this was such a delight to work on. thank you to everyone who participated & contributed, and a big thanks to @helenkwok.bsky.social who led & steered the project. my favourite part of the project was getting to chat to our mums about the games they used to play when they were younger 🥰💖

And so it begins. Minns tries to distract from a security failure in the face of terrorist attack: by suppressing the right to protest. If he was really concerned about "community disharmony", he would stop sucking up to the Israel lobby. #nswpol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?

something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago" "Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate” More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...

IT'S A WRAP! ✨ @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I have de-installed Traces of Play at Footscray Community Arts. With over 40 game contributions, we want to thank everyone who played/contributed a game, our workshop participants, the exhibition curators, producers, artists & FCA staff. 💛 📸 Yi Li & Thuy Vy

Excellent reporting from Daniel on the Meanjin saga

Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied: "Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀

Find love in the darkest night in romantic horror narrative game Drăculești 🦇 Coming to Early Access (PC/Mac) on 2nd March 2026 Wishlist on Steam 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/2537980/Draculesti/

The new social media ban for under-16s goes against the advice of experts, rights groups and kids themselves. Its main backer? News Corp. www.deepcutnews.com/p/how-news-c...

What are the best TTRPG bookmark games (or whatever) that I should be checking out? Having a lot of fun with this format and I'm curious to see what others are making.

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Archive footage of the New Games movement. So much of what I've learnt in my time in games and performance has its roots in this space 🧡

Some initial photos from the Traces of Play workshop last Saturday! Thanks to everyone who came along - @chadtoprak.bsky.social and I feel incredibly blessed to have shared the afternoon laughing and playing games with you all! 💛✨ 📸 Photo credits: @chadtoprak.bsky.social

HK Anti-war Mobilization consists of no more than a half dozen members. Amid a social climate where political action has become muted in the city, the activists have made a personal choice to oppose wars and align with oppressed people in Ukraine and Gaza. In full: buff.ly/Zj5kSjd

Hey, immersive, larp, ARG, theater and game folks: I'm working on Immersipedia and I'm linking out to other design/knowledge wikis like the Puzzle Hunt wiki, Nordic Larp wiki and Game Detectives, plus the whole WikiBruce archive. Are there any others I should be including?

My fave game at No Quarter: Ride a Citibike thru 3D low-poly NYC to a destination while audience checks Google map to tell you which way to go. The ride is more parkour than Tour de France, climbing walls and obstacles, and defying physics. #noquarter #nymakesgames @nyugamecenter.bsky.social

Hello! @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I will be hosting a Traces of Play workshop next weekend at Footscray Community Arts! ✨ It'll be super chill & the games we play won't be too strenuous on the body. 🧘🏻‍♀️ 📅 Sat 29 Nov 2025 🕐 1-2:30pm 🎟️ Book a free tix (limited spots): footscrayarts.com/event/traces...

Good morning #godot feed. I see a lot of new friends, because Unity has pissed the bed again. I updated my Godot Beginner’s Resources Guide here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... It’s for folks who are quite green to gamedev and would like to get started, please enjoy it

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

Tokyo Game Dungeon ✨ @johneternal.bsky.social @chadtoprak.bsky.social @helenkwok.bsky.social

Cover reveal for Mud Ghost Estate Redux! 👻 Mud Ghost Estate is a TTRPG inspired by folklore and urban legends of Hong Kong, where you play as teenagers in the 90s exploring a haunted public housing estate. Launching soon on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/wha...

the last talk i gave was posted to youtube. this one took a lot to prepare so i better share it and u better watch it m.youtube.com/watch?v=HtA_... ok I’m sorry i came on too strong u don’t have to watch it if u don’t want to 🔥💀

Super excited to share that I will be attending @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town in December! I've heard such good things about the festival. I'll be there giving a talk (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...) and exhibiting a new iteration of Canopy Co-op (doougle.itch.io/canopy-coop)

The government's AUKUS payment of $798 million to the Trump administration in May was rushed through by Defence bureaucrats in breach of payment rules, documents obtained by Crikey reveal. Read the report here: www.crikey.com.au/2025/10/3...

