Hello all,

My name is Laurent, i'm working for a casual game studio in Canada called Frima and we've just launch a beta test for a mobile game exclusively in Australia.

The game is called Draw,Cowboy! It's a classic western Shoot'em up with a twist ... you need to draw to draw! Curious ? look it up it's free on the Australian Google Play http://goo.gl/p7AMF

We are really eager to get some feedback for the aussie gaming community !
You can leave your comments here or on out facebook page http://goo.gl/hczaf

Thank you very much for your help,

Laurent
Community Manager

Posted with permission from cherocha, but still pending approval from Geormie "3/10" JoJo

Chero is this true?

Downloading now.

He was courteous enough to ask, so why not?

When flicking through the levels, you should make it so I don't have to quite scroll so much. I almost have to push my finger across from one side of the screen to the other just to see the next option. I had trouble selecting the level. I had to tap around on it 4 or 5 times before something happened. The game started off smooth but then I started getting framerate issues. I had no idea what I was doing and had to guess I was supposed to draw along the blue lines. The framerate dropped so low that drawing things like circles was impossible and I was shot dead. I like the idea of the game and the visuals are beautiful, just needs some optimization and instructions for new players.

Playing on a Samsung Galaxy S3.

Thank you very much for your feedback and for letting us reach you !

New version 1.16 has just been released and should be up and running in about an hour and a half.

- Fixed navigation issues
- Changed the instruction to be clearer

Thanks to Tyoson for the feedback.

I wish I knew how to break into the game industry as a writter. I can't program, I have no artistic talent... But I swear I could do voice acting or write story like a pro. I always SEE "writer: Bob Bobbinson", but when positions are advertised in the game industry, it's always: "Programmer. Graphics artist..."...

how did i know u were not of the artist temperament mr squid ;p

oh and if the joojoomobile reviews ur game and gives it 3/10 u get a GA Tshirt

Because I'm full of banality and lack any marketable skills. That's why I work for... The large telecommunications company I work for... *Cough*

I'm a role player, so I'm good at being creative and dressing up as the naughty nurse, but don't ask me to paint a naughty nurse wrestling with her humanity now that she has become a Vampire. You'll get a stick figure with a **** and a nurse hat.

my friend is an exelent artist now we need some programmers and we could make a game

What kinda game we making? I'll start plotting out something right now. Thanks to KickStarter it doesn't have to be a FPS about a solider behind enemy lines.

im not sure but it has to have a really good story im not too keen on fantisy

Real world drama? Warhammer style future combat? Political thriller? Military non-FPS game?... Maybe a sub game? Remember how there were old sub games where you used to have to give commands to each station like a real sub commander, because there aren't windows you can just look out of? Maybe one of those?

Point and click crime thriller? Sci-fi game? Maybe a game like the sub game, but for a space ship? Star Trek style where the commander gives orders to the different parts of the ships? "Shields up. Scan the planet surface and report. Weapons fire at will"?

Lovecraftian modern horror? Lovecraftian retro horror? I always loved lovecraft, but I HATED the 30's style setting. There's something so helpless about that period of time that makes any horror seem questionable... I'm always asking myself: "Is this monster unstoppable, or is it just that you can't expect to kill anything with that damned handgun?"

maby something about a young virgin in his quest to get the tail and gain mass

but its set in a world were there is a world wide game or something that people play and im i mean the main dude is an aspering player this is were the actual playing will take place then outside the game is were the story happens makes friends nemisises and nullifys noobs gains mass and maby gets tail

Write a book. If it gets published you'd have a decent chance writing plots for games.

write a book that screems make me into a game

i have your title 50 shades of 360 no scope headshot

Game any good?

I know there is a small market for this... Like, Tom Clancy has some games, but I don't know if he writes the games! But really, if I go home and google the name of the writers in good games, you think I'm going to find any published books by them too?

I'm not suggesting I won't, I'm just saying: "Do you think that's really how it's done? Cos I can write a book... What'cha want a book about? Puppies??"

If you had any type of fiction published at all you could probably get a job writing plots for games.

Look at games that rely on plot a fair bit (single player console games especially) and you'll find the writers have experience in creative writing, one way or another. Planetside 2 got some famous sci-fi writer to do stuff... but I haven't seen anything plot intensive so not sure what the deal is. Also, lotro had pros coming up with plots and writing the dialogue.. although some of the quest lines and dialogue were really bad... love stories featuring elves.. **** me that was bad.

Far Cry 3 writer Jeffrey Yohalem: "graduating cum laude from Yale University with a degree in English Literature" (from the wiki page on him).

Games that don't rely on plot much probably just get the code monkeys to come up with stuff.

If you think you've got something, offer it to a studio and see what they say. Getting the first one off the ground will always be the hardest.

I am 3/10 and you have my permission.

Well, that's okay, but if you google Jeffrey Yohalem, can you tell me what fiction books he's written? It says he filmed and directed a documentary called Human Eaters, and he was an intern on The Daily Show... But all his awards and recognition come from the video games he's written for. Assassin's Creed, of all things.

I remember that one of the best written games I ever played was the Legacy Of Kain series... It was written by an... Amy someone? Amy Hennig!! Just used Wiki... She's not written any books either. She started straight into the gaming industry.

I dunno, man. I'm willing to write a book to get into that job, but I'm not seeing a lot of evidence that there's precident.

