Turn-out was a less than normal (just over 20 people – maybe people were intimidated by the music-game-ed-ness of it all), but it didn’t matter one iota.
I’m not sure that any words written here could do it justice, so I’ll just leave it to videos (on our brand new YouTube channel!) and photos.
Here’s a compilation video of how the evening progressed:
And here’s the complete encore performance of the competition winners, Rainbow Stance:
Finally, here are the photos (I was very conscientious to take a lot of photos this time!):
Note: Know of any other local games community/industry videos/groups on YouTube? Let us know so that we can add them to our favourites list!
Reminder: Can’t get enough of local scene events? IGDA Perth are running a Design Theme Night! It starts at 7pm tonight (Tuesday 11 August) at the usual venue (The Velvet Lounge).
The theme for the evening was “portable gaming” and the main focus was on a number of locally developed iPhone games. The night started off slowly as we worked through some technical problems (audio) and hardware setup (laptop and projector).
Here’s picture of us setting up:
Unfortunately, I was too busy to take more photos when the night got going! As always there were a few early arrivals and we ended up with 40 something people after the official start time.
Dharmesh from GameTraders (Carillon City and Carousel) brought a couple of PSPs so that people could get hands-on with Dissidia: Final Fantasy months before it is due to be released. He brought along a few prizes and ran a low-key impromptu tournament. Final Fantasy fans rejoiced!
A number of local game developers brought their iPhones and iPod Touches in order to causally show off their games. After an hour or so, we switched the projector over from the Dissidia tournament to promotional videos from local developers.
DrewFX showed off their recently released surfing game, Surf Prodigy, and spoke a little about technical and legal issues in bringing it to market.
RocketHands teased their upcoming (first) iPhone game, RocketFuse. They also committed to an easy-to-remember release date of 09/09/09!
Surf Prodigy and Pools of Blood are available now on the iPhone Apps store, so support our local developers and check them out!
Thanks to GameTraders, all the local developers who brought along videos, and everyone for coming along and supporting these local scene events. Our next event will be on Tuesday 25 August… and it will be music-themed.
For handy reference, here are the videos shown at the event:
So be sure to get your $10 pre-purchase tickets from GameTraders (Carillon City or Carousel). Remaining tickets will be $15 at the door.
We are very happy to announce that WALAN (Perth’s longest running computer gaming event) will be our drinks sponsor, providing over a dozen coupons for jugs of beer or soft-drinks to be given out as prizes throughout the evening.
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