Those of you who had tried Nooooo's Wiiware game, Pop, may have noticed its amazingly awesome soundtrack. Well, it's been announced that the entire soundtrack for Pop is now available for your hearing pleasure from the iTunes store.
Andrew Curnock of Beat Therapy has done a remarkable job at producing some really great mellow tunes, so if you're interested in getting the lot, grab it on itunes through here! http://www.beattherapy.com/itunes.html
You can also have a preview of some of the…
So what do I have here?
Well, freeplay is coming up this week and for the event I wanted to make something to promote myself with. Tower City is all well and good but for the context of small indie development it doesn’t quite fit.
As many developers showing up to the event are focusing on the iPhone as their development platform of choice I wanted to put my hat into the ring and give my idea of what might make a fun and enjoyable iPhone game.
The result is MOLE. A game in the same vain of some…
President of the Game Developers Association of Australia (GDAA) and CEO of Tantalus, Tom Crago, has made an appearance at Triple R's Byte Into It technology focused radio segment. Tom talks about the upcoming Game Connect: Asia Pacific 2009 which is being held in Melbourne later this year, the trend towards casual gaming, the lack of the R rating classification in Australia, and all the latest at Tantalus.
MB: Do you see the trend towards casual or “snack” type gaming continuing, especially…
id Software's Wolfenstein RPG has been ported over to the iPhone by Melbourne developer, Firemint. It's just been released on the appstore, and it looks like the one and only programmer guru, John Carmack, is happy with the port. Here's what The Carmack said late last month to toucharcade.com about Firemint's efforts...
li: So Wolfeinstein RPG is ready to roll and EA is just sitting on it?
John: It's in the can, evidently there was some glitch where people were able to get it. It's based on the…
WANTED: Amaya Borghild ( A-my-a Bor-jill-da )
Agent in the order of the dusk rain, a guild of elite 'honorable' assassins. Amaya is 28 years old, 5'10 and 122lb and although only a lowly koyakunin rank within the guild, she is more than a match for dozens of our elite soldiers.
Its rumoured she wields the legendary Star Souba one of the 12 swords of creation. It is said that this blade was first weilded by Lord Ozutsu Borghild during our worlds creation, to slay the sun and bring about the…
Free Play 2009 tickets will be available for purchase online until Thursday afternoon. Updates are forthcoming on whether if there will be any tickets left available at the door, so if you haven't purchased yours yet, do so NOW before it's too late!!
The Free Play organisers have been filling in the Bios of the speakers as well as session details for the conference, so if you haven't checked out who's talking on what panel for this weekend's Indie game conference, head on over to the Freeplay…
Deadline for submission of abstracts: Thursday 13 August 2009
Authors advised of abstract acceptance: Tuesday 1 September 2009
GCAP 09 is now accepting abstract submissions from leading industry members of the games, IT, interactive entertainment, and film and sound industries.
Some of the main topics of GCAP 09 will be online, mobile and casual games, serious games, along with technological developments including latest server technologies. GDAA is also looking for presentations and workshops…
The Academy of Interactive Entertainment (AIE) has announced the speakers from the local games industry for Melbourne campus as part of their National Open Day on Sunday 16th August from 10am until 4pm. As part of the program one of the industry speakers on the day will be the Art Director from Big Ant Studios, Adam Briggs. Mr Briggs will be leading a discussion at 11am about what’s needed to land a job in the games industry and give everyone a bit more of an understanding about what’s involved…
Host: Elysium Internet Cafe
Type: Music/Arts - Performance
Date: Tuesday, August 18, 2009
Time: 6:00pm - 9:00pm
Location: Elysium Internet Cafe
Street: 279-281 Brunswick St Mall
Description: Come down to Elysium to see into the mind of a games concept artist.
Alex Drummond, seasoned concept artist for several games studios including Brisbane based Fuzzy Eyes, will be doing a live Digital speed painting demo at Elysium mid August.
Bring your friends and your curiosity to Elysium and sit in air…
Tower City August Build:
Health bars, monsters and projectile weapons!
Download the August build here!
How to play:
1: Download and unzip file.
2: Double-click and execute the file: WIP DEMO AUGUST BUILD.exe
3: Have fun!
Updates!
- Player health: Players now have their own working health bars! :D
- Working enemies: Enemies now damage the player character when near them. They also have their own health bars.
- Working weapon: Pressing the right mouse button will fire a projectile weapon. Aim…
