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Why doesn't Australia have a bigger game industry? >Starts as a British outpost in one of the most inhospitable environments on earth >Aussies managed to build all these great cities >Sydney, the first British settlement, was named after Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, he was responsible for devising a plan to settle convicts at Botany Bay in Australia >Melbourne was named after Lord Melbourne, the Prime Minister of Great Britain at the time >The discovery of gold in Victoria in 1851 led to the Victorian gold rush, Melbourne was the richest city due to the Gold Rush >Brisbane City Hall design is based on a combination of the Roman Pantheon, and St Mark's Campanile in Venice >QLD: Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast / Maroochydore, Brisbane, Redlands, Ipswich, Logan City, Rockhampton, Gladstone, Bundaberg, Hervey Bay, Maryborough, Yeppoon, Gympie are top tier >Sydney’s beautiful historic suburbs >Queen Victoria Building and heaps of sandstone buildings >Outback, coral reefs, desert, plains, Sydney, coasts, beaches
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>>23443274 We had a decent one in the early 2000s, but throughout the mid 2000s the Howard government started to fuck with things and the GFC was the final nail in the coffin for the better part of a decade. If you mean why no games are set in Aus, it’s because we’re boring as shit and no one gives a fuck about any of the abo stuff.
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>>23443274 >why hasn’t a penal colony, where the country of demented sociopaths sent their most demented sociopaths, contributed to culture? Anonymous
>>23443274 Do you ask because you don't live in Australia? Australia is all normalfags, and gaming is still seen as nerd shit compared to normalfag hobbies like sports.
If I brought up esports, how many people do you think would know what I was talking about? Nobody, but they would know what AFL is (australian football). They're just not tech savvy enough to have a games industry. Only someone who doesn't live here would need to ask why we don't have one.
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>>23443274 Blue collar work here is largely disregarded and the government offers limited incentives for game development. You can apply for grants with Film Australia to help fund game development, but they will force you to put in that retarded 'We respect the traditional owners of the land' message at the start of the game. That's why Untitled Goose Game had that message at the start.
I've thought about applying for a grant before, but I feel like they would reject most of my game ideas.
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>>23443277 The people running Australia legitimately look like this. They're all old people. When I'm old, I'll still have been a gamer when I was younger, but the old people in charge of things now were not gamers. They do not care about gaming.
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Australia is kind of socialist and doesn’t have much entrepreneurship in general, every industry revolves around government money, also it’s more rewarding to invest in property than business because of tax incentives, no one wants to risk starting a business like video games. The Australian experience is to work for a megacorp or government and then go home and watch TV, every deviation from that lifestyle is taxed to oblivion.
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>>23443274 LNP were in for too long and fucked oved every industry that wasn't related to mining.
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>>23443275 >but throughout the mid 2000s the Howard government started to fuck with things Howard's government had little bearing over the 2008 financial crash. Since that was global and was what wiped out the few triple A studios that existed here. You can't blame everything on what had so little initiative to exist in the first place on liberals. You're retarded to think it was anything but the GFC. I'm sorry but some of you Aus devs just make me mad with this crap because I believe you're a bunch of slackers.
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Why doesn't India have a bigger game industry?>Starts as a British colony ruled under the East India Company before the Crown took over >Indians managed to build massive cities blending ancient culture and colonial design >Delhi, the capital, was redesigned by British architects like Edwin Lutyens and Herbert Baker during the Raj >Mumbai was named after the goddess Mumbā Devī, became a global trade hub during the British era >Kolkata was the capital of British India until 1911, founded as a trading post by the East India Company >The Bengal Presidency and Bombay Presidency were economic powerhouses during the colonial period >British introduced railways, universities, and civil infrastructure that became the backbone of modern India >Post-independence cities like Bangalore rose as tech and startup centers, but gaming lagged behind due to lack of funding and cultural focus >Now India has major metros like Mumbai, Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai, Pune, Ahmedabad, and Kolkata — all massive urban hubs with tons of creative potential >Rajasthan forts, Kerala backwaters, Himalayan ranges, Thar Desert, Ganges plains, coastal cities — insane environmental variety for potential game settings
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>>23443274 costs too much + laziness
It tries to do the 1st world economies thing but all Australia is Minecraft bitch simp for the rest of the world.
