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Interview by Aidan B.

One of our favourite local developers was at the EB Games 2013 expo in a big way. Nnooo, having now picked up the publisher's role for two locally developed games on console, had three games to show off at the show.

Not a bad effort for a tiny team of three.

Aidan Broadbent stole Nnooo's Creative Director, Nic Watt, away from his stand for a few moments to have a chat about how he found this year's show, as well as some of the challenges and opportunities that he sees in the local industry.

Preview by Matt S. 

Three months ago, if you had have told me that my most anticipated PlayStation 4 game would be a indie title from a tiny Australian development team, I would have laughed at you.

And yet, in the absence of a concrete announcement that Kadokawa Games' Natural Doctrine would be localised, and the lack of information regarding Sony's E3 darling (as far as I'm concerned), The Order 1886, I found myself drawn like a moth to a really bright friggin' light when I saw Nnooo's Blast 'Em Bunnies on show at the Sony EB Games Expo 2013 booth.

Nic Watt (left)

Twitter has proven to be a great resource; both for finding news and for finding like-minded people. For Australian independent developer, Nnooo, Twitter also found it its first business opportunity as a publisher.

Phil Gaskell

To hear the small and independent publishers talk about the Wii U, it does not matter that the console has only managed to shift a couple hundred thousand units in the last quarter; it’s still a big opportunity.

In fact, it works to their benefit that the likes of EA and Ubisoft are scaling back their interest in the platform.

Being a startup or independent developer is a significant business challenge. Many of the experienced game developers in the industry are joining people just out of university to give the indie life a go as it does offer a great deal more creative control over the projects that they undertake, but by the same token it offers no real job security, and freedom aside, there are challenges in building games as an indie.

One of the greatest of these challenges is one of the first decisions that needs to be made before starting a game project; where does this game come from?