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Pixel Sift Plays: MoonQuest
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Stifled
Scream your lungs out in Virtual Reality with Gattai Games scary horror game Stifled.
Pixel Sift Plays: Hand of Fate 2
Take the game of life and death into your hands with Hand of Fate 2, now available on the Nintendo Switch.
Pixel Sift Plays: Pixel Parties Preview - Brief Battles, Birdsketball, Screencheat, Party Golf
We're so close to 100 episodes, and here is a special preview of all the games you can check out on the night!
Pixel Sift Plays: Desync
Strap on your headphones and jump into a stylised 1980s vision of a computer battlefield with Desync by THE FOREGONE SYNDICATE.
Pixel Sift Plays: Push Me Pull You
Stretch your body out and work with your buddy as the weirdest noodle team ever in Push Me Pull You by House House
Pixel Sift Plays: Grabity with Ninja Thumbs
Super Smash Bros with Half-Life 2's Gravity Gun? That's Grabity by New Zealand based developers Ninja Thumbs.
Pixel Sift Plays: Nova Flow
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
Pixel Sift Plays: City of Brass with Uppercut Games
Grab your whip and your keyboard as we race our way through the City of Brass by Uppercut Games with some genius Twitch interactivity!
Pixel Sift Plays: Muffled Warfare with Gattai Games
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Sky Noon Beta
It's the wild west, but not as you know it. Jump into the floating frontier and blast your enemies into the sky.
Pixel Sift Plays: Streets of Red Devil's Dare Deluxe
It's dark moody and full of pop culture references, it's a permadeath brawler from Singapore's Secret Base!
Pixel Sift Plays: The Adventure Pals
It's hilarious, it's fun and anyone will love The Adventure Pals by Massive Monster, a cartoon flash-game inspired platformer out now.
Pixel Sift Plays: Molemen Must Die!
Some critters have made fun of the President, and it's your chance to get revenge in Molemen Must Die by Mokomoto!
Pixel Sift Plays: Assault Android Cactus
Chibi warriors deal out robot destruction in Witch Beam's Assault Android Cactus!
Pixel Sift Plays: Armed With Wings: Rearmed
Build up the biggest combo you can while fighting your way through Sun Studio's stylish black and white sidescroller Armed With Wings: Rearmed
Pixel Sift Plays: The Adventures of Square
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!
Pixel Sift Plays: Damsel
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Putty Pals
Become the blob and work together with your mates to make it through this cute platformer by Melbourne's Harmonious Games
Pixel Sift Plays: Crawl
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Wildfire
This week on Pixel Sift Plays, we're sneaking through stealth platformer Wildfire by international team Sneaky Bastards.
Pixel Sift Plays: Brief Battles
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.
Day Three Recap - 2017 PAX Australia - #PAXELSIFT
We've been smashing out interviews left right and centre and we present to you, PAXELSIFT DAY 3. Enjoy!
Day Two Recap - 2017 PAX Australia - #PAXELSIFT
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.
Day One Recap - 2017 PAX Australia - #PAXELSIFT
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Hand of Fate
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Bramblelash
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Collateral Damage
Matthew Sear and Jak Gem join us to play their Robot arena brawler COLLATERAL DAMAGE
Pixel Sift Plays: Masquerada Songs and Shadows
Singaporean game developers Witching Hour Studios inspired by venetian swordfighting have put together a tactical RPG where magic is a finite resource.
Jamming with Furniture - Making games and music with Aaran Gicquel
To accompany their newest release Pete's Song, Aaran of Perth band Furniture went to Global Game Jam to make his very first game.
Pixel Sift Plays: Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Explore this peaceful world with us as we play Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles from Brisbane based Prideful Sloth.
Pixel Sift Plays: Aura of Worlds
Procedural generated rogue-lite Aura of Worlds from Melbourne's Cognitive Forge challenges Mitch & Nick this week!
Pixel Sift Plays: Paradigm
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!
Pixel Sift Plays: Birdsketball
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Mario Kart 8 Deluxe with Adam Rida of Red Coin
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.
Symphony of the Machine Mixed Reality Trailer - Behind the Scenes
How do you show what your virtual reality game is like to people who might want to pull on their VR headsets?
Pixel Sift Plays: Forts with Ultra Super Mega Podcast
We jump into vertical RTS Forts with our podcast colleagues Ultra Super Mega, and see who really is the best at games.
Pixel Sift Plays: Switch (Card Game)
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Death Squared
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!
Pixel Sift Plays: Siegecraft Commander
Jump into the battlefield with this innovative real time strategy game Siegecraft Commander, by Sydney's Blowfish Studios.
Pixel Sift Plays: Party Golf with Giant Margarita
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!
Day Three Recap - 2016 PAX Australia - #PAXELSIFT
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.
Day Two Recap - 2016 PAX Australia - #PAXELSIFT
Even more indie developer interviews coming at you from the floor of PAX Australia with #PAXELSIFT!
Day One Recap - 2016 PAX Australia - #PAXELSIFT
All the interviews from Day one of PAX Australia 2016, Friday November 4th 2016
Pixel Sift Plays: Starlost
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Final Days
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Defect Spaceship Destruction Kit
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Vectonic
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.
Pixel Sift Plays: Hollow Knight
Oozing style and building on the legacy of those platformers that have come before we jumped into Hollow Knight by Adelaide's Team Cherry.
Pixel Sift Plays: Mr Nibbles Forever
Guide a hamster from the earthly domain to the heavens above in this post modern side scrolling platformer.
Pixel Sift Plays: Arbalest 3035
Space the final frontier for multiplayer death matches, in this stylish game by Bear-Tooth Studios.
Pixel Sift Plays: Super Salmon Migration
Just a little fishy endlessly swimming upstream.
Pixel Sift Plays: Blockpocalypse
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.
Pixel Sift Presents: Square Heroes Launch Tournament
Get in on that hot esports action at the launch of Square Heroes at the Glitch!
Pixel Sift Plays: World's Fastest Pizza
Police now targeting: Western Australian References.
Pixel Sift Plays: Square Heroes
Fight to the death in this local multiplayer twin-stick shooter, which features some downright charming graphics.