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I’m making a game 💖 Project Worl is in the latest round of the Emerging Gamemakers Fund. It’s a vibey liminal rhythm game where your movements are reflected in the environment and the soundscape, where sound reflects Country and Country holds memory. www.screenaustralia.gov.au/screen-austr...

Looking for game devs who have been directly inspired by anything BioWare for my next video. I suspect the public likely doesn’t quite realize the extent of their influence on the industry, so I’d really like to highlight that. If you are one such game devs, pls reply to this post!

Writing has been on the wall for a few years now but STILL GOD DAMN IT. I really loved this browser, apologies to everybody I recommended it to.

Now that Freeplay’s statement is out, I’ma say my peace. Note: I (sadly!) am no longer a board member and have no insider knowledge of details. My understanding of the situation is one or more speakers raised concerns at the last minute about a donor/sponsor, leaving precious little time to act.

Statement about Freeplay Parallels 2026

If we use AI to cut down the time it takes to write something, why should we expect someone to take so much of their human time to read it? @overlandjournal.bsky.social overland.org.au/2026/10/thin...

wrote about penguin colony and boycotts meaning something

Goddamn I love synthesisers. I’m doing a residency at the Sound Lab in Freo over the next few months and spent a few hours today on this Roland System 100 making various bleeps, bloops and so forth

This so lavishly, magnificently in excess of its object — it contains the phrase "the lyric blur of its superlunary gavel." The sort of reviewing that sets you back on fire — this is criticism, you measly, sheepy novelists! Fear it!

In the middle of modelling some bees for my game so I'm revisiting my game-a-week blue banded bee sim (which I still think is tremendously charming and cute): chipswoon.itch.io/bee

Right to Know is a vitally important resource for public advocacy and journalism and I know there are some real They Vote For You merchants on here and you should ALL strongly consider supporting OpenAustralia, as everyone benefits from their free public collections whether we use them or not.

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

Happy indigenous peoples day!

45 seconds of haunted ambient music I made with ~20% of the modules in this rack

No PAX for me because I am very tired but I had a kickass games week 🫶🏽 cup is very full from meeting lots of creative, lovely, talented people but I missed so many more! Next time xx

reported on something that was really difficult for a lot of people for a lot of different reasons in a lot of different ways.

We've been selected by Launch Good to participate in their one-week fundraising campaign for Palestine. Launch Good will match every $ we raise for Dreams on a Pillow. This will take Khadra one stop closer to her next destination Atilit! launchgood.com/1948

We’re so lucky to have Parallels

Earlier this year I met @veselekov.bsky.social and @haraiva.bsky.social. I wanted to learn more about how they make artistic games in the southern hemisphere. In an industry that feels so stagnant, their works are bold, provocative and truthful. For @unpause.nl 👇 www.unpause.nl/verhalen/ach...

Happy games week I have sneezed 15 times this morning 🥲

RIP. Margaret Hamilton, computing pioneer who led software development for the Apollo program, dies at 90

Terrified to announce that Parasensor's demo is OUT NOW ON STEAM 📣😱 Become telecom technician Marisol and explore our freaky Footscray-inspired quarantine zone. 1 demo play = 1 flower for artist @unseconds.bsky.social who we suspect hasn't smelt a flower yet this spring :') #indiegames #indiedev

Spent the day at MESS through their Game Audio Intensive and played with hardware eurorack for the first time 🫶🏽 made some sounds that weren’t totally heinous!

Games Week really cutting into my Scrolling Socials time (but dw I’m not a quitter)

one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting

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Earlier this year Freeplay announced that 2026 might be their last year of operation. I've spent the last few weeks talking to people in and around Freeplay about this point in its history regarding how its changed, its relationship to funding and what it might look like in the future.

with all respect: i'm losing touch with what AI does because i have no interest in it and it's not my business. nobody worries about me losing touch with developments in particle physics or artificial bull insemination. it's not my fault the richest guys on earth want me to make their toy my life

Being a writer in WA has always been dire but the last few years without a Writers' Festival has felt *spectacularly* bleak www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

Turning on my Out of Office for MIGW and I think I may never turn it back on? What if I was "travelling and may be delayed in responding" for...ever?

Google Maps images show scale of Israel's destruction of Gaza, where more than 74,000 Palestinians have been killed.

I keep forgetting to play but here’s my 9

Hey everyone remember how I was saying the AI X-risk criti-hype is a targeted project designed to kill regulations and further ensure an impatient rush on data centre contsruction www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09...

💫Wyrmspace Tactics🎴 will be FTL jumping around #MIGW26 this year! Test your tactics and give our alpha build a playtest! 🍦 Oct 4th: ACMI - The Frosty Showcase 👔 Oct 7th: GCAP - Screen Australia's Local Lounge 🎮 Oct 9-11: PAX - Kirrip Wilam Room For more games week Info head to gamesweek.melbourne

You can also see every hospital they have destroyed. “Closed” “temporarily closed”

Does my Speak-n-Spell feel pain when I type O-U-C-H? The jury is out. Philosophers and neuroscientists say that's fucking stupid, but I called a guy from the Center for Pretending that Household Electronics Are Sentient and he said there's no way to know for sure.

Dockers club theme is so clearly superior my lord what a banger

It is a huge shame to see so much language attributing agency, intent and thought to a software program, when all that should be attributed to the humans who designed a dangerously clumsy and broken looping LLM. Means the companies won't be held accountable for designing a bad product