It's spelled asperger's.

No problem. I just updated and played again. Scored around 37 thousand points this time. The frame rate issues seem to have dissappeared. I may have just needed to restart my phone. The most difficult thing to draw is definitely the circle. I'm shot once every single time I'm faced with a circle enemy haha, good fun though!

So is hitman...oh wait thats the score it was given

You sound upset because you are only making $250 pweek on the dole and can not buy anything.

I wish $250...thems the big bucks. im only on $226 a week. :/

You need to get your land lord to sign the rent allowance form. You can get like an extra $40 per week.

get a job

V-man, any luck getting your ***** wet?

I'm the landlord but but dont worry i get medical expense benefits. a whole $6 per fortnight **** yea! thats one adult movie on foxtel a fortnight...well it was till foxtel jacked the price up. ****. Now what will I sit and critic all day?

It's either that or do exceptionally well at uni with a relevant degree. or maybe they just take chances on any random **** who thinks it's easy to come up with stories.. Yeah I'm positive that happens a lot.

Not my place to say why, but he's talked about his health issues in multiple threads.

What's ridiculous is how little people get on benefits. I heard somewhere that the newstart rate basically hasn't changed in ten years (confirm?), while the cost of living has grown to the point where people are barely subsisting on a measly $500 a fortnight. Similar story for disability payments. It's a bad joke.

It's because we don't want to give you bastards our hard earned money.

i know something needs to be done about it they just lowered the amount some single parents get aswell they are outraged i think the gov should tax big business way more and give it to the people

for someone who only knows how to troll, you're pretty **** at it. Can't imagine you've ever hard earned anything.

Oi, this is about Draw cowboy you lot. Cut it out!

You've been on the dole before. You probably are now, can't imagine it's easy to score a full time security gig in Cairns.

I've been lucky enough to have family help me out a couple of times when I was on the dole, but without them there's no **** way I would have been able to afford regular housing and been able to eat properly etc, which is why so many people are stuck in **** government housing in **** suburbs, basically creating little suburban ghettos. I'm only working an average of 25 - 30 hours a week at the moment and I still earn well over double what I was getting on newstart, which in itself is a job in that you have to spend a good 20 hours a week **** around with job network providers, appointments, and actual job searching.

I could give you a long winded speech about how Centrelink lazy **** haven't reviewed my disability case properly so I miss out on it by the slightest of margins but it makes me rage and I want to go to sleep.

The dole payments have gone up by about $13 since I was last on it in 99ish. age pensions up about 100ish over the same period roughly. Roughly everytime your electricity bill goes up by $20 a month at least your pension goes up $2. Rate of growth doesnt match with rate of increases on pension which is the bigger **** of the 2. the dole doesn't go up often because its not meant for living on.

As for getting a Job, get ****.

At $31 phr I earn more than the dole if I only get 1 shift per week.

I have only actually ever had 1 hard job before. So yeah, I don't hard earn ****.

But it's still harder earnt than some **** who only goes to centrelink every 2 weeks on the bus.

Haha, you guys sure mess around a lot !

I'm really glad you're testing our game Tyoson.

Anyone else has feedback for us ?

Thanks in advance !

Yeah sorry, posts in General generally don't stay on topic for long. Maybe some of the kents who have smartphones will try it out, I wield an ancient nokia.


But that's my point exactly, the rate for newstart is so disproportionately low that people who need it end up living well below the poverty line.

A lot of people don't have much choice in their circumstances. Sure you get heaps of bludgers, but you also get people who genuinely want to work. Then you have people like toots who can't work for health reasons, single parents, pensioners - but they all get **** in the **** when it comes to benefits. I wouldn't mind paying a little more tax if it was going to ensure fairer benefits, but the fact remains that we wouldn't have to if big business was getting taxed what it should be.

Hahaha, yeah most threads swing off topic, it's just the way things are in the general section.

I enjoy testing games. I try to be in most betas as well, if I can play a game for free and help make the game better, then why not

I'd test it but i got iphone 3 still on telstra staff plan lol. but yeah it doesnt seem to run **** it wont update past 4.2 or something and you need 4.3 for most apps. I tried to upgrade it but my id expired like 2 weeks before i went so no photo id no phone :/

same its the best

Hmmm, charming.

Amy doesn't seem to have any exceptional university training at all, according to the wiki page. What I'm suggesting is maybe your idea isn't the key, and there's another process that needs to be followed aside from: "Write a book and hope that some person in the industry reads it and thinks you're awesome and calls you". It seems like there's a great deal of "Who you know", seeing as the position of writer isn't one that's generally advertised. Maybe the key is to break into the industry through another means and than show an apptitude once on the inside.

sure. Start with an entry level job and see how it goes. The point is no one anywhere is going to give you a job that requires a certain skill set unless you show you have those skills, one way or another.

eg Let's say I go to Joaby and say "I think it's easy to come up with 3000 words on a game or gaming subject, keep it interesting and readable and somehow as good as or better than what already gets thrown at you on a daily basis." He'd probably say something like "that's nice" or "you're cute - send pics" or "then stfu and do it dum ****."

Alternatively I could actually write said article and submit it and see what happens. I'm sure that, if it was good enough or maybe close to good enough, I'd get a response.

The point is, if I was so sure I could do it, I'd just do it.