Past Events

Check out all the past Playup Perth events and the games we tested at each session!

In addition to our regular sessions that happen every two months, we sometimes run special themed events too. Check out our Special Events page for more detail.

Playup Perth Friday: Hello Nostalgia Box!

August 4, 2016 by James Dixon Leave a Comment

Date: Friday, 2nd September
6pm til late
The Nostalgia Box*, 3/16 Aberdeen St, Perth WA 6000
$7 (FTI members)/ $10 (regular)
Cheap drinks all night! (yes this event is 18+)
Buy tickets here

*This venue is 100% wheelchair accessible-friendly.

Hey Playup Perth-ers,

Have you checked out Perth’s first video game museum, The Nostalgia Box? You can check out all your favourite classic consoles, and even discover some you’ve never heard of, and play some old favourites.

It also just so happens that the Nostalgia Box is the new home for Playup Perth Friday! Join us as we celebrate this new partnership at the next Playup Perth, 2nd September, at the Nostalgia Box, of course! We’ll have some brand new games and new iterations of games you’ve tried at previous playups.

Don’t miss out, it’s going to be a big one.

See you on the 2nd,

— Kate

Games that’ll be there on the night (thus far):

1. ) Artisan Games‘s Collateral Damage –

An other-worldly hover-bot arena brawler, in which robots fight over the last remaining resources of their collapsing planet. This is a multiplayer game for people of all ages. Each robot has their own personality and combat style as they fight for a personal – and faction – oriented gain. Each robot is equipped with at least one melee and one ranged weapon, and have unique abilities. Collateral Damage is the first major game produced by Artisans Games. We know you will love it!

2.) Liz Haynes, Sam Foster & Dan Campbell’s Screen Fighters –

Two-player competitive split-screen. Push your opponent’s viewport out of existence before they do the same, as you both race to collect treasure chests while hurling bombs straight across the split-screen boundary.

3.) Stirfire Studio’s Symphony of the Machine –

A VR Puzzle game where you bend light to call forth storms. Using an ancient machine, restore life to a devastated world by influencing the weather.

4.) Michael Vatskalis’ Samurai Showdown –

A competitive, local-multiplayer game where players challenge one another to duels to the death (otherwise known as hitting six or more randomly selected buttons) where speed does not guarantee victory. Challenge your friends to five second duels and twenty second time trials, or compete with up to fifteen others in a series of 1V1 matches.

5.) Bob Hayden‘s Vectonic –

Vectonic is a fast paced multiplayer action game about vehicle combat. Out-manoeuvre your opponents and slam down on top of them to win. Party in a bright discoscape with a future funk soundtrack. Oh yeah! There are emoji too. Vectonic is solely designed around enjoyable couch multiplayer fun. With 5 unique game modes and every match having a new procedurally generated arena the game provides endless entertainment.

6.) RAEZ‘s Glitz –

Compete to build a tower of jewels by combining gems and out smarting your opponent in this strategic dexterity game.

7.) Grae Saunder‘s Little Bit Lost –

A PC-based, first person voxel game of the smallest proportions. (Look a the little guy go!!)

TICKETS HERE !!

Wanna test your game at the next event? Drop a line to kate@fti.asn.au or tweet @oceanpark

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Playup Perth #11

July 7, 2016 by James Dixon Leave a Comment

Playup Perth Saturday #11

30 July, 2016
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

Hey Playup-ers!

It’s time for another Playup Perth Saturday at Carpe Coffee. We have a bunch of great chill tabletop games for you, with a few more to be announced. Is there a better way to spend a Winter Saturday afternoon than with a bunch of friends, a cuppa and some great games? Join us!

See you Saturday 30th July

So far we will be playtesting:

1.) RAEZ‘ Snakez, the board game where players control snakes around a board gaining size from eating power ups — but where larger snakes become more powerful and harder to control with small snakes more versatile!

2.) Eeshwar Rajagopalan‘s Blocaganda — a 2-4 player strategy game where you blast your message across all forms of media to influence the public to make you into the mayor!

