Freeplay Angles 2025
Thursday, Friday & Saturday
31/07, 01/08 & 02/08 @ Science Gallery
in Carlton, Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
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.
Thursday Evening Event:
W.I.P. NIGHT
Join us after the talks for a free exhibition of Works In Progress in the West Wing of Science Gallery.
Saturday Evening Event:
MARKETS
Join us in the Science Gallery West Wing for stalls, games and friends. Grab some zines, arts and plenty of crafts as we support local makers.
Stay tuned for more!
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.