EXHIBITORS
Check out the incredible line up of games from South Australian game developers and studios that exhibited at SAGE 2024!
Click on the images below to learn more about the games and exhibitors selected for SAGE 2024, and check out the SAGE 2024 trailer featuring clips from every exhibitor, made by SAGE partner Half Giant.
Main Showcase
The Sacred Acorn
by A Few Dragons
Dungeons and Dining Tables
by Catalyst Games
Super BAWK BAWK Chicken
by Daytime Devs
Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battlers
by Dino Rocket
Project: Nightlight
by Fringe Realities
The Sacred Acorn
Cute meets chaos in when a small squirrel with ancient powers embarks on an epic action-adventure to save the world from impending doom. Master ancient powers and battle brutal bosses in this deceptively cute top-down metroidvania with stunning hand drawn art and a bespoke, atmospheric soundtrack.
A Few Dragons is a small indie studio based out of Adelaide, SA Australia. We’re committed to making games that create joyful and enriching experiences, and building game dev tools that make developing a game easier.
Dungeons and Dining Tables
A cozy-ARPG adventure where you explore dungeons to collect rare furniture to decorate your home! Upgrade your comfy-ness and build a thriving town in this cross of Animal Crossing meets Diablo.
Catalyst Games makes educational content and run game development workshops with local councils and libraries while pursuing the indie dream of making video games full time. our motto is to “enable creatives to create” with a focus on inclusive development and breaking barriers to industry.
Super BAWK BAWK Chicken
Run, Jump, Dash, and Bawk your way through this quirky infinite runner. Playing as Clucky, the charming chicken with super powers, you’ll collect whacky items, catch rowdy rascals and soar to new highscores in Super BAWK BAWK Chicken!
Daytime Devs is a South Australian independent game studio founded by three brothers. We’ve been making games for years to play with friends and family and have decided to make the leap to self publishing in 2023. Super BAWK BAWK Chicken is our debut game as Daytime Devs.
Kādomon: Hyper Auto Battles
Collect and battle over 180 unique creatures in this roguelike auto-battler. Level-up and evolve your Kādomon as you assemble the ultimate team, creating awesome synergies to beat BIG bosses!
Dino Rocket is a one-person team making their first commercial game after working for multiple big games and companies over the last few years.
Project: Nightlife
Project: Nightlight is a VR survival horror game with a focus on immersive atmospheres. To survive the night you will need to solve puzzles and face the unseen horrors by using your wits and what little resources you can find. Will you bring back order or succumb to the chaos?
Indie developers with a passion for atmospheric immersion.
Fringe Realities is a team of 6 graduate developers from South Australia who are ready to make the most of VR and bring you the very best games.
Blood Reaver
by HellByte Studios
Secret Agent: Cold War Espionage
by Kungfu Takeaway
Vincent the Vampire
by Kye Elliott-Moyle
The Infinite Fortress
by Lamplight Forest
Makers Empire
by Makers Empire
Blood Reaver
A dark fantasy, wave-based first-person shooter. Use a combination of blood magic, and lethal weaponry to take on hordes of demons, while uncovering the secrets of this once holy sanctum.
HellByte Studios is a 10 Person graduate team, formed in 2023. Working towards our first release ‘Blood Reaver’ in 2025. Currently available in early access via Itch.io
Secret Agent: Cold War Espionage
Set in the glitzy and dangerous world of 1969, this retro-inspired adventure will transport you back in time to the peak of the Cold War. With its sleek green sepia-tone visuals, you’ll feel like you’re living in a classic spy film.
Kungfu Takeaway is a solo developer with aims to make cozy little games from serious genres!
Vincent the Vampire
Vincent the Vampire is part cathartic animated story and part point and click adventure. Talk to the locals and collect and combine items to solve puzzles as you travel through this unique world. Using a classic point and click adventure game interface and controls you will solve item combination, dialogue and even full screen puzzles.
Created by Kye Elliot-Moyle, an independent developer.
The Infinite Fortress
The Infinite Fortress is a unique first-person experience blending elements of roguelike, immersive sims and platforming into an epic adventure of player-driven creativity. Procedurally generated challenges offer players huge freedom to improvise their own solutions across this expansive odyssey!
At Lamplight Forest we are dedicated to contributing to a new generation of uplifting games that empower the creativity of players and inspire soul and senses.
Makers Empire
Makers Empire offers a unified gaming environment where students and users can log in and delve into various mini-games and educational modules. This includes spaces for teacher-student interaction, peer-to-peer game challenges, and comprehensive 3D design tools featuring 3D printing, sharing, and peer review capabilities.
With Makers Empire, students can learn, create, solve, and share. It’s beloved by over 3.3 million students in 50+ countries and inspires 50,000 new 3D designs daily, enhancing STEM learning and Design & Technology education.
