The International Games Developers Association (IGDA) has raised some significant concerns for the distribution terms provided by Amazon on their new Amazon Appstore service. Games developers are advised to educate themselves on the pros and cons of the store's terms and the implications it could have on the sales of their titles. Generally, Amazon are able to manipulate app prices and sales as a way to leverage their appstore over competing appstores, to the detriment of the app developer.
The…
When: Tuesday 10 May 6.30 – 10.30pm
Where:
NEW LOCATION 1000 £ Bend at 361 Little Lon in the CBD
(for updates on this event, check out the Facebook page)
Speakers:
Neil Rennison, Tin Man Games
Stephan Schutze, Sound Librarian
Trent Kusters, previously Torus Games
(from IGDA Melbourne)
May’s meetup will start with the Tin Man baring bolts and all about the financial state of being an indie….this is a rarity in all industries, let alone the secretive games industry and will give you real insight…
The Binary Mill is a Queensland based independent games company who caught our attention when they released the trailer for their upcoming top-down racer, Mini Motor Racing. It made a splash at the Games Developers Conference this year, and it's on our most-watch list for upcoming titles by local games developers.
The Binary Mill have been around for a few years with a variety of iPhone apps and games under their belts, but we felt it's high time we found out a little bit more about them by…
Does anyone remember Sumea Pixel Town? If not, click here and have a look...
Sumea Pixel Town was a fun little activity that we did way back in 2004 where Sumea regulars nominated their piece of land and began working on some cool pixel art for their plot. In the end, we had a fantastic mural of awesome and very creative pixel art. A worthy thing to note is that plot 49 (the Blues building) was drawn by the late Simon Castles from Castle Music Productions who did a whole lot of audio and music…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfpkmybUx_A
We are Raptus Games, a new independent studio based in Melbourne. We would like to show the teaser trailer for our up coming western shooter DRAW.
Inspired by classic spaghetti western films DRAW is a on rails shooter with bright colourful visuals and great style! Use classic weapons from the frontier days and take out the bandits raising hell in town!
Be sure to "like" us on Facebook and Follow us on Twitter and also check out our website http://www.…
because i can, though the play mechanic is pretty much pong, and after spending the day making animation i'm kind of wiped out to type anything interesting.
the main photo, had one of my female friends critique the bikini girls appearance, dear gods females can get objective about swimsuits/body aesthetics. possibly looks about twice as good after the crits where applied, though there was still a few hours of sweat and tears in getting a texture up to this level to begin with (10 hours, that is…
Blowfish Studios & Just Mobile announce the “Hungry MonstR/AluPen™” Worldwide Competition
SYDNEY, Australia, 6th April, 2011 — Blowfish Studios in conjunction with Just Mobile, creators of the award winning AluPen™, are pleased to announce a competition for Blowfish Studios’ latest game Hungry MonstR. Play Hungry MonstR on your iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad for the chance to win 1 of 10 Just Mobile AluPens™.
Hungry MonstR, the new and highly addictive casual smartphone game is available on the…
Flick Buddies by Brisbane indie developer, Bane Games, is now available in a lite version so you can try out the physics based arena game for free on your iOS device!
Flick Buddies Lite contains 18 complete levels as well as all the environments, game modes, and characters from the complete version. Avoid spikes, gravity wells or even the dreaded Vortex of Death as you flick your team past the opposition and into the awaiting goal. Join with the 100,000+ existing Flick Buddies fans in frantic…