3.) Darren Broad‘s Monte Carlo – Monte Carlo is a casino-themed card game for 2-5 players. Play cards in a common area & place chips to manipulate their values to achieve your goals and win money.

4.) Dan Campbell’s Screen Fighters – Collect enough piratey treasures before your split-screen opponent; treasures that squeeze your opponent’s viewport out of existence. Jump in and out of each other’s camera space or fire directly across the visual boundary; sail in the world but fight in the screen.

5.) Nathan Scott’s Untitled Prototype Thing – Use the arrows to run and the mouse to gun. Semplice!

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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Playup Perth Friday: Last Night at SK Special Edition

June 2, 2016 by James Dixon Leave a Comment

Date Change: 1 July 2016
6pm til late
SK Games, 167 Fitzgerald St, Northbridge
$7 (FTI members)/ $10 (regular)
Cheap drinks all night! (yes this event is 18+)
Buy tickets here

Hi Playup Perth-ers!

July 1 will be the LAST EVER Playup Perth at SK Games, and it’s going to be a big farewell!

This is your last chance to test your game in this amazing space — hit me up if you’re game (see what I did there?) to test yours, we have a few spots left.

The official game lineup hasn’t been announced yet, but you can grab an extra early ticket here.

PS. Don’t worry we have a new and very exciting venue lined up, which will be announced at the event.

-Kate

Games that’ll be there on the night (so far):

Starlost by Hoodwinked Studios

A blend of tower defense, mining & bullet hell mixed to perfection. Stranded in space, use cunning and skill against a lethal robotic horde to ensure the survival of your ship! Make your way back to Earth… if you can. Use over 18 unique weapons and 4 unique skills to battle your way through 15 levels of action-packed adventure!

Vectonic by Bob Hayden

A fast paced multiplayer action game about vehicle combat. Out-manoeuvre your opponents and slam down on top of them to win. Party in a bright discoscape with a future funk soundtrack. Oh yeah! There are emoji too.

Rogue Blitz by RAEZ

Emulating a classic arcade shoot-em-up, Rogue Blitz pitches you piloting an experimental fighter jet taking on huge enemies that were too powerful for the worlds air forces. Armed with your skill and some powerful weaponry it is up to you and your fellow pilots to save the world!

Final Days by +7 Software

These are humanity’s Final Days… Dirty warfare has left most of the population mutated and thirsty for blood. Band together and battle for your survival! Final Days is a fast-paced and intense multiplayer shooter set in a post-apocalyptic world. It’s an arcade style game designed to be quick, simple, and fun. Inspirations include classics such as Smash TV, Gauntlet, Alien Breed, and Grand Theft Auto.

HyperDash Heroes by Moss Wolf Games

Join the HyperDash Heroes to dart up skyscrapers, dive over obstacles, and dash through the streets in a hyper coloured, hyper quick scifi city. Whether you want to crush your friends’ highscores or smash through a range of challenging mini missions, the heroes of the future are ready to run with you.

TICKETS HERE!

Wanna test your game at the next event? Drop a line to kate@fti.asn.au or tweet @oceanpark

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Playup Perth: Interstate Arcade Edition

April 8, 2016 by sofie 2 Comments

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Friday 29th April, 2016
7pm til late
SK Games, 167 Fitzgerald St, Northbridge
$7 (FTI members)/ $10 (regular)
Cheap drinks all night! (yes this event is 18+)
Buy tickets here

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Hi Playup Perth-ers!

We have yet another special edition playup for you: The Playup Perth Interstate Arcade, featuring indie games from around Australia and even a few from overseas! This fabulous opportunity to try your hands at games never before played in Perth is thanks to The Interstate Game Exchange, a new initiative which helps game devs to have their games showcased and tested outside of their home town.

See you on the 29th!

