I’m assisting with key requests on this 👀 Just to clarify, Omi is a character who is meant to be an artificial companion in-game that guides the player. It's written entirely by the devs! Every photo, asset, and line of code was created by actual humans in WA🐶

I have thoughts on this, as a former director and a board member for six years, and for one time anyway, a keeper of the flame of Freeplay’s history. But first up I want to say how incredibly disappointing it is that Creative Vic hasn’t funded Freeplay.

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

really not looking forward to setting up my life again on a discord replacement when this inevitably kills the app

Any Melbourne mutuals keen to see ITZY this year? 👀

I played a bunch of games this year, both new and old. Here's a thread of ones (or series) that stood out for me.

Massive shoutout to @riotgames.com for sending this incredible horde of goodies to celebrate the launch of Riftbound: Origins!✨ Very excited to dive into the game and hopefully pull some epic champ cards👀 #RiftboundOrigins #Gifted

We launched GenExile, our solarpunk city-builder, in Early Access last week. We had ~35k wishlists before launch (not a barnburner but not nothin'). And they said, "Well, there's no way you'll convert literally 0% of your wishlists to sales." I looked them dead in the eyes and said, "Watch me."

My heart is heavy & I might have more to say on that later, but I've got news today that my time at Heart Machine will come to an end after POSSESSOR(S) ships. I'm honestly too busy... literally shipping the game to start actively looking for work, but I'll be looking for my next gig in December. 🥲

Netease just went straight to my folio to copy/paste elements of my personal work to create their official concept art for their Wakanda map. I tried to get answers for a while but no replies from them so here we are. You can check one of them Dm'ing me on X.

Here's the lineup for FREAKON 2025 can you believe this shit lol www.freakon.com.au/blogs/news/f...

Fuck me this is bleak. But please, do continue to use GenAI slop thumbnails for your YouTube videos, or your album art, or your book covers or whatever else. I'll continue to refuse to watch/listen/read any of them, knowing already they're not worth the time & that you're a disappointing lazy hack.

all these games adding fucking I2W mechanics (improve to win)

"We found your website and saw that you need to improve your SEO" — found it how? FOUND IT HOW?

new game !! out now ! this one is called ✨ WIZARD'S FOLLY ✨ adamatomic.itch.io/wizards-folly 🏰 Rebuild lost ruins !! 🍄 Create NEW fungus PROBLEMS 📈 HI scores ??? - Refine your builds and your MIND 🧱 Inspired by Falling Block Jam, which didn't start yet !! oops

Even the smallest trailer slot for Gamescom is unattainable for indies. It'd basically bankrupt us! So if you wanna help a tiny indie get some visibility, then I'd love if you could check out our awesome game - there's giant capybaras in it!

Mega Victreebel

mr beast has 400m subscribers. office 365 has 400m. speculatively salesforce might have 15m user seats.

7 seconds of gameplay to convince you to wishlist my game KOOK. store.steampowered.com/app/2329690/... #retrofps #boomershooter

7 seconds of gameplay to convince you to wishlist my game Crabmeat. store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/... #crab

I'll admit that the AI features in PDF reader have fundamentally changed my experience - I now have to angrily click past a pop up before I can read the PDF I need to.

I haven’t been this excited for a bubble to burst since I was a toddler.

this just in: im an abusive gamedev for (checks notes) making you feel things

You're laughing. The no-death run is ruined, the screen caused feelings, the gamer-ego is DESTROYED, and you're laughing

Fuck this and fuck this festival.

Fallout 3 (2008)

Doctor: Great job, you've been born. You're a natural. Now, press [A] repeatedly to cry. Right, just like that. As a baby, crying is one of your most useful abilities

I haven't even started recolouring yet, but I'm so so happy with how these little mock ups for Bug Brains' new playdough art style are turning out

It's the FINAL DAY of the Drăculești Kickstarter! We're close to our next stretch goal, adding more romance illustrations to the game. How... alluring. Let's reach out and touch it!

Really enjoying the Everdark Libra boss in Nightreign so far. Haven't beaten it yet, but it's a fight that has caused to put our heads together to actually strategise our class and build choices and figure out a path to victory. Really great stuff

i think the future of games for children is going to be nonexistent if there is a lack of funding for educational games and all of these online games intended for children are being swarmed with adults

Highlight of my games week!

We got commissioned to make a thing for ACMI, the screen museum! So we’re (@secretlab.games and @yarnspinner.dev) making Hint Line ‘93, a little game about being a game hint line worker! It’ll be on the museum floor from 18 Sep later this year! Learn more from ACMI: www.acmi.net.au/about/media/...

I'm not sure how visible these are without digging, so if you're looking for indies to follow and support, check below 🙌🏻 Indie Studios: go.bsky.app/EbnyA2d Solo Indies: go.bsky.app/46HSs4C

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I’m still looking for work, despite *gestures broadly* so if you have need of a writer or narrative designer or weird druid who lives in the back part of your property’s acreage, please lmk!

Featured in Frosty Games Fest 2025, 'Letters to Arralla' will be releasing next month, on SEPTEMBER 16th! Play as a turnip with a big juicy bum delivering mail to a cast of colourful characters on an Australian island.

Recognition of Palestine should have happened decades ago and is a fundamental right that the Australian Government has denied for too long. Now we need action: Australia must sanction Israel & end the two-way arms trade. Recognition won’t feed starving kids or stop the bombs.

Öoo is one of the tightest designs I have ever seen in a game. Absolute master-class in subtractive desig and tutorialisation. Incredibly compact puzzle game you can complete in under 2 hours, and will generate tons of light bulb moments for you. 10/10 store.steampowered.com/app/2721890/...

ARTISTS! if you have an old drawing tablet that doesn't have any drivers available anymore or is just unsupported now, i HIGHLY recommend checking out opentabletdriver.net my old wacom bamboo is now unsupported and you can't even get old drivers anymore, works perfectly (even in windows 11).

kinda wild that building relationships is a part of 4 different showcases happening in one weekend store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/...

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this BEAUTY on FORESHORTENING HANDS by the brilliant @tendermiasma! So useful! #howtodraw #drawingtutorial #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #gameart #tutorial #manga #anime

This is the disc print for UG on PS5

We launched @spellgardengames.com's Ritual of Raven! A witchy twist on cosy farming sims, you can let your magical constructs do most of the work while you meet quirky characters, befriend curious and funny creatures and find out what mischief has broken portals across the land🧙‍♀️ s.team/a/2066520

bad news! We didn't get enough co-op sign ups, so we're dropping Teledog into a storm drain, and - what's that? We DID get enough signups? We got more than we needed, actually? Sabby's not shutting down?! But then... who's going in the storm drain? Me?! (sabby.gallery/join/)

I've just signed up to join the Sabby co-op! I'm a big believer in their vision for creation in Melbourne. Happy to support so I Sabby can stay alive, and keep providing valuable services to the community 💖

It is preposterous that Steam blocked the release of this game. It's from a reputable publisher with many titles on the store (DreadXP), and was only excluded on a weird technicality that the game uses live-action/photo sourced art AND touches on (but doesn't show) the subject of sexual violence.