Month: January 2012

We’re pretty excited to welcome the Microsoft Imagine Cup as a premium sponsor of this year’s Perth Global Game Jam. The team at Microsoft Australia were incredibly keen to come on board as a sponsor, and we appreciate their support of the WA game development community. They join the awesome…

Jamtastic! Yeah, you heard me. If you have not yet registered for Global Game Jam 2012 in Perth there is still time. We have finalised the internet arrangements so you will have to BYO internet, but we still have a few physical spots left in the room. Go to the…

Thanks to Marco’s Organic Pizza we will have their award winning pizza at Perth’s 2012 Global Game Jam! Mmmmm delicious! That brings our total sponsor list to ECU School of Communications and Arts, Immersive Technologies, The Sound Librarian, Scirra and Marco’s Pizza. This is the last call out for internet…

Australia Council are currently looking for proposals for innovative arts projects which could utilise the National Broadband Network. From the Australia Council website: With the Broadband Arts Initiative, the Australia Council for the Arts will support innovative arts projects that utilise next generation high-capacity broadband enabled by the NBN. This initiative…

The guys from Headsoft have let us know that the Jungool 1.2 update has been released, and have given us some copies to give out to five lucky iPhone-enabled LMG friends! Be one of the first of five people to email us at competition AT letsmakegames DOT org to win…

  We’re happy to announce additional sponsors for Perth’s Global Game Jam 2012. Stephan Schütze has generously put forward a copy of his Foundation sound library. It contains over 20GB of sound effects and will be accessible to attendees during the event so your game doesn’t have to be played from…

There’s been some discussion on the PIGMI mailing list about attendance for this year’s GDC and the possibility of group discounts on flights. If you’re interested head over and add your voice to the mix.

We hope that you’ve enjoyed the local developer interviews (recorded at our end-of-year party last year) that we’ve been releasing over the holiday period. Keen local game developers will already know that our next event is a Perth site for Global Game Jam later this month (27-29 January). We currently…