Secret Lab is an independent computer game developer based in Hobart, Australia, currently developing the Tiki Bar TV

Tiki Bar TV

Tiki Bar TV is a web series distributed in the pioneering field of video podcasting or "vodcast." Produced in an apartment Tiki bar on a low budget, the humorous and heavily ad-libbed show is a creative outlet for its creators Jeff Macpherson and Kevin Gamble...

 video game, Day of the Tiki. Secret Lab is also developing the tie-in video games for Canadian superhero web series, Heroes of the North.

Secret Lab's founders, Paris Buttfield-Addison and Jon Manning, are co-authors of the books iPhone and iPad Game Development for Dummies and Unity Mobile Game Development for Dummies.

In December 2010, Secret Lab's founders were jointly awarded one of Australia's most prestigious awards for technology, the Pearcey Award by the Premier of Tasmania David Bartlett

David Bartlett

David John Bartlett is an Australian former politician in the state of Tasmania, serving as the 43rd Premier of Tasmania from May 2008 until January 2011. He was an Australian Labor Party member of the Tasmanian House of Assembly seat of Denison from 2004 to 2011.-Early life:He has been a resident...

. Secret Lab was also awarded three Tas ICT Awards: "Success in Exporting ICT Solutions", "Excellence in Digital Media or E-Marketing" and the "Tas ICT President's Award for Excellence".