From the roses and circuits emerges Waypoint Constellations at the Sydney Opera House 🎫 www.sydneyoperahouse.com/experiences/... A close collaboration with @serenade.games to celebrate Sydney's games and creators. Oct 13th, supported by Screen NSW & TVGS Tickets available now, more info to come
Games at the Sydney Opera House!!! Very cool venue get. www.sydneyoperahouse.com/experiences/...
Waypoint Constellations
Waypoint Constellations is a celebration of the people behind Sydney’s most remarkable games, an evening of game development storytelling, playable games, weird art and connection.
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Looking for game recommendations: Mum loves Plants vs Zombies and Botanicula, and mahjong. She wasn’t crazy about A Little to the Left. Any recs for a *very* user friendly game she can play which ticks the puzzle, clever, easy to learn box? **Mouse controls only!** Thank :3
The Frosty Fest Humble Bundle has raised over $10k for Doctors w/out Borders so far! 🍦 15 days left. Grab some great ANZ games for a wild price here: www.humblebundle.com/games/frosty...
Frosty Games Fest Showcase Bundle 2026: Made in ANZ
It’s an Aussie and Kiwi party with the Frosty Games Fest Showcase Bundle 2026—celebrate ANZ devs and creators today!
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🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Our new game about walking and talking comes out August 4 on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2 and PlayStation 5. Hang out and get lost with close friends in a big world.
Big Walk - Release Date Announcement
YouTube video by House House
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just saw a really cool looking game i'd never head of before come up on the AUS/NZ stream, this is why you watch these folks store.steampowered.com/app/4682620/...
PUTRID/SHARP on Steam
Slice your way through the stages of rot and search for someone lost in a world that is waiting to end.
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🌸🍦 Frosty Games Fest Humble Bundle!🍦🌸 ⛑️ Send some aid towards Doctors w/out Borders and pick up some great ANZ games at the same time. #SummerGamesFest www.humblebundle.com/games/frosty...
Frosty Games Fest Showcase Bundle 2026: Made in ANZ
It’s an Aussie and Kiwi party with the Frosty Games Fest Showcase Bundle 2026—celebrate ANZ devs and creators today!
humblebundle.com
We're excited to announce our Frosty Games Fest Bundle featuring 11 ANZ-made games in support of @msf.org; a humanitarian organisation delivering emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, healthcare exclusion, & disasters ❤️🩹 Grab the bundle: www.humblebundle.com/games/frosty...
MANIFESTO JAM 2026 An invitation/provocation for YOU to write a manifesto. Running for a full week from June 8th to June 15th (AEST). Participate and submit at: itch.io/jam/manifest...
Manifesto Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-06-07 to 2026-06-14 hosted by haraiva. MANIFESTO JAM 2026 A Manifesto for Manifesto Jam, 2026: SEND ME YOUR ADDRESS SO I CAN VISIT YOU AND EXPLAIN MY PASSIONS I'm sick of talks. I...
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Please watch and support the release of Mexico's first stop motion film so that you can both prove that your love for animation as an art form is true and stick it to the industry's equivalent of Benedict Arnold.
"I Am Frankelda" is coming to Netflix on June 12. A Mexican stop-motion feature film by Arturo & Roy Ambriz (Cinema Fantasma).
We have BIG NEWS... Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is OUT NOW! ⚛️ Brain-twisting quantum puzzles 👥 Play in both solo or coop 🔬Plenty of secrets and hidden areas 🎨Full cat customisation! store.steampowered.com/app/2111550/...
Just released a free icon pack to customize nodes in Godot! ICODOT - over 250 16x16 icons, available in PNG and SVG, in 4 colors. gleeson.itch.io/icodot
ICODOT - Node Icons by gleeson
250+ custom 16x16 icons for Godot
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Made a really silly game this week-end! In ART ME THAT! two players compete in making art from a prompt, using random stickers given to you on a conveyor belt! Get a friend, two controllers, and play it here: technobeanie.itch.io/art-me-that #gamedev #indiegame
Art Me That! gameplay: Make silly art with random stickers!
