Side-scrolling action-adventure game Hollow Knight, released in 2017, was a watershed moment for the industry. From a flop to a hit Loadingīy the mid-to-late 2010s, Australian-made games with more depth and production value had gone viral. Today, games made in Queensland receive a 15 per cent rebate on developer wages and 10 per cent in Victoria, New South Wales and South Australia. "One of the other things that happened after the GFC, or around that time, is that it became much easier to release your own games and to reach the market yourself without a publisher," said Clara Reeves, now Hipster Whale's CEO.Īustralian states soon began to introduce various grants and subsidies for studios to encourage growth in the industry's ongoing rebuild. "As soon as the App Store hit, and the iPhone … I was lucky enough to see the seismic change coming right over the horizon," he said.Ĭrossy Road made $10 million within three months of release and in the years since has been downloaded more than 200 million times.
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