Author: Let's Make Games Committee

Last week, Blake Simpson let us know that the beta for his indie 2-player brawl platformer, Blitz Bandits, has been released for community playtesting. Mac and Windows clients are available, or you play the game directly from the GameJolt site.

This Thursday, Screen Australia Investment Manager Mike Cowap will be hosting a couple of information sessions about the Game Production and Multiplatfom Production funds. More details can be found at this ScreenWest newsletter article. Games Production Program information session: When: Thursday, 4 July 2013 Where: ScreenWest offices, Gordon Stephenson House,…

A new mobile game developer will be opening their doors in Perth later this year, and is looking for artists, designers and programmers to join their team. SK Games is a company started by Louis Roots, an ECU graduate who has worked overseas in the mobile games industry for the last…

The Department for Being Awesome is seeking expressions of interest from potential tenants for their shared co-working game development space. This is a great opportunity to get seats in Perth’s first game-specific co-working space with a group of like-minded, professional game developers. If you’re interested in finding out more about…

The Australian Government Office for Women is seeking expressions of interest from leading female innovators in the ICT sector to join the Australian delegation to the APEC Women and the Economy Forum, 6-8 September 2013, in Bali, Indonesia. Successful applicants will join the Australian Global Ambassador for Women and Girls…

A quick reminder that the Indie Game Developer Marketing Workshop from Business Foundations is on tomorrow afternoon! Marketing Workshop Cost: FREE Date: Wednesday 12th June Time: 1:30pm-5pm Venue: Spacecubed, Ground Floor, 45 St Georges Terrace, Perth, Western Australia 6000 Booking: Bookings can be made via this website. Although the workshop…

The folks over at FTI have let us know that due to the large interest in the inaugural year for WASA’s Best Game category, they have extended the submission deadline until 5pm Friday (14th June). For any developers who have released a game since 1st January, 2011, this is a…

The Games in Progress Forum was a great success! We had an awesome turn-out from game developers, entrepreneurs, students and lecturers, and despite running quite a bit over time, we still managed to get a bunch of demos on the Oculus Rift. (Thanks to Matt for bringing his rig in!)…

Codedam’s Create a Game workshop is on this weekend! The workshop is all about creating your very first game, and will take students all the way from the designing their idea to implementing their own code and art. The workshop is being held at the Artifactory in Osborne Park, and…