Past events

• Adelaide City Library 3D modelling workshop Sunday, 15 December 2019, 2:30pm – 4:30pm https://www.facebook.com/events/2557877247632736/
• Adelaide City Library: Board Game Bash - Until 16 April 2020.  Bring a friendly sense of competition and get ready to rock and roll the dice!  Chess and Scrabble and Connect 4 - also Tsuro, Love Letter and Zombie Dice (and much, much more). Pick up an old favourite, or try out a modern classic! Everyone is welcome! No bookings required.Adelaide City Library: Coding for Robots.  Saturdays and Wednesdays, 15 Jan to 29 Feb 2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/486417465613378/
• Adelaide City Library: Discover Virtual Reality, on the HTC Vive, Samsung Gear and Google Cardboard.  Mondays and Saturdays  https://www.facebook.com/events/2963880906976081/
• Adelaide City Library: ThinkTank.  For writers including game writers: Writers SA will be holding a monthly ThinkTank session to help you with story ideas and structure. https://writerssa.org.au/event-registration/
• Adelaide City Library: Voxon.  Mondays and Tuesdays until 24 February https://www.facebook.com/events/603119017155645/
• Adelaide City Library: Coding for Robots.  Saturdays and Wednesdays, 15 Jan to 29 Feb 2020 https://www.facebook.com/events/486417465613378/
• Adelaide City Library: Discover Robotics! - to 28 March 2020 ‘Explore the exciting world of robotics with Ollie, Meccanoid or Mindstorm. Using the latest iPad apps, drive and race Ollie through a maze you’ve made, or perform a crazy trick combo! See how you can code Lego to solve a Rubicks Cube or meet our friendly and interactive Meccanoid robot. Join our volunteers for an introduction to Robotics!’ Book now: https://bit.ly/37Pa9XE
• Adelaide City Library: Discover Virtual Reality, on the HTC Vive, Samsung Gear and Google Cardboard.  Mondays and Saturdays  https://www.facebook.com/events/2963880906976081/
• Adelaide City Library: Discover Voxon Until 30 Mar 2020 ‘Come and discover the next step in STEAM technology - an interactive 3D holographic experience with the Voxon VX1. Please join our friendly volunteer to experience 3D data in holographic format. Explore Science, Anatomy, Mathematics, Design, Topography and then get to play some 3D games! Our current schedule can be found here: https://bit.ly/37LKJKq Bookings are not required, but sessions are subject to volunteer availability.’
• Adelaide City Library: Discover VR Until 30 Mar 2020 ‘Visit the City Library's Innovation Lab and come on a mind-blowing journey without even leaving the room! Learn the applications of Virtual Reality through use of our HTC Vive, Samsung Gear and Google Cardboard and discover the wonders of this great new technology. Our current schedule can be found here: https://bit.ly/37LK9MK Please note that wait times may apply and are subject to volunteer availability.’
• Adelaide City Library: Making Music and Sound Production 3 dates between 11 Mar – 1 Apr 2020 ‘Are you interested in discovering more about sound effects and sound editing? How about learning to record your very own digital music with Protools or Garageband? Join our friendly Media Lab volunteer for a free session and get started. Book now: https://bit.ly/2QCa6sD When booking please use the notes field to indicate what you would like to learn during your session, including any instruments you wish to bring. Event subject to volunteer availability.’
• Adelaide City Library: ThinkTank.  For writers including game writers: Writers SA will be holding a monthly ThinkTank session to help you with story ideas and structure. https://writerssa.org.au/event-registration/
• Adelaide City Library: Voxon.  Mondays and Tuesdays until 24 February https://www.facebook.com/events/603119017155645/
• Adelaide City Library is holding a Winter Writing Festival and there will be a Games Writing Workshop as part of it 12:30pm – 2:00pm Saturday 13 July 2019 at Level 3 in the City Library in Rundle Mall https://explore.cityofadelaide.com.au/whats-on/context-winter-writing-festival-games-writing-workshop/
• Adelaide City Library: Writing meetings to test your game story Monthly until 2 Dec 2020 Writers SA Think Tank Adelaide City Libraries Join Writers SA's new writing circle, the Think Tank. Get together with writers every month to pitch concepts, test plot lines, workshop a synopsis, brainstorm and get feedback on your work in this fast-paced hour of creative construction. First Wednesday of every month, 5:30pm to 6:30pm at City Library.  https://bit.ly/2vqkwTO or https://writerssa.org.au/event-registration/
• Adelaide Game Dev Breakfast organised by Chris Keesmaat at East Terrace Continental 14 April 2019 https://www.facebook.com/events/2038161692966527/
• Adelaide Game Developer Collaboration Events (then called Networking Sessions) run by Adam Dowley of IGDA (SA) - 8 August 2018, 14 November 2018
• Adelaide HoloLens Meetup, Will Conlon, https://www.meetup.com/Adelaide-HoloLens-Meetup/members/215588942/

