Month: October 2013

Freedom Fall, winner of the 2013 WASA Best Game award, has been nominated as a finalist in the Australian Game Developer Awards. The Perth-made game, created by artist Lisa Rye and published by Stirfire Studios, has been nominated in both the Best Design and Game of the Year categories. The…

Four West Australian developers have been awarded GCAP Assist grants from Screen Australia to help with their travel costs to the Game Connect Asia Pacific 2013 conference next week. Lisa Rye (Freedom Fall), Blake Simpson (Blitz Bandits), Anthony Sweet (Handwritten Games) and Jess Watson (Esperino) are four of the twenty-one…

Don’t forget that our Q&A with Cameron Royal, Senior Programmer from CCP Games (EVE Online, DUST 514) is tomorrow night! Cameron will be talking about how he got his job at CCP, working on largely popular properties like EVE Online, and providing a case study from his own development team.…

Just three days after exhibiting at the WA Games Showcase, Entropic Entertainment have released Brave Kingdom on the Google Play store for Android devices. From the developer: Explore a world of wonder and excitement, as you and your faithful pet, meet strange and interesting folks and take on the wild…

Let’s Make Games is proud to present An EVEning with Cameron Royal, a Q&A session with the CCP Games Senior Programmer, on Tuesday October 15th. Cameron will be talking about how he started his career making games here in Perth, his work on the massively successful EVE Online, and it’s…

Last week, Screen Australia announced the recipients of the first round for their Games Production funding. Among the winners are two WA games; Snow Spin by Ezone, and Zombie Outbreak Simulator by Binary Space. We’re very happy to see WA game developers included in the list of twenty-one Australian titles,…

The WA Games Showcase is tomorrow! Come down to play the latest computer games, board games and virtual reality games from WA game creators. Featured at the showcase this year; Oculus Rift virtual reality demos, including The Drowning Dungeons, Space Paranoids, Mansion of Madness and VR Sled 2013, all made…

If you’ve been keeping up with Let’s Make Games recently, you’ll know that we’ve been pretty excited about the Oculus Rift and the flurry of virtual reality development it has inspired. It’s no surprise then that we’re very pleased to bring the virtual reality experience to the WA Games Showcase…