Funding the Future of Australian Games

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Australian games rely heavily on overseas ownership and publishing: four largest studios owned overseas, 20% work-for-hire, biggest hits published abroad. The industry earns about $140M in 2019 and aims to $140M to $1.4B (10x) by scaling talent, creating Australian publishers able to fund $10–50M projects, and building a dedicated games investment community (no local VCs now). States boost with PDV extensions and remote-friendly growth, so priorities are growing local publishers, investor education, and reinvesting industry revenue into a pooled fund.

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1. 0:00FUNDING THE FUTURE OF AUSTRALIAN GAMES
2. 0:13PHILIP MAYES Founder & CEO Mighty Kingdom
3. 1:11IT HAS BEEN A HELL OF A YEAR
4. 2:41THESE EVENTS REVEAL THE STRENGTH OF OUR INDUSTRY
5. 3:35AAA STUDIOS ARE BACK!
6. 5:36Fellow Traveller HIPSTER
7. 6:17THERE ARE NO GAMES FOCUSED INVESTORS
8. 7:07STATE GOVERNMENT SUPPORT IS STRONG
9. 9:328/10 and independence 4/10 opportunity for growth
10. 10:07WE NEED TO BUILD A COMPLETE ECOSYSTEM
11. 10:36REDUCE OUR RELIANCE ON OVERSEAS CAPITAL
12. 11:49GROW LOCAL PUBLISHERS THAT CAN INVEST AT SCALE
13. 13:00CREATE A GAMES INVESTMENT COMMUNITY
14. 15:30BUT I DON'T WANT INVESTORS
15. 18:4810x HOW MUCH OUR INDUSTRY EARNS
16. 20:58DEVELOP A BROAD AND DEEP TALENT POOL
17. 24:17DON'T WAIT FOR GOVERNMENT SUPPORT
18. 24:512.??? 3. PROFIT
19. 26:33ARE WE EVEN READY?
20. 27:26HOW DO YOU COMPETE?
21. 27:47BY BEING THE BEST YOU
22. 28:49LET'S RAISE THE BAR
23. 30:16LET'S UNLOCK NEW TALENT
24. 30:53LET'S INVEST IN OUR COLLECTIVE FUTURE
25. 32:20LET'S DEVELOP A BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY
26. 32:54DEVELOPED IN AUSTRALIA
27. 33:04SUPPORTED IN AUSTRALIA
28. 33:40HOW DO WE FUND THE FUTURE?
29. 34:20THANK YOU

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