I think about this Brian Eno quote all the time. Maybe AI is overcoming its glitches and limitations too quickly, losing its character in the process.

We got a selection of games thru Palestinian Voices in Games (palestinian-voices-in-games.com)! The games confirmed so far are Pomegranates by Gabbah Baya & Being 2 by @deltahead.bsky.social. 🍉 This showcase was made possible thx to FLIPPER by @giucapan.bsky.social & help by @shalev.bsky.social <3

Thank you everyone for coming along to our exhibition launch today! ☺️💛 @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I feel so grateful and loved! 🥹✨ (I totally forgot to take any photos but it was so lovely to see people playing in the playspace of Traces of Play and adding a game to the wall 🥰)

If only OpenAI could have foreseen the entirely predictable hazards of irresponsibly releasing this tech. I guess the estate of every dead person will have to individually request a special dispensation to no longer have disgusting videos made by OpenAI’s tools.

Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.

A new batch of Domino Club games dropped this week and I've been too sick/busy with work chaos to post much about it! Maybe that will give you a hint which, if any, of the games I contributed to... or not... 😈 domino.gallery/jams/boneyar...

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!

Incredibly proud of this new installation work that @helenkwok.bsky.social & I made together about childhood games from around the world 💖 If you're in Melbourne, do check it out at Footscray Community Arts 🙏 The exhibition is now open! Lovely photos in the thread below 🧵👇

New coalition seeks to help Palestinian game developers 'speak loudly' through games aftermath.site/palestinian-vo...

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views. In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster www.smh.com.au/national/why...

My friends and I in middle school would drink a school-approved bubbly soda called Izze. We made up a game we would play every day during lunch called Flicks—where you bend the tab of the drink (after drinking it fully) vertically, and take turns trying to flick and break it off the can.

This looks like exactly my jam. Be sure to read about the submitted childhood games further down the thread!

💛 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! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

We're down to the last 1.5 hours of the Games for Palestine charity. If you've not yet picked up nearly 400 incredible indie games and experiences, and support a good cause while you're at it, now's your chance

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...

our videogame is on show at acmi game worlds!! it’s called ACMI EGG 🧍‍♀️ basically there’s this ACMI CREATURE and we have to keep it alive across a shared save file, in real time, day after day after day. if it runs away it’s everybody’s fault and we can share the guilt🧍‍♀️ also it has secrets! the end!

DO NOT LEAVE (Nic Kim) "A simple flatgame about wanderin' around" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/09/17/d...

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

Letters to Arralla is OUT NOW on Steam with a limited time 20% launch discount!! 🏝️💌 After 5 long years of development and lots of fruit & veggies eaten to power our developers, this cheeky game is finally ready to be delivered directly into your hands!! ☺️ Play now on Steam! youtu.be/7GbGTEpsoIM

My #FallingBlockJam game has some basic gameplay now! Click and drag to select 2 neighbor jellies to have them (attempt to) swap places. Connect a chain from left <--> right edge to clear.

For those confused as to why white supremacists would eat ethnic food after their protest: White supremacy has no problem consuming and eventually appropriating culture. It isn't a contradiction it's literally one of the things they base their claims of superiority on - theft.

The Games for Palestine charity bundle has collected over $50,000 in donations in just over a week! 🍉🙌✨ You can get 382 games, including Atuel, for just $8 or more! Please help fight against genocide by donating and spreading the word with a RT so that the bundle can reach its goal! 🙏✨

Amabel Holland has designed board games that tackle the struggle to end slavery, women’s suffrage, and the highly personal topic of gender transition, referring to them as “political art.” What can board games say that other art forms can’t?

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

Finally discovered the perfect writing/working music. Obsessed with this arrangement! youtu.be/PeBkXhfchb0?...