Feed and pet creatures, manoeuvre through asymmetrical gameplay, restore colour to the world and answer calls on a videogame hint line with four microgames commissioned by ACMI.
Play these four microgames from established and emerging Australian game developers, newly commissioned for Game Worlds.
ACMI EGG by Apartment 809
An egg has hatched at ACMI and now a creature lives here. It needs you to feed it, care for it and keep it company.
What’s Your Angle by Callum Chatfield and Mally He
Change your perspective with this two-player puzzle, where each player experiences the game from a different direction.
Salix8 Sunset by Tim Koch
Enter an abstract world devoid of colour. Can you solve the series of tasks to restore colour to the game world?
Hint Line ’93 by Secret Lab and Yarn Spinner
Be transported back to the golden era of videogame hint lines. As callers desperately seek help with notoriously cryptic games, you must try to find the answers in ‘The Compendium’.
Meet the developers
Apartment 809
Apartment 809 consists of Leura Smith and Katsumi Yoshida. Leura is creative director and has a background in architecture and games. Katsumi is our technical director, with a particular interest in technical art and music.
We’re currently working on Canvas Street – a game about being an architect.
Callum Chatfield
Callum was born and raised in regional Victoria, and games have played an essential part of their life, allowing them to connect with countless amounts of amazing people across the world. Which is why they have dedicated themselves to specialising in multiplay and bringing people together through virtual experiences.
Mally He
Mally is most passionate about level design and UI design. As a gamer, they love narrative based games, adventure games and puzzle games, but as a developer they are mainly interested in 2D platforming games with puzzle elements.
Secret Lab
Secret Lab is the longest-running game development studio in Tasmania and is best known for the ABC Play School Games and Night in the Woods. Yarn Spinner builds tools for video games and is used by everything from DREDGE to A Short Hike, to Venba. Mars Buttfield-Addison is a freelance technologist and STEM communicator. Meghann O’Neill is a game journalist and writer of official hint guides.
Tim Koch
Tim Koch is an Australian electronic musician and visual artist known for his intricate sound design and genre-blurring compositions. With releases spanning IDM, ambient and glitch, his work often bridges digital precision with emotional depth. Beyond audio, Koch explores 8-bit and retro computer aesthetics, crafting optical graphic art inspired by vintage systems like the Commodore 64. His creative output merges nostalgic technology with futuristic expression, establishing him as a unique voice in both underground electronic music and pixel-based visual art.
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