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
Freeplay isn’t the only festival in Melbourne. It’s a festival city and throughout the year there’s everything from food to dance, from writing to film, from comedy to design, and from theatre to games. This obviously means that there’s always something to do if you want to head out into the world, but it also means there’s a big gap between events if you’re waiting for a specific one – like we know you all are for Freeplay 
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Thanks to Chris Watts and Souri from tsumea, the following sessions are available on the tsumea YouTube channel:
Kynan Woodman – Development Director at Firemint
Neil Rennison – co-founder of Tin Man Games
Paul Motion – Senior Producer with IronMonkey Studios
Launched in 2007, Apple’s iPhone has, in its brief lifetime, created a new market for… Continue reading
Inspired by Petri and the Experimental Gameplay Project, we’re taking a leaf out of their book and trying to get the local community involved in rapidly prototyping and iterating over any and all wacky gameplay experiments rattling around their head. It’s all very informal at the moment, so we don’t have many rules, and it’s pretty much: take a theme, make a game, don’t spend more than 7… Continue reading | 1 Comment