#canberra #canberra #screen #gaming #arts #michaelpetterssonmla | Andrew Barr The ACT Government and Screen Canberra are proud to announce the recipients of the inaugural #Canberra Screen and Games Fund. The fund’s debut has been met with overwhelming interest from both the di...

🎉 Congratulations to the five games teams receiving funding from the first round of the Canberra Screen and Games Fund! www.linkedin.com/posts/andrew...

* Uppercut Games
* Space Dragon Games
* Anecdote Games
* Moon Jump Pty Ltd
* James Wakeham

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Holly Trueman and Cornelius Weber at Pizza & Pixels, fielding some questions about the Canberra Screen and Games Fund

👀 Canberra Screen and Games Fund is now open: screencanberra.com.au/funding/game...

Thanks to Holly Trueman and Cornelius Weber for fielding some questions last night at Pizza & Pixels - they're very open to hear more, so once you read up on the fund then feel free to reach out to Screen Canberra

MEDIA RELEASE Launch of Canberra Screen and Games Fund to strengthen industries  - Screen Canberra The ACT Government in partnership with Screen Canberra, has launched the Canberra Screen and Games Fund, designed to strengthen Canberra’s screen and digital games industries, stimulate local economic...

That's ALMOST every State and Territory in Australia supporting games with grants of some form. Good job ACT.
screencanberra.com.au/media-releas...

Games Production and Development Program - Screen Canberra

canberra had for a while now been the ONLY state or territory in australia to not provide direct games funding. that finally changed today.

huge congrats to @jarrodfn.bsky.social and everyone else at Candev who isn't on bluesky for all their hard work!

MEDIA RELEASE Launch of Canberra Screen and Games Fund to strengthen industries  - Screen Canberra The ACT Government in partnership with Screen Canberra, has launched the Canberra Screen and Games Fund, designed to strengthen Canberra’s screen and digital games industries, stimulate local economic...

This is such brilliant news out of Canberra! Congrats to folks in the ACT!

screencanberra.com.au/media-releas...

MEDIA RELEASE Launch of Canberra Screen and Games Fund to strengthen industries  - Screen Canberra The ACT Government in partnership with Screen Canberra, has launched the Canberra Screen and Games Fund, designed to strengthen Canberra’s screen and digital games industries, stimulate local economic...

screencanberra.com.au/media-releas...

Incredible news for those in Canberra and something that would have only been possible thanks to the efforts of those in the @canberra.games community.

This now means that every state in Australia has some form of games funding ❤️

It's happening! 🎉🎉🎉 Screen Canberra has a new games fund!

Read about it below and join us at Pizza & Pixels on Wednesday to learn more!

👀 Microvania is out!! And Canberra-made game!

✍️ Grab it, have fun, and give it a nice review⭐

Congrats on the launch @justinhogie.bsky.social 🚀

Best of luck at the #AGDAs25 tonight, @markschramm.bsky.social and Creature 🙏🤞 @agdas.bsky.social

Dozens of Canberran game developers at GCAP 2025

Lots of lovely Canberran game developers at GCAP this year!
@igea.bsky.social #MIGW25

Pizza & Pixels @ NFSA - October 2025 — CanDev Pizza & Pixels is Canberra's largest game developer playtesting and networking meetup. Come along to catch up with people involved or interested in the game development industry. You can also play...

(for the seven people from cbr who will actually read this, the actual CIGW will be @canberra.games x pizza & pixels next wed!)

and we're even having an AGDAs watch party 🏆📺

🦕🛰️ Congrats on the launch of Dino Space Station! We love seeing how games evolve month to month at our playtesting meetups in Canberra

🚀🦖 Dino Space Station launches during Melbourne International Games Week + the Steam event!
Excited to join #MIGW25 — Asia Pacific’s largest digital games celebration showcasing the creativity, community, and future of games.

👉 Wishlist & play here: store.steampowered.com/app/3406740/...

Dino Space Station has been featured on Canberra.Games

Big thanks to Jarrod (@jarrodfn), Ruqiyah, and the awesome sponsors like Mark (@markschramm) and Uppercut Games for supporting local devs and shining a spotlight on projects like mine. 💜

#indiedev #gamedev #CanberraGames #CanDev

CanDev has officially incorporated as a not-for-profit association 🎉

This will help us better manage admin and logistics as we continue to serve Canberra's game development community

Check out the inaugural committee and some more details on our blog www.canberra.games/blog/candev-...

