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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 10d

Omg congrats!!! 🩷🩷🩷

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Ian MacLarty @ianmaclarty.com · 13d

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here!

Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

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Chad Toprak @chadtoprak.bsky.social · 12d

Incredibly proud of this new installation work that @helenkwok.bsky.social & I made together about childhood games from around the world 💖

If you're in Melbourne, do check it out at Footscray Community Arts 🙏 The exhibition is now open!

Lovely photos in the thread below 🧵👇

Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 13d

New coalition seeks to help Palestinian game developers 'speak loudly' through games
aftermath.site/palestinian-vo...

A woman and a goat, art from Dreams On A Pillow

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Osman Faruqi @osmanfaruqi.bsky.social · 14d

This is a bizarre thing to publish on the day the federal court awarded a journalist $220,000 for being unfairly dismissed from an on-air role for their political views.

In Australia it isn't just private companies that cave to pressure, it's the public broadcaster

www.smh.com.au/national/why...

Why Jimmy Kimmel would have never been cancelled in Australia

We need to be careful about how we separate true hate speech from satirical speech. In America, it seems, differentiation is out of favour.

www.smh.com.au

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 14d

My friends and I in middle school would drink a school-approved bubbly soda called Izze.

We made up a game we would play every day during lunch called Flicks—where you bend the tab of the drink (after drinking it fully) vertically, and take turns trying to flick and break it off the can.

Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

Finally, a big thank you to our family and friends who contributed their favourite childhood games to the installation, especially my Mum who inspired this project! 🥰

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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you!! 💛💛💛

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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

☺️🙏🏻✨

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Greg Loring-Albright, PhD (he/him) @gregisonthego.bsky.social · 14d

This looks like exactly my jam. Be sure to read about the submitted childhood games further down the thread!

Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

Finally, a big thank you to our family and friends who contributed their favourite childhood games to the installation, especially my Mum who inspired this project! 🥰

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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

EXHIBITION DETAILS:

📅 17 Sep-13 Dec 2025
🕜 Wed-Sat, 10am-4pm
📍 Roslyn Smorgon Gallery, Footscray Community Arts
ℹ️ footscrayarts.com/event/traces...

Traces of Play is showing as part of We Have Been Called Many Things, an exhibition curated by Curatorial Ensemble, alongside some amazing artists!

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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · 14d

💛 TRACES OF PLAY 💛 is a participatory installation that celebrates the folk, playground, and street games we used to play. Created with @chadtoprak.bsky.social, come subvert these humble everyday objects into magnificent playthings of joy! 🪨🥜🥄✏️🪢

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Junch @junchgaming.bsky.social · 15d

We're down to the last 1.5 hours of the Games for Palestine charity. If you've not yet picked up nearly 400 incredible indie games and experiences, and support a good cause while you're at it, now's your chance

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Veselekov @veselekov.bsky.social · 20d

Trailer for our new #inidegame called Penguin Colony! We are collaborating with Lenval Brown (Disco Elysium, Ultrakill) to bring this unique re-imagining to life

www.youtube.com/watch?v=aylG...

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leura 🐭 @smitleu.bsky.social · 21d

our videogame is on show at acmi game worlds!! it’s called ACMI EGG 🧍‍♀️

basically there’s this ACMI CREATURE and we have to keep it alive across a shared save file, in real time, day after day after day. if it runs away it’s everybody’s fault and we can share the guilt🧍‍♀️ also it has secrets! the end!

leura is standing in front of a tv screen that says ACMI EGG. she looks a bit silly

Katsumi is standing in front of a TV screen with an egg on it. he seems hungry? makes you think…

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 21d

DO NOT LEAVE (Nic Kim)

"A simple flatgame about wanderin' around"

Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/09/17/d...

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BeeSky @lollibeepop.bsky.social · 22d

Free Palestine forever 🇵🇸

An illustration that says "free palestine" with drawn elements representing familiar Palestinian cultural iconography

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☁️ Little Pink Clouds ☁️ @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social · 23d

Letters to Arralla is OUT NOW on Steam with a limited time 20% launch discount!! 🏝️💌

After 5 long years of development and lots of fruit & veggies eaten to power our developers, this cheeky game is finally ready to be delivered directly into your hands!! ☺️ Play now on Steam!

youtu.be/7GbGTEpsoIM

Letters to Arralla OUT NOW!

YouTube video by Little Pink Clouds

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Walaber @walaber.com · 24d

My #FallingBlockJam game has some basic gameplay now! Click and drag to select 2 neighbor jellies to have them (attempt to) swap places. Connect a chain from left <--> right edge to clear.

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David Lo Pun-ch Nazis @helpmeskeletor.bsky.social · 23d

For those confused as to why white supremacists would eat ethnic food after their protest:

White supremacy has no problem consuming and eventually appropriating culture.

It isn't a contradiction it's literally one of the things they base their claims of superiority on - theft.

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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · Sep 8

The Games for Palestine charity bundle has collected over $50,000 in donations in just over a week! 🍉🙌✨

You can get 382 games, including Atuel, for just $8 or more!

Please help fight against genocide by donating and spreading the word with a RT so that the bundle can reach its goal! 🙏✨

SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · Sep 8

Amabel Holland has designed board games that tackle the struggle to end slavery, women’s suffrage, and the highly personal topic of gender transition, referring to them as “political art.” What can board games say that other art forms can’t?

The Personal, Political Art of Board-Game Design

What can board games say that other art forms can’t?

www.newyorker.com

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SE Asian Games for Good @seagamesforgood.bsky.social · Sep 2

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.

Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...

We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.

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Helen Kwok @helenkwok.bsky.social · Sep 4

Really liking the ambient remix! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLDz...

逆転裁判 BGM × アンビエント　瞑想するような法廷サウンド｜Ace Attorney BGM Ambient Remix

YouTube video by Ace Attorney Remix - 逆転裁判BGMアレンジ

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Pritika ❄️ @pritikasachdev.bsky.social · Sep 3

Finally discovered the perfect writing/working music. Obsessed with this arrangement!

youtu.be/PeBkXhfchb0?...

逆転裁判 BGM シティポップアレンジ｜Ace Attorney BGM City Pop Remix

YouTube video by Ace Attorney Remix - 逆転裁判BGMアレンジ

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