Announcing our Outdoor Games Workshop, an excuse to hang out and play in a park together during Sydney Games Festival! This is a laid back event that's about connecting through play and having fun together, so we hope you'll join us! 📆 Oct 15 🕐 1 - 3pm 🌿 Hyde Park fannaan.events/events/6646-...

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

i'm here to announce a studio class i'll be teaching at @boshis.place (and remote) this fall! * idiosyncratic games * we will choose four game devs with unique styles, play & discussing their games and then make and critique projects inspired by them! expand your horizons and get some work done!

The Game is out!!!!! walkinggame.dad

ANNOUNCING Sydney Games Festival! We are community-run game festival, organised by Sydney's various game-making groups. A jam-packed week of events organised a crossed Sydney by local game dev communities in industry, digital and tabletop games. When? 13 Oct - 18 Oct 2026 sydneygamesfestival.org

Made a game about my old car and my grandparents. It's a bit serious and very good. #gameaweek #indiedev #bitsy It's here: reecewilliams.itch.io/my-old-car-w...

Calamity Cait is out! A story of love, whales, pubs, lighthouses and the great outdoors. And it's free! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4200450 Itch: xavibell.itch.io/calamity-cait

Announcing... Asymptotes. Asymptotes is a games event in Naarm, Australia, celebrating imperfection. On Saturday July 18th, we're running a showcase of abandoned games, with talks and panels on non-commercial and difficult to commercialise game-making. 👉 asymptotes.au

🔴🟡🔵 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

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If you’ve been wondering why I haven’t been posting much the last three months: My paper on the future of Australia’s games industry — and what the government can do to avoid another Crash wiping — is out today. drive.google.com/file/d/1Hnr_...

Frosty Scoop! Just4Friends just unveiled @n00bsguide.bsky.social in Frosty Games Fest! This narrative-focused walking-sim takes us on a journey through a pre-teen's YouTube video playlist. It’s a funny, introspective and painfully earnest series of vignettes coming soon to Steam. s.team/a/4789130

Unlike other industries, the gaming industry is unable to take a stand against the ethnic cleansing in Palestine. Big companies dont want the risk, individuals dont know what to do. If you believe in this medium & want to help. This is a game about Palestine needs your help Launchgood.com/1948

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Development of the stealth adventure game about the Nakba is underway. New game trailer headlines a final crowdfunding push for remaining budget until release.

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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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The Frosty Games Fest showcase of games made in ANZ is happening THIS WEEKEND! ☀️🍦 Here's a handy timezone guide to help you tune in live on YouTube or Twitch: 🇦🇺 8am AEST and 6am AWST (7 Jun) 🇳🇿 10am NZST (7 Jun) 🇯🇵 7am JST (7 Jun) 🇺🇸 3pm PT and 6pm ET (6 Jun) 🇬🇧 11pm GMT (6 Jun)

Want to learn about some recently-released-but-overlooked games?? I'm happy to announce that the Unearthed Treasure Room showcase is coming back for Part 2!! Right before Summer Game Fest, we'll be premiering the showcase on... June 3rd at 4 PM Pacific (12 AM BST), on Youtube!!

GAME-A-WEEK 2026, WE'RE SO BACK 6 weeks this year, count em! Thursdays 6pm-8pm, July 2nd to 6th August Burwood Community Hub Tickets coming soon Amazing art and poster design by @aniko.pixelpasture.studio as always

Submissions to the National Cultural Policy close next Sunday 24 May. We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in submissions. Freeplay's helpful guide on making a submission can be found here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

2026 05 - National Cultural Policy submission drive

Games and play sectorNational Cultural Policysubmission drive brought to you by your mates at Freeplay 💞 Instructions We need as many studios, gamemakers and sector support organisations to put in s...

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I'm regularly emailed by kids that love my game. It is devastating that kids in the Middle East are having joy taken from their childhoods by violent, oppressive governments and wars that they have nothing to do with. That is why today we are donating $150,000 to MSF, Red Cross and UNHCR. ♥️ 🍉

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

images not loading on here making the "i just released the demo to the game i've been quietly working on" a little difficult... ah well i'm in no rush. anyway DAWN CHORUS demo out now. long live the pre-apocalypse → haraiva.itch.io/dawn-chorus-...

DAWN CHORUS [DEMO] by haraiva, isyourguy

a demo of a pre-apocalypse interactive fiction game

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As part of curating FORM, I made this resource of related works. It's an approachable introduction to experimental games and alternative process so if you're curious to dig a bit deeper into this medium it's a great place to start!

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Thank you to everyone who joined us at FORM last week!!! We had a great night and hope you did too!💖✨ We've put together a little archive of the evening with photos, games and extra resources - check it out if you're keen to see more!🔥 docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Announcing: Freeplay is here to stay. Parallels 2026 is coming and we're advocating for games to be funded as art. Read more and get involved: freeplay.net.au/posts/freepl...

Freeplay | The Shape of Games to Come

talks and games and friends

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This year’s Experimental Games Showcase is up on the GDC Vault, and it’s free for anyone to check out! If you wanna see a handful of really interesting projects doing very unique things in the industry, take a look: gdcvault.com/play/1035831...

Experimental Games Showcase

The Experimental Game Workshop Showcase, which featured games like 'Baba Is You', 'The Longing', 'Braid', 'Untitled Goose Game' and 'Katamari Damacy', is back for its 24th year at GDC! In this fast-pa...

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🍉 THE DIS-LOYALTY ZINE 🍉: Punch a hole through these "killer" brands every time you boycott them. Complete the set to reveal a poem and hidden image. ✊🏻 Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social for @avantbeetle.bsky.social's Protest Game Jam. 📄 Wanna print your own? heyitshelen.itch.io/the-dis-loya...

did you know that we do classes? this summer find out whether GAMES CAN CHANGE THE WORLD in this 8-week seminar & speculative game design workshop class taught by @hatimb00.itch.io more info & apply here: hatim.tips/can-games-ch...

Anthology of the Killer is OUT NOW on PS5 and Nintendo Switch! The groundbreaking and dreamlike, IGF Nuovo-winning horror-comedy series from legendary auteur thecatamites, is finally on console! Play once and remember forever.

There's a bunch of cool events ran by independent collectives coming up to compliment a great weekend celebrating Sydney games and community! We've collected these satelitte events altogether here so you don't miss out! SIGW might be real after all.. (Sydney International Games Weekend!!!) 1/4 🧵

Announcing FORM 👀 👉 fannaan.events/events/2090 Kick off the weekend with us on Friday April 17th with an exhibit of experimental games and artist talks, exploring the rich undercurrent of alternative process and experimentation developing outside the commerical sphere of games✨ Supported by ACE

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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