Game-a-Week

Six weeks, six prototype games — one small playable game each week, built for rapid experimentation rather than polish. Run by Burwood Library, 2026.

What is it?

Game-a-Week is an intensive program where participants create six prototype games in six weeks. The aim is to get comfortable with rapid prototyping: working quickly to build a small playable game that proves or disproves a design idea.

Drawing on the spirit of game jams, each week brings a new thematic, aesthetic, or mechanical constraint — time limits, black and white, one-button input, and so on. This iteration is adapted from the course concept originally developed by Douglas Wilson and Bennett Foddy.

What to expect

Experiment
Try lots of little ideas and push yourself to explore different approaches to game making. The focus is on creation and discovery, not perfection.
Play
Each meet-up starts by playing each other's games — a chance to try cool new things made by your local community. Drop in and out any time over the six weeks.
Connect
Share your weird games with like-minded people and grow a local community of practice.

Thanks to our hosts

This program is run by Burwood Library and Pixel Pasture, an independent game development studio and social hosting collective formed in 2023.

Sessions run Thursday evenings, 6:00–8:00 pm, at The Community Hub, 2 Conder Street, Burwood. Free to attend — see the event page for dates and registration.

Our games