Supporting the game development community of Western Australia
Remember a few weeks ago when we mentioned cupcakes and donuts? There was also mentioned a significant networking event for Perth game creators, as the Let’s Make Games End of Year Party, but you’d be forgiven if all you took away from that announcement is cupcakes and donuts. The End…
Gnomic Studio’s Square Off has been released overnight on both the iOS and Android app stores, with a free iOS version also available. These mobile versions now join the game’s Ouya, Windows Phone and XBox 360 releases. For more details about the flyer-shooter arcade game, you can visit the Gnomic…
WASA award winning game, Freedom Fall, has been accepted in the recent slate of games through Steam’s Greenlight process. From Garth, Director at Stirfire Studios: “…on the 13th of November, Stirfire received our official email from Steam letting us know we have been Greenlit. This has been a lengthy and…
The Perth International Arts Festival announced earlier this week that a host of international game designers and writers will be speaking in February as part of the Perth Writer’s Festival The Game Changers event. International guests include Ubisoft writer Kevin Shortt (Watch_Dogs), designer and writer Steve Gaynor (Gone Home, BioShock Infinite), developer…
Save the date: Sunday, 1st December is the Let’s Make Games end of year party! We’re returning to the Universal Bar, and this time we’re bringing a bagful of cupcakes and donuts as a celebration of the WA-made games made in 2013. What: Cupcake & Donut End of Year Party…
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…
