Supporting the game development community of Western Australia
Taking the world by storm, Perth-made game BrambleLash was recently awarded the Indie Grand Prize by 4Gamer.net at the 2017 Tokyo Game Show, alongside another Australian title Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles! The purpose of these awards is to ‘discover new stars’, and local studio Bytesprite have no doubt ensnared a thicket of new…
Image via Melbourne Int Game Week Walking onto the stage to great applause, two of the nine winning titles at the 2017 Australian Game Developer Awards (AGDAs) were from Western Australia. Congratulations to Black Lab Games, who won an award for Battlestar Galactica Deadlock (pictured above), and Jacob Janerka with a win…
Dust off your hoverbike, because Desert Child is up on Kickstarter and needs your help to race to the finish. Created by Oscar Brittain, the developer behind World’s Fastest Pizza and the Fremantle-featuring One Night Only, it got a lot of love as part of Indiecade @ E3 and this…
Bridge the gap between games and the real world, with two new augmented reality titles from eZone! Watch as a prehistoric putting arena rises from the ground in Mammoth Mini Golf AR, or put your aiming skills to the test in Beer Pong AR; either way you can grab your…
Experience a gaming classic reimagined as you fight to survive an onslaught of destructive space rocks in Asteroids3D. The first game by Bunbury-based indie developer Shaun Procter, this endless arcade shooter draws inspiration from the asteroid fields of The Empire Strikes Back and breathes new life into the iconic Asteroids game of…
In case you missed the interstellar transmission, the first Cylon War has begun and it is up to you to defend humanity’s twelve colonies in Battlestar Galactica Deadlock. This latest addition to the epic Battlestar franchise is the work of Perth-based space aficionados Black Lab Games, creators of Star Hammer: The Vanguard…
Invest in the local games scene for just $0.20 a share, by backing Stirfire Studios in their Initial Public Offering. Set to close Sept 15th, this IPO is the first time an Australian-owned games business has gone public, so if you’re interested in investing now is your chance! The Company’s proposed listing…
Join the good folks from Unity as they visit Perth to share insights into upcoming features. You’ll get the good word on Timeline, Cinemachine, Mixed Lighting Modes and The Post-processing Stack, and meet Unity Product Evangelist John Sietsma. What: Unity Roadshow When: 24 August, 2pm – 5pm. Where: Novotel Perth Langley, 221 Adelaide Terrace Perth…
Join local studio Hungry Sky as they share insight into creating Virtual Reality scenes from an artist’s perspective. After hearing about the process you will also get to see the results, with a live demonstration where you can jump into the virtual realist experience yourself. FORM and Hungry Sky invite…
Shrink down to the cellular level, and explore inside a Virtual Plant Cell this weekend at the Perth Science Festival! This big microscopic adventure one of many FREE activities being held as part of Nation Science Week, and it was created by an excellent team of local experts from the from…
