Kate Raynes-Goldie, Author at Playup Perth

Playup Perth #14 update: now with more games!

June 10, 2018 by Kate Raynes-Goldie Leave a Comment

Event Date: Friday, 15th June 2018.

This month’s Playup Perth is less than a week away (it’s this Friday!) at our very exciting new venue, Spacecubed. We’ve added a bunch of new games to the lineup, with a total of 13 on offer. Scroll down for the full list.

Grab your tickets now, as there will be limited numbers at the door.

Date: Friday, 15th June 2018.
Time: 6pm til late.
Venue: Spacecubed, 45 St Georges Tce, Perth WA 6000*.
Cost: $15 – Buy tickets here.
Note: Nibblies and Softies provided. Alcohol available to purchase – cash only but only $5 a pop! (yes this event is 18+).

*This venue is 100% wheelchair accessible

See you on the 15th,

— Donna, Sofie & Kate

Games and creative innovations on offer:

1. Ned by PeeBee Games

Ned, an action platformer loosely based around the life of Ned Kelly (well, we stole his iconic image), only now, Ned needs to find out what has caused the animals to go crazy, and what’s all that green glowing ooze?

2. Working Class Weyland by Kinsley

Working Class Weyland is a fast paced platformer, with a comedy twist!

3. Forests of Faerynova by Go Studio

FPS Adventure (Weapon is a camera)

Mission: The adventure for the player character protagonist, Felix, begins at her holiday cottage where she is ready to explore the walking trails of the Forests of FaeryNova… She is alerted on arrival that things are not as expected, with some of the walking trails closed by a cult of scientists, rumours heard in the local village she passes through on the way – that the enemy scientists are capturing the local, elusive faeries for the purpose of secret experiments. As the player, you are sent a plea for help from the faeries, communicated through their magic, to find a way to prove their existence and close down their evil hunters. You are led to items which will enable success in this mission – a special camera for taking faery photos to compile the evidence needed to save them, equipped with a lumina-daze flash which stuns the enemies before they can deal damage with their tazers!

4. Fluttering Souls by Nurse Shark Games

Fluttering Souls is based on the tale of The White Butterfly. An old Japanese story where the souls of loved ones take on the form of white butterflies to visit those who remain in the living world.

It is a 2 player strategy, set collection micro game; made up of 3 – 5 rounds. In each round, players take turns collecting butterflies which are worth victory points, either in a set or by themselves. The player that collects the most victory points at the end of a round is awarded a White Butterfly Token; a visit from a lost loved one. The first player to collect 3 White Butterfly Tokens is the winner.

5. Bright by Illuminoodle

Created at the Nordic Game Jam 2018 “Bright” is a first time creation by a Danish cross Perth collective going by the name Illuminoodle. The game is about painting colour back into a darkened world to overcome its challenges. It is a PC, Puzzle side scroller game.

6. Sea Wars by Graham Lockhart

Sea Wars is a table top game utilising innovative card and miniature game mechanics. Most of the rules are designed into the games components and play aides to reduce the size of the rulebook and help facilitate ease of play and accessibility to players with little or no subject knowledge.

Sea Wars is a World War 2 Naval Combat System Table Top game.

Players 2+ | Age 10+ | Time 1 – 2 Hours

7. Inti by Jose Zamalloa

The forest tree is ill! Spirit champions are on a quest to find magic stones to recover its strength. Inti is a fun, bright family game about forest spirits, animals in a fantasy realm.

Ages 8+ up to 6 players lasting about 30-45 minutes.

8. Tower of Aegis by Jakal Studios

Tower of Aegis is a procedually generated platformer where the player fights and climbs to the top.

Knightfall is coming along well. #gamedev #indiedev #platformer #procedualGeneration pic.twitter.com/ZekZX34dOA

— JB ⚔ Tower of Aegis ⚔ (@JAKL_) March 4, 2018

9. It Will Be Hard by Hien Pham

It Will Be Hard is a light interactive erotica of two men with polar opposite sexualities working toward one mutually fulfilling relationship.

10. Blocky Roll by Gnomic Studios & Pale Blue Dot

Blocky Roll challenges you to navigate our hero Blocky to the end of the level by – wait for it – rolling! Blocky is presented with seemingly simple puzzles that become increasingly devious and difficult to master.

11. The Adventures of Square, Epsiode 2 by Bigbrik Games

A frantic-paced FPS of paintball guns and sentient polygons in a colourful cartoony world – a game all ages can enjoy.

12. Baron: Fur’s Going to Fly by Dogmelon

The dawn of aviation. A battle for control of the skies. Fur is going to fly!

A multiplayer game of aerial combat, set in the First World War. The pilots are animals. The weapons may or may not be historically accurate. Choose your aviator and challenge your friends. It’s going to get wild.

Want to test your game at this event or upcoming playups? Follow this link to apply!

Drop a line to donna@playupperth.org or tweet @don_isgood

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Playup Perth #13 + Creative Innovation Microgrants!

November 9, 2017 by Kate Raynes-Goldie 1 Comment

Event Date: Friday, 15 December 2017.

Hi Playupers!

