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Let's Make Games is proud to present the Second Part of our Indie Games Marketing Course:

First Part can be found at:
http://youtu.be/0HAgTyib3TE

Indie Games Positioning Workshop with Chris Wright, Chief Surprise Architect @ Surprise Attack

Surprise Attack was founded by Chris Wright, a veteran of video games marketing with more than 100 campaigns executed under his care for publishers including THQ, Microsoft, Sega, Capcom, Disney Interactive Studios and many more.

Chris will take you through his highly sought-after two hour interactive workshop on how to "position" your game. Using a variety of unique exercises, this Surprise Architect will get you thinking about your games' hooks and themes, and how to emphasise these unique features within the global game market. Prepare to be delighted and astounded as you learn things about your game that you never knew (or perhaps were too humble to admit!), and how this information can boost your marketing efforts.

This event was brought to you with the help of our amazing sponsors:
Screenwest
& City of Perth

Music is "Tea Bean Bags" by Miró Belle, courtesy of Free Music Archive

Approaching the Press by Tim Colwill, Editor-in-Chief @ games.on.net

Tim is the worldʼs first, last, and only classically-trained combat raconteur. He was raised at an early age by bears, then later by humans, and then later again by humans dressed in unconvincing homemade bear suits.

It is this unique combination of completely untrue things which has made him into the man he is today: dehydrated, frequently confused, and editor-in-chief of games.on.net, Internode's gaming portal.

What does it take to catch an editor's eye? How can you make your press release stand out from the other 6,000 that cross their desk every day? As editor-in-chief of the thriving game community games.on.net, Tim will give you first hand insight into what you can do to make your press materials attractive to even the most time-deficient editor.

The second part, "Indie Games Positioning Workshop" can be found at:
http://youtu.be/zG9MJ7wj8Kg

This event was brought to you with the help of our sponsors:
Screenwest
& City of Perth

Music is "In Fielder" by Miró Belle, courtesy of Free Music Archive

The 2012 Let's Make Games Inc. BBQ!
Music: Delorean - Warmer Places (http://bit.ly/FPWbA0)
(please note: fullscreen viewing may cause dizziness!)
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Presentations:

0:06 Eggtastic
Aranda Morrison (programming), Elliott Bulmer (programming), Scott Millar (art), Brock Atkinson (sound)

2:28 Worm Will Eat Itself
Robert Barnett

4:14 Otherworld
Matt Stentiford (programming), Richard Kong (art), Daniel Barry (programming), Brock Atkinson (sound)

6:47 Centrics 9:36 Gaeon
Wez Lamont

12:06 The Crooked Spiral
Liza Shulyayeva (art, design), James Strauss (programming), Minh Tran (programming), Ben Hammersley (art, design), Brock Atkinson (sound)

15:32 Infinicat
David Keep (art), Shem LeScelle (art), Hugh Mclernon (art), Scott Kerr (programming), Nigel Budden (programming), Stephen D'cruz (programming), Brock Atkinson (sound)

18:23 Ourobash!
Jack Casey, Richard Kong (additional art)

20:28 Globe
Nathan Deane (programming, sound), Russell Easton (music, level design)

24:04 The Cycle
Chris McCormick

25:43 MVR (Mutants vs. Reptiles)
Terrence Peters (writing, design), David English (programming), Mohamad Susli (programming), Adam Mitchell (art, music), Ben MacMillan (art)

28:30 While(alive)
Megan Campbell (programming, music), Sam Zeid (programming), Liam Hunt (art), Roydon Wagner (art)

30:56 A Never Ending Search for Pants
Scott Higginbotham (art), Nick Schubert (programming),
Brock Atkinson (sound)
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Play the games here: http://globalgamejam.org/og/games/17419/list
Timelapse of the Perth Global Game Jam site: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmiELGQ9Otg

Video music: scottaltham - Hear Us Now (poptastic mix)
http://ccmixter.org/files/scottaltham/20747

The Let's Make Games Inc. Global Game Jam site held at Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia.

View the presentations of the finished games: http://youtu.be/RpPGmyDb6Qw
Play the games here: http://globalgamejam.org/og/games/17419/list

Music: Teen Daze - Let's Groove
http://soundcloud.com/teendaze/lets-groove

Developer Interview: Jon Hayward

A very scientific documentation of all of the goodtimes had at our end of year party in Perth this year at the Universal Bar in Northbridge :)

Special thanks to all of our amazing sponsors:

Developers At Large
Stirfire Studios and WRK Studios
Different Methods
RocketHands
Black Lab Games
Binary Space
Gnomic Studios
Immersive Technologies
Tsumea
Kactus Games
And all the community contributions!

See you next year for what we hope will be another amazing year of games in Perth, Western Australia!

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