📣 Hey Australian gamemakers! Screen Australia's Games grants close in 2 weeks! A reminder to get your applications in! 🫶 🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100,000 🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30,000 📆 Applications close Thu 5 Mar, 5pm (AEDT) 👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

I'm Demi, an award-winning unity developer and interface designer with over a decade of experience! I'm available for work starting March and would simply love to bring your game to reality! You can contact me here, or email: dschanzel[@]gmail.com

miracle of miracles, it's finally HERE 📣 The full schedule drop for the ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories 🎮 @romchip.bsky.social Twitch Fundraiser on Feb 21st Check out everything we got coming down the line: donate.romchip.org/2026-schedul...

This year I wrote and released a set of methodologies for measuring the greenhouse gas emissions of videogame making, distributing, playing, etc. (with a lot of help and input) I think they’re pretty neat and provide new pathways to reduce those emissions sustainablegamesalliance.org/standard/

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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 🥰💖

📣 The next ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories [ @romchip.bsky.social ] Twitch Fundraiser is shaping up! join us SAT FEBRUARY 21 for 12 hours w/ incredible friends like @halfrobot.com @kendraserra.bsky.social @tigershungry.co.uk @textfiles.com @chadtoprak.bsky.social donate.romchip.org

SIGN OUR BOYCOTT XBOX PLEDGE: We are asking gamers, game workers, streamers & journalists to join us in boycotting & divesting from Xbox, to force Microsoft to end its complicity in the genocide of Palestinians. We’ve provided concrete actions everyone can take. Sign here: nogamesforgenocide.com

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

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...

Applications for Screen Australia's Future Leaders Delegation to BitSummit 2026 closes soon (13 Nov, 5pm AEDT). Get your applications in for a chance to travel to Japan and showcase your game! www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/screen-ne...

After a long gap, pleased to share: Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me. We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial. games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...

Reminder to complete this! I will not be returning to the US given the current political climate; not keen on risking my safety or endorsing the current government by visiting.

ICYMI: We are looking for expressions of interest for anyone wanting to learn Blender! Follow the link and read all the details!

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 🥰)

📚 My current contract is coming to an end in Dec so I am now looking for new work! ⭐ I am an award-winning & expert/lead game writer & narrative designer. 🌎 I am interested in long & short term contracts & consultancy, ideally remote. Let's chat! hannahnicklin.com linkedin.com/in/hannah-nicklin

spoke to @afterclimate.com.au about the sustainable games standard, a means of tracking emissions now publicly available for use by the entire games industry. a lot of thought went into this thing

You know what they say: the best time to do this is at the peak of a globally-reported government AI procurement scandal

LAST CHANCE DON'T DILLY OR DALLY! Remember, in addition to sick announcements, we're also looking for games that released this year that want to run a December discount 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

🚨 Just one day left to submit for Frosty's Dec event! 🚨 Last chance to submit your upcoming or recently released game made in Australia & Aotearoa for consideration. Dev submissions close TOMORROW, Sep 30! ⤵️ forms.gle/tt8y9N1dPweS...

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 🧵👇

TLDR: - MS exec Nadella personally oversaw the IDF spy unit deal - As recently as May, internal MS reviews claimed there was no TOS violation - MS, only after public Guardian report of what the IDF spy unit was doing with their software: "oh my , this isn't what we had in mind at all !! no likey !"

BDS works! also, they're still letting the IDF use their other cloud services, but they're starting to move on this, keep pushing.

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

💛 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! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

Justice Rangiah in his own words in Lattouf v ABC penalty decision. The broadcaster has been ordered to pay $150,000. I was previously awarded $70,000 for hurt and distress. ABC has spent in excess of $2 million on legal fees. The real cost to Aunty is immeasurable.

