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Playup Perth

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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: Global Game Jam Special Edition

February 4, 2016 by Kate Raynes-Goldie Leave a Comment

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Playup Perth Global Game Jam Special Edition

  • 26 February, 2016
  • 7 until late
  • SK Games (167 Fitzgerald St, West Perth)
  • 18+ because we have a BAR with gamer friendly prices!
  • $7 (FTI members)/ $10 (regular)
  • Tickets available here
[/box] Hi Playupers!

global game jamLast weekend, game makers from around the world busted their bums to create amazing new games in just 48 hours as part of Global Game Jam (GGJ). Thanks to the efforts of Let’s Make Games, we had another great Perth contingent, with over 20 brand new local games being created.

Lucky for everyone, Playup Perth has partnered with SK and Let’s Make Games to present an evening of GGJ talks and games so that everyone has a chance to play the very latest Perth games, and meet the folks behind them.

It’s going to be an amazing night.

Oh, and a bit of housekeeping — you can also see the dates and book tickets for all future Playup Perth events here (for Fridays) and here (for Saturdays) up until August.

See you on the 26th!

KateSig

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

We will be playtesting:

Brand new games from Global Game Jam Perth – a full list will be added soon!

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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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Playup Perth #9

January 11, 2016 by Kate Raynes-Goldie 1 Comment

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Playup Perth #9

  • 30 January, 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!

Happy New Year! I hope you all had a wonderful, restful and game-filled holiday (I played wayyyy too much Fallout 4)

I’m excited to announce our first playup for this year, which will feature some games that are not only brand new to Playup Perth but also 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.

See you on the 30th!

KateSig

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

We will be playtesting:

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1.) Spiral Atlas’s Soon – That Dr Fang thinks she’s so special just because she solved global warming and never blew up any of Switzerland. But now you have a time machine and soon, soon they will ALL PAY.

A humourous science fiction visual novel teaching important lessons about teamwork, robots, and the nature of causality. Three endings as well as several bad timelines you have the chance to fix with time travel, all of which are laid out in the included walkthrough.

Available for Mac, Windows and Linux, and in a text based version.

2.) Spiral Atlas’s Northanger Abbey: The Game – Experience Jane Austen’s classic satirical romance in a whole new way. Dance, love, and discover the secrets of the Abbey. Choose one of three genders and five love/friendship interests, and see what lies beyond the pages of the novel.

3.) LittleFort’s Ballad of Crater: The Small Town at the End of the World – a spunky top down adventure game with afro-head bobbing and twin stick shooter elements. It’s set in ‘Crater Town’: A small town nestled in the crater left after the world ended. In the crater things are a little odd. Mutations and zombiefied creatures roam around in a jive pre-21st century limbo. Life is good for the town’s folk, but: Legend tells of a great rain and, as water runs down hill and collects in holes… much like craters, they begin to feel the need to search for a way out.

4.) Jonathon Fitch’s The Will & The World – Interactive Fiction Novel meets Improv. A a multiplayer text based adventure, using readily available technology it is both a game and a tool for storytelling online. More than just one story, it is a method for content creators to build a world and engage their audience in a live environment.

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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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Playup Perth: Support WA Games Edition (with Special Guest Sen. Scott Ludlam!)

September 24, 2015 by Kate Raynes-Goldie 1 Comment

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We have some very exciting news. Perhaps our most exciting news yet!

You may have noticed we have a pretty rad games industry here in WA. You may have also noticed that we’ve created our fabulous little industry with very little government support. Imagine what we could do if we had the same support that local games industries enjoy in other states and overseas. That’s what this evening is about, and we have a special guest to help us.

Greens Senator for WA Scott Ludlam recently secured an inquiry into last year’s cancellation of the Australian Interactive Games Fund and the impact it has had on the Australian games industry. As a great supporter of the games industry both Australia-wide and in WA, we’ve invited Scott to this very special edition of Playup Perth where we’ll be showcasing the best games WA has to offer, including pre-launch previews of some hotly anticipated games that haven’t even been released yet!

We’ll kickoff the night with discussion and presentations from local developers of their experiences and challenges making games in WA with the aim of making things better.

See you there!

KateSig

Kate Raynes-Goldie

Director of Games & Interactive at FTI

Playup Perth: Support WA Games Edition 

  • Saturday 10 October, 2015
  • 6pm until late
  • 167 Fitzgerald Street, Northbridge (SK Games)
  • Cheap drinks!
  • 18+
  • $7 (FTI Members)/$10 (regular)
  • RSVP here

Featured Games

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  • Black Lab Games’ Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander. Play your part in the Second Contact War in a campaign with a branching story and over 60 missions, or create your own scenarios in skirmish mode battles.
  • SK Games’ Catnips is a 2-team cat milking simulator. Described as “nifty” and “horrifying”, deep down catnips is just about love, nipples, survival and catmilk. Not the easiest to describe in one paragraph, keep an eye out and experience it yourself next time the cats are in town. Catnips was a finalist in WA Screen Awards Best Game in 2015.
  • Stirfire Studios’ Freedom Fall is a platform game set in a wickedly dark fairy tale. It is a diabolical down-scrolling game with a whole lot of heart. An odd and creepy heart, to be sure, but a lot of heart nonetheless. In 2013 Freedom Fall was the winner of the first ever WA Screen Award awarded to a game.
  • RAEZ’s COGZ is 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.
  • HiVE Interactive’s 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…GET BLITZ’D!’
  • HiVE Interactive’s Aliensche is a PC game that has you 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!
  • Desura’s World’s Fastest Pizza is a cross between Hotline Miami and the classic Paper Boy, but instead of papers, you deliver pizzas, and instead of Russians, your foes are sharks, murderous rednecks, and hungry, hungry dingoes.
  • Tripleqmark’s Bloc is a 2-player tabletop strategy game where you use your agent to influence the voting public to elect you into power!

