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Meet 10 SMARTies: IGEA’s 2023 game developer mentorship recipients

Ten up-and-coming creatives kick off the 4-month SMART program designed to hone their skills and immerse them in the Melbourne’s game development community.

3 Aug 2023 9:49

Rochelle Siemienowicz

Games Design and Production

The 2023 SMART cohort: L-R top: William Hinze, Tyler Hilder, Emma McCaw, Sunny Tandoc, Alex Beatty. L-R bottom: Irini Melas, Alex Murphy, Andy Karalis, Jae Stuart, Daisy Chan. Suppolied.

Ten diverse and multi-talented young game creatives are currently being mentored, networked and professionally developed, as part of the 2023 SMART program.

Run by IGEA – the Interactive Games Entertainment Association, the peak industry body for games in Australia and New Zealand – the SMART program is designed to create career pathways, and support the growth of emerging talent and underrepresented peoples, within the Australian games industry.

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Rochelle Siemienowicz

Rochelle Siemienowicz is a Melbourne writer and editor. Her first book Fallen, a memoir was published in 2014 and her second, Double Happiness, a novel, in 2024. She has a PhD in Australian cinema and was previously a journalist at ScreenHub and ArtsHub. ou can find her on Instagram: @Rochelle_Rochelle or at Substack where she writes a fortnightly newsletter, The Fool and the Queen.