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EDINBURGH, UK- August 2nd, 2012: Delegates at Scotland’s Dare Indie Fest
will be challenged to become race legends playing Gears of Glory: Apex
Ace, with the top ten racers during the event receiving prizes.
The champion will receive a genuine F1 race car part – a Gear, of course –
taken from the 2006 Honda team car raced by a would-be World Champion.
In addition to that, the top-three podium places will all receive champion
medals, with the top ten receiving the game for free on release.
Delegates can enter the competition by racing a timed lap around a circuit
created especially for the show. The Gears of Glory: Apex Ace booth can be
found in the Indie Showcase.
Colin Riley, the sole developer of Apex Ace, stated: "It's fantastic to be
given the opportunity to showcase at Dare Indie Fest. Everybody knows how
popular the Dare ProtoPlay is each year, so it's a privilege to be
involved.
"The line-up for the showcase in general is fantastic. The organisers have
understood being Indie means different things to different people, and
that games other than puzzle platformers are more than welcome.”
The Indie Showcase, which is part of Dare Indie Fest, is a new event
alongside the massively popular Dare ProtoPlay. It takes place in Dundee's
Caird Hall during August 10th-12th and entry to the showcase is free.
Together with the Dare games, there are over 40 games for the public to
play for FREE.
During the Showcase Domipheus Labs will also be discussing their Online
Services platform, which aims to bridge a gap which exists for Indies
requiring licence key management and gamer services. Gears of Glory: Apex
Ace is the service platform launch title.
Gears of Glory: Apex Ace is releasing in Beta late August on PC, adding
multiplayer and track editing shortly after in additional free updates. It
will be available on various download platforms, including IndieCity.
More information is available at http://gearsofglory.com
Release Ends.
Press/Media Contact: Colin Riley, Founder, Domipheus Labs.
Email: colin@domipheus.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/Domipheus
About Gears of Glory: Apex Ace:
Gears of Glory: Apex Ace is the game in which players race competitively
to achieve the glory of becoming a race legend. Its top down style allows
for perfect racing lines to be sought out and achieved – perfection will
be required if players are to become race legends, topping global
leaderboards, creating custom tracks and winning heats of multiplayer
challenges.
About Domipheus Labs:
Domipheus Labs is based in Edinburgh, Scotland, and was launched in 2012
to bring to market the hobby work of Colin "Domipheus" Riley. Domipheus
Labs is purely a spare-time endeavour as Colin releases game ideas and
concepts that have built up over years of prototyping. Colin is the sole
designer, programmer and artist on all titles. Domipheus Labs' first
title, Gears of Glory: Apex Ace, is launching soon.
About Dare Indie Fest:
Dare Indie Fest, supported by the Abertay University Prototype Fund, will
next week reveal all the secrets to running a successful indie games
company.
Running from 10-12 August in Dundee’s Caird Hall as part of the Dare
ProtoPlay computer games festival, the first Dare Indie Fest will feature
over 25 indie games – with participants coming from across the UK and as
far afield as Romania.
Dare Indie Fest will bring independent developers together with
publishers, funders and commissioners, helping everyone make contacts and
do new business deals.
Dare Indie Fest also features high-profile speakers sharing their
experiences of running indie games businesses, and offering practical
games industry business advice.
Talks include:
- Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP, ‘The success and some of the
secrets behind EVE Online’
- Agostino Simonetta, Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, ‘I'm an indie
developer - now what?’
- Colin Macdonald, Channel 4 Commissioning Editor for Games, ‘What are the
crossovers between games and TV shows?’
- Simon Harris, BBC Worldwide, ‘Working with the commercial arm of a
public service broadcasting company’
- Gavin Shields, Turbulenz, ‘Forget iOS, Facebook and consoles: HTML5 is
the future of games’
- Andrew Smith, Spilt Milk Studios, ‘Time is money: how to spend your most
valuable asset as an indie’
Dare Indie Fest supporter Ukie is bringing a tax break consultation
session, to engage with indies and listen to what they need from the
Government’s tax breaks.
There will also be a panel discussing ‘The future of games: how to provide
the best gameplay experience and make money at the same time’, featuring
Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP, Bjorn Book-Larsson, CEO of
GamersFirst, and Mark Ettle, CEO of Cobra Mobile.
See the full Dare Indie Fest speaker list and secure your place at
http://www.daretobedigital.com/128_Dare-Indie-Fest-Dare-ProtoPlay.html
