A locked room, a mystery to solve, team work and a little magic. Over 80 escape rooms have popped up across Australia in recent years, so we talked to Chris Krajacic - one of the owners and game designers at Canberra's Riddle Room - to find out more about them.

A new game from the mind behind Monument Valley explores the highs and lows of a young woman's first love. Florence is the debut project of Ken Wong's Melbourne-based Mountains studio.

While Awesome Games Done Quick draws the attention of hundreds of thousands of viewers, other smaller speedrunning events are held all over the world. One such event is the Australian Speedrun Marathon, which takes place this weekend at PAX Australia.

And thank the good lord it doesn't take place on Melbourne Cup weekend.

Objects In Space is an open world stealth space trading game currently being built by Sydney-based indie studio Flat Earth Games. When I say built, I mean that literally -- to go along with the game's retrofuture, modempunk aesthetic and heavily tactile and complex interface, the team has mocked up its own real-world spaceship control panel, complete with LEDs and VU meters and missile switches.

You can build your own, too -- and I'm going to.