Spiludvikling i Australien har set en eksplosiv udvikling, hvilket tilbage i 2016 endte i en rapport, der ville give flere ressourcer til industrien, så den fortsat kunne vokse.
Svaret fra den australske regering har hidtil været tavshed.
Rapporten blev indleveret tilbage i april og ville blandt andet gøre det lettere at få penge til at udvikle spil og gøre spil billigere.
Jonny Roses, rådgiver for The Interactive Games and Entertainment Association, har i en artikel på MCV givet sit syn på sagen, og understrege alvorligheden i, at regeringen endnu ikke har taget stilling til sagen:
"Due to a Senate resolution in 1973, the Australian Government has been required to respond to Senate committee reports within three months of tabling. This means we should have seen a response to the games development report by 29 July 2016, or 91 days after its release. This did not happen. In October 2016, we were told that a 'whole-of-Government response' was being developed, but we have not heard anything else since then".
Dette er dog ikke den eneste rapport, der stadig lægger uberørt. Roses beskriver blandt andet, hvordan over 150 rapporter ligger klar til at blive håndteret - nogle helt tilbage fra 2002.
I en samtale med Gamespot, udtaler Senator Ludlam sig om sagen: "It just falls into this pit of darkness because the government's priorities are elsewhere. We've got a possibility of massive public funds going into clean coal--which doesn't exist--while we're starving the games sector to death.
Considering the fossil fuel industry is sponging up hundreds of millions of dollars per year. $20m over three years. It's not very much in the grand scheme of things""
Det er også værd at nævne, at ressourcerne til spil ville være et "self-sustaining funding program".
Afslutningsvis udtaler Ludlam: "What we're looking at is the emergence of a new art form. From a cultural perspective, it's something we should be part of. New practices, whether they be on VR platforms, AR platforms, or mobile platforms - if we want Australian creative people to be a part of that--like we support other artistic endeavours--I think the investment is justified".
Spilindustrien er et varmt emne i Australien lige for tiden, da en mod i GTA V har fået nyhederne til at gå til angreb mod GTA.