Let’s Break Stuff! was shortlisted for 2 awards at the Engineers Ireland Game Developer Awards at the recent Games Fleadh 2013 in Thurles. I have been aware of this festival (now in its 10th year) but hadn’t travelled to it before. There’s a lot of impressive work going on there – kudos to Phil Bourke and his team at LIT-Tipperary.
Anyhow, LBS ended up winning the ‘best casual game’ award 
Blast your way through waves of asteroids, beautifully rendered in 3D with powerups, shields, and plenty of explosions. Classic arcade action with modern graphics. Includes local and online high-score tables. Take too long on a wave and alien ships will hunt you down – just like the original game from the 1970s.
Available for Android on Google Play: Asteroid Storm Android -Free-
Available for iPhone/iPad on iOS store: Asteroid Storm iOS -Free-
I have been doing some work on, among other things, a tamagotchi/pokemon type game called ‘Monster Melee’. You’ll basically build and train a team of monsters, going hunting against computer enemies and competing in online leagues against other players.
Here’s the starting character, Beetlejuice, in the ‘home menu’ environment – this is where you assemble your teams, feed and play with your monsters in a tamagotchi style, and launch your hunting missions.
..and here he is checking out the Graveyard arena. There will be arenas of various types, to match the monsters’ own specialisms – they will perform better in arenas where they have an affinity, and perform worse in ones where they’re uneasy. Luckily for Beetlejuice, there’s no enemies here yet 