• AIE Narrative Design Workshop, online, free, 17 April 2019  https://aie.edu.au/workshop/narrative-design-workshop/
• Adelaide Games Playtesting at AIE, 32 Grenfell Street – this is where you bring along to a game to show and/or try out other developers’ games.  Free and fun.  Events advertised on ARGGGH and IGDA Facebook pages
• ARGGGH – Adelaide’s Really Good Gathering of Game Developers at the Goodwood Park Hotel  Main organisers Kingsley Foreman, Jessica Citizen, and I think Brad Barrett.  https://www.facebook.com/groups/382760981775174/
  • Meet usually every second Monday (previously Tuesday) of the month around 7:00pm.  Different time and place in August to match AVCon and special lunch in December for Christmas.  Informal gathering in the beer garden, between 20-50 people at any one time.  Just go up to anyone with a laptop and ask what they’re working on.  Free hot snacks are passed around at about 8:30pm and there are specials if you say you are with ARGGGH or Kingsley Foreman.
• Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea 28 May 2020: Mighty Kingdom is putting together a Biggest Morning Tea recipe book in lieu of running the event and is hoping to get more developers involved. This is all being put together by Morgan Read, so if you have a favourite morning tea appropriate cake, or cookie, or slice, or whatever recipe that you'd like to share and would like to be included, he'll give you a quick rundown of how easy this is going to be to pull off. To get involved either discord message Pat-Melonhead Games or contact Morgan through Facebook
• Business development workshop about how to pitch your game, sponsored by SAFC - all day Wednesday 15 July and Wednesday 22 July - limited spaces so register as soon as Eventbrite opens at 5pm 7 July 2020 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/workshop-for-game-developers-how-to-build-a-pitch-deck-tickets-112559093278
• Centralised - The Centralised Interactive Storytelling Workshop is open to SA and NT First Nations practitioners only, and places are limited.  Run by interactive media expert Brett Cullen, the two-day intensive workshop will introduce participants to design concepts, strategies and ideas for storytelling via interactive platforms such as VR, AR, digital games and more.  Registrations are open now until 5.00pm ACST on Friday 21 August 2020.  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/centralised-interactive-storytelling-workshop-tickets-115312384446
• The Defence Innovation Hub, in collaboration with the Defence Artificial Intelligence Centre within the Joint Capabilities Group, is seeking Innovation Proposals from industry for Artificial Intelligence applications in Defence.  Australian businesses with no prior experience working with Defence are encouraged to participate, particularly:
  • businesses developing or providing Radio Frequency (RF) solutions for telecommunications, mining or space industries
    
  • VR, graphics and gaming industry representatives with experience developing AI agents and approaches to mimic real-world environmental dynamics
  • those with experience in real-world object or terrain modelling and generation of photorealistic imagery
    • Application Link https://www.business.gov.au/cdic/news-for-defence-industry/special-notice-now-open-for-artificial-intelligence-applications-in-defence.  The closing date for proposals is 11 February 2021.
      
