Freeplay Arcade & Expo

Taking place in the Experimedia room of the State Library, the Freeplay Arcade and Expo is completely FREE.

Arcade Projects

Bubble – Chris Lewis

Chris Lewis is currently a first year student at Swinburne University. He uses his spare time to create games in C++ and maintain his website / blog, Coding Kick. His most recent project, Bubble, explores ideas of social interaction with the world around us.

Pollinator – Tim Randall

Pollinator is a simple touch-based game for iPhone, iPad and Android. Simply draw a path for your bee to follow from the hive to the flowers and back again. Touch dragonflies to squish them and spit out any bees that they’ve captured.

Puzzle Treasure – Play-Bit Entertainment

Puzzle Treasure is a casual puzzle game designed for social networks like Facebook. Players strive to become a master treasure-hunter and solve a huge variety of tricky puzzles in order to earn and uncover rare artifacts, idols and treasures! Puzzle Treasure is due for release in late 2011.

Winnitron Au – Winnitron AU Team

The Winnitron AU is an arcade cabinet for independent video games.  It’s goal is to inspire game developers to become an active part of the independent video game community.  Housed permanently at the Mana Bar Melbourne, the Australian variant of the Winnitron 1000 offers a unique entry point for local game developers to get involved.

Once Upon a Spacetime – Digitalis

Once upon a spacetime is a small, simple, 2.5D game about the search for love for in an uncaring universe. It features a deep space/deep ocean environment, procedurally composed music, and tiny dancers. It has no score, health, text, dialogue, time limits, enemies or punishments, but we’ve aimed to give it a soul.  The player controls a couple in love, dancing through a space environment. It’s more an interactive artwork than a game.

Critical Mass – Manic Game Studios

Manic Game Studios is an Australian independant game developer consisting of two members, James Barrie and Matthew Edmondson. Their first release is Critical Mass a 3D Action Puzzle game bringing traditional match 3 into the world of 3D. Critical Mass combines fast addictive gameplay with strategy to create a new and innovative gameplay experience.

Whisperous – Swing Interactive

Whisperous is a 2.5D platformer for PC/Mac intended for X-box 360. Players can interact with their environment, attracting and repelling various objects and particles to transverse, explore and re-energise the environment with light. Swing Interactive was founded by 13 talented students of QANTM College Melbourne and an external audio contractor.

Slingshot Justice – Anomalous Interactive

Slingshot Justice tells a heart-wrenching tale of warfare in the schoolyard. As a fifth grade vigilante, you have taken up action to protect the lemonade stands of the youth from the local bullies. With your trusty slingshot in hand, you’ll defend innocence from brutality, or get a wedgie trying.

Under our Green Skies / Gangsta Snap – Ahasai Designs

Ahasai Designs specialises in mobile development primarily producing innovative high quality titles within the Cyber-Punk genre. Under our Green Skies is a breathtaking, immersive family friendly experience following the classic father rescues daughter in a hostile futuristic word. Gansgsta Snap is a totally insane, crazy and weird resurrection ofthe classic Snap card game taking on gangs around the world.

Battle Group – Bane Games

Battle Group puts you in command of modern day fighting ships in a new take on action orientated naval warfare. Unlock patrol boats, battleships and aircraft carriers as you progress through the story driven campaign.
Battle Group is being developed by Bane Games a small independent developer based in Brisbane.

Antichamber – Alexander Bruce

Antichamber is a game about discovery, set inside a vibrant, minimal, Escher-like world, where geometry and space follow unfamiliar rules, and obstacles are a matter of perception. Journey through the depths of a non-Euclidean labyrinth, as you create, destroy and manipulate matter, and uncover new ways to overcome your surroundings in this mind-bending psychological exploration game.

Mining For Profits! – Agents of Chaos

Have you ever wondered what would happen if you gave email scammers your money and they turned out to be liegitimate? Come by to see our theoretical take on such a situation – a mining operation that’s remote controlled by software developed by out-of-work game developers.

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Expo Exhibitors

Monash University

The Faculty of Information Technology Monash University is a proud supporter of Freeplay. The Faculty of Information Technology provides outstanding teaching and research across six campuses. By integrating its computing and information technology disciplines, the Faculty provides enormous breadth and depth of teaching and research to the campuses, strategic alliances, centres and partnerships that form the Monash global network.

andrew.owen@infotech.monash.edu.au | 03 9903 1441 | www.it.monash.edu

RMIT University

RMIT offers two interlinked games degrees: Bachelor of Design (Games) and Bachelor of IT (Games Graphics Programming)

The Bachelor of Design (Games) is a world-class creative degree that encompasses the width and breadth of contemporary games design. Students can expect to develop digital art, interaction design, game studies and analysis skills. The degree’s collaborative studio environment is enriched by industry-experienced staff and state of the art technology.

Adam.Nash@rmit.edu.au | 03 9925 2598 | www.games.rmit.edu.au

La Trobe University

Games Technology at La Trobe combines a theoretical basis with practical training in games design and development for PCs and consoles. Graduates possess exceptionally-developed programming skills, sound theoretical basis in game design and specialist knowledge and skills in areas including graphics, artificial intelligence, software development and operating systems in addition to the physics and mathematics necessary for producing increasingly realistic computer games

sci.tech@latrobe.edu.au | 03 9479 2220 | www.latrobe.edu.au

Deakin University

The School of Information Technology at Deakin University offers a range of teaching programmes in Information Technology covering a broad spectrum from telecommunications, through mathematics, to the information technology end of the spectrum which covers IT security, computer science and software development, games design and development, multimedia technology, network computing, and IT services.

sci-tech@deakin.edu.au | 03 9244 6699 | http://www.deakin.edu.au