Hey gang! Are there any Melbourne/Victoria-based 3D modellers looking for short contract work right now? Summerfall is currently on the lookout for contractors to do hard-surface environment work for a new prototype, like furniture and all that. 🔨🪑
Send through portfolios! 🙂 Cheers!
To kick off, this lovely write-up of both game and my general take on indie publishing in @gamesradarplus.bsky.social
www.gamesradar.com/games/roguel...
😮🤩🤯 this has already reached $21,000! let’s go!!
wow this is amazing. some good news among all the happenings.
(you can get my stuff in this too. there’s a ton of good stuff here.)
🎉yay💕
We've been working on Parasensor since February 2023, when we submitted our application to the first Originate Games. And I first started spinning Ghoulish things up in 2021.
It only now feels like things are getting properly started...please pray for us....
Yes, or I'd at least yell to all around to submit something to it 😋
Been playing @farmrpg.com daily for the last 2 years or so. It's a really fun community and has real 'number go up' monkey brain energy (also a story too if you're into it)
my thoughts on @free-play.bsky.social and why it remains so, so important (especially in the bad times!!!!)
Screenshot of a Tweet from Katharine Neil that say "Conference banner on the wall at the first #freeplay20 in 2004. "Innovation in the Field of Excellence" was a dig at the bullshit corporate themes that the Australian Game Developers' Conference used to go with every year." The photo is a banner with "Innovation in the field of excellence" crossed out and replaced with "Freedom and independence in game development!"
First and most importantly is to recognise its legacy. Freeplay was the longest-running independent games festival in the world. It was one of the first dedicates spaces for the countercultural and political side of gamemaking.
Ultimately, I hope Freeplay finds a way to return to and persist in its more ragtag low budget from, relying on the community that in turn gets so much from it to sustain it. Or people start new ragtag events in new dojos without a budget to make the new CEOS of the game industry feel uncomfortable.
I have thoughts on this, as a former director and a board member for six years, and for one time anyway, a keeper of the flame of Freeplay’s history. But first up I want to say how incredibly disappointing it is that Creative Vic hasn’t funded Freeplay.
Farewell one of the worst years on record. Hello 2026, just... be different ♥️
Hey chat should auld acquaintance be forgot?
Sifter’s annual list of every Australian made videogame is out. These are a crucial resource and I’m so glad they do it every year.
IT'S A WRAP! ✨ @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I have de-installed Traces of Play at Footscray Community Arts. With over 40 game contributions, we want to thank everyone who played/contributed a game, our workshop participants, the exhibition curators, producers, artists & FCA staff. 💛
📸 Yi Li & Thuy Vy
The Frosty Mini showcase of games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ is happening NEXT WEEK! ☀️🍦 Here's some handy timezone info to help you tune in:
🇦🇺 8am AEDT and 5am AWST (10 Dec)
🇳🇿 10am NZDT (10 Dec)
🇯🇵 6am JST (10 Dec)
🇺🇸 1pm PT and 4pm ET (9 Dec)
🇬🇧 9pm GMT (9 Dec)
26 games, 30 minutes. Frosty Mini is TOMORROW! ☀️🍦
Catch the showcase live on our YouTube and Twitch channels. Expect surprise reveals, announcements, and updates!
🔴 YouTube: youtu.be/Ji17SMaOtvg
🟣 Twitch: twitch.tv/frostygamesf...
We had to say goodbye to Basil yesterday.
He was the biggest joy to ever come into our lives, he made us happy every single day, he was what made us a family and he will be missed ♥️
It’s true, here’s our exciting news! Dead Static Drive is coming out on NOVEMBER 5TH! This year! Next week, even.
Yee—and we cannot stress this enough—haw 🤠
www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases
What's that? Is that kinda like blaseball?
🎊✨You can do it! ♥️ ✨🎊
Are we sure this isn't an onion article?
As the single most important news story this year, I can't wait to see the detailed and central coverage this will get in every media outlet we have
Grow new connections in the middle of nowhere with this bittersweet cozy story. Delphinium is now LIVE on Kickstarter 💙🌿
what’s this then www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases
remember remember the 5th of november 👀
I weirdly noticed London does it differently to a lot of other UK cities too.
Has brought a little bit of joy every day since the start of October ♥️
If you want a little spooky treat in your inbox throughout October I highly recommend joining Laura's news letter 🎃👻
A comic titled Spooky Bird Stories. In panel 1, a turkey vulture is telling stories to other vultures, and it says, "She walked toward the source of the terrible smell. She got closer and closer, and then, to her horror, she saw... No dead body." A black vulture says "No!" and a turkey vulture says "Did someone already eat it??" In panel 2, a northern cardinal is telling a story to some songbirds. It says "They peered through the windows of the house at the gory scene. Zombies had smashed through the door in the night. The homeowner was dead. But worst of all... He hadn't refilled the feeders." An eastern bluebird says "Aaah!" and an American goldfinch says "It can't be!". In panel 3, a screech owl is telling a story to other owls. It says "And then the ghost fluffed itself up really big to appear scarier." A saw-whet owl gasps, and a long-eared owl says "Horrifying!". In panel 4, a downy woodpecker is telling a story to other woodpeckers, and says "The eerie sound rang through the dark woods. Tap-tap. Tap-tap. It was the distinctive two-part knock of the Ivory-billed Woodpecker. The species had returned from the dead... FOR REVENGE." A red-cockaded woodpecker says "Yesss".
Spooky bird stories. Last year's Halloween comic.
This conversation with Maddy and Noel about the making, speedrunning & impact of Celeste was an absolute delight - one of the most interesting conversations about game dev, with genuinely two of the nicest people I've ever met. I'm going to be thinking about this one for ages ❤️
Thank you everyone for coming along to our exhibition launch today! ☺️💛 @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I feel so grateful and loved! 🥹✨
(I totally forgot to take any photos but it was so lovely to see people playing in the playspace of Traces of Play and adding a game to the wall 🥰)
It's that time of year... 🍂
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
