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...

🍉 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...

The Southern Fisheries Penal Colony is looking for new Expatriates! 🦀Crabmeat is Out Now on Steam 🦀 store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/... ❄️Explore, Get big hauls, Defend your ship from attackers 🧪Blend of First Person and Point and Click gameplay 🕑Short 2-3 hour experience

Check out the line up for ALT GAMES April 18-19 in Sydney!! We have Shuhei Yoshida, Alanah Pearce and Billy Basso as our keynote speakers!!! Come 👍 powerhouse.com.au/program/alt-...

Key Fairy is officially released! Buy it, lest ye be slain! store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

one more thing about freeplay, and an issue that's been on my mind for a while (alt text available):

hello. here are some games that came out this year, this year of 2025, that are cool to check out. or don't check them out, i dunno it's your decision, i can't make it for you

The Center for Digital Play (digitalplay.itu.dk) has a YouTube channel, and we've just published a ton of content! Seth Giddings (@sethgiddings.bsky.social) on Postdigital Playthings: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAjE...

This Saturday, Indiepocalypse Radio returns at *7pm* ET with guests @bonicle.bsky.social and @justcamh.bsky.social! Tune in it at www.indiepocalypse.com/radio!! Send questions to www.indiepocalypse.com/questions

trespasser A maintenance system prone to malfunctioning is installed in an unusual apartment building. A horror/romance kinetic novel made for #rorojam ~20 minutes, windows download (free :]), not safe for work elements -> unseconds.itch.io/trespasser <-

how to walk out the door (Anton Pätsi, Lucy Woodall, Benjamin Pilbrow) "instructions: walk out the door" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/12/17/h...

new game release: Rainbows Are Carnivores is an experimental gay fishing romance / aquaculture management sim. Free, 10-20 min, play in mobile or desktop browser radiatoryang.itch.io/rainbows

Game-A-Week is back! A completely free program open to everyone, where participants will create six prototype games or works - one each week. Come and experiment in a super supportive and exciting environment open to all skill levels!

ok one earnest post……. 10 yrs ago today I graduated w my honours degree which I wrote my dissertation on the need for more self determined Indigenous video games… and on this very same day 10 yrs later released one w my friends!!! 🥹

26 games, 30 minutes. Frosty Mini is TOMORROW! ☀️🍦 Catch the showcase live on our YouTube and Twitch channels. Expect surprise reveals, announcements, and updates! 🔴 YouTube: youtu.be/Ji17SMaOtvg 🟣 Twitch: twitch.tv/frostygamesf...

Me and @ericaroyle.bsky.social's Freeplay 2025 talk is now online! It's a banger trust us!! 🔥🔥 m.youtube.com/watch?v=lK0X...

DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER youtu.be/_MXKlgMZ3Jc?...

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link. Successful applications will be paid an honorarium. If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there. Link: powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

We're excited to announce that the Frosty Mini showcase will premiere on December 10 starting at 8am AEDT / 10am NZDT (that's December 9, 1pm PT for our USA friends)! Tune in for exciting news and surprise announcements from 20+ of the coolest games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ.

The Parallels 2025 recording is live! Whether you want to revisit a favourite talk or see the show for the first time, it's available on our channel now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD2a... 🎩🏈💀🃏⬜💐🧚🏠

After a long gap, pleased to share: Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me. We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial. games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...

The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify. This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero

@pixelpasture.studio and Serenade are putting on a little party to celebrate the awesome games made during GAME-A-WEEK this year!!✨ We love this community and we love you!!!💋 More info and tickets coming soon 🙃

Season of Lights [Milosoft®] 15 games in 15 weeks :: Saturdays ((001 next week)) HEOSAO.net ☺

SKATE STORY DECEMBER 8 PS5 | SWITCH 2 | PC 🔥🔥🔥 🛹 🔥🔥🔥 PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/...

~GAME RELEASE~ Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity (OMUI) is OUT NOW!!! on Steam and Itch for F R E E! It is a first-person narrative horror game about the Iranian revolution, nuclear war, and my Uncle Ramin's suicide. Please share and leave a review on Steam if you are able to!!!

Onto Maizilind Unto Infinity will be releasing this Tuesday October 7, 2025 for PC for FREE(!!!) on Steam and Itch.io! Check out the release trailer and find all details about the game on its very own website: omui.me ~Please share ~!!!

📁 Death is our beginning. At REAPRIEVE, the sole purpose of a grim reaper is their desk job. Every soul has a story - and you’re tasked with deleting it. REAPRIEVE is an upcoming existential adventure game about corporate grim reapers and how, despite death, people refuse to be forgotten 🦋

Who is Johnny Sixgun? Is now free and available to everyone! "You are Johnny Sixgun. You have been having the same dream every night, and it warns you of something terrible. It's time to figure your shit out." siobhan-dent.itch.io/who-is-johnn...

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here! Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

oh I should post. I put up a steam page for HyperRouter! Go wishlist my weird little early-internet exploration platformer!!!! #gamedev #y2k #3dplatformer store.steampowered.com/app/3612450/...

💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...

General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️ Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺 www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

please consider supporting this fantastic bundle 🙏 video trailer and bundle link in the post below 💖

We're excited to announce the Games for Palestine charity page is now LIVE on Itch. Over 300+ games with proceeds going to UNRWA USA in support of Gaza relief. Thank you to everyone for your support. The bundle launches on Sept 2nd 9am PST. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

Now that it's hit 10 Steam reviews, the demo of Your Holy & Virtuous Heretic is officially rated 100% Positive!

I wrote a short story (with some nice visuals) Death to a Merry Car :) Play it on itch: xavibell.itch.io/death-to-a-m...

1 WEEK TO GO! 🎮✨ CTRL ALT RESIST opens Fri 8/22 @ The Supermarket a 3-day exhibition of games as protest, resistance & radical imagination. Come play, reflect & resist. 📅 8/22–8/24

We continue our agenda of injecting DIY punk into Sydney's premiere game event 😈 Come hangout at the iconic Oxford Art Factory but for gamers. It's gonna be sick as hell🔥

Time Flies has landed! Now available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 5, and Mac/PC. timeflies.buzz 🪰

Make your mark on this 100 dollar bill and pass it on. See the progress of @duncancorrigan.bsky.social and @ericaroyle.bsky.social's game from their talk "Should We Play With Our Money?"

The Drăculești Kickstarter campaign has hit 50%! Thank you to everyone who's backed it so far. 18 days to go...! Please keep sharing, spreading the word, and supporting Dracula. You have his eternal gratitude 🖤 www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Better late than never! 👀 TANGENTS is back this year at @sabbygallery.bsky.social to coincide with the start of @free-play.bsky.social Angles Festival. Come play weird and wonderful games from across Australia!✨ 🗓️ Weds July 30th ⏰ 7pm - Late 🎟️ Free RSVP 👉 events.humanitix.com/tangents25

Real Life Golf (@reecyboii.bsky.social) "Made with 3D scans I took with my phone using the first result I found when searching '3D Scanner' in the app store." Free - Windows, Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/07/18/r...