Freeplay is the world’s longest-running independent games festival, located in Melbourne, Australia. Established in 2004, the festival embraces the fringes, spotlights grassroots artists and game makers, and acts as a response to and critique of the status quo. For over 19 years, Freeplay has been exploring the vital margins of independent, alternative, and experimental games culture. The festival continues to champion artistic exploration and experimentation in games and play, and positions game making as arts practice.
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Call Out for Exhibition Games
Hello! Are you working on a cool game? Are you making a personal project, a magnum opus, a throwaway trash game, or something in between? Well WE want to hear from YOU! Game...
Save the Date: 10/10/24
Save The Date: 10/10/24 Parallels returns for it's 10th Anniversary Edition. 10 Talks, 10 Games, 10 Years of Parallels.
Angles Photos and Feedback
Thank you to everyone who made Angles an amazing set of events! Before we decompress here's a link to a feedback form so please help us out and fill it in: Feedback...
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.