Kalonica

a little windy location for the game

An image featuring tiles of released games funded by Screen Australia.

📣 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-...

Red Dead Redemption 2, Westworld, And The Hunt For The Final Easter Egg Like Westworld's Man in Black, this community is working to uncover what they believe is the last unsolved mystery hidden in Red Dead Redemption 2.

Got a absolute killer long read on @thisweekinvideogames.com for the weekend:

@sambarsanti.bsky.social dives deep into the communities convinced there's "one last mystery" left to solve in Red Dead Redemption 2, speaks to one of the main sleuths, and ties it all back to Ed Harris in Westworld.

Announcing RAT GAME! 🐀

1 Chef vs 2 to 8 rats - who would win??

A comedy horror co-op game where a team of rats secretly tries to ruin a restaurant while another player tries to stop them…

Hey gang! Are there any Melbourne/Victoria-based 3D modellers looking for short contract work right now? Summerfall is currently on the lookout for contractors to do hard-surface environment work for a new prototype, like furniture and all that. 🔨🪑

Send through portfolios! 🙂 Cheers!

Image of GUTSPILL #1 cover and announcement of launch

We’re launching a zine about games and play called GUTSPILL!

A place to shamelessly gush about play experiences that embed themselves in our hearts and brains and GUTS! No industry talk, no metrics ~ just SPILL!

#1 features words by me and the Jameseses: @jickle.net + @omgmorejames.bsky.social

The Very Hungry Caterpillar Jon and Mac consider: worms, the generative tension between tidiness and chaos, why we feel affection for this caterpillar, brightness, science vs. poetry, a toy you can read, a book you can touch

love this on how The Very Hungry Caterpillar works, and where it comes from lookingatpicturebooks.substack.com/p/the-very-h...

point-and-click

Wilmot, of the Warehouse. A broad and all-encompassing smile, that welcomes all and sundry to be placed loving within his halls.

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An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input.

Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026

Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...

Gravity Bone concept art #archive

behemoth

White flowers

White flowers

Yellow flowers

Yellow flowers

The only other flowers in the area look like Capeweed and Cape Marguerite, both invasive weeds native to South Africa

Flower likened to 'cancer' for environment still sold at nurseries The colourful flowers of gazanias might attract you to buy them at a nursery but it is worth considering whether you are getting an invasive weed causing havoc to our landscapes.

“Native to South Africa, gazanias were first imported to Australia in the 1950s and 1970s as low-maintenance garden plants”
Full article: www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2...

Porter in a field of flowers

Farmer in a field of flowers “The invasive weed Gazania is spreading across Robin Schaefer’s paddocks, causing economic losses.”

Orange flowers

Orange flowers “Gazanias are escaped garden plants that have become an invasive weed.”

Visiting the Animal Shelter in Western Australia

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(icymi in MFL changing the colour of the horn part changes it‘s pitch)

I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies. Guess how many! Eleven! 11 different fonts. One for the title (I made this one for a Playdate project originally), also in a bold variant.Then one for normal text (we used this the most) with a fat variant. After that, a font for small text and one for even smaller text. All these also include Кириллица (Cyrillic). So these are, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 type-faces. 7 more to go: Number 7 is a font used for text in a book that the fly could reveal by walking over. Number 8 is the variant before it is revealed: This one you can't really read, dorry. Number 8 is not really readable by design.

Font faces nine, ten and eleven we have not used in the final game. I created them for ideas during prototyping that we eventually abandonded. ;-( Number nine was for small dynamic text in a newspaper lying on the floor. Number ten is called Teacher.It was designed for collectable life-affirming quotes we eventually replaced with puzzle pieces. And number eleven, called Student, is a second version of number ten that looks less neat. That's it! Eleven fucking typefaces made over the course of 5 years.

I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…

orchids to dusk is turning 10 today ⚘
polclarissou.itch.io/orchids-to-d...

Untitled Goose Game (Original Soundtrack), by Dan Golding 14 track album

News from me: after years of not being able to have my soundtrack for Untitled Goose Game on Bandcamp - it's now on @bandcamp.com.

I'm also in a slow process of having my music (including Goose Game) removed from Spotify, for their treatment of artists, their politics, and their embrace of AI.

this is one of the best talks I've ever seen, and the resulting animation short 'Retirement Plan' is superb. Watch it at www.retirementplanfilm.com

This Saturday, come to No Quarter to play brand new game, THIS MUST BE THE FACE by me & @okremiok.bsky.social

Compete in a head to head to head to head battle of expressivity. Will they understand you're in love or will they think you just ate a weird egg?

gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/no-qu...

twitter has been deserted for good so i suppose i will post here too: i am currently open for work! hit me up if you know of openings that i'd be a good fit for 🫡

i updated my hireme page with a sample of the stuff i can do - videogame graphics, VFX, 2D art and so on
polclarissou.com/hireme/

Screen Australia is doing a massive research project on the current state of the screen and games industries in Australia. Local devs, please consider taking the time to complete their survey survey.alchemer.com/s3/8573365/S...

YouTube video by Freeplay Freeplay Parallels 2025

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...

🎩🏈💀🃏⬜💐🧚🏠

digital painting: a little egret hunts against the wind, wading through tall grasses

salt marsh

A tribute to a small patch of vegetation on a local beach that has driven everyone completely insane

Plastic flowers and foliage picked up from Cornish beaches.

One million years ago I had the pleasure of working on Dead Static Drive for a bit, and today it’s out!

What a journey this game’s been on~ Now it’s your turn:
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

Working on Sage (sauge) flower's this morning for The Abbess Garden :)

store.steampowered.com/app/3411970/...

#cozygame #indiegame #gardening #blender #gimp

The Mushka is out of the bag! 🐾

Mushka is your cute lil' friend that lives in Board - a new tabletop game console that blends board games & video games (board.fun)

We've had so much fun working with the incredible Board team to bring Mushka to life, we can't wait for you to meet 'em ✨

Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.

It’s true, here’s our exciting news! Dead Static Drive is coming out on NOVEMBER 5TH! This year! Next week, even.

Yee—and we cannot stress this enough—haw 🤠

www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases