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Announcing: Freeplay is here to stay. Parallels 2026 is coming and we're advocating for games to be funded as art. Read more and get involved: freeplay.net.au/posts/freepl...

Politician salaries should be keyed to minimum wage, welfare or the pension

To save doing QA

The fact AI is doing more harm to games by increasing the cost of PCs & consoles than AI actually being able to 'make' anything worth playing is certainly a fun little thing to think about whilst I start planning to optimise everything I make to run on a potato.

If put under too much heat and pressure may burn and belch black smoke

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C) push 6 mugs close together so a tea bag can reach each one and invite some friends over for a tea party

Omega3man

A plumb

What is a spin bowler's favourite fruit?

minute cryptic is also part of our morning routine in case you are interested in an additional daily puzzle
www.minutecryptic.com

everyday with our morning coffees

The Mushka is out of the bag! 🐾

Mushka is your cute lil' friend that lives in Board - a new tabletop game console that blends board games & video games (board.fun)

We've had so much fun working with the incredible Board team to bring Mushka to life, we can't wait for you to meet 'em ✨

PAX AUS 2025 – Bullet Hell Genre Mashups | Player2.net.au PAX AUS 2025 - Bullet Hell Genre Mashups I’m not great with twin stick control schemes, so I’ve never entirely understood how people can love (or play … or even understand) the bullet hell genre. This deficit is most likely because I’m just slightly too old to have grown up with modern consoles and controllers.

Indie sleuth @firkraags.bsky.social continues to highlight her PAX Aus 2025 highlights, this time with a couple of bullet hell games that caught her eye.

www.player2.net.au/2025/10/pax-...

Dead Static Drive | Coming to PC and Xbox Grab your bat, steal a car, and take your chances against the unearthly horrors found along Route 666. This is Dead Static Drive.

what’s this then www.deadstaticdrive.com/releases

remember remember the 5th of november 👀

Whoah wait really

The conspiracy board meme with "21 different tracked variables" written over the connected red pieces of string

Malys 1.0 Launch Trailer Malys is OUT NOW on Steam!Play the game via bit.ly/playmalysExorcise the infernal and exact vengeance in this unholy roguelite deckbuilder from David Gaider ...

🔥 Malys is OUT NOW in 1.0! 🔥

For a game about demons, you've all been absolute angels - thank you for your support along the way & we're so happy to share Malys' full release with you 🖤

Check out the launch trailer and then get exorcising below!

A reason I was given is old narrow lanes/roads in towns often lacked sufficient footpath and it was 'safest' to walk on the right side so you can see the cars most likely to hit you coming. Combined with left-side driving and standing right-side on escalators means nobody knows which way to walk.

It was utterly infuriating when living there - it felt like everybody was drunk in the middle of the day trying to navigate an even mildly busy footpath.

It is awful
@cheriedavidson.bsky.social and I did a test and it came back as influenza A.
I really don't want to know what it would be like if we hadn't got the flu shot because this is already so so bad.

but won't the train turn into YOU when you into its mouth/doors?

all staff-only or no-entry doors should have had a really flat texture with no nearby sources of light to illuminate them

That is the correct and only answer

All of them are perfect in their own way

(Please ignore my name in the credits)

but Jason, which is your favourite minigame?

I can’t believe I’m going to say this but LEGO Party is absolutely better than Mario Party.

Nobody can compete with a bug game

I've been hanging out here, working with these legends!

It is so great making game/s with you!

Ahh yes the "we want to be able to talk about this during MIGW" annual marketing window