Thomas Was Alone release announced
Posted: October 31, 2011 Filed under: Alumni | Tags: Mike Bithell, Newport Alumni, newport computer games design, Newport Graduate, Thomas Was Alone, Unity Leave a comment
After a successfully showing off Thomas Was Alone at GameCity, Mike Bithell has announced that his debut solo title will be released in April 2012. The full announcement can be found on the Official Thomas Was Alone Website.
If you want to play the prototype (built in 24 hours using flash) you can find it on Kongregate.
Mike is also starting to cause quite a stir amongst the games press, with articles in… Final Boss Fight, IndieGames.com, Topless Robot & Destructoid to name a few.
With The Dust trailer released
Posted: October 31, 2011 Filed under: Alumni | Tags: Henry Hoffman, Kate Killick, Mush, Mush Game, Newport Alumni, newport computer games design, Newport Graduate, Ones to Watch, With The Dust Leave a comment
Henry Hoffman and Kate Killick have release a trailer for their current project, With The Dust. We’ll be posting more information as and when we get it.
After showing With The Dust at GameCity IndieGames.com and Indie Game Magazine have written an articles about it.
Official With The Dust Website
Newport Students and Graduates will be at GameCity
Posted: October 11, 2011 Filed under: Alumni, Events, Student Successes | Tags: COAST, GameCity, GameCity 6, Newport Alumni, newport computer games design, Newport Graduate, Pipe Dream, Q.U.B.E., QUBE, Student Project, Thread Bear, With The Dust Leave a commentOnce again students and graduates from the Computer Games Design course will be attending GameCity in Nottingham from 25th to 29th October.
This year we will be showcasing some of our graduate projects in the Lounge, all day on Thursday 27th October. There will be a variety of games, made by our students and graduates for everyone to try out.
The games on show include, With The Dust, Thread Bear, Pipe Dream, QUBE, COAST and Mundungo.
We had a great time at GameCity 5 and this year is looking like it will be another great one with loads of interesting events already in the GameCity Schedule.
Two Newport Games are on the short list for a Best of Welsh Design Award
Posted: October 5, 2011 Filed under: Alumni, Awards, Student Successes | Tags: Andre Silva, Angry Mango, Award Winner, BAFTA Cymru, Best of Welsh Design Award, Cardiff Design Festival, Henry Hoffman, Jenny Peers, Kate Killick, Mush, Mush Game, Newport Alumni, newport computer games design, Newport Graduate, Ones to Watch, Thread Bear, UDK, Wales Indie, Windows Phone 7 Leave a commentWe are very pleased to announce that two Newport games have made it onto the short list for the Graduate Interactive Award…
Thread Bear by Jenny Peers and Andre Silva.
Thread Bear is a cute 3D adventure game set in a squishy fabric world. Help Bobby the panda travel through each level and sew up the rips that are affecting the balance of this fragile fabric world.
For more info and to Vote for Thread Bear.
Mush by Henry Hoffman, Kate Killick (from Computer Games Design), Ahmed Zaman, Matt Dennis, Greg O’Brian (from Games Development & AI).
Mush is an emotional puzzle platform game for the Windows Phone 7, giving you control over how your character feels. Directly change emotions through drawing smiles and sad faces, rotating the world and shaking the phone. Experience happiness, sadness, confusion and anger as you explore the unique emotional themed worlds with quirky abilities defined by the characters mood.
For more info and to Vote for Mush.
The Best of Welsh Design Awards are part of the Cardiff Design Festival. The winners will be announced on Friday the 14th of October.
