We're back for another year of PAX Australia coverage with #PAXELSIFT! Join us as we recap everything we saw on Day One of the convention.

This week Sarah and Nick jump into Hand of Fate a procedural tabletop/RPG hybrid from Brisbane's Defiant Development, in preparation for Hand of Fate 2 which is out in November.

Simon Boxer of Twice Different joins us this week to talk about making his brand new mobile game, Bounce House, a colourful endless runner style side scroller.

We sit down with Peter Curry, a Programmer & Designer from Dinosaur Polo Club, developers of Mini Metro. Mini Metro is a subway planning puzzle game, that puts the fun in fundamental transport logistics, with a great procedurally generated soundtrack and a fantastic minimalist design.

We're jumping in this week to a game that we've been following for a long time, it's the spritely multiplayer game BrambleLash by Bytesprite Games.

Michael Chu of Sydney’s Shadowplay Studios joined us to discuss his upcoming game Projection, being selected for the PAX Australia Indie Showcase, and rebuilding from scratch.

Matthew Sear and Jak Gem join us to play their Robot arena brawler COLLATERAL DAMAGE

Collateral Damage is a multiplayer area brawler featuring a cast of unique characters and diverse fighting styles and Perth’s very own Matthew Sears and Jak Gem from Artisans Games joined us this week.

Christy Dena a writer, designer and director at Universe Creation 101 joined us to talk about her online event “Crafting Intangibles“, a free online interactive writing event which you can watch online now.

Singaporean game developers Witching Hour Studios inspired by venetian swordfighting have put together a tactical RPG where magic is a finite resource.

Ian Gregory, Creative Director at Singaporean based Witching Hour Studios, speaks to us this week about his newest project Masquarada: Songs and Shadows.

To accompany their newest release Pete's Song, Aaran of Perth band Furniture went to Global Game Jam to make his very first game.

Paul Turbett and Anthony Sweet from Black Lab Games who are based in Perth talked to us about their latest project Battlestar Galactica Deadlock and we asked what it is like to be responsible for the new game adaptation of one of the most beloved science fiction series ever and how to write a game in an established universe.

Explore this peaceful world with us as we play Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles from Brisbane based Prideful Sloth.

Cheryl Vance & Joel Styles of Brisbane's Prideful Sloth join us to talk about Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles their peaceful exploration game.

Procedural generated rogue-lite Aura of Worlds from Melbourne's Cognitive Forge challenges Mitch & Nick this week!

Adric Polkinghorne has to spend a lot of time thinking about how kids can get themselves into strife, and he joins us this week to talk about his new game Think of the Children!

It's weird, it's wonderful and it's made in Perth Western Australia. Paradigm is a point and click adventure game from solo developer Jacob Janerka, and there is nothing quite like it!

International team Massive Monster's Jay Armstrong & Julian Wilton jump on the line to talk about their game The Adventure Pals which has grown out of the flash games of Newgrounds.

It's the best fun you can have while you're a bird playing basketball, it's BIRDSKETBALL, a hilarious couch multiplayer game from Waynetron.

David Clark programmed the indie darling Ori and the Blind Forest right here in Western Australia while working as an international team spread throughout the globe.

So it goes without saying that this reveal had a lot to prove, not just to those who have fallen in love with Bungie’s space magic universe, but those who felt let down by a final product that didn’t live up to expectations.

Games and how they relate to mental health has always been a hot topic and this week we speak to Dr Jennifer Hazel about how her organisation Checkpoint aims to help promote positive outcomes.

It's Mario Kart, pretty much the same as you know it, but on Nintendo's newest console. Adam Rida expert all things Nintendo joins us as we play through this new edition.

How do you show what your virtual reality game is like to people who might want to pull on their VR headsets?

Jump into this synthwave shooter designed for score attack and emulates competive online shooters for a singleplayer environment.

We jump into vertical RTS Forts with our podcast colleagues Ultra Super Mega, and see who really is the best at games.

Take blackjack and meld it with UNO and you're part of the way to SWITCH a new card game made here in Western Australia.

Build higher and stronger in Forts by Brisbane's EarthWork Games, a vertical real time strategy game.

