Freeplay have released their finalists lists for the 2012 Freeplay Awards! The organisers mentioned that they've received a big increase in the number of submissions for this year's awards with 115 indie titles sent in this time which is 35 more titles from what was submitted last year.
Congratulations are due to all those who made it in as finalists, and there certainly are some very solid titles in the list. Personally, I'm eagerly looking forward to seeing who takes out this year's Best…
When: Tuesday 11 September 6.30pm (panel at 7pm)
Where: The Workers Club, cnr Brunswick and Gertrude Streets, Fitzroy
What: The PAX nomads are back and Tom Killen (The Voxel Agents), Ben Kosmina (Brawsome), Tom Greenaway (Kumobius) and Ben Britten (Tin Man Games) will share their PAX adventures on a Q&A panel session.
The next IGDA Melbourne event is tomorrow night, and there's heaps of exciting news and updates to be had for those attending. The main portion will be a Q&A session with…
Only a few Australian games have come close to crossing over to becoming a full blown animation series, but the record for cartoons based on locally developed games remains at zero. Until now, that is.
Way back in 2004, we heard the news that Krome Studios' Ty, the Tasmanian Tiger was due to become a cartoon series set for prime time under a deal with the animation studio behind The Simpsons and The King of the Hill.
Pandemic Studio's Destroy All Humans! was also scheduled for prime time TV in…
Kotaku Australia's Mark Serrels has a written a fantastic article on Chris Wright and Surprise Attack, beginning with how and why Chris decided to start up a new company that offers his marketing expertise to indie games developers. When THQ closed their Australian studios, Blue Tongue and THQ Studio Australia, in August last year, and in the morning after a big night out of drinks with his retrenched workmates and thinking of what to do next, the former Marketing Director for THQ's Australian…
Freeplay have given us the word that the full program for the 2012 Freeplay Independent Games Festival is now available! Freeplay this year promises something for everyone, from "games developers to writers and players to developers, critics to artists, writers to theatre makers".
Some of the special guests appearing in Freeplay's sessions this year include:
founder of Player Attack, Jessica Citizen
creator of Tasty Fish, Dan Clayton
FireMonkey’s Media Designer, Ben Dawe
CMO of Convict…
Redtribe is looking for an animator/video editor or company that can help us produce an "official trailer" for our new game Hairy Balls. The animation/video will likely be around 1 minute in length.
Youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LzdIcCcfmg
App Store: http://itunes.apple.com/au/app/hairy-balls/id525961324?mt=8
Currently the game is undergoing extensive testing before its official release date.
The video will be promoted to over 20,000 outlets online through a US based PR company and…
Steam Greenlight was recently kicked off, allowing the Steam community to be involved in the selection process of games for distribution on the Steam platform! You can help a whole bunch of Australian developed titles by logging into your Steam account, clicking the links below, and rating up the titles! All these games are actually quite awesome, and I'm sure you've heard of some of them before, so check them out and give them a thumbs up!
Aussie projects that need to be greenlit!!
Impromptu…
They've been fairly low key, but we're hoping to hear a lot more from them! Melbourne based games studio, Straight Right, had formally announced earlier this month that they're responsible for bringing Mass Effect 3 to the Nintendo Wii U.
Straight Right have been busy working on bringing BioWare's epic title to Nintendo's next generation console since last year and it's one of the major titles expected to be available for the launch of the Wii U sometime during the end of this year. The Wii U…
