Noble Steed Games

2024 is almost over. We’ve worked hard on incredible projects, hosted a variety of events for the game dev community, and much more. It’s been a busy year! 🐎 To celebrate, we’re taking a look at what we’ve been up to: 🐨KoalAR, an educational AR mobile game made with Symbio Zoo. In KoalAR, kids explore the environment to take photos of AR animals, unlocking quizzes to learn more about local fauna. There were two parts to this project, the mobile game as well as the online portal for teachers, allowing custom content. 🏡Life Ready Games, an educational mobile game for visually impaired children to learn essential life skills. With various minigames, UI consideration and hand drawn illustrations, we worked closely with Vision Australia to make sure this game was user friendly and fun. 🎮Porting! We helped port several incredible indie titles to PS5, Xbox and Nintendo Switch this year, letting more players enjoy them! These include Pat Naoum's The Master's Pupil, Hojo Studio's The Godfeather: A Mafia Pigeon Saga, and Shawn Miller's Omochapon. 🛠️We helped out with several projects to make sure they were in a good state prior to release, ranging from McDonald's Monopoly and Surprize Fries campaigns to indie titles like Vivink Studio's Ailuri. 💜 💃In addition to the above, we hosted several events for the game dev community, contributing what we can to Sydney's vibrant scene! With WIP Nights, Games Exchanges, Waypoint Constellations and more, it's heartening to be able to support our fellow developers! We look forward to more in the new year! 🐎 Happy Holidays everyone! If you're keen to read up on a more detailed run down of our 2024 activities, check out our writeup here: https://lnkd.in/ghK-GimE #gamedev #gamedevelopment #gaming #indiegames

Introducing the lineup of Aussie games we'll be showcasing at the Games Exchange! ✨ 🪐 Which Way Up: Galaxy Games by Turtle Flip Studio 🪐 A cosmic and adorable party platformer with 12 unique and gravity-defying mini-games! 🐺 The Last Werewolf by Unnatural Freaks Studio 🐺 An interactive narrative about a determined lone werewolf who’s on a quest to discover hidden truths about her past and come one step closer to finding where she truly belongs. 🖼️The Master's Pupil by Pat Naoum🖼️ A hand-painted puzzle game set inside Claude Monet’s eyeball. Solve puzzles and wander your way across the iris, and through the life, of Impressionist painter Claude Monet. 🐦Pie in the Sky by Monster Shop Games🐦 An old school action arcade game, where you play as a Magpie and cause chaos! 🐈Catto's Post Office by In Shambles Studio 🐈 Deliver mail as Catto, the town's dedicated Postcat, while meeting unique friends in a vibrant cozy town filled with kitty residents. 🥕Letters to Arralla by Little Pink Clouds 🥕 Play as a Turnip with a big juicy bum delivering mail to a cast of colourful characters on an Australian island. Solving puzzles, help the residents, and explore sun-soaked beaches. ❤️🔥Amarantus by UB4Q❤️🔥 A visual novel about a roadtrip across the country. Join Arik and confront a tyrant, be a matchmaker, and much more. The revolution will be messy—but the relationships will be messier. 🪲Isopod by Sbug Games🪲 Play as tiny pill-bug in a big world! Roll, zip, and slam your way through the gorgeous landscapes of the Australian bush, unite your fellow bugs, and fight back the greedy Fire Ant Conglomerate! We're excited to be bringing so many cool Aussie games over to the Philippines, and ecstatic to share that we will be featuring them in Sydney alongside the Filipino games too! Thank you MSI Australia and New Zealand and Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA) for allowing us to support a total of 16 indie games from across Australia and the Philippines 🥰 For tickets and more details on all the games, check out this landing page: https://lnkd.in/gBp6SQiC #gamedev #indiegames #gaming #gamesindustry #sydney #events

Here are the 8 Filipino Games we'll be showcasing at our Games Exchange! 🥳 We've partnered with MEE Games and Indie Games Group Philippines to bring these incredible games to Sydney, and send over some Aussie games to showcase on their end 🥰 Through this, we hope to facilitate the exchange of cultures through games as an artistic medium, strengthening relations between Australian and international developers. Introducing our wonderful lineup of Filipino indies: 🍩 High Times by Yangyang Mobile🍩 Manage a cute donut cafe, listen to customers' stories, and help them by serving special donuts that affect their emotions. 🍹Potion Punch Game by Monstronauts 🍹 A multiplayer shopkeeping time management game. Cook, mix, dash, and serve in this wholesome online multiplayer cooking battle arena. 🤖Fall Up by Unicellular Games 🤖 A hopping adventure through a world of mechanical wonders! Traverse it with various jumps and moves, meet squishy creatures and clumsy robots, and reveal the world's secrets. 🥊Keyboard War RPG by Alex E Valdez🥊 A typing combat RPG, exploring lands and beating up enemies by typing up prompts, achieving typing combos, and interacting with the world with your keyboard. ⚔️Fallen Tear: The Ascension by The CMD Studios ⚔️ A combat and exploration driven 2D animated metroidvania set in a universe of fantastical beasts, gods and more. 🗡️Relic Abyss by Reverse Loop🗡️ An action survival roguelite RPG where the world is ending! Oozing out of the Abyss crater are deformed creatures you must fight with a variety of powerful relics. 🍽️Strange Seed by Chronicle Games 🍽️ Play as a lowly blob with the ability to evolve any DNA you eat. Upgrade parts to fight, run, fly and overcome your environment! ✨Until Then by Polychroma Games✨ A narrative adventure and race to unravel mysteries following Mark, when a fateful meeting sets off a chain reaction, upending his life. Phew! A long list! If you'd like to play test them, drop by our showcase on the 6th of December, over at Redfern Community Center. For full details and tickets, check out our landing page: https://lnkd.in/gBp6SQiC #screenaustralia #gamesexchange #gamedevelopment #indiegamedevelopment #gaming #gamesindustry

