AuZtralia's designer, Martin Wallace, is one of the most respected and acknowledged board game designers in the world today, with around 100 published games, including Brass, DiscWorld, Steam, London, Via Nebula and A Study in Emerald. Originally from the U.K., Martin lived in New Zealand for five years, and then in 2017 became a proud resident of Australia.

Publisher Amanda Milne of SchilMil Games is also originally from the UK, now based in Auckland, New Zealand. She has delivered on two prior crowd funding campaigns (Granny Wars on PledgeMe and Manifest on Kickstarter), and has published five games in all.

Martin and Amanda are working on other projects together. AuZtralia is their first collaboration. The fantastic artwork for AuZtralia is by James Colmer.