This news item is totally about Queensland. Sure, they humiliated us in the first State of Origin match for this year, but the support for Sumea from Brisbane game developers has been extremely overwhelming, so thank you Brisbane!!
You might have noticed the new Pandemic logo around the site (you may have to refresh or clear your cache) - well, Pandemic Studios is the latest of local developers to join in the support for Sumea Launchpad! Make sure you all buy a dozen copies of Destroy All Humans! in appreciation :)
I'd also like to thank Krome Studios for two years of their fantastic support on Sumea Launchpad!
Oh, I should also mention that Sumea is proud to be host for the IGDA Brisbane Student Chapter. All you brisbane students (yes, Qantm, QUT, and students from any other place!!) should definately sign up to the IGDA Brisbane Student Chapter mailing list and frequent Sumea's IGDA Student Chapter page and forum for the latest happenings in student related game development in QLD!! If you have any questions about the chapter, you can fire off a message in the forum
Yay for Brisbane!
I think its very important that we create a strong community between us all for this industry to grow and sustain. Good on ya Pandemic peoples!
Thanks to sponsorship, I should be able to upgrade Sumea's hosting plan from 500mbs of webspace to 2.5 gigs!! It's amazing how fast the site has outgrown it's alloted webspace, from a 50mb hosting plan, to 100mbs, and then 500mbs. Maybe we'll be able provide more services, like hosting local independant game dev demos and videos.
That's great news Souri! Keep up the awesome work.