To inspire wonderful new games, we have invited asked local games and writing experts to build some games. Visit their profiles to check out the games they have made.

Matthew Ford is an independent game designer/ programmer/ producer. Matthew has worked for Microsoft and Atari Games (arcade) and is currently president of Digital Cream a small independent game company.

Kelly Chapman worked as a producer on the global pre-season online narrative for LOST Season 4, Spooks Interactive and the Emmerdale Online Channel for local digital entertainment company Hoodlum Active.

Jane Turner (aka Truna or greyCat) is a game design researcher, teacher and artist. Truna is chapter auntie of the Brisbane IGDA and is also a lecturer in immersion and game design.

Tom Killen is currently a developer of multi-platform productions at Hoodlum. Tom has a dual degree in Information Technology (Software Engineering) and Creative Industries (Communication Design).

A Beta version of Cipher Cities is set to be released to our local university student community in Brisbane, Australia in June.

As most of the Cipher Cities development team are past students from Queensland University of Technology we have chosen to invite local university students to be our first group of users. As part of our launch we are running a Cipher Cities Game Design Competition for the Fortitude Valley. The competition gives people a fun and competitive excuse to become Cipher Citizens and begin building and playing good games.

Due to the location-based nature of Cipher Cities games, we are taking a slow release approach to launching Cipher Cities, building local community user groups as we go. Following the Fortitude Valley Competition we intend to run similar competitions in Melbourne and Sydney to build upon our user base.