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Indie Allsorts: Week 1 Wrap-Up

By Freeplay On February 5, 2013 · Add Comment
The first week of Indie Allsorts was a blast! While we knew gamers would get a kick out of playing games on the Big Screen, we weren’t anticipating just how many people would stop by to join in the fun – we even had gamers setting up their own laptops, showing us even more awesome [...]
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Announcing: Indie Allsorts

By katie On January 14, 2013 · 1 Comment
It’s a little surreal being here – sitting at the Freeplay desk, amidst the brainstorm of ideas we’ve had about where we plan to take Australia’s most unique and loved games festival. It was three years ago that I first found myself in the Freeplay audience, watching panels play out before me, solidifying my involvement [...]
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Time to go make things…

By paul On January 7, 2013 · Add Comment
Running a festival is a unique experience, and a games festival even more so. After 7 events over 9 years, Freeplay remains the only thing like it in Australia, and I feel incredibly privileged to have been part of it for the past 4 years. For me, the most important thing about Freeplay has always [...]
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Freeplay’s New Directors

By Freeplay On December 12, 2012 · Add Comment
Today, we’re very excited to announce our new directors – Katie Williams and Harry Lee.  If you’ve had any engagement with games in Australia over the past few years, you’ll know their work – and if you came along to Freeplay 2012 you’ll have seen them around. Katie was a judge for the 2012 awards [...]
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Freeplay Awards 2012 – Winners

By Freeplay On September 24, 2012 · 2 Comments
After five days of festivaling, last night Freeplay 2012 closed with the handing out of the Freeplay 2012 Awards at the Order of Melbourne.  This year, we received more entries than ever before, and were inspired and humbled by the diversity, experimentation, and confidence of all the projects. Sadly, we could only pick three finalists, [...]
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Fast Five – Scott Reismanis

By sarah On September 21, 2012 · Add Comment
Even while we’re in the midst of the festival, we’re bringing you short, sharp interviews with some of our speakers and performers. Today’s offering is from Scott Reismanis who you’ll see on Friday talking about how to choose the right platform for the games you want to make as part of our Developer Program. Tell [...]
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Fast Five – James Dominguez

By sarah On September 20, 2012 · Add Comment
Today’s interview is with James “DexX” Dominguez, writer at Fairfax Online’s Screen Play blog and speaker at Freeplay 2012. You can catch him talking about writing about games and other artforms at Levels of Discourse in our Conference Program. Tell us about yourself and what you do. I’ve had to settle on simply calling myself a writer, [...]
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Fast Five – Katie Williams

By sarah On September 19, 2012 · Add Comment
It’s here! It’s here! Freeplay’s first event is on tonight! Join us for Spies By Night – a pervasive game we’re going to play throughout (and with the blessing of!) Federation Square. Meanwhile, here’s an interview with Katie Williams, games journalist and veteran Freeplay speaker. This year you can catch her at Levels of Discourse [...]
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Fast Five – Vanessa Toholka

By sarah On September 19, 2012 · Add Comment
Freeplay starts this Wednesday! Between now and then, we’ll be posting more interviews with people involved in the festival. Today it’s Vanessa Toholka, Freeplay board member and host of Triple R’s Byte Into It. Tell us about yourself: who are you and what you do? I’m a web developer, librarian, knowledge manager, and broadcaster for [...]
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Fast Five – Benjamin Dawe

By sarah On September 18, 2012 · Add Comment
Freeplay starts tomorrow! We’ll continue to post interviews with people involved in the festival. Today it’s Firemonkeys‘ Benjamin Dawe. Tell us about yourself. I’m currently Media Designer @ Firemonkeys, the game studio created by the merging of Firemint & Iron Monkey. What are you working on right now? Currently I’m hard at work on Real Racing [...]
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