Past Events

• Friday 26 September, 2014
• 6pm til late
• SK Games, 167 Fitzgerald St, Northbridge
• $7 (FTI members)/ $10 (regular)
• Cheap drinks all night! (Yes, this event is 18+)
• Don’t forget to RSVP!

Playup Perth is teaming up with local game rockstars, SK Games, to bring you a super duper evening of amazing new and local games, good friends, and wallet friendly drinks. Did we mention there will be two Oculus Rifts for you to play with?

Come meet the developers, play their games and help them make them even better!

We will be playtesting

1.) Offpeak Games’ “Valiant” (Oculus Rift!)  – 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…

2.) Daragh Wickham’s “Defender of the Wood” (iOS)  – The realm is in peril! Nasty little Goblin-Things™ have been spotted massing in the forest. The King has assembled his best archers for training to prepare for the onslaught! Test your skill! Find out what it takes to impress Lord Astirian and become… a Defender of the Wood! One person called it “a tour de force in finger pressing.”

3.) Eeshwar Rajagopalan’s “Into the Pie” (tabletop) – a fun card drafting game about making pies for a neighbourhood bake sale. Four to six players each receive a random recipe from the neighbourhood association and access to the community garden. As always, the association’s bureaucracy gets in the way, to promote community spirit, and you must share your harvest with your neighbours. The first player to make $25 wins!

SK Games will also be showing off their new game, Astral.

And stay tuned, as we may have a few more surprise game announcements…

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

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• Saturday 30 August, 2014
• 1pm-3pm
• State Library of Western Australia (25 Francis Street, Perth)
• $10 entry/$7 FTI members (RSVP)

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.

Great news, this event is open to everyone 13 and over!

We will be playtesting

1.) Square Heroes is a fast paced comic arena shooter featuring competitive online-multiplayer modes. Up to 4 players can battle it out locally or join online matches together. Game modes include Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Capture the Gnome. Humanity is again relying on the Square Avengers to survive a vicious alien onslaught. Unfortunately for humanity, our Avengers are busy trying to win this year’s Best and Squarest tournament. Hone your skills by taking on the encroaching alien horde, or skip straight to the main event and challenge your friends to one of the hilarious and frantic online skirmish modes. Square Heroes is due for release on PC this October with other desktop and console platforms to follow.

2.) James Paddock’s ‘The Adventures of Square’: a new interactive game by James Paddock where you play as Square, a character in a mission to find the brilliant Doctor Octagon and rescue him from the clutches of the Circle of Evil, a mysterious cult hellbent on the domination of Shape Land. Square will square off against terrible monsters and impossible traps in order to prove that he’s no square when it comes to justice. Guide him to the center of the Circle’s domain, unravel their malicious plot, and win the day fair and square.

Why are we now charging for tickets?

We wanted to keep this event free and accessible to all while at the same time making it a useful resource for developers to test their games. As a free event, we found that we would get a lot of people signing up to come, but then not showing, which makes it very difficult for us to properly plan events and match the right number of attendees to the right number of games. This issue has become even more pressing now that the event has become quite popular. So, to make sure we can offer a fun and useful event, we’ve instituted a small fee for each event.

If, for whatever reason, you need a free ticket, please email us (kate at fti.asn.au) and we will get you a complimentary ticket, no questions asked.

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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• 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 7 June, 2014
• 1pm-3pm
• State Library of Western Australia (25 Francis Street, Perth)
• Free! (RSVP required)

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.) “Underwater Story” a new interactive narrative video game by Wendy White. If you’ve ever wanted to clash wits with a mad scientist, high-five a temporal anomaly or romance Cthulhu, you’ve come to the right place. Earn the trust of the inhabitants of an ancient oceanic metropolis in Underwater Story. The player must team up with a citizen of their choice, and learn their secrets and backstory in order to piece together the mysteries of the city. Each citizen has their own tale, and each tale has multiple endings based on the actions the player takes. Explore, befriend, and improvise.

2.) “Bok” a new physical sport by Claude Woodward, which use an innovative racquet design. It turns both hands (and feet) into ‘sprung’ fists to manipulate and propel balls and shuttlecocks. Learn ‘The 5 Ways of Bok’. Play solo or with friends. Vanquish opponents in ‘Battle Bok’ tournaments or work out with ‘Astro Bok’ or ‘Biff Bok’. So many possibilities, so much fun!

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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