Sydney, Australia - March 21, 2024 | Sydney-based Turtle Flip Studio have announced that their upcoming party game Which Way Up: Galaxy Games has received funding for its development from Screen Australia's Games Production Fund.
Screen Australia has stated, "...the Games Production Fund, Emerging Gamemakers Fund and the Future Leaders Delegation were introduced by Screen Australia to provide Australian independent gamemakers with direct funding for original games with budgets below $500,000, support new projects from emerging gamemakers and offer additional opportunities for professional development.
"The Games Production Fund provides grants of up to $100,000 towards supporting the development of original, Australian independent games, with a budget of up to $500,000 at the time of applying to support the game towards a significant milestone of its development."
Which Way Up: Galaxy Games is featured alongside a total of 26 other Australian-made video games. This funding goes towards improving the games' developments and ensure quality of production.
Turtle Flip Studio founder Nick Cellini shared, "It's so wonderful to receive this support from Screen Australia and the Australian Government. We're so excited to use this funding to help capture the original vision for our game, which is to bring smiles to faces gathered around screens worldwide. We're also honoured to be in some prestigious company; each game on this list has such a talented team behind them. We're still pinching ourselves."
Which Way Up: Galaxy Games is scheduled to launch in Q1 2025 on Steam. For more information, be sure to follow the game's development on Twitter (X), Instagram and TikTok, all @WhichWayUpGame, and chat with the developers by joining the Discord.
About Which Way Up: Galaxy Games
Which Way Up: Galaxy Games is a family friendly party game that gives unique freedom of movement by allowing you to run on walls and ceilings, orbit around planets, or fall across entire levels by manoeuvring through gravity fields.
Before The Universe existed, the Space Sprites banded together one-by-one to see a dream come to fruition: the dream of life itself. As The Universe began to take shape, so too did space. But space is unpredictable, and creating life is tiresome work. So, the Sprites took it upon themselves to create a pastime. The Galaxy Games.
Each event features its own unique bite-sized challenge where up to 4 players can compete. Eject your friends into space as you race across gravity fields, score a goal with an entire moon, leap across planets to escape a black hole, and capture and hold zodiacal constellations.
- Gravity-bending platforming with up to 4 friends locally using Steam Remote Play
- 7 Space Sprites (5 unlocked in the Demo)
- Hours of fun for family and friends of all ages
- More than 10 Space Events (6 unlocked in the Demo), including:
Overload
UNSTABLE ENERGY has infected one of the Sprites. Discharge the energy to another player before you OVERLOAD! Run away from the player who is overloading. Last Sprite standing WINS!
Star Ring
The Star Ring is the place to be: jostle with friends to remain in its roving and life-giving light, the only place that fills your scorebar. The first player to fill up their scorebar wins!
Comet Collect
Comets with high energy cores are valuable to the Space Sprites! Collect them before other players, so you can absorb their energy later. Keep control of the Comets by dashing around and nudging them with the Comet Push ability. Keep the opposition away and collect as many as you can in your own base.
Event Horizon
Players are being sucked into a supermassive BLACK HOLE!
Run, jump and platform away from its relentless suck—but don’t get too close to the opposition. Knock them off with your COMET PUSH ability (before they knock you off, of course) and be the last one standing!
Constellation Catch
Race across the universe to touch, hold and capture as many constellations as you can. Constellations are fickle beasts, though. Unless they’re captured, constellations can be stolen from under your nose! Protect yours and poach theirs: it’s a Canis-eat-Canis world out there.
Gravapult
Protect your own precious planet against the volley of the oppositions’ bombs while collecting and lobbing your own counter-offensive bombardment.
About Turtle Flip Studio
Turtle Flip is a game development and creative technology studio who work on interactive experiences, predominantly in the Unity game engine.
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