Pre-launch previews

  • Offpeak Games’ Valiant is a multiplayer virtual reality game designed for the Oculus Rift, featuring fast paced mounted combat across open medieval terrains. Lead your team to victory in exciting team-based deathmatch style gameplay across a large open map. Gain speed, charge your enemies head on, aim your lance correctly, and send the enemy player flying from their horse. Just don’t let this happen to you, it can seem devastatingly realistic in virtual reality…
  • Jacob Janerka’s Paradigm is a surreal adventure set in post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe in the not so distant future. You play as Paradigm, the result of genetic tinkering to make the perfect child to sell to rich parents who don’t want to give their fortune to their poor excuses of biological children. However, something goes wrong and Paradigm becomes terribly mutated. He gets dumped in the Post-Soviet union town of Krusz. This is where you start your adventure. As seen on Pewdiepie with over 8 million views!
  • ByteSprite’s Bramblelash is a twin-stick shooter with only one stick, no shooting, all co-ordination! BrambleLash is a two-player game about communication, co-operation and fightin’ grime. Leash up with your planty partner and run sludgy enemies through with your thorny tether, while simultaneously working together to avoid their noxious attacks.
  • Stirfire Studio’s D3bug is a platform shooter where your creativity is the true weapon, the player is a warrior in a tribal society, unknowingly part of a simulated computer science experiment. When one of the moderators notices a stream of corruption running through the system, he puts the simulation into debug mode to fix it from the inside, using the enemies powers against them.
  • Desura’s One Night Only  is a randomly generated adventure game in which you live the life of comedian Nelson Jones as he creates and performs his act, travels the world, judges people from afar, and finds true love.

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Playup Perth #8

August 13, 2015 by Kate Raynes-Goldie 1 Comment

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.

KateSig

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

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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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Playup Perth + SK Games: After Dark #5

July 9, 2015 by Bobby Greaney Leave a Comment

Black Lab Games’ ‘Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy’
  • Friday 31 July, 2015
  • 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

 

We’ll be playtesting  

  1. Black Lab Games’ Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy – Take command of Naval Strike Group 7 and lead your fleet to victory in full 3D tactical space combat. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy is a sci-fi strategy saga that will test your skills as both capital assault ship Captain and naval fleet Commander. Play your part in the Second Contact War in a campaign with a branching story and over 60 missions, or create your own scenarios in skirmish mode battles. Star Hammer: The Vanguard Prophecy was released on Steam on June 4.
  2. Steve Wilding’s Time Chasers – Time Chasers is an new, upcoming and exciting game that is based around time and how long you have on the clock. In this exciting quiz game, correct answers see time added and wrong ones see time removed. While you have time in your individual Time Bank, you are still in the game, but once your Time Bank hits 0, you are immediately eliminated from the game. At certain intervals, players will be made offers to leave the game – if they do so, they are gone for good. At the beginning of every new ‘episode’, the jackpot increases higher and higher, making the final challenge prize bigger and bigger. Are you a Time Chaser? Every second counts…
  3. Paul Geronimo and Georgia Blair‘s Robots Game – Fast-paced turn-based robot-punching action! A game about very large mechs and the people who pilot them. The game is in very early stages and the developers are seeking player feedback on our prototype’s grid-based movement and combat mechanics. Come punch a robot, then tell us how you feel about it!
  4. 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?
  5. Wez Lamont’s Dwarven Topaz – Boldurhz has discovered rich veins of the highly sought after Dwarven Topaz in the local mines. Dwarves are rushing into town from all corners of the kingdom to seek their fortune. Unfortunately the topaz’s powers are infecting everyone and things are getting cut-throat.
  6. Brett Cullen’s Scavenge The Wastes – A deck building game set after the world has been blasted to a radioactive, barren shell. Players eke out a survival by scavenging for supplies, building a settlement and stealing from others. It’s survival of the fittest out in the Wastes!
  7. Bobby Greaney’s A.G.E – Ancient Guided Exploration is a virtual reality experience designed to teach history to the tech-savvy masses. Strap on your goggles and get ready to experience ancient Greece like you’ve never seen it before!
  8. Mike Cann’s Mr Nibbles Forever – An endless-runner-platforming-mobile game that features a hamster called Mr Nibbles who dreams of becoming the first hamster in space. You must collect nibbles, avoid spiders and other hazards as you guide him from his cage, through the backyard then hop into his rocket and blast into orbit. Complete challenges and spend nibbles on the wheel to win exciting new outfits.
  9. 1984 Games’ Farter Surfer – A tidal wave is destroying the Earth, and a fart with the power of a rocket engine is the only thing that will save Bazza the bogan surfer from death by wipeout. Prove your farting skill in this 2D comedy, infinite runner (surfer) for mobile, web and PC.
 

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

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