Monthly Archives: June 2009

Our Advisory Board

We’ve been working away with our new advisory board for the past few weeks on redrafting our original program ideas, workshopping some really exciting session ideas, and getting introduced to brilliant potential speakers.

You can read all about them here.

Stay tuned for a speaker callout, details of our expo space, and other stuff that we think is kind of cool (including our international keynote!)… Continue reading

VITTA ICT and Careers Expo

One of the things we’re keen to do with Freeplay is cross-promote events of interest to our audience and make sure there’s an awareness of what’s going on throughout the year.  One of those events is the VITTA ICT week, culminating in their ICT & Careers Expo – where it just so happens I’ll be speaking about my career and the sort of things you can expect to find… Continue reading

Freeplay Partners

Freeplay has, over the years, become something of a fixture in Melbourne’s game development calendar. When, earlier this year, we spoke to people about running Freeplay, the response was overwhelmingly positive…. which was nice.

Festivals, however, don’t fund themselves, and having taken on the commitment to do Freeplay, we set about making sure that ours would have a roof over its head, and that we could afford to print… Continue reading

Dates & Venue

Get out your diaries, log into your google calendar, find a dog-eared post-it and a chewed up pen, because we’re happy to announce that Freeplay 2009 will be taking place at the State Library of Victoria on August 14th and 15th.

We’re very excited about being a part of the State Library’s program of events and adding to their focus on games as an integral part of our… Continue reading | 1 Comment