Past Events

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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• 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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