{"id":20533,"date":"2025-10-20T14:37:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:37:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/from-mixtape-to-pro-jank-footy-the-most-exciting-australian-indie-games-at-sxsw-sydney-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T14:37:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T12:37:38","slug":"from-mixtape-to-pro-jank-footy-the-most-exciting-australian-indie-games-at-sxsw-sydney-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/from-mixtape-to-pro-jank-footy-the-most-exciting-australian-indie-games-at-sxsw-sydney-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"From Mixtape to Pro Jank Footy: the most exciting Australian indie games at SXSW Sydney 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperkinetic shooters, gorgeous animal adventures and even a charming puzzler where you play a postie: Australia\u2019s developers are punching above their weight<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/newsletters\/2019\/oct\/18\/saved-for-later-sign-up-for-guardian-australias-culture-and-lifestyle-email?CMP=cvau_sfl\">Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There\u2019s no escaping the fact that SXSW Sydney \u2013 Australia\u2019s iteration of Austin\u2019s tech, music and film event, now in its third year \u2013 is absolutely beset by brands. In Tumbalong park on Saturday, families who had arrived for a free concert for kids meandered around the garish yellow CommBank Tour zone, as a line wound its way into the giant L\u2019Or\u00e9al tent. But metres away at the International Convention Centre, inside the halls dedicated to gaming, the corporate influence was more muted.<\/p>\n<p>With the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2024\/feb\/08\/why-is-the-games-industry-shedding-staff-epic-games-activision-blizzard\">global gaming industry downturn<\/a> continuing with no end in sight, big studios are continuing to keep a wary distance from Australia, with its high cost of living \u2013 meaning that even at a conference that screams synergistic brand-o-rama from every pore, indie developers took centre stage. Larger teams were rare; most projects on show were the results of solo developers or couples. And, much like Australia\u2019s gaming scene more broadly, many of them were punching above their weight.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/games\/2025\/oct\/21\/australian-developers-indie-video-games-sxsw-sydney-2025\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/a71089d2377c247e074df84a4c55938f303a0985\/209_0_3000_2400\/master\/3000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=653a46479a44d301a1a00edd437f512d\" title=\"From Mixtape to Pro Jank Footy: the most exciting Australian indie games at SXSW Sydney 2025\" \/>Hyperkinetic shooters, gorgeous animal adventures and even a charming puzzler where you play a postie: Australia\u2019s developers are punching above their weight<br \/>\nGet our weekend culture and lifestyle email<br \/>\nThere\u2019s no escaping the fact that SXSW Sydney \u2013 Australia\u2019s iteration of Austin\u2019s tech, music and film event, now in its third year \u2013 is absolutely beset by brands. In Tumbalong park on Saturday, families who had arrived for a free concert for kids meandered around the garish yellow CommBank Tour zone, as a line wound its way into the giant L\u2019Or\u00e9al tent. But metres away at the International Convention Centre, inside the halls dedicated to gaming, the corporate influence was more muted.<br \/>\nWith the global gaming industry downturn continuing with no end in sight, big studios are continuing to keep a wary distance from Australia, with its high cost of living \u2013 meaning that even at a conference that screams synergistic brand-o-rama from every pore, indie developers took centre stage. Larger teams were rare; most projects on show were the results of solo developers or couples. And, much like Australia\u2019s gaming scene more broadly, many of them were punching above their weight. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hyperkinetic shooters, gorgeous animal adventures and even a charming puzzler where you play a postie: Australia\u2019s developers are punching above their weight Get our weekend culture and lifestyle email There\u2019s no escaping the fact that SXSW Sydney \u2013 Australia\u2019s iteration of Austin\u2019s tech, music and film event, now in its third year \u2013 is absolutely &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/10\/20\/from-mixtape-to-pro-jank-footy-the-most-exciting-australian-indie-games-at-sxsw-sydney-2025\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">From Mixtape to Pro Jank Footy: the most exciting Australian indie games at SXSW Sydney 2025<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":20534,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20533\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}