Playup Perth #8

Hi Playupers!

Last month we got Playup Perth glow in the dark tshirts, and this month we have more exciting news. The Saturday Playup Perth event is moving to a wonderful new venue – Carpe Coffee on Murray Street. Now you can enjoy beautiful coffee, tea and light cafe fare while you play local Perth games and chat with the developers behind them.

And, our Saturday Playup Perth is now an all ages event (children 12 and under must come with a guardian) – so if you have kids who are are interested in making games, this is a great way for them to learn about the game design process and talk to developers about what its like to work in the industry.

Oh, and if you missed grabbing one of our limited editing locally designed by Backyard.SK glow in the dark Playup Perth tshirts, we’ll have some for sale at the next playup on 12 September, so bring your piggybanks! They’re $30 and all profits go towards supporting local WA games.

Kate Raynes-Goldie, Director of Games and Interactive at FTI

Playup Perth #8

September 12, 2015
1pm-4pm
Carpe Coffee (526 Murray Street)
Light snacks and drinks will be available for purchase from the cafe
All ages! (Players 12 and under will need to be accompanied by a guardian).
$7 (FTI members)/ $10 (regular)
Tickets available here

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.

We will be playtesting

1.) tripleqmark’s Bloc – a 2-player tabletop strategy game where you use your agent to influence the voting public to elect you into power!

2.) Bear Tooth Studios’ Super Salmon Migration – an upcoming mobile arcade game. Brave treacherous waters as you dodge obstacles to get to your spawning ground, collecting sweet magic powers and costumes along the way!

3.) HiVE Intereactive‘s Aliensche – Collect cows and avoid extermination as an invading alien in an unidentified craft. As an extra terrestrial, you are obviously fascinated by Earth’s bovine inhabitants. Your mission is to collect super cute cow specimens for your research requirements by delivering them to them to the mother ship. However, the Cow Defence Forces have been mobilized!

4.) Colin Gan‘s Verbivore – Eat letters. Make words. Play Verbivore! Verbivore is a word game where you play as a snake eating letters to make words.

5.) HiVE Intereactive‘s Blitz Bandits – GET BLITZ’D! Blitz Bandits is a 2 player arena shooter with a GAMEBOY aesthetic and a thumping soundtrack by Perth chiptune master ATOMSMASHA. Blitz Bandits toured Australia during SK Games’ Interstate Arcade.

6.) Wez Lamont’s Rogue Blitz – The world is in danger from a new planetary threat that has defeated our greatest air forces. Governments are now turning to the rogue captains as their last hope. Do you have what it takes to build a squadron of experimental planes and save the planet?

Wanna test your game at the next event? Follow this link to apply!

Drop a line to kate@fti.asn.au or tweet @oceanpark

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