Pull on your comfy underdacks and join us for a fun chat with Andrew Freeth of Adelaide's Juicy Cupcake.

In our second live episode from Oz Comic Con Perth we ask some local developers why they create games, and what drives them to finish them.

Ash Ringrose of Sydney's SMG Studio talks all about making his cooperative puzzle game Death Squared.

Mitch finds himself a new podcast, he argues a better podcast. I argue he can stay there.

How hard is it to work your way through a maze with your mates? Well pretty bloody hard it turns out! Join us as we play Death Squared by SMG Studio!

Armed With Wings; Rearmed is a black and white fast paced platformer that draws from and builds on the legacy of games that were featured on legendary game site Newgrounds.

Join us as we speak to Justine Colla of Alta as she tells us all about their new multiplayer VR sandbox game A Township Tale.

Wacky wobbly noodlemen deathmatches in Inflatality by Hojo Studios and Deepforged Studios

Move through light and shade in ninja deathmatch game Kieru, Jack Knobel joins us this week to share how he and Pinefire Studios made it.

Bounce your way to the top of the tower with Alberto Santiago developer of Goat Punks a hilarious local multiplayer game where you battle to see who is king of the mountain.

Jump into the battlefield with this innovative real time strategy game Siegecraft Commander, by Sydney's Blowfish Studios.

Step sequence puzzler Resynth is our feature and developer and musician Sam Izzo joins us this week to talk all about it.

Ellen Jurik of Sydney's Blowfish Studios joins us this week to talk about producing games and their new title Siegecraft Commander an innovative console real time strategy game.

Rotate the world in John Kane's Mallow Drops a sokoban style puzzle, and he joins us this week to tell us all about them.

Guide cute critters to their death on the worst carnival ride of their lives in Crazy Coasters: Rainbow Road, and developer James Cook joins us this week.

Enter the immersive narrative world of Kept with lead developer Jack Condon from Sydney's S1T2.

Quick draw swipe shooter Barking Irons is a pixelly western adventure perfect for playing on the go, and Tom & Lincoln from Sleepyhead Studios join us this week to talk about how it came together.

It's golf Jim, but not as you know it. We joined Giant Margarita for a Tequila or two and challenged them to a round of Party Golf!

We've made it through the final day of PAX Australia 2016, but that doesn't mean we've stopped bringing you the best of the indie floor at PAX Rising.

Even more indie developer interviews coming at you from the floor of PAX Australia with #PAXELSIFT!

All the interviews from Day one of PAX Australia 2016, Friday November 4th 2016

Build your own village of goblins and use them to take over the world in Goblins of Elderstone and Gustav Seymore of Lost Goblin joins us this week to tell us all about it.

Starlost is an upcoming mobile spaceship game, where you need to balance risk to get loot while keeping safe enough to make it to the end of the level.

Blast your way through space with Western Australian made shooter Starlost, and developer Ken Johnson joins us in the studio live!

Remnants of a fallen empire, a new adversary in a beautiful painterly world. Tom Cox of Canberra's Whalehammer Games joins us this week to talk all about their recently release game.

We couldn't answer all your questions and answers at Perth Games Festival, so here are some of our favourites.

We're live at Perth Games Festival 2016 with special guests Liam Hunt, Anthony Sweet and Mark Mennell.

How long until you survive in a world full of mutants? Probably not ages hey. Join us as we play Final Days with developer Michael De Piazzi.

Mike De Piazzi joins us to talk all about his multiplayer top-down shooter Final Days!

What happens when you make a jam game that mashes two existing titles together, Super Mario and No Man's Sky, and the long arm of the law comes down on you?

Two robots find each other in a ruin world in WANDA a story about friendship by Caroline Thant and Kodots Games, our guest this week.

You might have a big collection of games but nothing like what Jessie Yeoh has acumulated, which prompted her to open the Nostalgia Box Perth's first Video Game Museum.

Button masher or frame perfect warrior, fighting games are a big deal to Henry Sham from OzHadou, the biggest fighting game community in Australia.

It's the age old story. Captain builds spaceship, captain defeats enemies, crew steal ship, captain defeats crew. Join us we play Defect Spaceship Destruction Kit.

