A selection of games and resources available to buy. Talk directly with creators and take something useful with you.
Modern Teaching Aids
Modern Teaching Aids (MTA) is a long-standing Australian supplier of hands-on learning resources, built around the idea that students learn best when they are actively doing, making, and exploring. Their range spans hundreds of tactile, low-tech and tech-enabled tools designed to support classroom learning across early childhood, primary and increasingly secondary settings.
At the Learning Game Playground, MTA will be set up as a major sponsor with a focus on getting resources into people’s hands. Their stand will feature a selection of low-tech learning tools set up as an open, drop-in play space where visitors can try things out directly. Expect the kind of things that invite immediate play and experimentation, from word-building games and STEM challenges to possibly even something giant and impossible to miss, like Connect 4.
For teachers, this is the stall to visit when you want the bridge between “that looks fun” and “I could actually use this with a class on Monday.” MTA’s contribution brings the festival’s hands-on philosophy into a practical school purchasing world: resources you can touch, test, question, and imagine in use with real students.
Indiverse
Indiverse is a studio focused on designing inclusive learning tools that centre diverse voices, perspectives, and ways of thinking. Their work sits at the intersection of game design, education, and social impact, creating experiences that are both engaging and purposeful.
At the Learning Game Playground, Indiverse will be showcasing a selection of their games and resources, with a focus on interactive formats that invite discussion, reflection, and collaboration. Their approach uses play as a way to explore complex ideas, making learning more accessible without simplifying the issues.
Their stall is a good fit for people interested in games that do more than entertain, offering experiences that encourage perspective-taking, conversation, and meaningful engagement.
Kel Sticks
Kel Loveday is an independent illustrator working under the name Kel Sticks, creating artwork inspired by folklore, nature, and the quiet magic of everyday life. Her work blends scientific-style posters with storybook illustration, often featuring detailed natural forms alongside playful, character-driven designs.
At the Learning Game Playground, Kel will be bringing a range of art prints along with her illustrations on shirts, mugs, notebooks, and stickers. Her stall leans into curiosity and texture, with pieces that feel both grounded in observation and slightly offbeat in tone.
Her work is a good fit for people who like their visuals a bit thoughtful, a bit strange, and quietly playful.
https://kelsticks.portfoliobox.net
Collarts: Study Game Design
Collarts is an independent tertiary provider offering a dedicated game design degree focused on preparing students to create original games across a range of formats. Their program combines design thinking, storytelling, systems, and playtesting, with an emphasis on making games that people actually want to play.
At the Learning Game Playground, Collarts students will be taking over a full section of the space with a series of trestle tables showcasing their work. This is not a single polished product, but a spread of in-progress and completed student-designed games across different styles, mechanics, and ideas.
Visitors can move table to table, play directly with the designers, and see how game concepts are developed, tested, and refined. It’s a chance to experience the diversity of approaches within game design, from tightly structured systems to more experimental or narrative-driven ideas.
This is one of the clearest windows into how games are actually made, and a rare opportunity to talk to emerging designers about their thinking, decisions, and process while playing the games themselves.