We have immediate availability in 2026 so if you know anyone who needs help working on their game let me know!!

If you ban VPNs, another three letter acronym technology will be born to replace it and defeat your new safeguards. The free internet will always move faster than legislation.

Joyce Carol Oates for president

For those of you outside of Melbourne and Australia in the games industry. Parallels is one of the most positive and optomistic events for games, I come away from it every year thinking "huh video games are pretty good"

Also please let us know about how you felt about the evening if you attended! Your feedback really does matter and we do cherish it in the quiet hours of the night

Also, while you're reminiscing about the event that was, please fill out our event survey! Whether you love Parallels as it is or want to suggest improvements for the future, all feedback is valuable to us. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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... 🎩🏈💀🃏⬜💐🧚🏠

Halo Finite

A LOT of industry folks need to take "I think there's a very high possibility that this is all a bunch of horseshit" to HEART.

If you’re an Australian Microsoft 365 subscriber and don’t appreciate them increasing your plan price so they can cram their shitty AI into your life, you can follow these instructions to keep your lower price and opt out of Copilot. support.microsoft.com/en-au/office...

My plan for tonight: Play Dead Static Drive End of list

Updated my portfolio website at andrewmendlik.com with content from Malys if anyone wants to check it out ❤️

injured myself buying dead static drive from @leena.reuben.games and @mike.reuben.games too aggressively store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

@mike.reuben.games I’m so fkn proud of you.

Remember when it was fun and affordable to cook pork ribs?

Conde up to their Nasty tricks yet again

Remember remember It’s already November

People watching in our narrative adventure game Little Ruin #indiedev #indiegames #gameart #indiegamedev #sliceoflife

Screen NT, to their credit, has been doing games funding since 2023! One of the games they funded (Diets and Deities, a very cool game) was an AGDA nominee last year (this was a big part of my budget bid argument in SA, ha) screenterritory.nt.gov.au/news/2023/ne...

Holy shit, that's all states aside from ACT now, yeah? I can't see the ACT Screen Arts Fund on Screen Canberra's site any more. The NT grants are small, but that's where you have to start! This is big news!

Case in point, we got out of this situation! What a great game!

RV There Yet might be the best co-op game I've ever played. I've just had the most fun and satisfying games experience I've had since we really found our rhythm with since Sea of Thieves, and it doesn't have any of the roguelike bullshit of Peak. PERFECT co-op videogame experience.

A fun Jurassic World Evolution 3 bug prompts the helicopter response team to randomly tranquilise dinosaurs that don't deserve it. My albertosaurs keep getting faceplanted by a bored and uncontrollable squad of flying cowboys. Extremely good bug, don't fix it.

Whoah wait really

The term “AI” is dead please join me on finding any alternative humanly possible

Made Pad Thai from scratch (using a recipe that doesn't require me to have a wok, thanks recipetineats!) and hot dang it was fantastic

Imagine the Illusive Man from Mass Effect saying this

I'll never forget sitting with Alan during Train Jam 2016 and watching him live-update a sokoban style puzzle game right before my eyes, based on watching us play a few levels. He understands this genre like no other, and I can't wait to sit down with my kids and mess with Spooky Express!

Holy crap the BBC actually gave the keys to Bluey to an Australian game dev this time. A Brisbane dev, even! www.bluey.tv/blog/blueys-...

Dude's pathetic and desperate campaign and PACs have jillions of bucks behind it and even they are too cheap to pay for actors to do this shit (tho it probably is quite expensive to get Idris Elba to play a shoplifter) This is what Midwesterners think NYC is like, wtf is this rube shit lol

Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW! 🚂🧟🧛 Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania. Steam: s.team/a/3352310 itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

i love when i am playing pro jank footy and suddenly someone is large and has big legs, and i am birds

So wonderful to see your friend and mine @dangolding.com in his element being a HUGE NERD about Hans Zimmer alongside the TSO, for Art of the Score

Wake up, babe, the least subtle visual metaphor in history just dropped

Caught up on this video. It's damning, and deeply unsurprising. "This is where the death of the internet begins."

try to use google or pinterest and you’ll see that AI is the final boss of enshittification. Kurzegesagt dropped a great explainer vid the other day: youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

Reminder to Australian devs that @sifterhq.bsky.social does the lord's work every year by compiling every single Australian-made videogame they can find. You can submit your 2025 releases here: www.sifter.com.au/add-my-game-...

Gonna stop saying "AI" to mean generative slop engines and start saying "slop engines" henceforth. Slop engine assistants Generative slop engines Slop engine agents Slop engine prompt farter] Let's take back "AI" to mean what it's always meant - computer controlled opponents in videogames.

Having a McDonald’s coffee for the first time in donkey’s because I won a freebie, and Y’ALL I thought someone was gonna have a word and tell them it doesn’t have to be fkn lava in there. It can be cooler than that! When they handed me a double walled insulated disposable cup it didn’t bode well.

Last night I stumbled into working out how to play This Old Love by Lior on the guitar, one of the best ballads I've ever heard, and honestly I'm pretty fkn proud of myself!

Infantilising. This was a professional conference.

My parasocial relationship with Brennan Lee Mulligan is so unhinged, I'm legit sad and grieving that I'm not at SXSW and can't somehow meet him. I'm drinking whiskey about it.

I made this Malaysian satay chicken curry for dinner tonight and y’all it might be the best thing I’ve ever made! www.recipetineats.com/chicken-sata...

I was thinking about getting a bidet until I read about how long they take to install. How long, you ask? Oh, around a bidet-and-a-half.

"Here's Binge Basic for only $2 per month!" Motherfuckers get it through your skull: I AM NOT PAYING YOU TO ADVERTISE TO ME

This writeup would be sick for @aftermath.site and/or @thisweekinvideogames.com (cc @lukeplunkett.com @edmondtran.bsky.social)!

Meg and her son Lyndon together are the Michael Jordan of covering indies at PAX Aus, a generational family work ethic. Incredible stuff. Commission Meg now, I know from first hand experience that she can write compellingly about any one of these 150 (!!!) games.

Here is a player facing spreadsheet of 150 indie games from PAX. Aus, NZ and SE Asia. Game name, steam (or other) link, demo y/n, genre, comments (which I'm editing). Please share. Let's work together to connect people to Aussie indies. I'm going to tag people next. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...