"Festival Programmers Roundtable" at Brunswick Underground Film Festival with @jacksargeant.bsky.social former Melbourne Queer Film Festival Director Cerise Howard, former SXSW Sydney Screen team members Jordan Bastian Felix Hubble & BUFF Head of Programming @memoryendowment.bsky.social

"How Did You Get Started?" at Brunswick Underground Film Festival with Causeway Film's Sleena Wilson, directors Kim Miles (Mel) + Gabriel Bath & Daniel Tune (Moviejuice, Adl) + JP Meldrum (Canada) + Haruki Ryles (Bri), Golden Age Programmer Ing Dieckmann (Syd) & BUFF fest director Felix Hubble

"How to Release Your Independent Film" at Brunswick Underground Film Festival with Causeway Head of Development Sleena Wilson, Chris Swan of Madman Film Acquisitions & Sales, Everything Grows in Eden Director Jack Johnston and Static Vision co-founder & BUFF festival director Felix Hubble.

"BUFF Critics' Roundtable" at Brunswick Underground Film Fest with Armani Hollindale of Kinotopia, Đăng Tùng "Ringo" Bạch, @tansyg.bsky.social of @goingroguepod.bsky.social and @movingtargets.bsky.social moderated by @sameytram.bsky.social and @roughcutfilm.bsky.social co-founder Eliza Janssen

"Transgressive Cinema" with Ex Film Label Manager Leon O’Regan and Revelation Film Festival Artistic Director, academic, author & critic Jack Sargeant talking about the cinema of transgression, queer cinema, avant garde cinema, how what's shocking changes and defining what exactly transgression is?

"Film Clubs & Exhibition in Aus" @ Brunswick Underground Film Fest w Joseph Pallas & Ing Dieckmann (Pink Flamingo Cinema, Syd), Laurie Fletcher (Asian Cinema Collective, Mel) Daniel Tune & Shea Gallagher (Moviejuice, Adl) Bella B (Hitlist, Mel) & Kai Perrignon + Felix Hubble (BUFF / Static Vision)

This year Brunswick Underground Film Festival (BUFF) is complimenting their long weekend of screenings with an industry symposium of talks and panels from filmmakers including directors, writers and producers along with critics, film clubs and diy exhibitors and film festival programmers.

Powerhouse Games Curator @chloeappleby.bsky.social onstage at the Alt: Features section of Alt: Games introducing today's feature talk Billy Basso talking about his career and the development of Animal Well.

At Alt: Sessions for "Colour Matters: Creating Evocative Palettes for Indie Games" with @jessicashipard.bsky.social of @folly.studio

Over 3 weeks me & @dinopoke.bsky.social, as part of @serenade.games, have been teaching interactive fiction to writers with non-games backgrounds. Now we're hosting a showcase of the games created by our participants. 📅 Sat 28th March 🕕 3pm 📍 Arts & Cultural Exchange, Parramatta See you there!

We're at Arts & Cultural Exchange Parramatta for @noblesteedau.bsky.social Work In Progress Night. Supported by Screen NSW and Arts & Cultural Exchange.

Me & @dinopoke.bsky.social are visiting Canberra for Equip Canberra Games at @nfsaonline.bsky.social Very cool to see a games conference in Canberra!

After the panel we're back to @technicallygames.bsky.social lightning talks with Jay Wingate and "Trial by Firebase". Firebase is a cloud database, now owned by Google. Some of the pain points Jay ran into included support for multiple environments and serialisation

After a networking & snacks break at @technicallygames.bsky.social we're back with a panel "Lore Dumping for the Future of Games in Australia" with @thegooflord.bsky.social Maize from @sabbygallery.bsky.social & @thetinminions.bsky.social moderated by @inkmo.bsky.social #TGLightningTalks

After Louie's opening keynote it's time for the lightning talk section of @technicallygames.bsky.social ! @inkmo.bsky.social tells us we'll be hearing from a series of presenters in rapid succession advising us to get ready for info dumps. #TGLightningTalks

Clearly at least one level designer is on the team of @technicallygames.bsky.social #TGLightningTalks #guideThePlayer

Time for @free-play.bsky.social Parallels 2025!

