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.

'There were, frankly, too many indie games to play in a day - a nice problem to have' gamers playing at SXSW Sydney Games Showcase 2025. 'There were, frankly, too many indie games to play in a day - a nice problem to have' gamers playing at SXSW Sydney Games Showcase 2025. Hyperkinetic shooters, gorgeous animal adventures and even a charming puzzler where you play a postie: Australia's developers are punching above their weight T here's no escaping the fact that SXSW Sydney - Australia's iteration of Austin's tech, music and film event, now in its third year - is absolutely beset by brands. In Tumbalong park on Saturday, families who had arrived for a free concert for kids meandered around the garish yellow CommBank Tour zone, as a line wound its way into the giant L'Oréal tent. But metres away at the International Convention Centre, inside the halls dedicated to gaming, the corporate influence was more muted.