About Lightmare

Lightmare Studios was established in 2007 to be both a game studio creating original strategy games using our own IP as well as a games academy, with masterclasses, courses and communities where we teach skills in game development, AI and socialisation, for those interested in technology.

We have gone on to become an award winning studio in both these sectors, alongside the broader disability sector as well.

By Gamers For Gamers

At the heart of it, each of us are gamers, and consider ourselves hardcore of in at least one genre. We play our own games because we make the games we want to play and see great in the world. We follow our passion, the market and the money. In that order.

Integrity and Love

Our integrity is the glue that holds our company together and we hold it in the highest esteem. Love is threaded in the creation of our titles, how we treat each other and those we serve and sharing some more is the reason we stay passionate.

Breakthrough Creation

We take genres in groundbreaking leaps with our daring ideas. We stay true to the feel of others in the field, but craft games into a whole new class of their own.

Always Learning and Growing

We recognize what got us to here won't take us to the next level, and are never ending in improving ourselves and our processes. Each of us seeks to bring mastery to our areas of expertise and yearn to see those in our care grow with our support.

Cultivate Tomorrow's Leaders

Whilst we value experience, we open ourselves to those who are talented and passionate to join our ranks. We are the premier High School employer for game developers, giving hundreds of students the opportunity to create our content and even their own games.

Perfection is a Process

What we mean is that Perfection is a process; never achieved, always aimed for. We nurture our titles and their content as the fans demand more. We get our products out to our key audience as stably and quickly as possible, and add features and polish as we grow our fanbase over the long term.

Lightmare Studios' vision is to be among the best in the galaxy at creating games that synergize accessibility and depth. As an Aussie indie studio with a global playerbase, we take casual gamers and challenge them to become hardcore fans of games that intrigue them strategically, move them emotionally and are incredibly fun.

Lightmare also hires Australian high school students into the most highly regarded program of its kind in the country. We assist them to get a head start in the game development industry, through the provision of uniquely tailored apprenticeship opportunities that have won international awards in innovation in training.