Star Trek Lower Decks Mobile
by Mighty Kingdom
Roving Rovers
by Mini Mammoth Games
Belt It Out!
by Ortum Games
Fox and Shadow
by Paper Cactus Games
Cozy Commons
by PixelCake
Star Trek Lower Decks Mobile
The official Star Trek: Lower Decks idle game and winner of the Best Storytelling award at the 2023 Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards in London! Star Trek Lower Decks: The Badgey Directive gives players the chance to tap through classic Star Trek stories in the humourous style of Lower Decks. Players can enjoy their favourite storylines with a fresh, funny twist – and maybe even give them new endings!
Mighty Kingdom was founded by a small team of dreamers who loved making games and wanted to change the way they were made. The company has released more than 20 games to over 50 million players worldwide, with brands such as LEGO, Disney, Mattel, Paramount, DreamWorks, Sony and more, as well as developing its own original games.
Roving Rovers
Humans are arriving on the moon and as a rover pilot it’s your job to make sure their colony is ready for their arrival. Design, build and pilot rovers on the lunar surface; collecting resources, performing research and building the colony for their arrival
Mini Mammoth Games is an indie games studio, with a focus on creating entertaining interactive games and media. We continue to develop both our own and other’s IP into more engaging games and experiences that promote a positive impact on the world.
Belt It Out!
Belt It Out! is a fast-paced puzzle game all about using randomised conveyor belts to deliver various goods to their goal.
We’re Ortum Games, a small indie game development studio based out of Adelaide, South Australia. Gaming has been an integral part of our lives and we use that passion to create fun and engaging gaming experiences.
Fox and Shadow
Fox and Shadow is a dual deckbuilding roguelike set in a crumbling futuristic world where degraded AI rule the streets. While human society sleeps in stasis underground, their sharpest minds are stripped of their emotions and transmitted into drones to scavenge from the broken city above.
Paper Cactus Games is an Australian video game studio. Founded in Jan 2021 and based in Adelaide. The team is currently working on their first title Fox and Shadow. They are the grateful recipients of government funding from Screen Australia.
Cozy Commons
Life sim where everyone you meet has a story to tell.
PixelCake is a two-person studio made of Tom Longo and Rebecca Hadland.
Pipsqueak!
by Pond Games
Arena Tails
by Quiet Rift Studios
Tech Hunter
by Split Symmetry
Lucie’s Potager
by Stellar Advent
Pick-a-Pocket
by Stout Heart Games
Pipsqeak!
A search-action platformer about a small mouse exploring a strange and dangerous world.
Pond Games is a team-of-one game studio based in Adelaide, Australia.
Arena Tails
Arena Tails is a roguelite third person shooter. Players can control heroes with unique abilities and weapons which can level up to unlock rewards that change every time you play the game. You can play the game alone, or join four-player co-op.
Quiet Rift Studios is a small indie studio of 4 people based in South Australia. Founded in mid-2023, we are working on our first game, Arena Tails.
Puzzledorf
Can you escape the land of Puzzles? Enter Puzzledorf and test your skills, solving puzzles and finding your way out! Puzzledorf is full of vibrant, block-pushing puzzles where simplicity meets surprising solutions. A land of different, bright and colourful places – will you make it out of the lava caverns?
SPG Games is a solo developer from Adelaide making retro, pixel art styled games with fun, positive experiences to leave you refreshed.
Tech Hunter
Save your stranded expedition by piloting a fleet of unique vehicles in search of alien technology in this sci-fi treasure hunt. Tech Hunter is a non-violent game of exploration and light puzzle solving, with a mystery leading to a positive conclusion.
Founded by Richard Taylor and Jamie Pillarinos, and joined by a number of other Adelaide-based professional developers, Split Symmetry’s ambition is to create console games which focus on thinking rather than fighting. Their debut title in development, Tech Hunter, has been supported by SAFC funding.
Lucie’s Potager
Lucie’s Potager is a shop simulation game based around plants.
Stellar Advent is an indie game development studio based in Adelaide, Australia.
Founded in 2020, our two-person team aims to make cute, character-driven RPGs featuring 2D art.
Pedal Rebel VR
by Toasterface Games
Punchimals
by Two Lives Left
darkwebSTREAMER
by we have always lived in the forest
Box Knight
by We Made a Thing Studios
Meowing Point
by Yofrancisco
Pick-a-Pocket
Stealth your way through Victorian-era streets and pickpocket your way to the top. Stay vigilant as other thieves will be out and about, ready to steal your rewards or as easy marks to increase your stash. Avoid Bobbies, vanish from the light and disappear with your ill-gotten goods by day break.
Stout Heart Games has created games working independently, with other companies and with Indigenous people. Stout Heart Games is looking for publishers wanting to invest in making games with heart.
Pedal Rebel VR
Pedal Rebel VR is an adrenaline-pumping cyberpunk motorcycle street racing game that completely transforms any exercise bike and any VR headset into a completely different kind of immersive racing experience!
Toasterface Games is a very small new indie studio focused on making unique games with an active/fitness twist.
We make VR games that feel huge in small spaces suitable for any size household.