A little glimpse into Waypoint Constellations 2024, organised by Waypoint Events, Serenade Games and ourselves! 💜 Thank you to all the incredible speakers, devs and people who came by and made this an incredible celebration of the Sydney game development community!

Extra Photos of the talks and crowd from Waypoint Constellations 2024 ✨ An evening that shone a light on Sydney’s most groundbreaking and culturally impactful games and creators. Curated and organised by Waypoint Events , Serenade &  Noble Steed Games ❤️ 📸: Liezl & Julian Dalla-Palma Thank you to Workit Spaces (Miscreants) for hosting us and assisting graciously with putting on the event ❤️ #waypoint #Sydney #Constellations2024 #gamedev #gamesindustry

🥳The Games Exchange is being funded! 🥳 Noble Steed’s Games Exchange is being supported by Screen Australia’s Games Festivals and Events Fund! We are incredibly grateful to receive Screen Australia’s support, and look forward to helping even more gamedevs through this funding opportunity. The Games Exchange is a series of events where we bring games from our neighbours to Australia, and vice versa! In collaboration with developers from other regions or sister industries, we showcase international indie games locally for playtesting and feedback. In exchange, we send off a curated list of Australian games to showcase on their end. Back in May 2024, we collaborated with OutCrowd Malaysia and several other developers from Malaysia to showcase Australian and Malaysian games from both regions. Now, we’re excited to partner with more regions and sister industries with the Fund’s support. Through this, we hope to facilitate the exchange of cultures through games as an artistic medium, strengthening relations between Australian and international developers. All whilst promoting the creativity and playfulness of games made in Australia internationally. In addition, we’d like to extend our thanks to Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA), for providing upcoming Games Exchange venues, MSI Australia for supplying equipment, and all the game developers that will be involved in the future! Our next Games Exchange will be in collaboration with game developers from the Philippines on 6-7th December. Specifically, our friends from Indie Games Group Philippines and MEE Games ! For full event details and tickets, check out our landing page here: https://lnkd.in/gBp6SQiC For our full press release, check out this article: https://lnkd.in/gAdYFeZF #screenaustralia #gamesexchange #gamedevelopment #indiegamedevelopment #gaming #gamesindustry

We had a blast at PAX Australia for #survivorgamejam this year 🔥 Joined by our buds Chaos Theory Games, Turtle Flip Studio and Pat! With under an hour to make their games in front of a live audience, plenty of hijinks, and insightful QnAs about game development processes, it was a grand time! It's a privilege to be a part of such a vibrant community, we look forward to doing so much more in the future. Thank you everyone for coming by! If you'd like to read about what else we got up to over the "games fortnight", check out our latest blog about it here: https://lnkd.in/giNusiS5 #paxaus #gamedevelopment #gamejam

Upcoming SXSW Sydney panel today! Introducing, Icons of Impact: Celebrating Games that made a Difference 🌱 This panel will explore iconic games that have not only entertained but also made the world a better place. Reuben Moorhouse will be one of the speakers, discussing games they created or admire, explaining how they broke barriers, raised awareness, or sparked change. Hosted by Games for Change Asia-Pacific, this discussion will cover the design philosophies, challenges, and the impact of popular games and hidden gems. Where: UTS Building 1 Balcony When: 17th Oct, 4:30PM - 5:00 PM See you soon! ✨ #gamedevelopment #sxsw #sxswsydney #sxsw2024 #gaming #seriousgames #gamesindustry

It's today! Come catch Reuben Moorhouse, Dom De Re and Nick Cellini at SXSW Sydney ✨ Making games is a creative and technical effort, that’s why we’re bringing together several experienced game developers from the industry to share their ins and outs! In this panel, we’ll deep dive into some popular games and their mechanics, discussing why they work and the process behind them, giving gamers an insightful look into what goes into making great games. Where: ICC Sydney, Room C2.2 When: 4:45PM - 5:45PM

Constellations is happening today! ✨ A celebration of Sydney's games and its developers, we've been hard at work with Waypoint and Serenade to organise a night of talks, games, music and more 🥰 See you this evening at 5pm! #gamedevelopment #gamesindustry #indiegames #indiegamedev #events