We'll be all over Melbourne International Games Week and PAX AUS, it's going to be chock-a-block

Making games is difficult and getting paid for it properly is even harder according to new statistics from Game Workers Unite Australia.

Are you afraid of Australian spiders? Well you're going to be way more scared when you're shrunk to their size in Little Bit Lost!

John Robertson, comedian and performer joins us this episode as we learn about the Dark Room, his video game adaptation of the YouTube & stage show of the same name, a collaboration with Stirfire Studios.

We announce our Pixel Parties Prize Winner & an update on our where we'll be at PAXAUS 2018!

The internet comes at you fast take a journey with Mitch and learn why he thinks memes and folklore have more in common than you think.

Friendship, nostalgia and adventure in The Gardens Between by Melbourne's The Voxel Agents.

Mitch doesn't know anything about Spider-Man, but he sure talked about it on Episode #145 of Party Loaded!

Jeff and Locky from Grease Monkey Games take us on a ride with Torque Drift, their mobile competitive drift game.

If you every wanted to play as Nightcrawler from the X-Men then Mr Shifty by Queensland based developers Mr Shifty.

Daniel & James from Melbourne's Pixel Engineers join us to share Hunt 'N Sneak their asymetric local multiplayer game of light and shadow.

They've called it Australia's Biggest Esports event, and Pixel Sift were there for the very first Melbourne Esports Open.

It's been close a decade in the making, but now you can play Ben Porter's MoonQuest, a procedurally generated crafting platformer made in Melbourne.

Chomp your way to the top in Eatvolve by Melbourne's Aladar Apponyi, and how hard games with an audience are better than hard games on their own.

Scream your lungs out in Virtual Reality with Gattai Games scary horror game Stifled.

What if snake was a turn based puzzle game with time travel? Well now it is with Those Six Faces AKA Sean Simon's Snake Time!

If you ever wanted to have a custom game for a loved one, HEART2GAME might be just what the "love doctor" ordered.

Climb into your giant robot for a normal game of basketball just like humans always do in "Regular Human Basketball" by Melbourne's Powerhoof!

Take the game of life and death into your hands with Hand of Fate 2, now available on the Nintendo Switch.

Tim Colwill joins us to talk about how writing satire for his comedy games site Point &Clickbait, and working as a union organiser for Game Workers Unite Australia, both aim to get us to demand a better games industry.

We're so close to 100 episodes, and here is a special preview of all the games you can check out on the night!

Strap on your headphones and jump into a stylised 1980s vision of a computer battlefield with Desync by THE FOREGONE SYNDICATE.

Take to the skies with Abi Rahmani as your co-pilot, as we jump into the cockpit of Project Wingman made in Perth, Western Australia.

Stretch your body out and work with your buddy as the weirdest noodle team ever in Push Me Pull You by House House

The president is mad about something and he's gone for the nuclear option, luckily Matt Kelly is here from Mokomoto to talk us through it.

Super Smash Bros with Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun? That's Grabity by New Zealand based developers Ninja Thumbs.

100 episodes down and we want to party with you at The Sewing Room in Perth on Friday July 13th 2018!

What you can't see might just kill you, Justin Ng of Singaporean developer Gattai Games is our guest this week as we learn about his echolocation style first person games Muffled Warfare and Stifled.

Take the best bits of Portal 2, add some speed, and chuck it into an 80s style cyberspace mold and you'll have Nova Flow by Wrecked Angle Studios

How will Mitch go with his predictions for this year's upcoming E3? Only time will tell but I bet that Khajit dating sim is a sure bet.

Ian MacLarty makes small fascinating experiential games, and he's here this week to share his puzzle game Dissembler.

Grab your whip and your keyboard as we race our way through the City of Brass by Uppercut Games with some genius Twitch interactivity!

See with sound, then kill with bullets. Power up your robot body and get ready to shutdown your fellow machines in Muffled Warfare by Gattai Games.