Now it's time for the most glamorous part of @free-play.bsky.social #fashionOfFreeplay First some behind the scenes of @primaveraone.bsky.social 's locker photoshoot Photographer: @siobhan.creature.love Lighting: @ericaroyle.bsky.social Documentation: @jemztones.bsky.social

Final @free-play.bsky.social talk "Meet me at the edge of elsewhere" with Rusaila Bazlamit  #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Back for "Dead Melbourne Trifecta: Embracing commonality in independent practices" with @haraiva.bsky.social @mickey.ghoulish.com.au @unseconds.bsky.social talking about their projects Parasensor, Dawn Chorus & Putrid / Sharp #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next @eyeofstormcat.bsky.social with "On Planting Virtual Flowers" #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Rushed back from lunch to @free-play.bsky.social for Edge Case Love with @vidyarajan.bsky.social @quail.bsky.social Quinn Franks & Sam McGilp talking about their upcoming hybrid theatre work "Crisis Actor" happening later in August for Now Or Never #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next Hazel Mejia with "Augmented Grief: Why I Animate What’s Missing" Hazel is a 2d animator, multimedia artist & photographer with a focus on memory, time and nostalgia #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Now @theboyofcheese.bsky.social with The Art of Demon-Making #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

"Many Endings: Empty Finalities" with Tash aka Friendly Cosmonaut Tash is a programmer, developer and tutorial maker who has worked at studios local and international and also taught at RMIT's Masters of Animation Games & Interactivity (MAGI) program #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

The day 3 keynote is from Brooke Collard with "Resistance, resilience and adaptation" Brooke is Ballardong/Whadjuk Noongar film producer now based in Rubibi Brooke works across tv, film, web series, vr and games. #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Now talks from local community groups about their activities and how you can help! First Kira from @sabbygallery.bsky.social is here to tell us about Sabby, what they do, their plans for the future and their push to become a co-op! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Last day of @free-play.bsky.social #angles25 begins with co-director @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social introducing the final day's theme DEATH 💀 Mads reminds us that death doesn't have to mean endings, there's opportunities for rebirth and change which we'll explore today! #freeplay #freeplayangles

After the conference many of us went to the state library lawns for the snap rally for Gaza.

Talks are over but @free-play.bsky.social co-director @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social let's us know there will be a #freeplayangles town hall after a short break #freeplay #angles25

Last talk of day 2 of @free-play.bsky.social is Nellie Seale and Josiah Lulham with "If Sisyphus was a game designer, I'd be out of a job" talking about how they've decided to from a live game company together! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Back from break at @free-play.bsky.social with Charlotte Galvin and "Making Games Where You Are" #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Now @dinopoke.bsky.social who @free-play.bsky.social co-director @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social introduces as a recently fired game designer George hasn't completely finished his talk so we're gonna work through this together! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

We've rushed back from lunch to @free-play.bsky.social for "Bobarista: A Unique Approach to Mental Health" with Dr. Michelle Chen @okayosprey.bsky.social & Cheryl Budiman onstage and a full team also including Fitriani Revanda & Nicholas Rinaldi #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next at @free-play.bsky.social is Thea from @10pmclub.bsky.social working on @reaprievegame.bsky.social #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Time for @thegooflord.bsky.social co-convenor of @gameworkersau.bsky.social with "Stories From The Union: The Good and Bad" Along with their union work Sarah does QA for various Australian indie teams so get in touch with Sarah if you need QA for your game! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next at @free-play.bsky.social "The Suburb Game And Other Ways To Make An Adventure Out Of Nothing" with @siobhan.creature.love and the subtitle "anyone still dreaming of orgonon? just me? #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

After a break we're back at @free-play.bsky.social with @duncancorrigan.bsky.social and @ericaroyle.bsky.social for "Should We Play with our Money?" We're filling into the room to some portraits after which we got into their qualifications to talk about money #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Day 2 of @free-play.bsky.social begins with a keynote from the @frostygamesfest.com team! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Time for @free-play.bsky.social #angles25 conference day 2! #freeplay #freeplayangles

Day 1 of the conference portion of @free-play.bsky.social is done! Freeplay co-director @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social bids us farewell and it's time to check out the freeplay angles work in progress night! #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Last talk of the day "Improv 101: For Game Developers" with @thisismatthewj.bsky.social at @free-play.bsky.social Matthew has been doing improv for over 10 years and teaches it as well as performing. #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Now "How to FLOSS - Embracing Open-Source Software" with @gleeson.dev at @free-play.bsky.social When we learn new software or a new skill we develop a unique way of interacting with it Often beginning it usually sucks #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

"My love of learning through it all" with Charlie Cassidy at @free-play.bsky.social #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

we're back at @free-play.bsky.social with @smitleu.bsky.social and "looking at games, looking at buildings" #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

"On sucking: learning, coaching, ai and morality or the process is the point or i am a fool and this talk was so hard to write" with Max Myers for @free-play.bsky.social #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

"thanks, i hate it <3" with @zander.supertonic.au of @supertonic.au talking about making sounds for pete & @scott.fuzzyg.host from @fuzzyg.host 's "Janet DeMornay is a Slumlord (And A Witch)" #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

Next at @free-play.bsky.social @oddgoo.bsky.social of sound scouts and @serenade.games with "Situated Love" #freeplay #freeplayangles #angles25

After some friendly heckling from @radiatoryang.bsky.social we get an introduction from @free-play.bsky.social co-director @madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social and it's time for Robert's #freeplayangles opening keynote! #angles25

Time for @free-play.bsky.social angles 2025!