We make playful story games and cross-media projects for the planet. Prosocial, approachable, accessible, sustainable, and potentially transformative! 😀💚🌳✊
Awards – Original Interactive Projects
- Winner, ‘Interactive Media’ Award, Australian Writers’ Guild (AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS)
- Winner, ‘Digital Narrative’ Award, WA Premier’s Book Awards (AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS)
- Shortlisted, ‘Digital Narrative’ Award, WA Premier’s Book Awards (Magister Ludi Game)
- Shortlisted, International New Media Writing Prize (Magister Ludi Game)
- Finalist, ‘Best Writing in a Game,’ Freeplay Independent Games Festival Awards (AUTHENTIC IN ALL CAPS)
Awards – Client Projects
- Digital Program – Fiction Nom, International Digital Emmy Awards (Conspiracy for Good)
- Mobile Nomination, 14th Annual SXSW Interactive Awards (Conspiracy for Good)
- Interactive Writing Award, 44th Annual Australian Writers Guild Awards (Bluebird AR)
- Best Cross-Platform Project, Banff World Media Award (Conspiracy for Good)
- Official Honoree, Integrated Campaigns, 15th Annual Webby Awards (Conspiracy for Good)
- Merit Award for Other Branded Entertainment, One Show Awards (The Hunt)
- Innovation Award, (Internal) ABC Awards (Bluebird AR)
Official Selection – Original Interactive Projects
- 2026 Aussie Indie Tabletop Showcase, Port Play 26: Tabletop Gaming and Art Festival (DIYSPY)
- 2026 NinchCon: Tabletop and Roleplaying Convention (DIYSPY)
- 2024 PlayNow Melbourne, Australia’s Games Marketplace (Bugging Humans)
- 2023 PlayNow Melbourne, Australia’s Games Marketplace (Bugging Humans)
- 2019 PAX AUS Collaboratory, MelbConventionC, curated by PAXAUS, (DIYSPY)
- 2018 Melbourne Playground: Public Games Exhibition, ACMI, CHIPlay, City of Melb (DIYSPY)
- 2016 GO423 Pop-up Exhibition, curated by Brisbane Int Game Developers Assoc (DIYSPY)
- 2015 Babycastles, NYC, ‘Embed with Games’ book launch, Cara Ellison (Magister Ludi Game)
- 2014 Contours Exhibition on Aust Independent Games, Melb, Chad Toprak (Magister Ludi Game)
- 2014 Freeplay Independent Games Festival’s Parallels, Melb, Dan Golding (Magister Ludi Game)
- 2014 Fresh Air Festival, Pop Up Playground, Melb, (Seance for Lost Stuff)
- 2014 Electronic Literature Organization’s Media Arts Show, Uni of Wisconsin, ELO (AUTHENTIC)
- 2013 This is a Door, Pop Up Playground, Melb, (DIYSPY/Pop Up Spy Academy)
- 2005 Talk Fiction Colloquium, Uni of Melbourne + The Age Melb Writers’ Festival, UOM Postgrad
- Creative Writing Assoc (The Villager Girl and the Teenbot)
- 2005 disjunctions 2005: Theory Reloaded, Uni of California, Riverside, Original Hypermedia, Net.Art, Mods, Flash panel (The Villager Girl and the Teenbot)
Press
Deadline Hollywood, Filmmaker Magazine, Forbes, Wired, Gizmodo, ABC, Screenhub, The Guardian, Pitchfork, Gamasutra, Christian Science Monitor, Hollywood East Connection, Tribeca Film Institute, The Sacramento Bee, Animation World Network, Australian Financial Review, Vogue, Film Ink, Game Informer Magazine, Game Developer, Hyper Magazine, Marketing Mag, Vancouver Sun, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, Courier Mail, RealTime Arts Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Artery, Arts Hub, The Australian, Brisbane Times, Polygon, The Literary Platform, Courier Mail, ARGNet, Cinema Autopsy, Litopia After Dark, RealTime Arts Magazine, Time Out Magazine, Aphra Magazine, Spook Magazine, Fluoro, Game Cloud, Crikey…
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