We’re back, with a brand new website thanks to Helen Kwok, a new team and a new creative innovation microgrant initiative thanks to the City of Perth (check out the media release for details — a full announcement and how to apply coming soon)

Date: Friday, December 15 2017
6pm til late
The Nostalgia Box, 3/16 Aberdeen St, Perth WA 6000
$10 – Buy tickets here
This event as 18+ (with drinks available from our bar at maker friendly prices)

See you on the 15th

— Kate

Featured Games and Experiences (so far…*)

Lost & Hound by Daisy Ale Soundworks
Lost & Hound, a scent tracking dog adventure game, where you go on search and rescue missions to find lost people. The mechanics are audio heavy, and the game is fully accessible to vision impaired gamers.

The Coins of McGuffin Trading Card Game by David Green
The trading card game for fans of…well…everything. In this 2-5 player game you battle your favorite fandoms against others to see which geeky TV show/Film/Book/Sport/Comic/etc will come out on top. It’s like Tumblr but in real life!

Baron by Dogmelon
The dawn of aviation.
A battle for control of the skies.
Fur is about to Fly.
~~~
Baron is multiplayer action game where players take control of biplanes in WW1-era battles.
This is no historical simulation. The pilots are cute furry animals, and technology includes weapons such as freeze rays, flamethrowers, falling anvils, and even the simple banana.
Battles take place on a single screen, for intense action and laugh-out-loud fun.

Merchants & Mercenaries by Echidna Games
Merchants and Mercenaries is a hectic real-time strategy that looks and feels like the board games you love, with none of the waiting. Expand your empire, get resources and trade them, hire merchants to discover new riches or hire mercenaries to take it all. There’s no one way to play, or even to win, but you’d better be fast!

Inti by Jose Zamalloa
Inti is a 20 to 30 minute game aimed for 2-6 players, ages 8+ set in a fantasy themed world where you take the role or a tiny forest spirit sent on a quest to collect magic sun stones to revive their Elder Tree. Only by facing dangerous monsters, avoiding devious monkeys and helping forest animals can you find these powerful stones and save your home!

Mercury Blue by Turbo Chimp
Mercury Blue is a sci-fi comedy adventure for Windows PC. It is a classic point-and-click puzzle game at its core, but also contains lush 3D environments as well as action packed mini-games throughout the adventure.

Working Class Weyland by Liam Kinsella
A parody platformer game, with a dark twist

Interested in testing your game/creative innovation/VR/AR project at this playup?
A few spots still available. Apply here.

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Playup Perth: VR Special Edition

March 7, 2017 by Kate Raynes-Goldie Leave a Comment

Hello Playup Perthers!

Last month we hosted our first ever international playup, Playup Bali which filled up the local coworking space, Hubud, with more than 30 game enthusiasts to play 3 locally made games.

And I have yet another exciting announcement for March. Lisa Chu, Program Manager for HTC’s VIVE is going to be in town from Taiwan, so we’ll be throwing special VR-only Playup Perth night for her.

We have a few spots left if you want to show off your VR content (can be finished or in production) — email kate@gamesweplay.com.au if you’re interested.

See you on March 24!

Kate

Friday, March 24th 2017
6:00pm – 10:30pm
The Nostalgia Box, 3/16 Aberdeen St, Perth WA 6000
TICKETS: $7 (FTI members) / $10 (regular)
This event is 18+
(There will be a discounted bar)

Featured VR Games and Experiences

1.) Burning Candle Software‘s Boondoggle is a VR music visualizer built on its own small custom engine. It aims to use pretty shadertoy style ray-marching to make unique visual effects to music.

2.) Stirfire Studio‘s Symphony of the Machine. An ancient machine controls the weather and its creators are long gone. You must perform the ritual and come to understand its workings to save your crops.

3.) Savage Cabbage‘s The Drowning Dungeons. Every 5 years, the Lord and Lady of the Draemarian provinces “invite” a guest to escape from their Drowning dungeon. Should the poor soul escape they will be granted their reward of freedom, however if they perish, their soul and life essence is siphoned through the magic of the dungeon to the Lord and Lady, extending their lifespan and allowing them to continue to rule with an iron fist. Can you survive The Drowning Dungeons?

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Playup Bali #1!

January 17, 2017 by Kate Raynes-Goldie Leave a Comment

Happy New Year!

Playup Perth is partnering with Hubud, Ubud’s coworking and community space, to bring you the first ever international playup, Playup Bali!

As always, we’ll be featuring the latest and greatest local games in development from across Bali in a fun social setting (complete with a bar!), housed in Hubud’s beautiful and unique venue.

I’ll also be hosting a free VR/AR workshop the week before (Feb 9, also at Hubud), where you can try your hand at the new Playstation VR.

See you on the 16th, Bali!

— Kate

Date: Thursday February 16th 2017
6pm til late
Hubud, Monkey Forest Road 88x Ubud, Gianyar, Bali 80571
Indonesia
Free, RSVP required
This event is 17+

If you want to playtest your game, drop Kate an email or a tweet — games of all kinds are welcome (tabletop, VR, console, something we’ve never even thought of…) and we’d love to have you.

Games featured

1.) Mindisle’s Fourzy

A mobile multiplayer turned based strategy game. The game concept is similar to Connect Four but it has different variations for how the game is played, and expands upon the original concept.

2.) Sofia Color‘s Chromatic Memory Game

A table top memory game, with 25 pairs of colors that change very slightly until it gets to its neighbour in the color circle.