Of course, the sensible thing would be to use an existing game engine, but after a certain point, there is some curiosity if learning and fighting yet another game engine is really quicker that just writing something from scratch.
Last year, we made a news item about helping locally developed games get the Greenlight on Steam which received good attention and gave a little bit of extra exposure for Australian and New Zealand made games pushing for distribution.
It's been nearly a year since and rather than updating our list on tsumea here, Steam actually has a much, much nicer solution. Through their 'collections' feature in the Greenlight section, we've set up a 'tsumea: Australia and New Zealand made' list which…
Tasty Tadpoles has just been launched on the App Store today! Developed as a universal app for iOS devices by a ex-Firemint graphic designer, Mark White, the game is a casual stealth/puzzle game where you have to guide tiny tadpoles to their safety across three kinds of ponds and through seventy five levels. There are four characters to unlock, and fourteen challenges to take on, so there's certainly plenty of fun to be had...
Tasty Tadpoles is a deliciously addictive trial of survival,…
What: Ballarat GiG: Get Into Games
Where: Mining Exchange, Ballarat, Victoria. Australia
When: 17th and 18th May
Ballarat GIG: Get Into Games
Shining a light on real opportunities in computer games
Melbourne, May 9th , 2013 — Australia’s largest regional computer games career expo, Ballarat GiG: Get into Games, returns on the 17th and 18th of May and will showcase the industry with two days of demonstrations, the latest games to play, competitions and talks from local industry leaders.…
When: Sunday 21, July from 7pm
Where: Transit Cocktail Lounge, Federation Square (above Transport Bar)
IGDA Melbourne are organising an awesome event to cap off PAX Australia called the Melbourne Mega Dev Party Post PAX Party. They've secured the Transit Cocktail Lounge which overlooks Federation Square, so you're in for a great evening to wind down after PAX Aus. Book your tickets as soon as possible to take advantage of the early bird offer!
All game developers and their sector friends are…
Congratulations are in order to Joshua McGrath for taking out the top position in this year's Quantas Spirit of Youth Awards (SOYA) in the interactive gaming category. It's the second year running for SOYA and this unique award, and apart from the prestige of winning such a title, Joshua has been given the opportunity of a role in Soap Creative's Los Angeles office. From SOYA...
Joshua’s background in creative writing, musical acoustics and Computer Science helps inform the development of his…
Prolific New Zealand-based games publisher, PikPok, has hit a huge milestone with their gorgeous zombie-themed endless runner and original I.P, Into the Dead, by surpassing a staggering 10 million downloads since they launched it for iPhone, iPad, iPod touch, and Android five months ago.
Into the Dead joins Flick Kick Football as two titles by PikPok that have passed the 10 million download mark. The Flick Kick series of games by PikPok, which includes Flick Kick Field Goal and Flick Kick Rugby…
PAX Australia have announced the games they've chosen for the inaugural PAX Aus Indie Showcase. A select panel of gaming industry peers had the daunting task of sifting through and choosing just six from the sixty independently made Australian and New Zealand games that were submitted for the showcase which will be big part of the sold-out PAX Australia gaming festival in July. The developers of these games will also be taking part of a special panel at PAX AUS for a round-table discussion on…
Flashback is a Sydney event which started back in 2011 and with each year passing seems to be getting bigger and bigger. It takes place on the Queen's birthday long weekend (Saturday, Sunday, Monday) 24 hours non stop event and provides realtime programming, graphics, music, hardware hacks, animation competitions for all platforms, such as the commodore c64, commodore Amiga, console, and PC, This year we will have on show case workshops and a retro museum with classic computers from the…
When: 30 May, 9pm - 10pm
Where: Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, (MCA Forum (Harbourside))
As part of the 'Making of' series in this year's Vivid Sydney festival, Bubble Gum Interactive will be having a special a one hour panel on the making of their free iOS/Android mobile game, JetPack Jinx.
The Sydney startup who are also responsible for the virtual world MMOG, Space Heroes, will have their producer, developer, artists and community manager at hand to talk about the entire process of…
