1 Hour until Freeplay Parallels! See you all at 6 pm!

DONT COME AT 7 OR ILL BE MAD AT YOU

The return of Waypoint Constellations✨ 🎫 events.humanitix.com/waypoint-con... A close collaboration with @serenade.games to celebrate Sydney's games and creators. 🗓️On Oct 14th just before SXSW's games festival begins Follow and sign up for more info as we tease out the secrets of this event.

If you want GCAP Pitch back in 2026 and are interested in entering for next year please sign up here and share!! docs.google.com/forms/u/0/d/...

spotted: guy fieri at #MIGW

At GCAP, listening to a keynote about the game industry's problem with institutional memory, and thinking back to my own GCAP 2019 keynote and the existential crisis this slide caused for every 30-something year old dev in the room. Wonder how many of them are still here.

#MIGW DAY 1/0?? let's gooooo 🔥🔥

Hi friends, I'll be at MIGW and SXSW this year: 💜 Oct 5: speaking at Taking Up Space 🤝 Oct 6-8: attending GCAP + AGDAs 🃏 Oct 9: attending Parallels 🧗 Oct 10: come climbing with me! BoulderLab Brunswick, from 6.30pm 🎲 Oct 11: attending PAX Aus (1/2)

Midnighters is a fresh take on video game publishing from a collective of expert producers, behind titles you know and love. ✨ Here to provide devs and publishers with an extra set of hands. midnighters.games

Who is attending #BitSummit this year? Reply to this post if you’re attending so people know how to connect with you. Repost for extra cool person points. 今年の #BitSummit には誰が参加しますか？ 参加される方はこの投稿に返信してください。 リポストすると、さらにクールな人ポイントが増えます。 #BitSummitIntensifies #Yokai #妖怪

🔥Join Team Chuhai!🔥 We’re currently hiring for two roles here at Chuhai Labs! 🧙Gameplay & Systems Programmer 🎨Studio Art Director If you’re interested, or know someone who would be perfect, check-out the full descriptions at chuhailabs.com#jobs

TELL ALL YOUR FRIENDS: The first ever Creature Feature will include updates, announcements, and shenanigans from all Creature label studios. You will see brand new game announcements, new content for some of your favorite games, and a few surprises along the way. ✨ 9AM PST on May 19th on IGN. ✨

Happy ALT! ☺️ congrats to our queen @chloeappleby.bsky.social on a phenomenal first-time event 💜 see ya next year!!! 😘

ALT: GAMES off to a cracker start. @walistudios.au, @silstipro.bsky.social (and more!) giving cracker pitches and having improv design chats with @dmullinsgames.bsky.social 🤩

um what? how are these things roblox didn't already have?? game's been around since 2006 and couldn't add these types of basic safety tools until 2025??????? you couldn't block and report people??? AHHH 🙃🙃🙃🫠 utter madness

ACMI has announced Game Worlds, a new video game exhibition spotlighting 30 pioneering video games, including Neopets, The Sims, and World of Warcraft. https://www.gameshub.com/news/news/acmi-game-worlds-exhibition-2694727/

Fabulous, can't wait, exciting!! Well done ACMI. www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gam... and, Here's some info on the microgame grants available to Australian gamemakers (citizen, PR or 2yr TR) - BRILLIANT!! www.acmi.net.au/collection-p...

I built a Playstacean!

Does anyone know if there are any Taiwanese game dev meetups? @chadtoprak.bsky.social , @maarlzipan.bsky.social would you know?

Screen Australia's latest round of funded projects revealed! Thrilled to be supporting such a fantastic cohort of games and gamemakers. The 2025 Future Leaders Delegation recipients has also been announced. Excited to be travelling to GDC with them soon! 🥰 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-cen...

Thrilled to be delivering a talk at #GDC2025. Find me at the Indie Soapbox session on Tuesday! 👀 🏛️ @officialgdc.bsky.social 📜 Indie Soapbox 📅 Tuesday 18th March @ 4:10pm 🔗 schedule.gdconf.com/session/inde... Mutuals, I haven't seen many of you in years (over a decade?). Let's hang out! 💖

Apple Arcade is set for a huge month of new games in April 2025.

