Coming out of Freeplay were really concrete and tangible themes of inclusion, accessibility, gender, and recognition, which we hadn’t really given space within the festival itself to properly explore. We didn’t want to wait a whole year before doing that though so we decided to put our feelers out and see if any other groups would be interested in exploring those topics in relation to gaming. Continue reading
This year’s Freeplay is barely over and we’re already turning our heads to our next project with the National Gallery of Victoria in their newest gallery space, NGV Studio.
We’re helping to curate a mix of the digital, analogue, playful, artistic, and creative from Saturday 24 September – Sunday 23 October, and we’re looking for art, games and people to showcase their work. Continue reading
Thanks to everyone who submitted a slide for our (un)Keynote this year and who then generously gave us permission to put their slides up online. They’re a mix of insight, wisdom, call to arms, reflection, science, and art, and reflect the individual views of their creators, but stitched together perfectly illustrate our theme of Handmade. Continue reading
When we came up with our theme of Handmade for this year’s festival we sketched out a list of ideas that it meant to us, one of which was the realisation that a festival wasn’t actually a concrete thing without an audience. In many ways the process of designing a festival is like designing a game. You’re creating a possibility space for an experience – an experience that becomes unique for everyone who comes along, influenced by their focus, their desires, their relationship to the speakers or the topic or each other, and things as simple as where they sit in the room. Continue reading
At the close of last night’s 5 day Freeplay festival, we held our awards ceremony to both celebrate and snapshot the brilliant and diverse year of local independent development.
Thanks to everyone who entered, congratulations to all of our finalists, and double congratulations to all of our winners. Continue reading | 4 Comments
Nobody can be told what Lemon Jousting is, you have to see it for yourself. Luckily, there were secret cameras there to capture the event. We neither condone or condemn people who snuck these through the backstreets of the city to hidden rooms in bars where people congregate with spoons and fruit. Continue reading
Last night we had the first of our Playful Program events at the Bella Union – The Games That Made Me. Continue reading
Dan Golding brings us today’s Fast Five, and it’s a cracker. You can see Dan on our panel Why We Do What We Do.
Who are you and what do you do?
I’m Daniel Golding, a PhD candidate at Melbourne Uni. I’m researching the design and use of game spaces – the in-game architecture, landscape and geography. I’m most interested
It’s just over 24 hours till our first event for Freeplay 2011 – The Games That Made Me, at Bella Union. This will be such a fantastic start to this year’s program, we can’t wait for you to see it.
We have a Fast Five from Conor O’Kane for you today. Conor is on our Indies, Academics and Institutions
It’s here! We all made it. Well done everyone. We’re off to the printers this morning to pick up the last of our stuff and then we’ll be checking everything is order before things start on Wednesday evening for our first Playful Program event, The Games That Made Me. Continue reading