Indie Games Room (IGR)

A.W. Arcade is a collection of arcade-style minigames with an art style inspired by old arcade machines, including Asteroids and Space Invaders. Enjoy four minigames with a retro twist and catchy background tracks!

You are an apprentice blacksmith in a frontier town. Build up your recognition as a quality smith, or keep your services affordable for the common people. Make tools and weapons for a wide cast of characters – and enchant them with emotional traits, changing the lives of their owners forever.

The journey everyone must take someday, ATTACHED tells the story we all know too well: loss and grief. Driven by heartstring-tugging music, evocative hand-drawn visuals and memory, you wade through the depths of sorrow to find solace, hope and renewal. Traversing through a world overrun with the manifestations of his grief, you play as an old man, the Husband. He carries the memories of his late Wife upon his back, but beware the dark creatures who are eerily drawn to the Husband, for they will take everything from you. You must help him to protect his current memories and retrieve those that are lost. As his memories strengthen him, they too strengthen the Wife’s spirit. She imparts one last gift as his guiding light throughout this last journey. Discover heartache, passion, anger and love, and support others who embark on the same journey. Learn to live again. Join the Husband through grief and time as he navigates his world to lay his late wife to rest.

Command a trio of heroes and villains in positional combat against a cosmic army. Each move can reposition other units and unleash area attacks. Every skill, spell and summon is positionally empowered. Every battle is a tactical puzzle against an enemy who grows stronger when you do.

Build a team of monsters, plan your skills carefully, then watch them beat each other up. This unique mash-up of turn-based combat and auto-battlers requires strategy and wits. Every win grants a new cute or creepy creature to join your side.

A dark-fantasy, round-based FPS. Become the Blood Reaver in solo or four-player co-op. Harness forbidden magic and weaponry to shoot, blast and slice your way through endless hordes of demons. Upgrade your arsenal and survive long enough to discover the ancient secrets of the gods of Hell.

A cosy narrative simulation game where you craft bubble tea, guide heartfelt conversations, and play character-driven mini-games that explore mental wellbeing through meaningful choices and gentle, story-rich gameplay.

You and your friends enter a casino, but instead of betting chips, you bet the limbs and organs of your friends!

Castle Cab puts you in the horseshoes of a sentient, indestructible horse running a delivery service in a whimsical medieval kingdom. When wizards enlist your help to overthrow a king bent on banning magic, you’ll find yourself at the heart of a revolution that could lead the kingdom down an unpredictable path. Complete quirky quests, race through winding roads, and uncover hidden secrets.

Customize your horse and cart, dive into competitive mini-games, and explore a world full of surprises. Designed for both new and experienced players, Castle Cab offers a fun, fast-paced adventure perfect for kids and parents to team up, create shared experiences, and steer through unexpected challenges together in local co-op play!

Criminauts is a co-op sci-fi action game where a crew of misfits must build, maintain, and pilot a spaceship to survive in a hostile universe.

A retrowave/mecha-inspired sci-fi first-person shooter featuring fast-paced combat in old-school style open-plan levels packed with pickups, keys, and secrets.

In this dystopian delivery game, navigate your blimp around perilous cliffs, pirate attacks and hostile weather to deliver your clients’ goods. Chart your course and step away from the wheel to manage your ship’s resources and cargo, which is sure to be thrown about in your arduous travels.

Dungeons & Desserts is a roguelite dungeon crawler where you also manage a cosy pastry shop. Journey through candy-themed realms, gather rare ingredients and craft mouth-watering desserts to sell in your cosy bakery, all while balancing the pressures of a greedy landlord who constantly increases your rent.

Delve dungeons to collect rare furniture, take that furniture back to your home to decorate, and the cosier your house is, the higher your stats! Go forth and drive the grumpiness from the land: your perfect home is just a dungeon away! Oh, and you play as an axolotl.

Explore a gory Hell in this twin-stick shooter that pays homage to badass horror franchises. Kill demons, upgrade items, and fight weird and gross bosses until they explode in piles of gore. Who is Ember? What is reality?

Step inside a photorealistic, 3D-scanned antique store in this immersive hidden object puzzle! Navigate a beautifully cluttered digital twin, deciphering clues and hunting for hidden treasures in every corner. Can you master the ultimate real-world Eye Spy 3D challenge?

Fallen Angel: Hell Survival is a first-person open-world survival craft game set in a brutal, mythic Hell. Scavenge, fight, build, and master devilish magic as Hesicasial, a fallen angel cast into the underworld. Will you conquer Hell, or be consumed by it?

