Date: Wednesday, May 26, 2010
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: Bank Hotel Newtown, Downstairs in the Thai Garden Restaurant
Description: Play Talk Drink Laugh Repeat
Come next Wednesday, pull yourself away from Red Dead Redemption to come down the saloon. We've a whole extra month to wait for Mario Galaxy 2, so there's plenty of time to chat...
What've you been working on lately? We've been planning another big event, the details of which we'll reveal over a drink at the pub...
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Halfbrick Studios will be showcasing and running a tournament with their cute multiplayer platformer, Raskulls, at the Mana bar tonight. At hand are the following Halfbrick'ians who will be there to answer any questions or do any interviews for patrons.
Sean Druitt – Raskulls producer
Ben Vale – Raskulls director and lead programmer
Luke Muscat – Creator and lead designer of Fruit Ninja
Klicktock have released another fast paced hidden object game for the iPhone / iPod touch, and it's available for free! It has online leaderboard functionality and is packed full of other great features, so you have no reason not to give it a try already. Grab it from iTunes now!
Doodle Find is a social hidden object game. Compete against your friends – and the world – via online leaderboards powered by Facebook Connect. Each game takes only 90 seconds, so it’s perfect for a spot of…
Develop 100 ranks the world's games development studios based on the revenues their products made at retail in the UK, and the latest update has two Australian studios making the list. It's the best result we've had so far as a nation in the Develop 100, however, it's rather unfortunate that one of the studios has since closed down.
Krome Studios made an appearance in the Develop 100 list back in 2007, just breaking in a #94. With combined 7 million pounds worth of sales from Transformers:…
A recent game interface job I completed for an Adelaide based iphone/mobile developer. Final graphics included animation on the handkerchief as the rope moves and animated icons on the menu screen. Graphics are all based on photos then heavily edited in Photoshop.
Move over, Firemint and Halfbrick Studios, there's another local developer hitting it big on the appstore. Stick Skater from Traction Games (consisting of Ben Hazzard and co-developer Liam Stephens) has hit the number two paid application position on the Apple AppStore in the US during the weekend, as well as the number one free application shortly after. While the art for Stick Skater may look a bit rudimentary, the gameplay looks *exceptionally* fun.
(Hazzard) "We modelled the skate…
It's not really directly game related but I thought I'd post it anyway (Let's pretend it's a character study). This is where my recent illustration energies had been going rather than into concept art related topics. Created for a charity Auction and my own pleasure, no brief apart from the comic book cover format. Painted in Photoshop with a few details (background an typography) created in Illustrator.
On a technical/hardware note, this was the first painting I have undertaken largely on my…
Playstation Lifestyle goes indepth with Krome Studios Co-Founder, Creative Director, and creator of Blade Kitten, Steve Stamatiadis on the Blade Kitten game currently in development for the Playstation store. The questions at hand include why they've chosen the Playstation platform for their first DLC title, as well as the many design decisions behind the comic to game adaptation.
It looks like Krome Studios is set on the Blade Kiten IP, with plans on bringing more Blade Kitten episodes and…
IGN AU has an editorial on the ongoing downsizing of the Australian games industry, brought upon the recent round of lay-offs from Krome Studios late last month. They cover the high profile closures of Pandemic Studios Brisbane and Auran, particularly focussing on Auran's Fury's failure to spark interest in the MMOG market.
Of course, the uptake of having many professional game developers let go means that some have taken a chance in the casual and social gaming market on their own, however…
