Game Producer
Amelia Laughlan
(she/they)
I'm a game producer with over ten years experience. I've shipped games across mobile, console, PC, VR and tabletop. I've worked as a producer, product manager and investment manager with world-class teams at Tin Man Games, Nintendo, Snowman, Fortress, Screen Australia and Hipster Whale.I have designed funding programs and cultural infrastructure at a national scale with Screen Australia, resulting in programs that granted over $12M AUD to over 120 game projects, including The Dungeon Experience, Gubbins, Blaktasia, Momento, Copycat, The Master’s Pupil and more.I'm a board member of Freeplay, one of the world's longest-running independent gamemaker support organisations. I contribute strategy, advocacy and communications expertise to improve the experience of making games independently in Australia.I'm an assessor, consultant and speaker for screen agencies, including Screen Tasmania, Screen Territory, Screen Canberra and Screen Australia.
I'm currently freelancing! If you need help with game production, or the design of cultural infrastructure or funding programs I'd love to have a chat and see how I can help.
♥ Projects ♥
(TBA) Game - Unannounced title with Hipster Whale(2026) Parallels 2026, with Freeplay(2026) Talk - Kyoto 101 for Screen Australia's Future Leader's Delegation to BitSummit 2026(2026) Panel - Level Up Tasmania - Screen Agency Funding Q&A(2026) Panel - EQUIP Games Canberra - Business & Marketing in the indie space(2025) Talk - Taking Up Space(2025) Panel - SXSW Sydney - Game Changers: Breaking into Games from Unexpected Paths(2025) Panel - NT Screen Summit - Playing to Win: The Business of Indie Games(2025-) Board Member - Freeplay(2025-) Member - Screen Tasmania Expert Advisory Group(2025) Games Connect Asia Pacific Game Production Subject Matter Expert(2025) Event - Represented Hipster Whale / Australia at the Osaka World Expo(2025) Event - Represented Hipster Whale at BitSummit Indie Games Festival, Kyoto(2024) Achieved Japanese Language Proficiency Test N3 certificate(2024) Event facilitator - Screen Australia Local Lounge(2024) Event facilitator - Screen Australia Gender Matters Breakfast(2024) Panel - Games Connect Asia Pacific - Screen Australia Funding: 2 Years & 100 Games In(2024) Talk - Level Up Tasmania - Supporting Game Developers - Funding and how to get it with Screen Australia(2024) Program facilitator for Future Leaders Delegation to GDC(2023-24) Fund - Game Production Fund(2023-24) Fund - Emerging Gamemakers Fund(2023) Fund - First Nations Game Studio Fund(2023) Event facilitator and micro-talk curator - Screen Australia Local Lounge(2023) Talk - Games Connect Asia Pacific - Games Funding 2023 and Beyond(2023) Panel - SXSW Sydney - Videogame preservation(2023) Game - Lucky Luna - Netflix Games(2022) Panel - XR:WA - What the Blazes are Funding Agencies Doing(2022) Panel - Game Connect Asia Pacific - A Feature not a Glitch: the opportunities of gamemaking in Australia(2022) Talk - Game Connect Asia Pacific - Screen Australia: Back in the (funding) Game(2022) Event facilitator and micro-talk curator - Screen Australia Local Lounge(2022) Participant - Joan Kirner Emerging Leaders Program(2022-23) Fund - Games: Expansion Pack(2022-24) Represented Screen Australia speaking at roadshows in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Brisbane and Canberra(2021) Mentor - Limit Break | Video Game Mentorship Program(2021) Game - Where Cards Fall - PC, Nintendo Switch(2021) Game - Alto's Odyssey: The Lost City - Apple Arcade(2021) Game - Skate City - PC, Nintendo Switch, PS4/5, Xbox(2020) Website Launch - My Nintendo Store AU/NZ - My Nintendo Rewards(2020) Events - My Nintendo Check-In - Supanova Melbourne, AnimeFest Sydney(2020) Game - Warhammer Underworlds: Online - PC(2019) Mentee - Girl Geek Academy Games Career Incubator(2019) Talk - AIT - Games Mastermind(2019) Achieved 4th Kyū in Shūkōkai Karate(2019) Game - Table of Tales: The Crooked Crown - PS VR(2019) Game - 火吹山の魔法使い, Warlock of Firetop Mountain - Nintendo Switch(2018) Judge - Australian Game Developer Awards(2018) Game - Fighting Fantasy Classics - iOS, Android, PC, Mac(2017) Game - Nihon and the City of Edo - tabletop(2015) Degree - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) in Japanese & Asian Studies(2015) Thesis - Haruki Murakami, Takashi Murakami, the media and national identity in contemporary Japan(2010) Australian Student Ambassador in Japan - AIIU exchange program