With all the discussions around hyper-violent games like the Call of Duty and Bioshock games that are out there, it’s often easy to forget there are successful developers out there making games without a drop of blood. That’s precisely what Bubble Gum Interactive does. Originally a children’s game publisher, the…
Read MorePath of Exile has really taken the PC game community by storm, and it’s still only in Beta. The work of New Zealand creatives at Grinding Gear Games have achieved positive notority from adopting a completely free-to-play model that is so fair that players want to buy the microtransactions on…
Read MoreMany of us do not ponder about the capabilities of our word processors and spreadsheets programs. If the programs do the simple tasks that we ask of them, why bother? This is certainly the attitude that I usually have.Little do we realise that those programs are amazingly powerful and most…
Read MoreGames can be about more than simple entertainment. There is a growing group of developers and creative people who are interested in using the massive audience that the games industry now has to enact positive change and challenge players on an intellectual level, rather than provide passive fun. These games…
Read MoreBig Paw Games is not a development company that you would have heard of before. It’s a small team of Sydneysiders straight out of school that, rather that look for work in a challenging development community, have decided to strike out on their own. It’s fascinating to gain the insights…
Read MoreBy any standards of conventional games industry business wisdom, CD Projekt Red has successfully bucked the trend. This is a AAA-game development company that has been PC-first. It has avoided DRM like the plague, and has resisted certain DLC trends. It didn’t even bother throwing in a multiplayer mode in…
Read MoreIt’s a big year for Cricket. The great Ashes conflict between Australia and England happens this year, in almost back-to-back timeslots – first England and then Australia a few short months later. This won’t mean much to a lot of readers of Digitally Downloaded, but Cricket is a growing sport…
Read MoreAustralian developers who are looking at implementing free-to-play games have a new fund to benefit from. Tapjoy, a company that specialises in implementing in-app purchasing to free-to-play titles has set up a fund whereby it will provide Aussie developers with additional financing to help that dream game become a reality.…
Read MoreJoshua Qualtieri Steel Wool Games is a startup developer that is worth a lot of attention. The team of five that are behind the company – Andrew Dayton, Jason Topolski, Jonathan Hoffman, Joshua Qualtieri and Sequoia Blankenship, come from a film background; specifically a very well-regarded animation house. Just the…
Read MoreLast year we saw a bit of a unfortunate circumstance in the Australian games industry. Paul Turbett, the man behind Black Lab Games and the very enjoyable Star Hammer Tactics, was essentially driven out of the industry after his game flopped on the Apple iOS app store. It would seem…
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