• Friday 25 July, 2014
• 6pm-9pm
• State Library of Western Australia (25 Francis Street, Perth)
• Come and enjoy some new games, friends and drinks!
• This event is 18+ (RSVP)

A new twist on the success of the Saturday afternoon playups — Playup Perth! After Dark — a more grown up, evening playup session where we will focus on video and table top games. Did we mention there will be a bar?

We will be playtesting

1.) Wesley Lamont’s COGZ – a steampunk themed strategy, pattern matching game. Players are aiming to build cog chains using the Game Tiles. Cog chains of the same colour earn points with completed Cogz earning bonuses and slowing the other players. High points can gain bonus actions but players must be cognisant that final scores are based on their cog colour with the least points. Recognising where ideal points can be gained, completing Cogz at the opportune time, limiting opponents and cognitively planning for future turns will challenge the most experienced players. COGZ helps you hone your pattern matching, logic, visual IQ and memory skills to enhance your own cognition in this fun strategy game.

2.) Glen Spoors’ Colossus Awakes –  a strategy-based boardgame in which 2-4 players control adventurers and minions in a struggle to influence a Colossus awakening beneath the earth. Each player’s goal may be to free, destroy, subdue or survive the Colossus as it destroys all in its path. The game is played on a 20×20 hex map with custom miniatures and cards and involves a mix of rapid resource building, card drafting and skirmishes amongst and against the pieces of the Colossus as they rise up from the board.

3.) Glen Spoors’ Pocket Troll – Three boys have spotted a marauding troll but no one believes them. The boys have to bring 3 pieces of evidence to the village, while the troll has to get to the village at night (or eat all 3 boys). The game is played on an unfolded 6″ board using tokens and cards.

4.) Anthony Sweet’s Breakwater – a board game about voodoo, jazz and clockwork for up to four players. The Loa are making their annual pilgrimage to the bayou town of Breakwater, and it’s up to you to make sure there are festivities and parades fit for their arrival. Collect resources and claim the streets of Breakwater for your parades to entice the favours of the Loa, for after three days they will decide who will bear the prestigious title of the town’s new Parade Doctor. Breakwater combines a modular board and set collection mechanics, plus a novel clock market feature, that ensures each playthrough is a unique experience.

More to be announced, stay tuned!

Wanna playtest your game?

Test your game at the next Playup Perth — Email kate (at) fti.asn.au or tweet @oceanpark

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• Saturday March 1, 2014
• 1pm-3pm
• FTI lawn (92 Adelaide Street)
• Free! (RSVP required)
• Be the first to play the brand new Atmosphere Industries game!

Each playup, we playtest new games and game prototypes and give feedback to the designers so they can make them even better. All welcome: players, game designers, and those curious about becoming game designers! We love physical games, community games, hybrid games, street games, alternate reality games… or something we’ve never thought of yet.

Please note this is currently an event for grownups! We hope to be all ages down the road.

We will be playtesting

1.) The new top secret Atmosphere Industries game, set to debut at the Fresh Air 2014 festival in Melbourne (March 7-10, 2014). A fun pervasive game for players of all skill levels that will involve hilarity and teamwork. Plus, if you loved Star Trek: the Next Generation, you will love this game even more. Please bring an internet enabled smart phone, a pair of comfortable shoes and be prepared for some walking around town.

2.) Colossus Awakes — a new board game for 4 players, by Glen Spoors

3.) Pocket Troll — a new board game for two players Glen Spoors

Wanna playtest your game?

Test your game at the next Playup Perth — Email kate (at) fti.asn.au or tweet @oceanpark

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• Saturday August 17, 2013
• 2pm-5pm
• spacecubed, 45 St Georges Terrace (rear)
• Free! (RSVP required)
• Please bring a plate of nibbles to share

Each playup, we playtest new games and game prototypes and give feedback to the designers so they can make them even better. All welcome: players, game designers, and those curious about becoming game designers! We love physical games, community games, hybrid games, street games, alternate reality games… or something we’ve never thought of yet.

Please note this is currently an event for grownups! We hope to be all ages down the road.

We will be playtesting

1.) COGZ by “Wesley Lamont. In a deviously clever strategy game, all players must plot and play how to gain the most points from the game board. Points are gained through creating segment chains of colours on the board whilst locking completed shapes. Players must gain points in all colours as the final score is based on each players lower colour. Strategising how to gain the ideal points, locking shapes at the right time, limiting opponents potential and planning future moves will challenge even the best players.

2.) Metagame by David Fono. A game of making games (if you came to my workshop you will have played this) which is great for aspiring game designers to help you get your head around game design basics.

3.) Message on a Bottle by yours truly (Kate Raynes-Goldie) which I will leave mysterious for now:)

We are also going to have a bit of time at the end for a brainstorm on game/playful projects, so if you have something you want help with or want feedback on, please bring it along!

Wanna playtest your game?

Test your game at the next Playup Perth — Email kate (at) fti.asn.au or tweet @oceanpark

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