Big Collision Games

They are licensing Big World tech, (MMO back end), which are these guys:

http://bigworldgames.com/company/team.php

Pretty well known in the Aussie market place.

Screens of the football game title can be seen here:
http://bigworldgames.com/games/futebol_photos.php

Looks like its target market is Brazil (rightly so – Gamasutra had a feature on the size of that market, plenty of opporunities for the right product.)

Welcome and best of luck to all involved.

-Brendan.

I’d possibly hold off on the well wishes for now…

Perth Game Company CEO Takes IP By Night

and

More Info from Kotaku

Surely this isn’t all kinds of wrong?

Oh boy!

Who’s predicting news in about a year – Irish Tax Office scammed out of Euro 500,000, and angry employees not paid in 6 months. Followed by "new games company opening in Northern Ireland!!!"

From the various news snippets, it *looks* like these guys are chasing government hand-outs to fund their game in countries / areas who currently don’t have a games industry, and where the government is probably chomping at the bit to hand out money to companies coming in with IP.

I feel sorry for the Perth team – they got royally screwed over…
Mal

I would hold off on rushing to judgement. I’ve known people on the Interzone side in US since the company started and there is definitely another side to the story. Least of all that the Perth studio was years and millions over budget. I know for a fact that the Government only gave IZ about half the incentives it promised to open a studio there, and that private investors have dumped over $30,000,000 into the company – so it’s definitely not government funded. My opinion from what I know is that the Perth team failed miserably. This is also the fault of the US company and management not putting the right leadership in place in such a remote studio. I agree with david4482, if they are going to finish the game they need to get some highly talented hired guns with a proven history to get the game on track. I am a soccer fanatic and I want to play this game, I hope they get it finished.

LOL

*ZAP*

By a curious sequence of coincidences I was actually in Perth the Day that the Interzone people were locked out. (I’m from Dublin)
I stood outside the offices and discussed the situation with the people who had not been paid for months and who were struggling to pay their rent. The company even had someone pretend to have the authority to remove them from the industrial estate where they were standing….all covered by the local papers and also TV stations.
The truth of the matter is that they were treated appallingly and I would not rush to apply for a job with this "new" company.
There may still be several legal cases to face in Australia, including non payment of compulsory employee entitlements to the taxation office….

I am a soccer fanatic and I want to play this game, I hope they get it finished.[/quote:d613e574f5]

That sounds familiar.

Oh hey, here’s an article where Mike Turner, vice president of bizdev at Big Collision Games, is quoted using his standard marketing pitch complete with a "soccer fanatics" reference:

http://www.allbusiness.com/sports-recreation/sports-games-outdoor-recreation-soccer/14682518-1.html

(Edit: added link to above post)

Hold on just one second, Blitz-, are you suggesting…and maybe I’ve misunderstood you…that IZsnooper or IZsnoopersnooper may not in fact be…a soccer fanatic?

Harsh. Way harsh.