Supporting the game development community of Western Australia
Feel like making a game this weekend? Why not participate in Ludum Dare! Similar to Global Game Jam, it’s an international event where people all over the globe make a game from scratch in one weekend. You can either go hardcore and participate in the 48hour solo competition or kick…
Community Post time! Featuring the awesome Paul Turbett, of Black Lab Games fame, announcing the imminent release of Star Hammer Tactics for iPad: Hi! I wanted to share a bit of news from Black Lab Games. Our sci-fi themed tactical strategy game, Star Hammer Tactics, is set to launch on…
Michelle Glaser from DCA let us know that the Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York have put out a call for their 2012 fellowship program. Thanks to Michelle for the heads-up (which was a little while ago now, so apologies for the late notice!) Game Design is listed as…
Check out our flyer for the End of Year Party! Big thanks to Rich Kong for making it awesome. You can click through to a high-res version and print it out: stick it on your fridge, put it up at work or give it to your best friend. Thank You…
Let’s Make Games Inc. is getting all geared up to host a Perth site for next year’s Global Game Jam, but we first need to find a venue! If you have a suitable venue or can help us find one, please let us know! Here’s what we’re looking for: Available…
We’ve been pretty good at posting regularly to our blog, but our weekly updates have been getting rather packed! Once it got to the point where “section headers” became stander fare in our posts, we knew that it was time to change. As a result, we’ve decided to start writing…
With a chocolate brownie mountain sustaining us today (expertly crafted by our videographer Ben Hammersley) we have some news to report before our sugar high crashes! Brownie points for whoever can guess which game this scene depicts (answer in the comments). Pozible Funding Drive We’ve got two weeks left on…
It’s Pozible! Good news! Our Pozible drive is 100% funded, and it smells like victory. (In fact, we made our goal within 48 hours!) Thanks to the support of these generous sponsors, we can meet the minimum costs of hosting our end of year party: Kamil Czajko from Kactus Games…
End-of-Year Party! It’s announcement time, people! The Let’s Make Games End of Year Party is next month, and not only do we have a host of juicy details, but we also have a spectacular Pozible crowdfunding drive to raise funds for the event. The party’s theme is “Games are for…
Missed us? Perhaps not if you were using Planet PIGMI to keep up with local game indie dev news. After being out of action for the last few weeks it is back up! Thanks to chrism for his fixes. Last Sunday we held our round table discussion at the Loftus…