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>>23443275 Also you need to define what 'good' was for Australia, because as far as I knew it our whole industry was just piggybacking off successful American companies which was how we got to work on bigger games. Brisbane, the heart of Aussie games development were all just satellite studios. In most recent years we've had labor policies that were more open to spending money on Aussie studios and they still churn out garbage. regardless when you give the government grants. Labor wouldn't have saved anything, you're fucking delusional and you don't deserve the funding either. I'd rather companies start up here that didn't need to rely on government hand outs.
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>>23443274 Costs too much to pay for stuff here so a game of any decent size made in Australia would be 90% outsourced to india anyway
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>>23443274 The government doesn't incentivise the creation of media for this industry to the level that other countries do and overseas company's poach it's talent
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>>23443285 >In most recent years we've had labor policies that were more open to spending money on Aussie studios and they still churn out garbage. No surprise. You have to kneel and put shit like first nations propaganda in your game if you want funding
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>>723052192 >can anyone explain why the kiwis still do that haka shit, its the cringiest nonsense ive ever seen It's to distract everyone from how silly kiwis sound.
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>>23443274 >crossy road >fruit ninja you're welcome
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>>23443274 Cost of living is too high and for the last 30 years our internet has been dogshit tier.
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>>23443285 >I'd rather companies start up here that didn't need to rely on government hand outs. Someone has to front the money, devs have none, banks wont lend, where the fuck else are they gonna get it?
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>>23443274 Australia has the best programmers in the world, only they live in America because they pay better.
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>>23443283 Because india is full of sub 60 iq dalits, anyone with more than a room temp iq leaves for any country that will take them.
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>>23443274 Retards keep voting for shithouse policies that only benefit politicians and their housing economic bubble which going to burst any day now
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>>23443293 You've basically explained why there's no game industry. Who's going to pay for the office space where the devs work? That'll be the riskiest shit ever, because there's no guarantee that they make any money. That's why it doesn't happen.
The only businesses people open in Australia are stuff that makes money right now, and that's why there's so many restaurants, cafes, etc.
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>>23443296 >voting Lol, LMAO. Democracy is literally pointless, why do you fags still try to keep playing pretend. We would literally be better off with a banana republic despot than ANY politician.
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>>23443287 >The government doesn't incentivise the creation of media for this industry Yeah we do, unfortunately. And all it's resulted in was wasting taxpayer money for games that no one will even take a second glance at. God... if you had seen the depths of the bargain bin these events on Steam present it would change your perspective mate. I've viewed it for the past few years. Atrocious stuff.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/melbourneinternationalgamesweek2025 There might be some showcased at Aus pax too.
https://store.steampowered.com/sale/pax-aus-2025 99% of the time those who look for gubermint handouts make bottom of the barrel trash.
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>>23443299 The arts are completely captured by shitlibs because rightoids refuse to pick up a pencil or pay for anything to be made.
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>>23443298 Voting is mandatory here. You get fined if you don't vote. They also delay and backdate the fines they send in the mail, so you get them like 1 day before the due date, or many times after, so you then have to pay exorbitant late fees, which they then repeat the process of scamming you for if you dont immediately pay it
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>>23443274 same reason there's no film industry here
costs too much to hire aussies because of our fucked cost of living
also aussies have weird taste in games
look at the stuff that does get made when tax money is wasted on them
https://www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-centre/news/2025/07-21-australian-gamesmakers-level-up I wouldn't play any of these games...
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>>23443301 >You get fined if you don't vote Skill issue
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>>23443299 when they said australia is the most reddit of countries, they weren't kidding lololol
these games should be banned
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>>23443297 >office space I've always thought it would be interesting to use VR + teleconferencing + chat to assemble a remote game studio, as long as you can communicate, share your work and collaborate in vr, you don't need an office, you could just load up the map and start working on it with your coworkers and play through it as if it's a multiplayer game
but do people just wanna stay at home for 2years to make a game? it's basically house arrest
and rent is too damn high in this country
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>>23443305 also it would be hard to find good coworkers in australia
everyone here is into shit games, it would be like herding cats
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Why the hell did this get moved? It's more on-topic than the Twitter screenshot threads or the BBC cuck threads.
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>>23443310 Not wrong but it's because most australian games threads on /v/ turn int auspol threads and ALP vs LNP shilling
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>>23443310 Cause Aus threads on /v/ always turn into dogshit where its just a bunch of cookers whinging about everything besides vidya
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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAh
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fucking hate indians
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>>23444352 Idk why I just read that as bon-dee
