Game-A-Week

Next date: Thursday, 26 June 2025 | 06:00 PM to 08:00 PM

Game-A-Week is an intensive program in which participants will create 5 prototype video games, one game each week. The aim of this program is to get comfortable with the practice of rapid prototyping: working quickly to create a small playable game that effectively proves or disproves a design concept. Drawing influence from game jams, the program will prompt you with weekly thematic, aesthetic, or mechanical constraints (e.g. “time” or “black-and-white” or “one-button input”). This iteration of the Game-A-Week concept is adapted from the course concept originally developed by Douglas Wilson and Bennett Foddy.

New to the Game-a-Week format? Here is what you can expect!

Experiment

Game-a-Week is an opportunity to try out lots of little ideas and to push yourself to experiment with different approaches to game making. We’re not striving for polish here, instead the focus is on the joy of creation and exploration. Each week we’ll share a new theme and some cool examples to get you creatively energised!

Play

Each week we’ll spend the first half of the meet-up playing each other's games so it’s a great chance to play a bunch of cool new things made by your community. Game-a-Week is also about having fun so you can drop in and out at any time over the 5 weeks, or just come for the vibes and to play something cool!

Connect

Over the course of the 5 weeks you’ll have an opportunity to connect with your local community of practice and share your weird games with like-minded people. A huge part of Game-a-Week is just the great vibes of hanging out with cool people!

About the creative team behind Game-A-Week:

Pixel Pasture

Pixel Pasture is an independent game development studio and social hosting collective formed in 2023. We focus on fostering creativity and community within the game development industry through networking events and game development competitions such as game jams and Game-A-Week.

Serenade Games

Serenade curates and hosts pop-up exhibitions and parties showcasing experimental and heartfelt games. Our aim is to bring visibility to diverse works that exemplify the creativity, vulnerability and experimentation possible in games but rarely discovered due to their non-commercial contexts.

When

Location

Burwood Library and Community Hub, 2 Conder Street, Burwood, 2134, View Map