Supporting the game development community of Western Australia
Plan your dinner while playing cards with friends, in Draft Banquet, the latest from Dark Mirror Games now on Kickstarter. A popular meal at the recent Perth Games Festival, this game ends with an ingredients list that’s partially planned, a little bit arbitrary, and will result in some creative cooking!…
Local playtest initiative PlayUp Perth are working hard to help up-and-coming developers take their projects to the next level, with new funding packages for showcased games. If you are a local developer who has shared your game at any of their testing events in the last two years, you’re eligible to apply! Playup Perth,…
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…
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 fight for cybernetic space supremacy with the beta for upcoming game Collateral Damage. Battles with up to 8 other robots, while helping developers Artisan Games ensure the titles is bug-free before release. Collateral Damage is a hero arena brawler. Control unique robots as they fight over the last…
Decide how you want the story to play out, in It Will Be Hard, a collaborative comic by Waving Comics and Gritfish. Set to explore queer romance and the nuances of relationships, this interactive story is seeking support on Kickstarter now and already has a (slightly NSFW) demo out so you…
Blasting back onto the scifi circuit with massive fanfare, Perth-based studio Black Lab Games revealed their next title Battlestar Galactica Deadlock with an announcement trailer and gameplay reveal. Battlestar Galactica Deadlock™ is a deep strategy game that also features a strong narrative with an extensive cast of characters, both new and from the existing…
Etch out an existence on the edge of space in Outer Colony, a real time strategy game currently on Kickstarter. Developed by Voyager Games, it features an original sound track by West Australian audio extraordinaire Daisy Ale Soundworks, with music that is out of this world (ha, sorry we couldn’t help ourselves)…
Young game developers (eager or experienced), there’s no better time to start creating; ACMI are holding a competition where you can win prizes, and have your work shown off at an exhibition on Melbourne. It’s free to enter, and you can submit as many games as you can create! To be in the running…
