YAAAAAY HAPPY KEY FAIRY DAYY!!!

Save 10% on Key Fairy on Steam A hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric, bullet-hell. Grapple and dance around monsters to collect their shattered stars, weave your way through twisting paths, encounter strange folk, uncover ancient magic...

Key Fairy is officially released!

Buy it, lest ye be slain!

store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

Criticism of Benjamin Netanyahu may be an offence under Australia’s new hate speech laws, Greens warn Anthony Albanese and Tony Burke say the laws are needed to protect Australians – particularly the Jewish community

Perhaps the most disgraceful of all the “national security” laws that have been passed since Sept 11 2001.

Albanese would have been a good, compliant minister in the Howard govt.

www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Volunteering is not unethical. It's not exploitation to willingly give your labour and your love to something that gives you back all of it and more - connection, celebration, opportunities, a platform, created by you, for you. We need to reexamine this idea, this fear, that every time we do something for free, it means we've been robbed, and every time we ask someone to do something, it's manipulation. I know how it feels to be in this position, but it's killing our communities. It's killing our relationships. We are not businesses, we are people, and the things we want to give and receive are numerous. I hope we can change how we view this, because if we can only get things done with money, we let the people with capital dictate everything that happens.

one more thing about freeplay, and an issue that's been on my mind for a while (alt text available):

a computing with a screen depicting a world and the world beyond the screen. the world on the screen is a chequered board, a building with a river of water coming out of it, going down a waterfall and splashing onto the keyboard. the world beyond the screen has large trees with twisted roots, the top of the building, a sleeping(?) dragon, a cage with a question mark inside, an open chest, a long pole with a star on top.

illustration, personal computing, magazine (1979) archive.org/details/Pers...

From: Beginning Middle End (1989), dir. Sally Cruikshank

おいしそう。。。

Should We Play With Our Money? - Freeplay Angles 2025 (Erica Royle & Duncan Corrigan) YouTube video by Duncan Corrigan

Me and @ericaroyle.bsky.social's Freeplay 2025 talk is now online! It's a banger trust us!! 🔥🔥

m.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0X...

I've decided to stop telling people I dye my hair to this red because old people just don't WANT to believe it's lush henna hair dye

Finally

anyone remember pentiment? wow that game rocks

Sorry to hear Ben ❤️❤️ he was a beautiful boy

It is about school but ping pong is really good and has incredible animation

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

👀

Me making a game about my family's history rn but NOT for nostalgia but for the past the present and the future

you're only allowed to call it games week flu if you've got a negative RAT. or else it's just sparkling covid

i tried to play it but you were really parked there for a long time playing, what was up with that

i reviewed NBA 2K26 for @endlessmode.bsky.social because someone had to while you're all playing silksong: www.endlessmode.com/article/comm...

i constantly think about this post

wizard punks??? no...
call me. Website Punks.

look at this awesome website that my good friends @haraiva.bsky.social and @gleeson.dev created!!!!

stormcatgames.com

i now have the power to email journalists and say "OoOooO, look, i have a presskit"

can't believe I was in Brisbane for an earthquake but didn't feel it :/

@ grok kill this nerd

AI2027 is a kind of intelligence test in that if somebody (like Peggy Noonan did in the WSJ today!) cites it as "proof" of anything you can immediately dismiss them as a rube. It's totally nonsensical.
houseofmirrors.substack.com/p/the-spectr...

The poster for TANGENTS 2025 featuring a playful geometric design. The text reads; experimental games from around Australia, Wednesday July 30th 7pm - Late, Sabby Gallery 141 Victoria Pde Collingwood.

Better late than never! 👀

TANGENTS is back this year at @sabbygallery.bsky.social to coincide with the start of @free-play.bsky.social Angles Festival. Come play weird and wonderful games from across Australia!✨

🗓️ Weds July 30th
⏰ 7pm - Late
🎟️ Free RSVP 👉 events.humanitix.com/tangents25

Should've been sad you missed out on the free wine

YAYYY CONGRATZ!!!

like that scene in birdeater

This turned out sick, thanks to everyone who joined <3

ALT: GAMES - a curators recap 💖 Games are special, important and change how we engage with stories and each other. This festival was just a way to highlight that and the community.
Thank you to everyone involved who made this happen, you made it a success and for many a home.