Definitely check out the whole thread! 👇

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... 🎩🏈💀🃏⬜💐🧚🏠

Saw this one at Parallels and looked like a hoot! Check it out 👇

Isopod from @sbug.games is: - A 3D platformer with deeply expressive mechanics and a wild sense of speed - Delightfully Australian - Unashamedly Anticapitalist - Filled with weird words and bits from yours truly And it’s out today! Get it while it’s hot!! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

QUEER GAME OF THE MONTH: October 2025 - PROXIMATE Given the moment it's been having lately, the wonderful PROXIMATE by @cmddx.itch.io is our highlight this month. checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

Enter the Chronosphere is a turn-based/action roguelike hybrid in which bullets only move when you move. @paxaus.bsky.social @effortstar.bsky.social checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

josh sawyer of obsidian entertainment had plenty of wisdom to share at gcap 2025, about how the games industry has change, and how it's stayed the same. check out my roundup!

folks,

I still can't believe that SXSW is stacked back-to-back with Melbourne Games Week. Ya'll are superhuman cause my body & soul are wrecked already 💀

PODCAST: In this special episode, the Checkpoint team talk with Chantel and Alex of Little Pink Clouds all about the newly released Letters to Arralla! Listen Here: joy.org.au/checkpoint/2...

Got a spare 45min-an hour? Instead of watching an episode of Supernatural, why not jump on your PC and play a run of our exorcism deckbuilder Malys? 🕯️ Go on, Dean'll wait. You know how he feels about hot and secretive angels 😇

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Come and get 'em, you freaks!!

Hold onto your round, vegetable butts! 🍑

HUGE NEWS 📣📣📣 for all my games freaks who will be at MIGW

WE ARE SO BACK GCAP PITCH IS BACK!! Apologies for the later than usual opening; apply here: forms.gle/snuPH19XJNTz...

It's been a while. Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs. store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...

#bskycometography no. 272 C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) 2014 Aug 17: Discovered by @cometguy.bsky.social T. Lovejoy (Australia) at 15 mag. The comet reached 3-4 mag shortly prior perihelion (2015 Jan 27 at 1.28 au) and was last seen on 2016 Sep 10. Its period is about 7000 years. ☄️🔭 #CometWatch

🚨 It’s happening! Taking Up Space is back for Melbourne International Games Week 2025! 🌞🎮 This is a networking event for women and gender diverse game developers; a chill, welcoming morning of micro-talks, real convos, and community vibes. 🤩 👯‍♂️ Tell your friends! Let's Take Up Space! 👯

Hello, I may have a level of involvement in this! Including but not limited to the trunk pig

We just announced our debut game: PARASENSOR 😈 Wishlist now on Steam: tinyurl.com/yeacumm7 Thank you to @frostygamesfest.com for featuring us! It's an honor to be included among so many amazing ANZ games youtu.be/m7TZws0VrWk #indiegame #indiehorror #horrorgame #summergamefest

New gameplay trailer let's go ♥️🍑

Congratulations to the Frosty Games Fest team for an incredible show highlighting the ANZ talent for the whole world to see 💪🍧

okay story time on why this tweet means a lot to me: one of the reasons I knew the game was special was that a friend of mine showed an early prototype to his niece and nephew and sent me photos of them playing it *and drawing their own levels based on the game* and i sobbed tbh

Time to kill any AI industry that can only exist by stealing copyrighted work 😇

That sound you hear? The scream of hundreds of tabletop gaming companies as their business models collapse simultaneously.

Introducing: Malys. A hellish new roguelite deckbuilder from David Gaider and Summerfall Studios. As Noah, former priest turned exorcist and demon hunter, exorcise the infernal and exact vengeance. We're launching a Kickstarter later in April! Get updates via bit.ly/kickstartmalys

DREDGE turns two on March 30th and to celebrate we are taking a glance at the past to appreciate where we started. Check out our YouTube channel for a 20 minute sneak peak behind the curtains at where DREDGE came from in an early prototype. youtu.be/JqE4Yc-IZxA?...

If you're based in Brisbane or SE Qld & will be affected by Cyclone Alfred over the next 48 hours, please doorknock your neighbours - introduce yourself, exchange numbers and ask if they have the supplies they need & whether they are planning to stay or to leave today before it hits landfall.

Realising that folks that were never taught Welsh might not read ‘Ysbryd Games’ the same way I do 😂 happy St David’s day, I’m baking Welsh Cakes tomorrow to celebrate ! (And check out World of Horror at Ysbryd Games !)

"The Korean RPG scene has transformed—it’s now a space where women make up more than half the player base." — @rascalnews.bsky.social reports. Kudos to our Korean Call of Cthulhu licensee Dayspring Games, who took a lead here after a GamerGate like incident in 2016.

Last night, I stumbled onto this reference website that I'd never heard of before, and am blown away by its quality. Highly, highly recommended. www.dimensions.com

Run by fellow Tassie studio @twoandahalfstudios.com, The Storyteller’s Festival is a celebration of narrative games that we love 💚 Huge discounts on Yarn Spinner faves including: - Venba 🥘 - Dredge 🚢 - Frog Detective 🔍 - Outcore 💾 - Scarlet Deer Inn 🪡 + more! store.steampowered.com/curator/4239...

Ai defeated

REVIEW: Techno Banter "For gamers who love the club scene or appreciate techno music, Techno Banter will make you feel like you are in control of the party, and that’s a pretty cool position to be in." checkpointgaming.net/reviews/2025...

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there is a blackhole in martinaise #discoelysium

No particular reason:

It's the last day of the New Years sale on the Unity Asset Store, and Yarn Spinner is 50% off as part of the sale! Go get it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #gamedev #indiedev #unity3d #assetstore #sale

anyone have a rec for a good tool or website to track games you've played? Bonus if you can also record comments or thoughts alongside, and rank them?

Getting upset with The Game Awards is like losing to a dog at chess. But sometimes I wanna play a little dog chess

This is the energy I am trying to bring to 2025.

Okay so this was pretty cool actually, seeing my words during The Game Awards 🥰

Congratulations @checkpointau.bsky.social and @checkpointboss.bsky.social for featuring in the Dragon Age: The Veilguard trailer at the TGA's today! I nearly jumped out of my seat when I saw it appear on screen! One of the very few game publication outlets I follow for my game news 😊🦘🏳️‍🌈

The muppet-to-women ratio has finally been beaten by The Game Awards! Seeing (some) non-male devs on stage to present and accept awards, and non-male hosts (not just for pre-show only). Congratulations to TGA for catching up to the times😃 (but we can always do better 😉)

I'll keep posting art from the archives for a while I guess! This is one of my all-time favs

i am consumed (no spoilers please)

Me on this app trying to re-find everyone I've ever known and loved

Diving back into Godot tonight 💪 If anyone has good content creators they like to follow for Godot tutorials, please let me know 👀 a lot of folks posting videos are real cowboys, and I'd like to absorb a little Best Practice™️ if at all possible!