-Kate

We will be playtesting:

1.) Alberto Santiago’s GoatPunks Party [NSW]- GoatPunks is a rip-roaring multiplayer game of goats, mountains, good ole head-butting action with lightning and fire to rain down on your friends below. Can you hoof it to the top and stay there?

2.) Outback Pixel’s Roid Rage [Kalgoorlie] – Roid Rage An intergalactic speed tapper that makes you see red. Get ready for some finger-breaking action! ROID RAGE is a finger-breaking, asteroid destroying, speed tapper that allows you to buy and upgrade your skills, boosts and space crafts.

3.) Outback Pixel’s Thwart Geo [Kalgoorlie] – Thwart A retro-arcade-style shooter reminiscent of an era when games where easy to play but hard to master. A challenging and frustratingly addictive game that will push your steering and aiming skills to the limit! Avoid, trap and blast different types of enemies in a mesmerizing geometrical world and warp out of dangerous situations by simply shaking your device. Do you have what it takes to thwart THWART?

4.) David Fono’s Morro & Jasp: Unscripted [Canada] – A local co-op 2-player conversation simulator starring clown sisters, co-developed with aforementioned clown sisters. Contains roughly 25,000 words of dialogue and 50 endings.

5.) Shadow Play Studio’s Projection [NSW] – A shadow puppet adventure about light manipulation, curiosity and lost art. Solve 2D puzzles by walking on shadows. Control the light source. Explore the culture of shadow puppets from Indonesia, China, Turkey, and more.

SPECIAL EVENT – PLANET SIMULATION SURVEY & GAME

6.) Lisa Evans PhD survey, A World of Choices [Perth] – A world Of Choices is a choose your own adventure game, where you are a planet engineer making a new home for an alien species. They had to leave their old planet before their sun blew up into a red giant, on a hastily constructed bioship filled with plants and animals. With the help of Phaidra, the company computer system, you have to terraform their new planet before their ship malfunctions and they lose everything.

7.) Wesley Lamont’s, Rogue Blitz [Perth] – The world is under attack by a series over very powerful enemies that have defeated the world’s top air forces. The United Nations and governments are turning to a small group of Rogue Captains piloting experimental fighter planes to try to win the day. Players take on the roles or these Rogue Captains and their warplanes being sent on near impossible missions to defeat these nemeses and save the world.

Rogue Blitz is a board game inspired by the scrolling shoot-em-ups arcade games (SHMUPS) popular in the 1980s. Centred around the challenging boss battles the Rogue Captains need to use strategy, skill and coordination to succeed on each mission and overcome the enemy.

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Playup Perth #10

March 10, 2016 by Kate Raynes-Goldie 1 Comment

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Playup Perth #10 (New games added!)

2nd April, 2016
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

[/box] Hi Playupers!

I’m Andrew! I’m filling in for Kate while she is off to the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. ✈ 👾 🎮 🙋🏻

I’m looking forward to hosting the second Playup for this year, which will feature some great new developers and games that are friendly for all ages.

We’ve also confirmed all of the dates for this year, and tickets for the all ages Playup Perth Saturday at Carpe Coffee can now be booked up until July here. Tickets for all of this year’s 18+ Playup Perth After Dark at SK Games will also be up shortly.

If you have any questions regarding the session please feel free to contact me or James on 9431 6700.

See you on the 2nd of April!

Andrew Nowrojee, Production Coordinator at FTI.

We will be playtesting:

1.) Bear Tooth’s Super Salmon Migration is a 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.

2.) Whacky Brew’s Whacky Ball – Whacky Ball is a madcap game of balls for iPhone and iPad that uses your device’s camera to transport you onto the screen and into the game action. Use your hands or head to keep the balls up in the air before shooting for goal.

3.) Blocaganda is a 2-4 player strategy game where you blast your message across all forms of media to influence the public to make you into the mayor!

4.) RAEZ‘s Rogue Blitz is a shoot-em-up board game where the world is in danger from a new planetary threat. Do you have what it takes to pilot a new experimental plane and save the planet?

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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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