• Disruptive Technologies seminar supported by the SA Department for Trade Tourism and Investment 6 June 2019 is a workshop aimed at the manufacturing sector but includes AR/VR information.  https://www.business.gov.au/events/disruptive-technologies-seminar
• Export Fundamentals Workshop by SA Export Fundamentals funded by the State Government - Wednesday 17 November 2021, https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/how-to-increase-your-online-sales-over-the-holidays-17-nov-21-registration-192991822737
  
• Game Plus Adelaide talks streamed publicly.  First talk 15 October 2020  https://www.facebook.com/workatgameplus/photos/a.195023837573468/913454625730382/Greenlight Comics 2pm – 5pm Saturday 1 June 2019 playtest for Rooftop Renegade by Melonhead Games https://www.facebook.com/events/ 288919615332328/
• GameOnAus are hosting a networking event for streamers, gamers from their community and devs in the Adelaide area on the 22nd of May. It is being hosted by Natty Turner and has a special guest, Australia’s Strongest man turned Twitch streamer Eddie Williams who is also looking to grow and meet people in the space  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/adelaide-community-meetup-tickets-152795033057
• The Global Game Jam is a worldwide game jam [http://globalgamejam.org/about] held on the last weekend of January.  In 2021, instead of having an Adelaide Global Game Jam over 3 days, there was a virtual Australian Global Game Jam from 27-31 January 2021.   In 2022 it will be held at UniSA West Campus, BYO computer. globalgamejam.org/2022/jam-sites?title=&country=AU
• How to land a Software Engineering internship at a Silicon Valley big-tech company.
  Tue., 25 May 2021 4:45 pm – 7:00 pm ACST The Braggs Building Victoria Drive Adelaide, SA 5005 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/how-to-get-a-silicon-valley-internship-tickets-154666544799
• ICC webinar.  The Innovation and Collaboration Centre presents a webinar on Thursday 3 September 2020 3 pm – 4 pm: Present and future of gaming in South Australia https://www.facebook.com/events/3437838632914768/; https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/present-and-future-of-gaming-in-south-australia-tickets-115310490782
• IGEA webinar - The first webinar will be broadcasted from Gameloft’s Brisbane studio on the 21 January 2020. Luke Henry and Amy Ellis from LDB will discuss GST reporting for revenue on sales across major platforms.  6 pm SA time https://zoom.us/j/686785128or twitch.com/igea_au
• IGEA business webinars by Jason Della Rocca • 9:30am 23 June: Keys to Success: Business Strategies for the Win https://tulu.la/events/igea-presents-jason-della-rocca-on-keys-to-success-business-strategies-for-the-win-2021-0003sh • 9:30am 30 June: Pitching + Funding Refresher https://tulu.la/events/igea-presents-jason-della-rocca-s-pitching-and-funding-refresher-2021-2021-0003si • 9:30am 7 July: Landscape and Competitive Analysis https://tulu.la/events/igea-presents-jason-della-rocca-on-landscape-and-competitive-analysis-2021-2021-0003sj
      In addition, 2 developers from South Australia will get a chance of receiving 1:1 personal business-development mentorship from Jason, including introductions to his personal network of investors and publishers.
• IGEA Industry Briefing - PwC’s 20th edition of the annual Australian Entertainment and Media Outlook for 2021 – 2025
• IGEA members-only mentorship program includes employees of IGEA members.  Apply by 31 August 2021.
  • Mentee form https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=XA7kx0xKEkuEt3noYzRZf2skmxPvCMdDjWP5wBJ0WjdUMVNHR0JBMExaR1RHUlYxTDFXVTMwRThWNi4u&wdLOR=c5C9F3D78-0F38-46CA-9D74-3A68809FFD65
  • Mentor form https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=XA7kx0xKEkuEt3noYzRZf2skmxPvCMdDjWP5wBJ0WjdUREIzMUVXMzVOODJMSTVVTlU1T1g5MlhDQi4u&wdLOR=cCB310BDA-C0D5-49A5-BFFD-6C5CC2C78F0B(edited) 20 August 2021