Build your dream ocean island fish factory! This is an automation game for beginners or experts who would like to chill while automating their fish factory. Scout the ocean for new fishing locations, send your robots to get a haul of fish, then automate the processing of them into a cosy empire.

Break free from your office job! Build a pigeon powered marketing empire by acquiring pigeons with different skills and increasingly strange characteristics.
Manage your flock, run campaigns, and uncover a creeping occult narrative in this satirical management sim about capitalism, control, and coos.

Fox and Shadow is a deck-building roguelike focused on meticulously crafting your cards piece by piece - giving you control over how your deck evolves. Take control of a robotic Drone and the mind of the Pilot that drives it, and face off against defective AI drones that roam the ruins of a broken city.

Explore a dangerous, fantastical world and slay the divine being that corrupted it. Goldstained is a top-down 2D action-adventure where unlocking new weapons with new movesets is your way forward through boss fights, puzzles and combat!

Goons of Fortune is a fast-paced roguelite strategy game about running a gang and taking over the city of Goonzburg. Crush your rival gangs while evading the retribution of the Coppas. Come out on top in ranked PvP, coming soon, to show the world you’re the top Goon of Fortune!

Kadina Memorial School is proud to be attending AVCon again in 2026, continuing our tradition of showcasing exceptional student work. Visitors will have the opportunity to explore a range of high-quality digital projects created by our students, highlighting their creativity, technical skills, and innovative thinking. We look forward to sharing the outstanding achievements of our young designers, developers, and digital creators with the wider community.

Collect and battle over 200 unique creatures in this roguelike auto-battler. Level up and evolve your Kādomon as you assemble the ultimate team, creating awesome synergies to beat BIG bosses!

Discover what it is to be a Lightsmith, build up your Lightory, and help the townsfolk of Gloomsdale to turn a fragile settlement into a thriving beacon of hope in a world shrouded in darkness. Because in this dark and gloomy world we must forge our own light...

REAP WHAT YOU SOW
Memento Mori is a fast and stylish action game where you play the role of self-proclaimed Grim Reaper, Mori, a troubled girl on a quest for revenge after her partner was caught in the crossfire of a shooting.
Wielding your scythe, hunt down those involved across 15 stages, employing equal parts brutality and finesse to achieve the highest scores and fastest times.
Climb a skyscraper, duel a clown and follow Mori’s descent in a story about love, hatred and what it means to be human.

Blend into the environment and eat objects around you as a sneaky Mimic, or burn, zap, and explode everything as a crafty Exterminator to root out the Mimics in this Prop Hunt-inspired multiplayer game of chaos and frantic fun!

My Cafe Cutie is a story-based meta-narrative visual novel where you help the romantic interest of a dating sim escape the game that is trying to trap her.

A horror game taking place in a veterinary clinic. It is a 2D game. Examine patients by finding their injuries. Use tools to perform treatments on animals and improve their health.

The player uses a computer in-game to read a patient’s report and choose the best treatment option. Sometimes, the owner of the pet patient has a special request for their pet.

Pedal Rebel VR is a adrenaline-pumping cyberpunk motorbike street racing game that completely transforms any exercise bike and any VR headset into an immersive racing experience!

Food is love! In this fantastical roguelike card game share the magic of abundance by cooking delicious meals for all who come to Pelican's kitchen.

A cute, sweet and macabre adventure! Follow the candy Knight Pepper Mint as she finds her entire world has been taken over by an encroaching, melted, pink candy. Guided by a mysterious prince and her best friend Lemon Drop, she seeks out pieces of sentient power in an effort to save her world and her Queen!

Bob and Piper are terrible painters, literally the worst. They cannot agree on the colour to use, they get paint everywhere and sometimes they’ll move in with you if you’ve got a good TV. But because they’re the only painters in town, they keep being hired.

Pipsqueak! is a search-action platformer starring Tofu, a small mouse exploring a strange and hostile world. Uncover the truth of this expansive world and your place within it through exploration, discovery, combat, and platforming challenges. Bring hope to this dying world and its tiny inhabitants in this grand adventure of mouse-sized proportions!

Pro Jank Footy is an over-the-top arcade comedy-sports game based on Australian Rules Football. Score goals to unleash game-changing power-ups, build a deck of absurd abilities, and tackle a season where no two matches are ever the same, either solo or with your mates.

Reframe is a point-and-click horror mystery with a combination of 2D and 3D elements.

Play as Tara, a young photographic journalist returning to her hometown after receiving a mysterious email from her childhood best friend.

Upon her arrival, she soon discovers her friend has gone missing along with other members of the town. She must uncover clues of the disappearances with the help of a supernatural camera. Will she find her friend or get dragged into a bigger mystery?