Canberran devs, please fill out this Screen Aus survey to help show the ACT's production capacity, demographics and more

The DiscMaster Game Jam is a wrap! 300+ creators across 12+ countries made 60+ games using retro assets preserved by the Internet Archive & served via DiscMaster. What an event!

More ➡️ www.canberra.games/blog/discmas...

#DiscMasterJam @InternetArchive
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Thanks to all participants, judges, and @NFSAonline, who will archive a selection of entries, preserving them for the future!

And thank you to our co-hosts @canberra.games, especially @jarrodfn.bsky.social for day-to-day logistics.

#DiscMasterJam

Pizza & Pixels @ NFSA - July 2025 Pizza & Pixels is Canberra's game developers' playtesting and networking meetup! IMPORTANT NOTE: This session is at the National Film and Sound...

Pizza & Pixels is going to be a great one next week!

🎟️Grab your ticket ASAP: www.trybooking.com/DDFVP
📆Wednesday, July 9th, 6-9pm
🏛️National Film & Sound Archive
🎮Playtesting, networking, industry news, pizza
📣GUEST SPEAKERS from @sledgehammergames.com!

Read all about it and book your ticket now!

Woo! Canberra games represent!

💙 Made right here in Canberra by @justinhogie.bsky.social

🍕💖 Big thank you to Uppercut Games for supporting this month's event! Check out the team's stuff at uppercut-games.com

🎟️ Ticket booking details in the post below 👇

Host of Pizza & Pixels speaking at the NFSA in front of a huge screen with a purple background displaying logos

NFSA staff welcoming a large crowd of CanDev's members to the new venue, a beautiful gallery space with lovely pink lighting

🍕🎮 Pizza & Pixels is on at @nfsaonline.bsky.social 11 June 2025! Grab your tickets: www.trybooking.com/DCILO

Check out these photos of our new venue, the Gallery space at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) in Acton.

Looking forward to seeing you there - bring a friend!

screenshot of a 3d first person fishing game - a weird colorful piece of architecture on the deck of a fishing boat

this fishing game I made with @nightleek.bandcamp.com
was one of the winners of the @canberra.games and @archive.org DiscMaster game jam. Woo! I'm bad at self promotion.

Play online here hireddivas.itch.io/trophy-phish...

CONGRATS TO @hireddivas.bsky.social FOR WINNING IN 2 CATEGORIES IN THE DISCMASTER GAME JAM
which @spookie187.bsky.social and I made the music for

ALSO CONGRATS TO @poolplants.bsky.social @goldbu27.bsky.social @hdcamera-faithful.bandcamp.com and Dratz who also got recognized...

Announcing the Winners of The DiscMaster Jam 2025 — CanDev CanDev and the Internet Archive ran The DiscMaster Jam between 21-29 April 2025. We were thrilled at the response: 300 participants across over a dozen countries made more than 60 games using vin...

📣 Discover the DiscMaster Jam winners on our blog 🏆 canberra.games/blog/discmas...

@archive.org will be in touch with the winners to coordinate prize distribution. Thank you, to our industry judges, moderators and everyone who participated! 💖

#discmasterjam #gamejam #mediapreservation

Hey You!🫵
I'm working on a game right now. You should:
1) Check it out! 👀
2)Tell me if you like it or not ♥️
#gamedev #indiedev

NEW VENUE: Pizza & Pixels @ NFSA - May 2025 Pizza & Pixels is Canberra's game developers' playtesting and networking meetup! IMPORTANT NOTE: This session is at the National Film and Sound...

📣🏛️ NEW VENUE: Join us at the National Film and Sound Archive (NFSA) for the next Pizza & Pixels meetup on Wednesday, 14 May

🎟️ Book your tickets here: www.trybooking.com/DBKCO

Thanks to @nfsaonline.bsky.social for the fantastic venue, and for providing testing and tagging to attendees on the night

Glad you enjoyed it, and very cool to see you streaming the process!