Freeplay Angles 2025 - Coming this Winter!
Freeplay Angles returns in 2025 during the week of 28/07-03/08 in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
After bringing back Freeplay’s original, in-person festival format under the new Angles name in 2024,
the Freeplay team are once again running Angles this Winter 2025.
Angles festival encompasses a conference and several nighttime events that celebrate artistic and experimental game making in Australia and throughout Oceania. Gather with local indie developers, interactive artists, games academics, and students to share ideas, see new works, and spend a moment together away from the industry hustle.
Our 2025 theme is ‘UNIVERSAL CONSTANTS’. Despite making games in an era of instability, there are some things that never change. Love: the passion that brought us here. Fortune: the pursuit of a success that will allow us to continue, financial or otherwise. Death: everything must end someday. What follows you, for better or for worse, wherever you go? How do you navigate these Universal Constants within your creative life?
In a year of extraordinary challenges, personal and professional and political, Freeplay Angles offers a venue for honest and forthright discussion about the state of it all. Things are cooked. Let’s talk about it together.
The key visual for Angles 2025 is by Percy Harris.
Applications to do a 15- or 30-minute talk at Freeplay Angles conference are now open. Speaker applications will remain open until 27th May 2025, and acceptances/rejections will be sent by mid-June. For guidance on what a Freeplay Angles talk might look like, check out our YouTube channel, which hosts a number of past examples.
We are also happy to announce Angles 2024 keynote videos are now available on our channel, showcasing talks from Everest Pipkin and Kris Antoni Hadiputra at last year’s event.
Additionally, while we don’t have the resources to edit and upload every speaker’s talk from last year, footage is available. If you spoke in 2024 and would like a copy of your talk, please reach out to us at info@freeplay.net.au and we will provide you the raw footage for your own use.
Ticket sales, keynote announcements, and scheduling information for Angles 2025 will be released in late May.
Where our schedule is concerned; we are still waiting on decisions for some of our event funding applications, and had to make a call about whether to announce the event in good time with exact days of the week TBD, or delay the announcement until we knew the outcomes.
These funding decisions will determine whether we can run the event for multiple days, or have to keep it to a single day. As soon as we know how many days of the week we can afford to run for, we’ll let everyone know! Last year we ran our submissions process on a shortened timeline and, knowing the impact that had, we didn’t want to do it again. We hope to have news – and good news – for you soon.
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We’ll be back with more details next month. In the meantime, submit your talks and contact us at info@freeplay.net.au if you have any questions.
Catch you this Winter!
-Mads, Louie, and the Freeplay board
Freeplay acknowledges the Wurundjeri & Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the Lands upon which the festival takes place.
We pay respect to their Elders past and present, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the wider community and beyond.
Sovereignty was never ceded, and this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.