• MOD are hosting the 2019 Australian Speedrun Marathon from July 2 – 4 2019. They'll be raising money for beyondblue https://unisa.edu.au/Media-Centre/Releases/2019/mod.-hosts-australias-longest-gaming-speedrun-marathon/#.XRmJ_v7-uHt
• Playtest at Greenlight Comics 2:15pm Saturday 30 March 2019 for Rooftop Renegade by Melonhead Games https://www.facebook.com/events/1077635929103704/
• Hybrid World Adelaide was held for the first time in 2017, a digital playground including public activities and a conference https://hybridworldadelaide.org/
• IGEA Industry Briefing: The Search For Growth 11 December 2019 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/igea-industry-briefing-pwc-presents-the-search-for-growth-adelaide-tickets-82542979273
• IGEA webinars about publishing.  1, 8 and 15 September 2021.  See https://igea.net/events/ for an overview.
  • 1st Webinar: Fellow Traveller & Blowfish Studios 1st of September, 1 pm (AEST)/12:30 pm (SA)/11 am (WA) • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88528577783 or https://www.twitch.tv/igea_au
  • 2nd Webinar: Koch Media 8th of September, 1 pm (AEST)/12:30 pm (SA)/11 am (WA) • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89126426280 or https://www.twitch.tv/igea_au
  • 3rd webinar: Nintendo 15th of September, 5 pm (AEST)/4:30 pm (SA)/3 pm (WA) • https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87158810451 or https://www.twitch.tv/igea_au
• Jason Della Rocca Games Workshop Series webinars commencing 25 June 2020 for 3 weeks plus competitive process to secure 1:1 mentorships with Jason Della Rocca, funded by Austrade, IGEA Tulula and SAFC.  https://igea.net/2020/05/igea-and-austrade-presents-workshop-series-and-mentorship-with-jason-della-rocca/
• Ludomusicology [Game Music] Society of Australia Inaugural Winter Symposium Saturday 21st and Sunday 22nd July, 2018, same weekend as AVCon http://ludomusicologysociety.com.au/2018/04/10/announcement-inaugural-winter-symposium-cfp/
• Make Games Now, run by Carclew and Country Arts, SA - Free on-line introduction to game development for regional 18-26-year-olds, running 1-31 August 2020. Apply by 28 July.  https://carclew.com.au/Program/creative-producer-regional-youth
• Masters of Motion workshop – How to get a job in the Motion Design, Illustration, Animation and VFX industry.  $130, Friday 6 December, limited to 15 participants http://www.mastersofmotion.com.au/workshops
• MOD: Are You Game? Free Fridays during Fringe at MOD on North Terrace next to the Morphett Street bridge, new exhibit ‘Waging Peace’ 6:00pm 15 Feb 2019, 22 Feb 2019, 1 Mar 2019, 8 Mar 2019, 15 Mar 2019 https://www.facebook.com/events/2147610712171135/
• Parliamentary enquiry into Australia’s creative and cultural industries and institutions – submissions due 22 October 2020 https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Committees/House/Communications/Arts/Terms_of_Reference  An online survey is also available at  https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Stateoftheartssurvey
• Playback, a bi-monthly playtesting event held at GamePlus, 44 Pirie Street, Adelaide where local game developers seek feedback on their works in progress.  Free but booking preferred. Contact Oscar Bayer of GamePlus if you want to show a game  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/playback-001-tickets-63720362319
• Praxis ARTSPACE at Bowden has exhibition by Dave Court: Exploration about how digital/physical dichotomy is losing its sense today. Traditional techniques, VR & Kids friendly. It's open till 23 July.  https://www.linkedin.com/company/praxis-artspace/
• Press Play presented by Oz Comic-Con for game fans.  Cosplay, game trivia competition, tabletop freeplay, mystery tournament  Thursday 10 May 2018 at The Gov http://www.ozcomiccon.com/pressplay/