Steve Heller of "Indie games label" Surprise Attack Games joins us to talk about what it takes to get an indie game off the ground.

It's got an amazing soundtrack and some pumping visuals, Bob Hayden's Vectonic throws you behind the wheel of a floating polygon as you zoom and bounce through a chillwave world.

Jump inside the synthwave with Bob Hayden developer of multiplayer hover game Vectonic.

Games can be used to promote a healthy headspace, and to understand the experiences of those with mental illness and Jane Cocks of CheckPoint joins us this week to talk all about it.

Don't let your fans' videos drown in an ocean of content, follow these simple tips to ensure your game gets the attention it deserves on Twitch, Youtube and Mixer.

Streaming is a big part of what League of Geeks does and we're joined by Darcy Smith, Community Manager, this week to how it all works.

Oozing style and building on the legacy of those platformers that have come before we jumped into Hollow Knight by Adelaide's Team Cherry.

Part Dark Souls part Metroidvania, Hollow Knight by Adelaide's Team Cherry is all style.

Time dilation and social media, join us as we speak to developer John Kane about his interactive narrative game about blasting across the galaxy and the world you live behind.

This week we spoke to Senator Scott Ludlam about the Greens policies in games development funding, non-violent solutions in games, and funding Twitch Streamers.

More random modes than you can poke a stick at, Adam and Ian of Giant Margarita join us this week to talk all about making Party Golf!

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Siblings Leigh & Elissa Harris join us this week to talk all about their space submarine simulator Objects In Space, which can be extended by a physical cockpit.

Can be games be used to help people learn about scientific concepts? Lisa Evans is a PhD candidate at Murdoch University and is researching just that in "World of Choices"

Roll on with Perth based Mike Cann, developer of cute runner Mr Nibbes Forever.

Guide a hamster from the earthly domain to the heavens above in this post modern side scrolling platformer.

Making games from the red heart of Western Australia, Jez and Kim from Outback Pixels left their day jobs to make games full time.

Toys, nostalgia and retro games, that's the goal with Skourge Legacy by director Wade K. Savage. Wade rose to fame with fan film Fallout: Lanius

Space the final frontier for multiplayer death matches, in this stylish game by Bear-Tooth Studios.

Just a little fishy endlessly swimming upstream.

Colton Onderwater joins us this week to share his brand new game Super Salmon Migration an endless swimmer for iOS and Android

Jason Imms, journalist and founder of the Tasmanian Game Development Society joins us to talk all about the tassie game dev scene.

It's the end of the world as you know it, and you feel like you're probably dead actually. Race higher as the lava rises around you in Dime Studio's Blockpocalypse.

Jump into a saturday morning cartoon with Damsel by Queensland's Screwtape Studios and Megan Summers joins us this week to talk all about it.

Listen to our first live episode live at Perth's OzComicCon 2016!

Get in on that hot esports action at the launch of Square Heroes at the Glitch!

Jump ever higher in this platformer at the end of the world in Blockpocalypse by Dime Studios! Dan Clayton joins us this week to talk all about his local multiplayer party game.

Matt Comi works with a team spread throughout the world at Big Bucket software and joins us this week to talk about his newest game Space Age, a retro inspired point and click

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Oscar Brittain Fremantle native, joins us to talk about his brand new game World's Fast Pizza chockablock with western australia references.

What does the future hold for virtual reality? Two developers making projects for VR join us this week, Robert Bruce of Immersia VR and Chris Parkin of Offpeak Games look into their virtual crystal balls.

Game development in Western Australia has a brand new home with the opening of LEVEL ONE a collaboration with SK Games and FTI.

Music can make or break a game and Fabian Malabello joins us this week to talk all about his work with The Otherworld Agency.

Nick McDonnell of Melbourne's Samurai Punk joins us this week to talk all about his game Screencheat, where split-screen cheating is the name of the game.

Can you make a game in 48 hours? We went down and spoke to the challengers at the Perth Global Game Jam 2016

Joshua Meadows is bringing popular LGBTIQ convention GX to Australia and joins us to tell us all about their crowdfunding campaign.