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Growth: Planting the speed

Jack — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 05:10:36 +0000

Continuing the story of how we started the cactus and our growth since then. Jack: The start of Well Placed Cactus. We were 5 at the time Nic, Paul, Tyson and Kai were all about to graduate from Honors in Game Design at Griffith and I was about to graduate with a Bachelors in Music […]

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Growth: Preparing the ground

Jack — Mon, 07 Apr 2014 23:48:51 +0000

Last week we hit a key milestone in our company. We’ve changed our payment structure and said goodbye to the last of our external government funding. From here on out its make or break, and I’m excited. Paul and I talk shop a lot. Daily we knuckle down and crunch numbers, try to predict the […]

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Tutorial: Chaser Lights in Unity

Jack — Mon, 03 Mar 2014 02:50:15 +0000

So the blog is supposed to be a mixture of Game and Biz dev, so far its been pretty heavy on the biz but today I’m going to show you how to make some mobile friendly chaser lights in unity. Rather than run you through all the code I’m going to talk through some of […]

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Review: Ebook – NGUI for Unity

Jack — Sun, 23 Feb 2014 10:34:29 +0000

So I try to stay clear of GUI work. It’s not something I’m naturally talented at and usually there’s no real need for complex code, so Paul tends to handle it. He’s good at it and he’s familiar with the tools so he’s gotten into a real flow. Recently though we’ve been getting more and […]

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Studio Business in Sydney – A Questionnaire

Jack — Wed, 19 Feb 2014 22:12:26 +0000

We got a questionnaire from Dane this week about the business, so with his permission we’ve posted the answers here. Hi Jack, My name is Dane and I am currently studying a diploma in Small Business Management. Having previously studied and worked in 3D Animation my theoretical Business Plan is a start-up animation studio that […]

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10 Tips To Start Contracting

Jack — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 06:56:56 +0000

So you’re looking to start contracting and want to know “How do you get contracts?” It’s a tricky question but here are 5 dos and don’ts that we follow when applying for a new contract. Do – Make an Impression When you make contact the first up cover all the basics, do some research into […]

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Biz Dev 2013 review and plan for 2014

Jack — Fri, 10 Jan 2014 06:45:22 +0000

Time moves on so fast and here we are in 2014. A couple of weeks ago we sat down to think about how 2013 had gone and how we were going to make sure that 2014 goes even better. We grew a lot in 2013, in a team and as individuals. We worked on a […]

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A new prototype

Jack — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 02:27:30 +0000

We made a new game demo called Solar Speed Way. Its a fun little racing game and we’re really happy with it. You can play it free here! Something went odd with Unity3D cross domain policies so it needs to run from the raggyrecording url… We’ll try to get that fixed soon.

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Beer and Pixels / Television is Dead

Jack — Sun, 21 Oct 2012 22:58:07 +0000

It was a busy week last week. Beer and Pixels was in Club 77 for the first time, it was also the new merged ‘Beer and Pixels’ / ‘Bits and Pieces’ format. Then on Thursday I spoke at a new arts space 107 Projects as part of Television is Dead by Bravo Child. Beer and […]

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Welcome to the new site

Jack — Wed, 17 Oct 2012 06:04:42 +0000

Hello and welcome, In preparation for our upcoming release we’ve made the move to word press. I think we’re looking good!

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