• South Australian Department of Trade, Tourism and Investment has put out a survey asking what conferences we plan to attend this year (2020).  Possible funding!  https://forms.gle/7T1u3zKR95Zj7HZ49
• SAFC, the South Australian Film Corporation, paid 2019 GCAP admission for up to 15 non-student non-teachers https://www.safilm.com.au/pdfs/development-support/GUIDELINES - GCAP_082019.pdf
• All members of the SA Screen Sector (that includes us) are invited to review SAFC draft guidelines and provide feedback via email at feedback@safilm.com.au Consultation is open until 5.00pm ACST on Monday 17 August, 2020 https://www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/safc-draft-guidelines-out-for-sector-feedback/
• SongHubs in South Australia for established and emerging composers and songwriters from across Australia and New Zealand to meet at Myponga on the rescheduled date of 7-10 March 2022 to collaborate under the direction of Jasper Leak.  https://www.apraamcos.com.au/about-us/news-and-events/screen-songhubs-sa
• South Australian Government Department for Trade, Tourism and Investment (DTTI) hosted a South Australian branded exhibition space at PAX AUS from 11-13 October 2019 in Melbourne https://dtti.sa.gov.au/trade/businessmissions/pax-aus
• South Australian Government Research, Commercialisation and Startup Fund (RCSF) – the RCSF supports researchers, entrepreneurs and businesses to accelerate their progress with funding from the South Australian Government.  https://industryandskills.sa.gov.au/funds/research-commercialisation-and-startup-fund - Last minute information session 1 April 2019 https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/research-commercialisation-and-startup-fund-information-session-3-tickets-58349769732?utm
• Southern Rumble - Age of Sigmar Matched play tournament https://www.facebook.com/events/675355472826922/
• SouthStart team with Innovation Showcase to select entrepreneurs to pitch their tech startup to an audience of local and national angel investors and venture corporations  https://www.coventured.co/programs/view/300
• Story Hack digital storytelling workshops with Christy Dena partly funded by SAFC – keynote session open to public, remainder open via submission.  All South Australian attendees guaranteed 1:1 session with Christy Dena afterwards, but submissions not made public in SA game dev sites and closed 15 June 2020 https://www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/story-hack-storytelling-workshops-now-open-for-applications/
• Story Hack presents online keynote with Guy Gadney, founder of storytelling technology Charisma.ai, about the company's recent work on Sky UK show Bulletproof, interactive graphic novels, and more  Is AI the Future of TV? 5.30pm Thursday 6 August 2020.  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/is-ai-the-future-of-tv-tickets-112961304302
• TAFE Regional Digital Showcase to show careers available in games. Wednesday, 27th November 2109, Kadina 10am – 12pm / Port Pirie 2pm – 4pm Online streaming to FB, YouTube & Twitch https://www.facebook.com/events/2493660874075064/
• Understanding Game Design free drop-in hosted by Adelaide City Libraries and AVCon: Adelaide's Anime & Video Games Festival.  Drop-in to the City Library on Saturday 23rd March from 12.30pm to 4.30pm and spend an hour or two getting hands-on with game design featuring Mario Kart 8 levels https://www.facebook.com/events/2261322624139884/
• WritersSA/MightyKingdom videogame writing workshop: one day videogame writing workshop, 23 November 2019  https://writerssa.org.au/event-registration/?ee=740
• YorKon Gaming Convention 27 and 28 April 2019 at Minlaton, a 2:15 hour drive from Adelaide. https://www.facebook.com/YorkePeninsulaCouncil/photos/gm.2234425163551884/2042864975763169/?type=3&theater