A gun in every hand, bullets for any and all situations. Nick McDonnell of Samurai Punk takes us on a journey to "The American Dream"

It's the wild west, but not as you know it. Jump into the floating frontier and blast your enemies into the sky.

It's dark moody and full of pop culture references, it's a permadeath brawler from Singapore's Secret Base!

It's described as Grand Theft Cthulhu by its creator and we're digging it. Come for a cruise down the highway with our guest Mike Blackney and keep an eye out for monsters.

It's hilarious, it's fun and anyone will love The Adventure Pals by Massive Monster, a cartoon flash-game inspired platformer out now.

Jump through a geometric world at breakneck speed in Nova Flow a speedrunning platformer from Melbourne's Wrecked Angle Studios.

A whole lot of good dogs that need pats in Woof3d, a Wolfenstein 3d mod by Louis Roots.

Some critters have made fun of the President, and it's your chance to get revenge in Molemen Must Die by Mokomoto!

It all started with a Witch, Tim Bermanseder of Cardboard Keep shares with us his upcoming magical bullet (spell?) hell game Witch Thief!

Chibi warriors deal out robot destruction in Witch Beam's Assault Android Cactus!

Lovable robots of the near future just trying to find a place in this world. Listen to our conversation with Ally McLean of Robot House as we discuss RUMU and "The Working Lunch"

Build up the biggest combo you can while fighting your way through Sun Studio's stylish black and white sidescroller Armed With Wings: Rearmed

Build a beautiful underwater garden and learn more about our precious reefs in Rainbow Reef by Chaos Theory Games.

Do yourself a favour and play this gorgeous love letter to Studio Ghibli's Kiki's Delivery Service.

You are a square against the world in this retro inspired shooter built in the DOOM engine and developers James & Ben Paddock from Big Brik Games joined us in the studio this week for Pixel Sift Plays!

Your request for even more discussion about the Australian Government response to the Video Game Development inquiry has been noted.

Take a journey with Arina and Frendt as the explore surreal nostalgic worlds in The Gardens Between!

Strap yourself in, you've got 48 hours to make a game from start to finish at the Global Game Jam which celebrates it's 10th anniversary this year.

What if I told you that vampires secretly ruled the world and it was up to you to take them down? Jump into Damsel by Queensland's Screwtape Studios and save the world one wooden stake at a time.

Strap into your DeLorean we're heading to the neo soaked retro eighties inspired streets of Hyper Jam with Roman Maksymyschyn of Melbourne's Bit Dragon.

Become the blob and work together with your mates to make it through this cute platformer by Melbourne's Harmonious Games

Combining RPG, Tabletop and action elements Hand of Fate 2 builds on what Morgan Jaffit and the team at Defiant Development achieved when creating the original game.

Work together for like 5 seconds, then it's a free for all as one player fights their way through the dungeon hindered by the friends who control monsters and traps in CRAWL by Powerhoof.

We're back for another live episode at Perth Games Festival and this year we're speaking with some early career developers from our home state of Western Australia.

Travers Dunkinson of Melbourne's Atomizer Games joins us this week to talk all about his stealth cat burglar game, HEIST.

This week on Pixel Sift Plays, we're sneaking through stealth platformer Wildfire by international team Sneaky Bastards.

Dylan J. Walker, Creative Director and developer from ONERAT GAMES joins us this week.

This week we jump into Butt Brawler BRIEF BATTLES by Adelaide's Juicy Cupcake! It's a local multiplayer tournament game where you pick up super powered undies to fight for victory.

Ed Orman from Uppercut Games joined us to discuss his latest game, City of Brass, a Rogue-lite FPS that pays tribute to the Arabian Knights tale of the same name.

We hit the floor of PAXAUS 2017 to record a special collaborative episode with fellow Perth podcasters, Party Loaded!

We've been smashing out interviews left right and centre and we present to you, PAXELSIFT DAY 3. Enjoy!

We're back again bringing you live interviews from the floor for Day Two of PAX Australia 2017, and we're looking at all things indie.

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!