Still laughing

University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war Aria Fani of University of Washington’s Middle East Center is latest critic of Israel to lose position at US university

University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war

Just reflecting it back to you: this is something we all want! I think you and Jackson have gained a lot of trust over your careers, to the point where folks are willing to make the bet that this’ll be a great thing handled with diplomacy and care and truth telling. Congrats!

Screen Australia empowers the next games generation, including new creatives from neighbouring disciplines - Media centre - Screen Australia Screen Australia announces the latest funding to help level-up Australian gamemakers, including a cohort of newcomers from non-games fields.

📣 Screen Australia announces $1.4 million of funding across 26 games projects in the latest round of games funding. The 8 gamemakers travelling to BitSummit 2026 as part of the Future Leaders Delegation have also been announced. A massive congrats to all 🥳

www.screenaustralia.gov.au/sa/media-cen...

"Disgust" over Nvidia's DLSS 5 has the games industry on edge Nvidia's controversial DLSS 5 technology drew the ire of the games industry, but the reasons run deeper than 'AI slop' imagery.

DLSS 5 has sent shockwaves through the games industry, so I asked several artists and developers what concerns them most about the technology.

Unsurprisingly, their ire is about far more than ‘AI slop’.

www.gadgetguy.com.au/nvidia-dlss-...

Day 3 sharing kid's fan art of my game Doggy Don't Care

#indiegames #doggydontcare #fanart

“Hang on hang on hang on… sorry just… yeeeeahhh right in the neck. Ok coming”

New helmet!!

Could you tag me please

CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine Bringing together journalists, devs and artists, CONTINUE celebrates and interrogates videogame culture, creativity and community

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on.

A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture.

We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?"

www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

⚔️ I have begun Dark Souls II ⚔️

An image featuring tiles of released games funded by Screen Australia.

📣 Hey Australian gamemakers!

Screen Australia's Games grants close in 2 weeks! A reminder to get your applications in! 🫶

🛠 Games Production Fund - up to $100,000
🎨 Emerging Gamemakers Fund - up to $30,000

📆 Applications close Thu 5 Mar, 5pm (AEDT)
👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Applications close in 3 days! 👀
👉 www.screenaustralia.gov.au/funding-and-...

Really sad to hear today that Freeplay Independent Games Festival is likely coming to the end of its adventure in 2026 after 22 incredible years. Freeplay has been pivotal to my own career and I have some complex, straight out contradictory feelings about the announcement I wanna try to articulate.

I have thoughts on this, as a former director and a board member for six years, and for one time anyway, a keeper of the flame of Freeplay’s history. But first up I want to say how incredibly disappointing it is that Creative Vic hasn’t funded Freeplay.

Interview: The secret identities that birthed Freeplay We spoke with Katharine Neil in commemoration of Freeplay festival’s 20th anniversary

I interviewed Freeplay's co-founder Katharine Neil a couple of years ago about its origins & legacy. There was SO much fascinating stuff that I couldn't publish but I'm still really proud of the piece & feel as if documenting this stuff holds a tiny bit of importance too.

👏 mirroring much of my discussions today

It's going to be a big year! Reignite your drive with a live music event! 🔥Featuring game tracks and more by 🔺JAMATAR🔺and special guests Dot.AY and LUMA.D! Come try the latest build of the game and experience REIGNITE on January 31st!

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#gamedev #indiedev #chiptune

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

Grandpa Simpson yelling at a cloud

Back in my day, AI used to stand for Adobe Illustrator! And we hated that, too!

👇👇👇

bsky home page with the "mossy forest" colour scheme and a moon icon

bsky post editor with the "nice day" colour scheme

bsky profile view with the "cohost" colour scheme

bsky post with the "paperback" colour scheme

🌌 Firmament 🌙
a customisable theme for bsky - v.1.0.0

- Customise colours & fonts!
- Pre-made themes!
- Replace the bsky logo?!
- Hide metrics!

Install with Stylus (Firefox/Chrome): userstyles.world/style/19357
Install with Userscripts (Safari/iOS): github.com/haraiva/userstyles/tree/main/bsky

Dead Static Drive on Steam Dead Static Drive is Grand Theft Cthulhu. An indie survival-horror game following a nightmarish road trip across a 1980s Americana. Evade police. Equip yourself and those close to you, and follow your...

I never thought I would say this .. but Dead Static Drive comes out in an hour
store.steampowered.com/app/1166940/...

I fostered these two kitties for a few months - both very beautiful and friendly cats.

If you know of anyone looking to adopt a pair of enchanting fluffy idiots, here they are 🐈🐈

💙 Delphiniuuum 💙

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cin...

Ricky omg 🥺

Enter the Chronosphere on Steam Enter the Chronosphere is a real-time, turn-based action game where everything moves when you do. In a collapsing universe, each member of your crew is the last echo of their species, united by one go...

In other news, Enter the Chronosphere. Free demo. So good. store.steampowered.com/app/1969810/...

And for the briefest of moments you may have had hot wet socks 😔

Veeery nice