Past game jams and hackathons

• ActInSpace Hackathon (Adelaide, 25-26 May 2018) – ActInSpace is an international innovation contest inspiring young people worldwide to create startups by meeting challenges based on space technologies, data and infrastructure. 2018 was the first time Australia participated. https://actinspace.org/actinspace.org/
• Adelaide Global Game Jam 25-27 January 2019 https://globalgamejam.org/2019/jam-sites/adelaide-global-game-jam?destination=node/51957 is part of a worldwide game jam [http://globalgamejam.org/about].  Some computers available on site, prizes.  If you only go to one game jam in a year, go to this one.  Industry sponsors and prizes.  AIE Adelaide site in 32 Grenfell Street is for students and former students only; UniSA site in 243 Hindley Street is open to the public.
• Care Hack (Bedford Park, 16-17 February 2019) – An opportunity for participants to come together and reimagine aged care and its current challenges to lead to an outcome that improves the life and care of older Australians.  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/carehack-a-group-collaboration-striving-to-make-a-difference-in-aged-care-tickets-52856475140?aff=ebdssbdestsearch&utm_source=Disruptor%27s%20Handbook
• Creative Digital Solutions: For the Arts, Culture and Creative Sector - a hackathon for people to create solutions for the administration of the arts industry in Australia.  19 and 20 August 2020.  https://www.paddl.com/jobs/879
• Government Hackathons  https://digital.sa.gov.au/programs/govhack-south-australia
  • GovHack 7-9 September 2018 – The annual open data competition.  https://govhack.org/welcome/
  • D3 Digital Challenges Initiative – none live at present - https://digital.sa.gov.au/d3
  • Share Challenge: South Australia's Collaborative Economy Challenge run by YourSay - not open at present https://share.yoursay.sa.gov.au/about-share-challenge 
• Ideas to Unf**k the World: Social Justice Hackathon (Adelaide, 22-23 September) – Created for people who ‘dare to care’, groups of 18-30 year olds came together with mentors to ideate solutions to some of the worlds most complex social and environmental challenges.  https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ideas-to-unfk-the-world-social-justice-hackathon-tickets-48012322148?aff=es2&utm_source=Disruptor%27s+Handbook
• Jamalaide http://www.jamalaide.org.au/ for game programmers, artists, musicians, sound engineers, designers and anyone interested to form a group and make a game to a theme and a deadline.  Held in the Physics Building at Adelaide University.  The August 2016 Adelaide Game Jam had 30 participants but jams can have as few as 11 people.  The organisers are physics PHD students who have held 33 jams since 2011.  https://www.facebook.com/jamalaide/?fref=ts
• Techfugees Adelaide Hackathon postponed, no new date set yet https://www.facebook.com/techfugeesaustralia/ - https://www.facebook.com/events/104028373737954/permalink/114636642677127/
• TechJam http://www.musitec.co/events/448 also known as MusicTech and Connected City Music Challenge (CCMC) 2016 - no further jams organized
• Transformathon - game-jam/hackathon with a $10,000 prize for helping develop a new idea for a greener future in South Australia. 2:00pm Friday 19 November to 6:30 pm Sunday 21 November. 6 MAB Eastern Promenade, Tonsley Innovation District, Tonsley.  For a ticket, go to https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/future-energy-week-tickets-185423465577, click on Tickets, and select the Transformathon option
  
• Women Game Jam 20-22 August 2021. There will be a virtual event for those not in the Eastern States. Follow https://twitter.com/WGJAu on Twitter for the registration dates.
  

Past eSports events

• ESports Mario Karts held the first eSports event in Adelaide at the Titanium Security Arena.  http://www.eventsinaustralia.net/event-esports-gamers-league-mario-kart-findon-807739  They host booths for game developers to show off their indie games.
• A DOTA2 viewing party was held in April 2017.  https://www.facebook.com/events/777278269075159/
• Untethered VR Beat Saber Tournament 3 February 2019, parents can enter minors https://www.untethered.com.au/tournament-night?fbclid=IwAR38k4lTN0FZH3dABOnR0hd9FfK2OkA9XtXV5yDjwd8b2s4lKcV-Gz4NlsA
• YorKon Gaming Convention eSports https://www.facebook.com/events/2234423600218707/   Minlaton Town Hall, over 2 hours drive from Adelaide, registration required at https://yorke.sa.gov.au/yorkon-registration/
  • Saturday 27th April (All ages):
    • Mario Kart 8 Deluxe (Nintendo Switch)
    • Overwatch (XBox One)
    
  • Saturday 27th April (Ages 15+):
    • Halo Master Chief Collection (XBox One)
  • Sunday 28th April (All ages):
    • Super Smash Bros. Ultimate