Studio
Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.
Hobart, Tasmania
Australia
Founded 2008
Website
Contact
Business — lab@secretlab.com.au
Press — press@secretlab.com.au
Social
Tech Blog
Address
Level 1, 127-131 Macquarie Street
Hobart TAS 7000
Australia
Description
Secret Lab designs and builds video games, cultural technology, and engaging interactive experiences from scratch for console, PC, Mac, web, and mobile.
Secret Lab was founded in 2008 by a team of computer scientists, historians, and technologists.
Secret Lab is currently working I Feel Fine, a narrative adventure game written by Ryan North and funded by Screen Tasmania, Leonardo’s Moon Ship, a puzzle-adventure game written by writer of Ratatouille, Jim Capobianco, and funded by Screen Australia, and the BAFTA- and IGF-winning Night in the Woods.
Secret Lab is the oldest game development studio in lutruwita/Tasmania, and has worked with a diverse range of local, national, and international clients and partners, including the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, CSIRO, the National Museum of Australia, Apple, FastMail, Qantas, Microsoft, TasNetworks, Mighty Games, Finji, CoRE Foundation, and Google.
The Secret Lab team has written nearly 30 books, on a range of subjects including software development, game development and design, astrophysics, and artificial intelligence, and leads the wildly popular Yarn Spinner narrative game development tool project.
Secret Lab runs a 4-day work week, and has been based in a Georgian-era sandstone building in the heart of nipaluna/Hobart for the past 10 years.
Secret Lab is proud to be a member of peak industry associations IGEA and TasICT.
You can learn more and hire Secret Lab at www.secretlab.games
Awards
Our work has won awards ranging from the local TasICT Awards (2010, 2013, 2014, 2016, and 2021), for Excellence in Digital Media, Export Success, President's Award for Excellence, Best Software Product, and Best ICT Solution, to an Australian national iAward (2016) for Mobility Innovation of the Year, to the AIMIA awards (2012, 2013, and 2014) for Best Cultural or Lifestyle, Best Application on a Tablet or Mobile, Effectiveness, Best Application for a Tablet, and Best Children's, and Best of Tablet – Entertainment and Best of Tablet – Learning and Education awards, winning Best of Tablet – Entertainment as well as the overall Best of Tablet, as well as the international Independent Games Festival (IGF) Awards (2018) for Excellence in Narrative, and the Seumas McNally Grand Prize, as well as a BAFTA Award (2018) for Best Narrative.
More information on our awards can be found here.
Logo
Secret Lab®, Yarn Spinner®, and the hand holding flask logo are trade marks of Secret Lab Pty. Ltd.