Dan Golding

Just in time for @bandcamp.com Friday, I've finally released the Expanded Edition of the Mars First Logistics soundtrack. Featuring half an hour of new music for the full release of @ianmaclarty.com's wonderful game, and a generally sunny musical disposition. Free to all who bought the original.

An explanation on why Big Walk isn't available on Xbox. bigwalk.game/xbox

"After further review, 'Untitled Goose Game (Original Soundtrack)' has been restored to stores. There is nothing you need to change on your end." No explanation, and it might take a few days to filter out to stores. I repeat: love to distribute music in 2026.

Here is the imdb profile shot of Richard Summers-Calvert, the Biddy Blas voice actor

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My Untitled Goose Game soundtrack album has been taken off all streaming platforms without any notification or so much as an automated email. Figuring out a resolution. Love to distribute music in 2026.

This #migw, it's worth reading @cassiebara29.bsky.social's recent and comprehensive look at one of Australia's most significant games orgs.

I guess she's deputy now!

I have never met Steph, but her mum Viv was my high school media teacher, and tragically died in Samoa's 2009 tsunami. She left a lasting impression, and I understand Steph and her family have maintained her legacy at my former school. Wish her all the best.

Regrettably AFL is in fact the best sport in the world, devastating as those final minutes were

Where were you when Kylie took flight

NYT list whatever I’m working on a bigger and less defensible theory that the best show of the 1980s: the simpsons 1990s: deep space nine 2000s: the wire 2010s: mad men 2020s: andor Decades are defined less in the tradition of le long seizième siècle and more how i felt like it

I forgot to post for four months and declare @ bankruptcy. If you @ed me through this period, no you didn’t

"The Guardian is aware that at least nine of the musicians who played in the Sydney concerts are now helping the Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance (MEAA) with a workplace inquiry about the events surrounding the performance."

More like, uh, uhh, Tear Farmer

Can confirm that this weekend I'll be playing all of John Williams' brand new score for Disclosure Day on Screen Sounds, so tune in if you want to hear me have an emotional breakdown on air I guess

He's still got it! He's STILL got it. He has still GOT IT folks. Folks,

AI is bullshit, and it comes first for the jobs that most resemble bullshit, like university senior managers writing thinkpieces to engage with the marketplace of ideas which circulates on LinkedIn

Close enough welcome back Atari Melbourne House

Oscar winner and San Francisco resident Marcia Lucas — the former wife of George Lucas who edited the original “Star Wars,” “American Graffiti” and “Taxi Driver” —  has died.

If I had a dollar for every time a Brisbane game dev made a satirical golf game with all the boring bits put back into it I’d have like four dollars which is quite surprising yada yada

Deeply disrespectful to the entire Australian cultural sector that the Office of the Arts can't be bothered actually reading all the submissions people are working very hard on for the National Cultural Policy, and instead will be asking genAI for a summary. www.arts.gov.au/have-your-sa...

Really hated seeing these “most wanted” cards in the Mandalorian movie, which are clearly inspired by those used by the USA in the illegal and immoral invasion of Iraq. Rare to see Star Wars - even under Disney - completely miss the vibe of its political metaphor.

✦ PARALLELS 2026 — THE CALL-OUT IS HERE ✦ Making a game, and wanna yap about it at Parallels 2026? Now is the time to let us know! Speaker submissions close on the 5th of June. That’s THREE WEEKS. Don't overthink it. Just apply here: forms.gle/j8NkrdqMnwoH...

Having seen the Mandalorian movie I am deciding to double down on this

This really is tremendous leadership from Freeplay, and the kind of thing that has been glaringly missing from the games sector. This stuff is really important, so games people, do not let this moment go to waste.

This should’ve been the end of it. It should still be the end of it.

Hello friends just an fyi that @emvdn.bsky.social’s account has been hacked, in case you weren’t sure if she was really into crypto all of a sudden

I think this is actually still mainstream opinion, but tv technology has changed and widescreens are the norm, so now it's 4:3 content that's commonly converted to widescreen formats. See the controversy over The Simpsons ratio on Disney+ for a good illustration. People don't want bars on screens.

Aside from any of the obvious points, the Jobs Ready Graduates Scheme that ushered this into being and continues to be is a great illustration of the Ratchet Effect in politics, where the establishment right ruins something, and the establishment left does nothing to fix it when they gain power

Rise of Skywalker? Not that bad, and certainly not the worst saga film

You love to see it

I understand this is a big jump in context, and numbers like this take a while to turn around, but is it not still sort of staggering that 85% of buyers in March 2026 are looking at petrol prices and going hey yeah hook me right up fellas

Justice for Yumi Stynes

I have been personally slighted by Jack Black

My “please do not panic about petrol shortages” national address has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my national address

Extremely hyped that my MARS FIRST LOGISTICS expanded edition soundtrack got a couple of plays on the very first episode of @bandcamp.com's 'The Game Show' - and is described as 'super irresistible', no less! Thanks Bandcamp! bandcamp.com/radio?show=927

Victorians get free public transport for a month in bid to ease surge in fuel demand

In the spirit of having nothing to say if you can't say anything nice, I have beyond nothing to say about this

Said it on other platforms but want to express my solidarity with my MEAA colleagues at the ABC on strike today. ✊

Perennial independent Dan Golding (no relation) seems to have run again in SA with a 5% swing against him. Bless.

Remembering the pitch I wrote for A Website in 2022 about it being the year tech ate its own entrails with metaverse, NFTs, and crypto turning dollars into discourse, a strategy that would inevitably fail. Rejected for publication, sadly.

This was the strongest year for original score I can remember in years. Sinners is a worthy winner, and probably would be my choice. One Battle, Hamnet, and Bugonia are also genuinely excellent and would’ve all been my frontrunner in other years. And as the “worst”, Frankenstein is also still good!