Punchimals
Punchimals is a 2.5D physics-based fighting game where cuddly animals duke it out in giant mechs to settle petty grievances with mega punches.
Two Lives Left is an award-winning small independent studio based in Adelaide, South Australia who are dedicated to creating unique, captivating and beautiful games and tools for the world to enjoy
darkwebSTREAMER
Become the #1 ranked streamer while navigating a deranged internet and your increasingly haunted apartment in this RPG streaming horror sim. With procedurally generated gameplay and permadeath, each playthrough promises a unique horror experience. Dive into a world of madness where ever-shifting choices and horrifying consequences will shape your personal journey.
we have always lived in the forest is an avant-garde anthropologist-founded game studio engaging in experimental narrative design and living procedurally generated worlds.
Box Knight
A funny, silly and irreverent action RPG roguelike. A mix of The Office and Lord of the Rings with a comic like aesthetic. Once a happy small business has been overrun by a dark power, a corporate takeover. They banned friday night beers and it’s up to you the Box Knight to bring back the good vibes. Fight monstrous abstractions of your most toxic co-workers and quest your way up the tower to defeat the evil CEO in glorious battle or die trying…level up in your safe space and try it all again next week.
WeMat is an award winning production and development company that focuses on high concept IPs with global audiences. We build worlds.
We have developed and produced work across a range of platforms, Film/TV/Commercial/Games. We love the cliche of multi-platform storytelling and embrace it.
Meowing Point
Point and meow. 3D hidden cat game. These creatures have been turned into stone. Find and save them all.
Yofrancisco is Francisco Martinez, a solo developer and artist making weird monster games in his off time.
Elevate Showcase
Spellborn
by 7D Games Studios
Crimson Cutlass
by Cerulean Creative Studios
Seeker Neeko
by Golden Age Studios
Beach Bums
by Jazz King
Uncle Unco
by Jonniemadeit
Spellborn
Spellborn is a third-person single-player, story-rich medieval RPG set in an open-world landscape. Use your magic and acrobatic abilities to combat the monarchy. Bring freedom back to the people. Save your family from the inquisition that seeks to destroy those of a free mind.
7D Games Studios is about producing high-quality, must-play original Fantasy and sci-fi titles. The studio has established dependable operational processes and cost-effective pipelines using modern technology.There is an opportunity for a publisher or investor to come in at this stage and secure an attractive deal.
Cryptic Cabin
This game is based on a local escape room, which was 3D scanned then developed to replicate the game play of the physical room
ABM Visual are 3D capture specialists creating 3D virtual tours, stores and experiences
Crimson Cutlass
Crimson Cutlass is a multiplayer wave-based survival game. Where you and your crew survive against numerous enemies and bosses. See how long you last, and work with your team to achieve greatness.
Cerulean Creative Studios is SA’s first First-Nations Australian game studio.
The studio seeks to make fun, engaging games that appeal to vast audiences.
Having fun and creating fun content as well!
Seeker Neeko
Seeker Neeko is a heartwarming and humorous creature-collecting, adventure game. Set in the enchanting, overgrown ruins of a once-mighty empire, Neeko embarks on a thrilling adventure to collect precious items and elemental creatures. Use your findings to bridge the gap between ancient artifacts and the magic of the natural world.
Golden Age Studios‘ mission is clear: to craft games that ignite the imaginations of a new generation of players and serve as a gateway to the expansive world of games. We are wholeheartedly committed to contributing to the next “golden age” of this ever-evolving industry.
Beach Bums
Beach Bums is a funny little hidden object puzzle game that challenges the player to race against the rising tide to reunite beachgoers with their swimwear after a tidal wave washes them away.
Jazz King and co. are a team of four operating from our homes as we pivot our expertise and experience to the game industry, where our passions lie.
The Lights I Promised You
by Solar Lightshow
ANVILHEART
by Towerpoint Games
Uncle Unco
Get to the bus!
Jonniemadeit was founded in 2019 by Jonathon Anderson-Wills, a passionate game developer who has a love for crafting immersive experiences. The studio’s highlight to date is the narrative-driven horror game, Don’t Let Him In (2023), available on Steam and Itch.io.
The Lights I Promised You
The Lights I Promised You is about the dissonance in finding beginnings in a world of endings. Manann, a widowed artisan, set asea to witness the Aurora Australis, a place of significance to his late partner. The game unfolds in a limited space with branching dialog and resource management-styled tasks.
Solar Lightshow is a newly minted game studio working on our debut release, The Lights I Promised You. The studio is based out of Adelaide, Australia while our cozy team spans four continents. We strive to make interactive, story-rich art which is resonant, lovely, timeless yet modern, and always hecka queer.
ANVILHEART
A vagrant blacksmith’s desperate quest for a better life is exploited by a twisted mastermind, forcing them to balance their new reputation for heroism with a secret that could shatter it all.
Towerpoint Games are a small studio in Adelaide composed of two main creatives, Sean and Emma, focused on narrative projects. They are supported by an extended team of 4, including additional programming, artists, and a composer.