Supporting the game development community of Western Australia
Knowledge Week is coming up, with events designed to celebrate Perth’s achievements in technology, education and innovation. For those interested in stepping into the gaming realities of the future, a special workshop is scheduled on Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality, and Games. Join game designer and entrepreneur Dr Kate Raynes-Goldie in this intensive…
In addition to hosting an array of gaming events, 2013 was also a year that saw a number of Perth games charge onto the stage and make their mark on the world. This year saw titles for just about every console (plus a couple for no console at all!),…
Last weekend was a busy time for local game developers with a local site for Global Game Jam 2011 being run by Different Methods, and an Indie Games Panel (video here) run by Wai-con (Perth’s premier anime convention). Global Game Jam is an international event in which game developers create…
Over the last few years, we’ve heard a lot of people express surprise when they learn about the local game development community: There are game developers in Perth? Really? That game was developed here? As a community, it can be pretty disheartening to feel so invisible. Shipping a game is…
Thanks to everyone who submitted profiles for games developed in Perth. They’re now up and listed on our brand-spanking new Games page! Everything has kinda just been dropped in there at the moment and everything has to be manually updated (although we do have some offline scripts to generate pages…
The Perth Games Industry Community Profile (March 2009) report is now available for download. (Hardcopies will be available for purchase in future). The report contains a summary of results from the recent industry survey (conducted in early March 2009), and details a number of practical directives that we will be…
