Call of the Golden Valley News

We are immensely delighted to be the recipients of the the inaugural Melbourne International Games Week Award announced at the 2023 Australian Games Developer Awards on 4 October 2023.

The MIGW award celebrates Victoria’s reputation as the nation’s home of digital games. It was created by Creative Victoria to support Victorian digital games studios that are less than five years old, which have recently released a game or have a game in development. The award was granted based on certain factors including clear studio vision, studio culture that is committed to upskilling, diversity, participation in the Victorian games community and exciting promising projects in development. That's us! And that's Call of the Golden Valley!

O’Saurus Studios will receive a six-month mentorship facilitated by Creative Victoria which features professional networking opportunities, business mentoring, introductions to investment connections and PR support.

With Creative Victoria's help, this little Aussie game could became a huge sensation! Follow along to join our journey.

Read Creative Victoria's Statement here

Watch the award announcement

Tune in for a behind the scenes look at the new demo for Call of the Golden Valley! Creative Director Maddy sits down with Ben (music & sound) and Yee (art & animation). Later, watch Maddy play the demo, and hear from her about what inspired the game and how she made the career jump to game development. We're so excited to share what we've been working on with you!

After nearly a year, we're thrilled to announce that we've got a brand new demo ready to go!

Travel to Country Australia and do some snooping to figure out where your missing friend has gone!

Things we're particularly excited about in this demo:

• It's completely new! Play a different part of the game than in the old demo.
  
• Music! Beautiful, adaptive music by Ben Houghton.
  
• Cows! You can pat the cows.
  
• Revised player controls for smoother playing experience.
  
• Beautiful Australian environment and animated characters by our artist, Yee Hui Wong.
  

Happy playing! And please do get in touch with us if you encounter any bugs or have any feedback :) You can leave your feedback here: https://forms.gle/XkpoemcwhxkTocUf6




A note for Apple users: We do plan to release the final game on MacOS, but some technical details of how Apple requires us to authenticate the game build makes it not possible for us currently offer the demo for MacOS. We see you and we're sorry!

Meet the developer Maddy and hear about her inspiration for the game and development process, as well as a playthrough of the demo.

Hi there,

We've made the decision to remove the existing demo from Steam. While we're still super proud of it, we've ultimately decided that this iteration of the demo is best kept in-house for prospective publishers and funding bodies rather than the general public (mostly due to spoilers!). We hope to get you an awesome, spoiler-free demo in 2023 :)