YouTube video by Dom2D
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So grateful for Frosty! What a cool (heh) initiative for the ANZ industry - really love the curation, and so impressive re: positioning and so on. Love to see it, love to support it!
We're thrilled to announce Frosty Games Fest will be streaming LIVE on Sunday June 7 at 8am AEST / 10am NZST as part of Summer Game Fest 💙 Tune in for a chocka-block showcase, featuring announcements from 50+ games made in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand 🎮
Did you know that both Perfect Tides games are on sale 15% off right now? You can get them bundled on Steam, OR pre-order Station to Station in the Nintendo eShop! store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
Save 15% on Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam
A narrative adventure about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex relationships while...
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do you have ambitions to create video games? the first thing you need to ask is this: why? thank you to @haraiva.bsky.social @merryh.bsky.social and cléa frost for speaking to me for this piece.
How to start making video games: advice from Australian developers | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
What goes into the creation of video games, and what should inspire this journey? We talk to local developers about their launching pads.
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🚨🚨🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!!!🚨🚨🚨 WAX HEADS IS OUT!!! Our cosy-punk, puzzle narrative record store game is finally out on PC / Switch / PS5 / Xbox This game is our love letter to music, to the way it connects us and a celebration of human made art. We hope you enjoy it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuAm...
Wax Heads - Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Curve Games
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Few weeks late but ALT:Games at Powerhouse Parramatta was freakin' good. Satellite events by @serenade.games & @waypoint-events.com at ACE (aceinc.org.au) were also so freakin' good. Kudos to @chloeappleby.bsky.social + her team for the massive success, excellent curation and show running. Stunning!
Arts & Cultural Exchange - ACE - Home
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I've been pulling at threads on Palantir's push into Australia for ages. Some of what I found is a previously undeclared new contract with Corrections Victoria for $9m and no evidence that Palantir has been assessed against the federal supplier code of conduct. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Calls grow to ban Palantir in Australia after manifesto described by UK MP as ‘ramblings of a supervillain’
Spy tech firm says it’s just ‘a software company’ amid pressure for a ban on new contracts with government agencies
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DAWN CHORUS -- demo out now! an interactive fiction story about two losers trying to make music and stay friends as the world is ending around them. after years of secrecy/procrastination i am proud to reveal the demo for my esoteric pre-apocalypse story :) PLAY → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...
EXCITING The Australian Production Design Guild is for the first year recognising the production design work which goes into games(!) They have a new award category for games - entries close SOON April 27 apdg.org.au/awards Did you or your team do sick costume, world building/set design, etc? Enter!
Awards - Australian Production Design Guild
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Leaving Hobart with a full heart 🥰💖 The huge success of @screentasmania.bsky.social's Level Up TAS is a sign of the strength and health of the incredible Tasmanian gamemaking scene. Y'all have so much to be proud of 💕💕
University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war
University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war
Aria Fani of University of Washington’s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US university
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📣 Screen Australia announces $1.4 million of funding across 26 games projects in the latest round of games funding. The 8 gamemakers travelling to BitSummit 2026 as part of the Future Leaders Delegation have also been announced. A massive congrats to all 🥳 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-cen...
Screen Australia empowers the next games generation, including new creatives from neighbouring disciplines - Media centre - Screen Australia
Screen Australia announces the latest funding to help level-up Australian gamemakers, including a cohort of newcomers from non-games fields.
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DLSS 5 has sent shockwaves through the games industry, so I asked several artists and developers what concerns them most about the technology. Unsurprisingly, their ire is about far more than ‘AI slop’. www.gadgetguy.com.au/nvidia-dlss-...
"Disgust" over Nvidia's DLSS 5 has the games industry on edge
Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 technology drew the ire of the games industry, but the reasons run deeper than 'AI slop' imagery.
gadgetguy.com.au
I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on. A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture. We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?" www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...
CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine
Bringing together journalists, devs and artists, CONTINUE celebrates and interrogates videogame culture, creativity and community
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