Chloe Appleby

They are actually insane and I love them, I gotta post them somewhere so you can see

Crying over this

I posted some longer thoughts about @free-play.bsky.social, its future, and my seven year tenure on the board on LinkedIn.

The future of games festival Freeplay is in doubt after major funding loss | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games Freeplay, Australia's longest-running independent games festival, no longer has ongoing funding, and staff have confirmed this could be its last year.

stinks and sucks!!! i am writing more about this asap

fwiw, I wrapped work at Freeplay last month, so all comms at the moment are from the board! If anyone has any questions about their announcement, please direct them to the main Freeplay emails or fill out their survey.

Please let us know your thoughts!

Do you think it’s time for Freeplay to wrap up

We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Steve Dee. His contributions to the community reached far beyond his games. Steve’s family has set up a fundraiser to support Maggie's Rescue on his behalf. If you’re able, please consider donating or sharing www.facebook.com/donate/20568...

Good!

ALT: GAMES applications close in one week (midnight 11 Jan) if you want to apply do it now or you’ll forget and be so mad at yourself

This is so incredible!

French game Clair Obscur breaks records with Game of the Year 2025 win — as it happened The biggest night in gaming is getting underway in the heart of downtown Los Angeles.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-12...
Yeah I love Clair Obscur, here’s what I wrote about it 👍

How Kermit be doing knowing that Geoff is bagging his girl after the Game Awards

26 games, 30 minutes. Frosty Mini is TOMORROW! ☀️🍦

Catch the showcase live on our YouTube and Twitch channels. Expect surprise reveals, announcements, and updates!

🔴 YouTube: youtu.be/Ji17SMaOtvg
🟣 Twitch: twitch.tv/frostygamesf...

YouTube video by Studio Folly DOGPILE | Release Year Announcement Trailer

so nbd but……….

DOGPILE IS RELEASING IN 2025!!!!!!! 🔥
youtu.be/3nypRrTHPCE?...

Oh weird dm me your email and I’ll look into this

Yey!!

ALT: GAMES Call-Out Returning in 2026, Powerhouse is looking for Australian video and tabletop games by independent developers to be featured in the ALT: GAMES festival showcase.

Oh no it’s working for me! Here’s every link haha. Our team will look into this tomorrow though! Please dm me and I’ll email you the link tomorrow

powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

powerhouse.com.au/program/alt-...

Open from 2 December 2025 - midnight 11 January 2026

We’re so freaking back. Videogames. Board games. Role playing games. I wanna show case you at ALT: GAMES 2026! Submit in the cheeky link.
Successful applications will be paid an honorarium.
If you love me, please read the webpage. All the info is there.
Link:
powerhouse.com.au/alt-games-ca...

YouTube video by IGN Don't Stop, Girlypop! - Official Release Date Trailer

You have no idea how long I've been waiting to tell u.

Don't Stop, Girlypop! releases
✦⁺₊✩☽⋆𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026 ⋆☾✩⁺₊✦

See the reveal here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bEz...

A purplish pink graphic showcasing the WIP Night details. There's a drawing of a horse, kangaroo, cockatoo, ibis and koala, all in states of being half rendered realistically, alongside goofy "poorly drawn" features. Above them are WIP Nights' details: Noble Steed Games, WIP Night!, 12th December, Friday, 5:30pm-8:30pm, ACE Parramatta. At the bottom are sponsor details: Screen NSW, ACE and Noble Steed Games' logos.

🐎 WIP Night is back! 🐎
It's a night for Sydney game devs to share their works-in-progress, with microtalks + 10 games to try! Check out what local devs have been cooking, plus some food and drinks!

🗓️12th Dec, Friday. 5:30-8:30PM
📌ACE Parramatta

RSVP here: events.humanitix.com/wip-night-7-...

I did a keynote on games and community in Shanghai. China and wider Asia has an incredible games scene. There are so many innovative practices and games emerging. Very grateful for the experience and excited to always learn more. 💖

Unsettling Horror Game Horses Banned From Steam, Leaving Studio With 'High Risk' of Closure - IGN Indie horror game Horses is preparing to launch on December 2, on the Epic Games Store, GOG, Itch.io, and the Humble Store. But one place it won't be is on Steam, because Steam has banned the game for...

Really wild situation here: a celebrated and well-regarded indie dev and publisher is facing shutdown because Valve banned their game from Steam and won't talk to them about it, at all.

www.ign.com/articles/uns...

Credits for Brent Porter (3D art lead) and Catherine Menabde (2D art lead) are shown here. There's a lengthy description of what they did, with a pastiche of various Demonschool characters underneath, messing around with a computer.

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.

Divas I’m going to Shanghai to give a keynote on games community and how the curator seeks to preserve, represent and celebrate it.
Very excited, games are serious and real

chinesedigra.org/cdigra-2025/

Dm please! My emails atm are a sink hole