Explore the remains of a dead god as an AI trying to find your way back to your crew. Scavenge equipment, recruit allies and face powerful foes in this sci-fi roguelike adventure.

In Scourge of the Reptiles, a devastating meteor strikes the planet. Humans, elves and dinosaurs alike are gifted with magical abilities. The hero is then able to control and ride the giant beasts!

Seek Shellter is an arcade-style pathfinder full of cute snails who must collect batteries and seek shelter before the timer runs out. Team up with a friend or go solo to clear levels, win minigames and unlock worlds steeped in retro-60s atomic charm. Do you have what it takes to beat the bomb?

Shellkath VR is a Virtual Reality Science Fiction First person Shooter, Starting in an alien Hive ship, run by the Mutagenix, in a dark Alienesque universe, where these factions wage constant war. The player wakes up captured in a biological Mutagenix prison, and has to climb through many obstacles and fight through regiments of Mutagenix soliders, in order to find refuge. Climb through complex caves, wield biological weaponry, fight against disgusting looking aliens and find salvation!

Spin, boost and perform stunts through a retro 3D world as you struggle to find your place as the first mixed-race being.

An isometric JRPG that focuses on interactions between adventures. Instead of clearing a dungeon, selling the loot, rinse and repeat, players clear a dungeon, return to their home base, pay their taxes, upkeep their property, meal prep, ensure their party is healthy and work a job to build enough income to afford the next adventure.

Stranded on a remote planet scattered with alien structures, pilot your hovership to explore the surface and use unique drones to delve into underground caches. Solve puzzles by combining your drones’ dynamic abilities to recover alien technology, upgrade your fleet, and save your expedition.

Terramystra is a 3D fantasy puzzle adventure game where you play as Pebble the rock golem, collecting small magical rocks along your journey to solve puzzles, defeat bosses and restore the magical balance of the world!

The Last Library: The Pages of Karthalas is a high fantasy action roguelite set in a city where the ability to read and write has been forgotten. Playing as Emrys, you seek to learn magic from the ancient dragon Karthalas by hunting down magic books stolen from the last library.

A cosy souls-lite adventure about a small squirrel embarking on an epic quest to save her tribe from the corruption threatening to destroy their world. Upgrade your magical abilities, battle legendary guardians, and explore a dangerous, enchanted land in this 2D action-adventure.

Awakened 200 years after death in an abandoned underground facility, mortal enemies Renzye and Kinsae find themselves trapped together in one body. Seeking answers and a way out, they must put aside their ancient rivalry and combine their unique abilities in this fast-paced precision platformer.

Collect cards, build decks, alter with trinkets, discover synergies, win locations and beat bosses. All this and more await you in this roguelite deckbuilding auto-battler, but please remember: There Is No Lore. Stop looking.

Play as cats trapped in forgotten tombs. Solve puzzles, dodge deadly traps, find food, and cooperate with friends to uncover a path to freedom.

TOYA is a minimalist puzzle game that is always bigger than you think…

Trivia Deal is the world’s first trivia roguelike. Answer fast. Play smart. Use lifelines, swap cards and relics to survive the Rainbow Reaper. Each run is unforgiving, and one wrong answer can end it all. High-stakes strategy with random questions, categories and rewards that keep every run fresh.

Tumbles, previously Silk Soar, is a physics-flinging, rage-bringing narrative 2D platformer, Foddian, where you take on life as a newborn caterpillar attempting to meet the challenges of flinging yourself from the rainforest floor to the top of the canopy.

Unquollified is a cozy point-and-click detective game featuring Australian animals. You play as Sam the Quoll, a struggling artist who has to solve the mystery behind the death of an old friend.
Use you creativity to solve puzzles and find clues in a variety of vibrant, hand-drawn Australian scenes - from the busy city to the mysterious bushland. Meet all sorts of colourful characters and convince them to help you by using you artistic skills to solve their problems.

Don’t you hate it when all your band wants to do is rock the stage, showing off your musical talents to the world, but no matter what you try, you just suck? Worry no more! In this medieval fantasy hitman/rhythm game, go backstage and stamp out your competition through any means necessary.

A psychological survival horror game focused on exploration, resource management, and environmental puzzles. Survive a hostile Cold War facility and the unforgiving Australian outback, scavenging scarce supplies under constant pressure and control.

Zombie Derby is a fun, fast-paced physics game where you run over zombies, collect skulls and upgrade your monster truck!

Zoomie Land is a VR puzzle adventure where players stabilise neon worlds, navigate shifting holographic boundaries, and collect emotional fragments while being guided by a robot bird. Zoomie Land blends sensory regulation with immersive storytelling to help adults practice focus, emotion regulation, and memories.