{"id":3049,"date":"2014-11-06T01:17:05","date_gmt":"2014-11-05T15:17:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.natashabarr.com\/blog\/?p=3049"},"modified":"2019-04-07T21:09:25","modified_gmt":"2019-04-07T11:09:25","slug":"pax-aus-melbourne-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/events\/pax-aus-melbourne-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"PAX Aus – Melbourne 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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PAX Aus – Melbourne 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

We escaped the Brisbane heat and endured Melbourne’s unpredictable weather to attend the 2nd PAX Australia<\/a> game convention. We spent the whole day wandering through the exhibition hall trying out new and upcoming technology and playing some of the many featured games, particularly those by indie developers. We also got a chance to attend one of many panels that were running throughout the day with speakers from all different sectors in the industry. Below are a selection of photos from our adventures at our first PAX!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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In the Queue room before opening time – people were trying to score points by hitting inflatable balls through these point hoops<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lines of people waiting to get in<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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How some people passed the time till opening<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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First thing we lined up for – the Oculus Rift<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Oculus Rift booth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Posters above the Ubisoft booth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The BF trying out Phenomec’s VRSmartview – a wearable virtual reality headset for smartphones (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Logitech booth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A sweet 4 screen setup at the Cooler Master booth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Nintendo booth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Bethesda’s BattleCry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Some awesome guns at the Kings Comics booth<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Batman and Catwoman<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nice Link figure<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Xbox booth filled with mostly indie titles (surprising!)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Hyper Light Drifter (click for Steam link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Swery’s D4 was there! (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Screencheat – the game where you have to screencheat to win (click for Steam link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Cards Against Humanity booth store<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Some nice Assassin’s Creed figures<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Lots of booths selling mechanical gaming keyboards like this one with fancy pants rainbow lighting<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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People playing the upcoming Assassin’s Creed Unity<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Wargaming.net had quite a large space on the expo floor that included a stage and this World of Tanks gaming area<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Wargaming.net stage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A Mario cosplayer playing a new 3DS game<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Just Dance stage<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Playing Splatoon<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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People in the Bethesda booth playing BattleCry<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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These guys had an actual ice sculpture!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Mario Cart 8 racing<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Media Molecule’s Tearaway game (same people who did the first two LittleBigPlanet games)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Tearaway booth was decorated in the same style as the game<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Interesting espionage game called Black Annex (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Light in the Dark game (click for app link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Alienware Gaming desktop – Does anyone else think this looks like Darth Vader’s head?<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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No pic of gameplay, but I got a chance to test it out. Interesting concept that will be out next year (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another cool international indie game – Dawn of the Tyrant (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Nippy Cats! Great little fun game that’s available now! (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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People playing Nippy Cats (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Crawl by Powerhoof (click for Steam link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Crabitron Kinect (click for Ipad version of game link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Wave Wave – this game is full on (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The Good Game: Ask us Anything panel was great, lots of laughs<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Even Dave Callan was on the panel<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Guys playing Dungeon League. From the way the players were reacting, it seems to be quite an intense gameplay.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The ANZ Indie Pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Love the names of some of these games like this one called Breakout Blurg (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Another shot of the Indie Pavilion<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Witch House<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Game called Bearzerkers that involves running away from crazed pandas (click for site link)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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League of Legends stage with teams competing.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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A League of Legends team<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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While one side of the exhibition was for booths, the other half was for game freeplay areas.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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The handheld lounge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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This was the ‘classic freeplay’ area where you could try your luck at much older consoles<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Father and son playing Donkey Kong<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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PC Freeplay<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Magic the Gathering<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tabletop Freeplay – So many different types of games!<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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These photos only show a small portion of the vast array of games we played on the day, it’s great to see so many creative ideas and genres being explored. I definitely want to try and make it down to Melbourne again for next year’s PAX :D.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We escaped the Brisbane heat and endured Melbourne’s unpredictable weather to attend the 2nd PAX Australia game convention. We spent the whole day wandering through the exhibition hall trying out new and upcoming technology and playing some of the many featured games, particularly those by indie developers. We also got a chance to attend one of many panels […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-3049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-games"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3049"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3049\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/natashabarr.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}