SAGE:
South Australian Game Exhibition
Adelaide’s newest and most exciting event for video game developers, players and fans, and everyone in between.
Presented by the South Australian Film Corporation, SAGE Adelaide lets you experience the best of Adelaide’s thriving video game development sector first-hand. Come and try a range of awesome locally made video games, meet the developers and studios behind them and more at this fun, family-friendly, FREE event!
SAGE Adelaide 2024
SA Game Exhibition is back bigger and better in 2024
After a bumper inaugural event in 2023, SAGE returned bigger and better in 2024 with a two-day event as part of the Adelaide Fringe, with more than 2,000 people in attendance! Read more about the South Australian Film Corporation’s SAGE: SA Game Exhibition.
SAGE Adelaide 2024
SAGE Adelaide – Explore and experience
Presented by the South Australian Film Corporation at its Adelaide Studios screen production facilities, SAGE is your chance to experience the best of South Australia’s thriving video game development industry first-hand.
- Come and try out awesome South Australian-made video games for console, PC, mobile and VR/XR – that you can play for free!,
- Meet the local creators, developers and studios behind the games, and find out more about their work,
- Hear from industry and education experts and local developers in the free SAGE Advice program of discussion panels,
- Learn about South Australia’s video game development sector and how the SAFC supports it,
- Find out more about the exciting career and educational pathways on offer in the sector and how you can be a part of it,
- And more!
…and it’s all FREE!
SAGE Adelaide 2024
SAGE Awards
Now in its second year, SAGE 2024 is double the fun and excitement with two action-packed days of free fun, an extended program, and now two new awards:
- The SAGE: Elevate Award for the best game in the Elevate section, with a prize of $1,000 of legal services provided by SAGE partner Cam Rogers Legal, was awarded to Jonathon Anderson-Wills of Jonniemadeit for Uncle Unco, a single player game inspired by his 6 and 8-year-old niece and nephew, with a cute hand-drawn style.
- The SAGE Award for Best in Exhibition, with a $2,000 cash prize for the best game overall, provided by the SAFC, went to We Made A Thing Studios for their game Box Knight – a funny, silly and irreverent RPG roguelike action game in which you become office hero in a toxic workplace.
The Awards were determined by the 2024 SAGE Jury comprised of Screen Australia Games Investment Manager Chad Toprak, Big Ant Studios Chief Operating Officer Mark Bracken, Kotaku Australia managing editor David Smith, Games Hub’s Leah Jade Williams and independent games consultant Jon Cartwright.
SA GAME EXHIBITION 2024 EVENT GALLERY
The South Australian Film Corporation’s second SAGE: SA Game Exhibition was held at Adelaide Studios on Friday 16 and Saturday 17 February, 2024, with more than 2000 game developers, gaming enthusiasts and members of the general public turn out to see and play video games from 19 local studios and indie developers. Check out photos from the day below!
Photos: Naomi Jellicoe
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SAGE – SA Game Exhibition 2024 offers a unique opportunity for your business or organisation to align with South Australia’s exciting game development sector and engage with video game developers, players, fans and more.
If you’re interested in becoming a partner of SAGE Adelaide, please contact [email protected] to learn more about what opportunities are available.
“SAGE: SA Game Exhibition was like someone had carved a large chunk of the Indie stand right off the PAX Aus show floor, and it had the exact same buzz about it. South Australia is ready to be our next major games development hub!“
– Kotaku