Screen Australia has announced it will support 26 video game projects, and several emerging game developers, with $1.4 million in grants and travel allowance delivered across its Games Production and Emerging Gamemakers funds.
Each game supported is centred on Australian stories and ideas, with the intention of sharing these with a wider global audience.
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Supporting a diverse range of game creators
As detailed by Screen Australia’s Head of Games, Joey Egger, the latest cohort of supported developers include people from a range of disciplines, from game design to architecture, animation and the performing arts.
‘Supporting emerging gamemakers invests in the future of our talented industry,’ Egger said. ‘Having Australian funding support for games is essential for building a resilient and innovative games sector for the next five, 10, 20 years.’
‘It’s also inspiring to see creators from diverse backgrounds like architecture, animation and the performing arts working hand-in-hand with some of our more experienced gamemakers. This kind of innovative dynamism, coupled with our unique sense of storytelling, is what makes Australia such an independent powerhouse on the world stage.’
The 2026 Screen Australia Future Leaders Delegation also features an array of talents, with all newly-nominated delegates being early-to-mid career gamemakers with creative ambitions for the future.
This year’s cohort will travel to BitSummit in Kyoto, Japan to share their works. The delegates include Svitlana Amelina, Chris Baron, Inge Berman, Will Deragon, Daniel Ferguson, Aiden Gyory and Caitlin Lomax.
ScreenHub: Australian games news and reviews
The latest games supported by Screen Australia
Screen Australian has now announced the full list of games supported by the latest round of the Games Production and Emerging Gamemakers funds. Projects highlighted to ScreenHub include:
- Little Ruin (VIC) – ‘Play as a teenage girl navigating the challenges of growing up and finding a sense of belonging through mysteries, in-world exploration and ethical conundrums that radically change the course of the narrative.’
- Foe (NSW) – ‘A hand-drawn, 2D animated, action-adventure side scroller.’
- Frostliner (WA) – ‘Journey across a barren landscape in a nomadic train city, building new carriages, adding vital facilities for passengers, unlocking advanced technologies and fighting off or outrunning threats.’
- Grove Keeper (NSW) – ‘In a medieval world, become an ancient forest deity, wielding nature’s magic to grow forests, restore wildlife and command powerful guardians to defend the last wild lands.’
- Delverium (QLD) – ‘Delverium blends exploration, farming, crafting, settlement building and dungeon crawling in a vast, procedurally-generated world.’
- TOYA (SA) – ‘TOYA is a relaxing, tactile and satisfying minimalist puzzle game. In it, help a little squishy cube on a journey through a big world full of surprises and delight.’
- Club Rat (VIC) – ‘Play as a graffiti-drawn rat thrown into an eccentric community of art come-to-life in a multi-floor night club. Each area showcases a unique art style and the strange and interesting characters who populate this world.’
- Tracking Numbers (SA) – ‘In this explorative role-playing story, dive into a retro-futurist city landscape as the new courier recruit serving a vibrant neighbourhood threatened by redevelopment.’
- Dungeon Pizza (QLD) – ‘In Dungeon Pizza, run a pizzeria, unlocking new recipes, and get to know the weary adventurers who stop by. This world is full of people who help each other – you won’t be slaying dragons; you’ll be serving them a world-class slice.’
- Foodomina (VIC) – ‘Foodomina is a story-rich RPG, playing as two personified food girls, Takoyaki and Tempura, traversing a galaxy of food-themed planets in a cosmic battle against Mould People.’
- Syzygy (VIC) – ‘This rhythmic narrative game takes place in a world where magic is a vibrating and indescribable force. As the first wizard arriving at a strange village, uncover powers through communion with a strange entity and building spells through “chords” – pressing a set of keys with precise timing.’
We look forward to seeing more from each of these projects.
