Supporting the game development community of Western Australia
Let’s Make Games is on the incorporation train on our way to becoming Let’s Make Games Inc. Today we held a general meeting to vote on our constitution (the objectives of our association were posted previously). It was passed unanimously by our current membership: Nick, Anthony, Chris, Ben, Rich, and Minh.…
Welcome to our second weekly update. Today has been fairly productive: we’re knee-deep in Constitution legalese, mind mapping our web strategy, migrating our Facebook presence and experiencing occasional Monday-itis distractions. Web strategy Today Ben and Rich were pushing forward with more website planning. Just rough sketches and research notes at this point,…
Unbeknownst to many, the Let’s Make Games team has been working feverishly for 5 hours every Monday for a while. That’s over 25 hours of volunteer work per week! That’s hundreds of hours in total. All for the love of the games development community of Western Australia. 😉 Still, the…
What’s Up Pitches?! was always planned to be run at a fast pace. Talks were to be limited to 3 minutes, and there would be only minimal question time so that we could go from speaker to speaker in rapid succession. It turns out that we had to go even…
All our regular presentation spots for What’s Up Pitches?! have been filled, but we have up to three additional spots available for people to pitch a game to Quie Ying from Tourism WA. This represents a fantastic opportunity for local game developers to focus on how to design a game…
OMG! It’s almost time for the most hotly anticipated games community event this year! (possibly ever): What’s Up Pitches!? is this Friday (27 May 2011) in the theatrette at CIT (formerly known as eCentral TAFE)! Here’s an updated flyer: And here’s the final schedule for the night (with all the…
Just a quick post to let everyone know about some upcoming events. Obviously, we can’t post about upcoming events without reminding everyone about What’s Up Pitches?!, the second official Let’s Make Games event for 2011 (original announcement here and more information here). What’s Up Pitches?! will be running next Friday (27 May…
What’s Up Pitches?! is coming up quickly next Friday (27th May)! Be sure to RSVP at our Facebook event page or comment directly to this blogpost. We have received an excellent response to our call out for presentations already, with a wide range of topics being pitched – from games…
Update: All standard presentation spots are now taken (although there are challenge spots still available), and there have been some minor changes to the schedule. For the latest information see this blog post. Do you have a burning hot concept that you just need to tell everyone about? Have you…
Wow. We knew that DrewFX were planning a new iOS game release, but we weren’t expecting this! Turbo Flick: Demon GPU is quite a departure from DrewFX’s last game, Surf Prodigy, and the fact that it’s so different really demonstrates the developer’s versatility and creativity. So what is the game…
