the white countries stopped shipping their crims over.
Jews, same as everywhere else.
It's really not. Tell women to frick off to the kitchen and nonwhite to gtfo. Further in the future all societies that refuse to do that will be replaced by the ones that will simply due to attrition.
Why does nobody talk about Abos anymore? Did the Chinese kill them all?
The voice referendum was such a massive L no one will be thinking about abos for at least 5 years
Literally no one cares about Abbos unless they live in Alice Springs.
Abbos are at best a distraction the government uses when they want you to focus on something else for a bit.
In Tasmania we killed them all 150 years ago. They went extinct somewhere between the emu and the tiger.
The vote to give abos extra rights, that was pushed heavily by the media and celebs and politicians etc, failed extraordinarily so theyve retreated to lick their wounds and wait
>The vote to give abos extra rights
Which was really a ploy to give politicians with 1/64 abo blood more power
Is anywhere worth moving to from Australia?
We’re so fricked. What happened to Melbs? It used to be so good
LA Noire was made in Australia but Team Bondi imploded because they spent way too much on it, I don’t think Australia has put out a major game since besides Hollow Knight I suppose.
Are there any clubs/meetup for electronics/repairgay stuff in brisbane?
Woah is le heckin epic daily Australian pity circle jerk which is totes mcgoats about video games?
>totes mcgoats
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sorry mate, we're full.