Australian Rover Challenge 2024: A Recollection Ahh, another year, another Australian Rover Challenge (ARCh); every March many universities descend upon Adelaide from far and wide to attend and compete in ARCh. This year was no different and once again we were there to celebrate alongside the many teams in attendance. The talent we walked into […]
Roving Rovers at the Museum of Discovery As many of you have heard, here at Mini Mammoth Games we have a Hard Sci-fi lunar management sim under development, Roving Rovers! In December of 2022 we introduced ourselves to Lisa Bailey from the University of South Australia who runs the MOD. Which opened up a great […]
Gamescom 2023 So we’re going (or went) to Gamescom! Two years ago this would have felt like an impossibility, but hey, we’ve come a long way since then. When the email from IGEA came in, asking for interested parties to join the Australian stand, we talked it over internally and decided that not only would […]
Adelaide’s Addition To The “Space Race” As many of you may be aware, we at Mini Mammoth Games have been working on a lunar rover game alongside multiple universities and space companies. Working with a large group of Flinders students we were able to create a basic demo that allowed players to control a lunar […]
Avcon 2023 In a good stroke of luck our application to avcon was accepted and we decided to showcase Roving Rovers. This was an exciting start to the now continuous conventions that will crowd the rest of our calendar. Although we had only a week’s notice we had already had our fair share of conventions […]
Melbourne International Games Week of 2022 This year Mini Mammoth Games was able to go to Melbourne International Games Week for the first time! We managed to make it to all four events and had an excellent time there, being able to interact with both South Australian developers and developers from across the country. It […]
The Trans and Gender Non-Conforming Game Devs of Australia! This might be the end of Trans Awareness Week around the world, however their creativity does not. Here are a wonderful selection of trans and gender non-conforming developers who are making a change in the Australian video game industry. Jemma Hooper – Works under Arachnoid FluxJemma […]
How Having Women Founders Benefit Start-ups We are Mini Mammoth Games, an 8 piece indie game studio based in Adelaide. We develop a wide range of hyper casual games for both the Android and iOS mobile platforms. When creating a startup, the identity of those who are a part of the team might not seem […]