🌟IndieCade Festival 2025 Submissions are Open!🌟 We accept all kinds of games: digital, physical, mobile, VR, works-in-progress, and more! 📸We want to showcase your work! 📸 indiecade.com/submissions/ #indiegame #indiedev #indiecade #indie #GameDev #games #GameDesign

Katamari Delicacy Desk Mat up for order at Fangamer ($28) buff.ly/9eBvYob

Timeless trailer-making advice in today's @pushtotalk.gg

The State of Play NSW Indie Developer Survey is live! If you're a game developer in NSW, this is your chance to have your voice heard. The time has come to make the case for change. Let's do this! ✊ Survey: form.fillout.com/t/hGsv4tjsf8us Learn more on our website: www.stateofplaynsw.com.au

👋 We're working on an escape room comedy-horror about being a renter. It's called Janet DeMornay Is a Slumlord (and a witch). We're deep in dev atm, but there's a new trailer on the way as we work toward a mid-2025 release. #gamedev

am I gonna book a 3rd trip to Sydney even though I've already been there twice in the last month? Yes. Yes I am 😹🙈 This looks too good to miss out on!!! 💜💜💜

Did you know that you can get funding to support upskilling within your games studio from Screen Australia's Skill Development Fund? Congrats to Towerpoint Games (@schneediener.bsky.social) and the Guck team for inclusion in this latest round of grants 👏👏👏 More info here:

This is what I have been working on for the past decade 💅 ALT: GAMES is a new festival that brings together the Australian games community and industry. Featuring @dmullinsgames.bsky.social Richard Garfield @allyhennessy.bsky.social Playfool and atomo Kihara

🤯 Oh, hey, come see us talking about @yarnspinner.dev and @blacksaltgames.com's #DREDGE at @officialgdc.bsky.social! schedule.gdconf.com/session/dred... #GDC #GDC25 #GDC2025

YES GO CLOWNBABY GOOOOOOOO! @tdogextreme.bsky.social has had such a clear, exciting, fascinating vision for this game from the first time I saw it during ideation. It's gonna be rad!! 🤡🤡🤡 Excellent interview with @legenette.bsky.social 💜

The Day of the Devs party at GDC 2024 was easily one of the best events I attended. Kinda so good it was a problem to start on such a high note tbh!! Get along if you're GDC-bound, it's an excellent time! 💜

📣 WIP Night Set Times ✨ 🚪 7:00 - event starts 🗣️ 7:05 - introductions 🐸 7:10 - Alex presenting an early prototype of their puzzle game! 🛋️ 7:40 - Ioni and friends presenting their party game, Branching Out! ⚔️ 8:10 - Trent presenting Dolven, a tactical RPG! 🫶 8:40 - closing words and socialising

My brand:

Visit the Museum of All Things (MoAT), a nearly-infinite virtual museum generated from Wikipedia. This incredible digital space is made by downloading text and images from Wikipedia and Wikimedia Commons! Made in Godot and available for Win/Mac/Linux. mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...

exciting!! I've been keen to checkout Gamescom Asia for a few years and this makes it even more appealing. but uhhh hope those dates don't overlap with MIGW and SXSW Syd 😬 www.gamesindustry.biz/gamescom-asi...

Get a job! DF is currently on the hunt for a Senior Systems Programmer. This position is focused on developing systems (imagine that!) and internal dev tools. Are you are the programmer of our dreams? Apply here: tinyurl.com/DFSystemProg

Aus & NZ gamedevs, get your games in! @frostygamesfest.com EOIs close 19 Feb! Link in quoted post:

The key fairy can't swim...

I'm back with another 2024 round-up: this time, it's books! Please take a look and let me know your thoughts. I'd love to hear people's favourite reads and recommendations from the year 🥰 📚

A place where “everyone feels welcome”: Namnam Space and the queer community in Koenji

One for indie devs: what happens if TikTok really gets banned in the US this Sunday? Here is a thread with data and hot takes from a game that mastered TikTok and is now doing well on TikTok-clones and potential life savers: Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts Let’s dive in!

I got my start in games thanks to writing but somewhere along the way I stopped making time for it. But I love it and I miss it so.... I'm back! 💃📝 Here's a round up of some of the best things I played in 2024:

Looking for a sea change? We have added even more roles to our Careers page! If you'd love to join a fun and creative studio in 2025 check out lnkd.in/d6-C28k page for the full details.

Always get a lil reflective in December. Have you had a good year? A bad year? The type of year that has you wanting to unearth arcane antiquities from lost tombs so you can unleash the Curse of the Pharaohs upon an unsuspecting world? What's your vibe?

Congrats to Astro Bot and Team Asobi for blasting to the top and winning Game of the Year at #TheGameAwards

Have Team Asobi make an Ape Escape game

Our team is growing! We have new roles open for Senior Engineer, a Senior Gameplay Engineer and a QA Tester: bit.ly/hw-careers 🧘‍♀️ Flexible workplace 💵 Competitive salary and profit share 🚀 Growth and development opportunities 💗 Fun and supportive team

Sabby is looking to host a Workshop, Art Event and Games Showcase every month in 2025! If you have a skill you'd be willing to teach to the community or another event you're keen on hosting BOOK NOW! Spots are limited. forms.gle/qeBnQStryxKZ...