In case you missed it... Frosty is coming back this December 🍦🥳 We’ll be featuring exclusive reveals, announcements, and updates from upcoming and recently released games made in Australia & Aotearoa. Dev submissions open NOW and close in 1 week, on Sep 30! ⤵️ forms.gle/tt8y9N1dPweS...

the “Play for Peace - Games for Palestine 2025 Charity Bundle” needs as much support as it can get right now. it’s halfway there with just 2 days to go! itch.io/b/2979/play-... please share and spread the word.

We're just about 4 days left before the Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle sale ends, and about $8,000USD away from hitting $100k USD. Please RT and help push this as far and to as many people as possible for this last stretch. Link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

chills down my spine. stoked for this one! proud that we get to support bold artistic projects like this.

10 months in the making, Play for Peace bundle launches to raise money for Palestinian Aid: aftermath.site/play-for-peace...

please consider supporting this fantastic bundle 🙏 video trailer and bundle link in the post below 💖

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers! Screen Australia's Games grants close in 6 days! A reminder to get your applications in! 💪 🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100k 🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30k 📆 Applications close Thu 28 Aug, 5pm (AEST) 👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

i'm ready when u are, australia

I know a bunch of you follow me. How have you managed to square away the thought that as journalists, if you were unlucky enough to be born in Gaza, Israel would have murdered the fuck out of you by now? How do you put that away and keep spewing IDF shite? It's fucked.

Anddd we're live! Apply to speak or grab tickets from the link in our bio, or below in the comments. See you at #MIGW25 📍 TG Lightning Talks is part of Melbourne International Games Week. Check out the other events at gamesweek.melbourne Sponsored by Creative Victoria and the City of Port Philip 🫀

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers! Screen Australia's Games grants close in 6 days! A reminder to get your applications in! 💪 🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100k 🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30k 📆 Applications close Thu 28 Aug, 5pm (AEST) 👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

If you are an Xbox developer who would like to confidentially share your thoughts on the current climate at the company my DMs are open. You can also reach me on Signal (pinned post) or via email (in bio).

Every day brings new analyses of the AI bubble: the overinvestment in data centers, the lack of profits, the unreliability of LLMs, the impact on energy and the environment… Yet nothing and nobody can hit the brakes. The financial market is a runaway train and we are all passengers.

We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2025 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 28th More info 👇 grants.draknek.org

Powerful op-ed by Randa Abdel-Fattah about what it’s like when Australia’s entire pro-lsraeIi genocide lobby dedicates its efforts to professionally ruining you, specifically, to shut you up It’s published at @deepcutnews.bsky.social because it was rejected by The Age, Guardian and The Conversation

arts orgs need to have a harassment campaign strategy they can put into place when various groups try to be as unpleasant as possible in order to demand what they want if you don’t have a previously-and-mutually-agreed-upon spine, it’ll cost you talent, reputation, and millions of dollars

The truth emerges. The campaign to silence writers - which imploded the Bendigo Writers Fest - was waged by an anonymous group of pro-Israel academics, 5A. (A group that has no compunction naming and defaming individual writers, btw). Important scoop:

'Microsoft has no place being accomplice of a genocide:' Arkane union workers demand Xbox maker sever ties with Israel

Applications for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant have been open for one week & we're thrilled to see so many fantastic thinky puzzle game applications already 👏 If you're planning to apply, the deadline is September 28th at midnight PST. Find out more about the grant here: grants.draknek.org

On the Albanese Government’s decision to recognise Palestine:

It’s an honor to share this with you our film “Still Playing” won an award at its world premiere at the Locarno Film Festival We’re just at the beginning of our journey with Dreams on a Pillow, an upcoming game, and this recognition gives us even more energy to keep going. launchgood.com/1948

Parallels returns and early bird tickets are available now. Check out freeplay.net.au for tickets and info, with a full lineup and general release tickets coming in September

We're excited to announce that the Play for Peace charity bundle will go live on Sept 2nd, 9AM PST. We are currently going through dev approvals to lock games in to the bundle, so if you're a participating dev, please check your email! More below ⬇️