'People in Japan thought we made footy up': Pro Jank Footy, the video game taking Australian rules to the world

And an awesome one,' says Pro Jank Footy developer David Ashby (left) with comedian Broden Kelly at the Great Northern Hotel in Carlton North. And an awesome one,' says Pro Jank Footy developer David Ashby (left) with comedian Broden Kelly at the Great Northern Hotel in Carlton North. 'People in Japan thought we made footy up': Pro Jank Footy, the video game taking Australian rules to the world T ry explaining Australian rules football to anyone outside Australia, and "it sounds like you're making it up," says David Ashby, the multi-hyphenate comedic mind behind deeply silly spoofs such as Italian Spider-Man and Danger 5. "Eighteen players a side, running around on a cricket oval with a rugby ball that has to be bounced every so often and gets kicked between posts - like, what the fuck is happening?" Two years ago at a fantasy footy barbecue, Ashby had a brainwave: why not make a video game where Australia's strange national sport becomes even stranger the more you play? Pro Jank Footy reimagines the sport as a high-octane fever dream, where every time your opponent kicks a goal, you get to change one rule so the game gets increasingly janky (and hilariously stupid). Your opponents turn into seagulls.