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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 3d

Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?

SUPERJUMP @superjumpmagazine.com · 3d

"This year, I’ve spoken to experts interested in the tactile, physical nature of their play practices; from table-tops, to live-action roleplaying, to museum, and game installations."

Story by Josefina Huq.

➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-play-exploring-gaming-through-tactility-phys…

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WellPlayed @wellplayed.bsky.social · 2d

It's Melbourne International Games Week and @josefinahuq.bsky.social spoke to a raft of Melbourne-based developers to chat about showing up, money and vibes

Showing Up In The Melbourne Games Ecosystem

Dealing with existential anxieties by being a bum on a seat

www.well-played.com.au

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 3d

Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?

SUPERJUMP @superjumpmagazine.com · 3d

"This year, I’ve spoken to experts interested in the tactile, physical nature of their play practices; from table-tops, to live-action roleplaying, to museum, and game installations."

Story by Josefina Huq.

➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-play-exploring-gaming-through-tactility-phys…

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 6d

Disturbingly high levels of gratitude and affection for everyone who spoke to me 💛 I couldn’t include even 20% of what was discussed, but boy howdy did I learn a bunch!

Showing Up In The Melbourne Games Ecosystem

Dealing with existential anxieties by being a bum on a seat

www.well-played.com.au

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 8d

Alongside some cool shit like Foodomina! Come have a play! Bring someone you’d like to argue with over tiny cards! 💖

October 2025 Showcase: ACMI Works-In-Progress Night

ACMI is Australia's national museum of screen culture, located in Fed Square, Melbourne. Navigate the universe of film, TV, videogames and art with us.

www.acmi.net.au

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 8d

My board game 📦 FRAGILE 🃏 will be playable at the next ACMI WIP night !

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 10d

PLEASE

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 14d

That last one is very exciting

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Kill Your Darlings @kydmagazine.bsky.social · 16d

From 'Fairy Bred' by Elizabeth Tan. Read more: bit.ly/3IcxhHu

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · 18d

ACMI Game Worlds unsurprisingly good + important

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Forgotten Worlds @forgottenworlds.bsky.social · 27d

I wrote a piece for ACMI ahead of their new Game Worlds exhibit, about old arcade games and physical spaces…

www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...

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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 23d

General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️

Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺

www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25

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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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小島秀夫 @hideokojima.bsky.kojimaproductions.jp · 25d

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Sep 2

Slowly and finally circling “the real world” again after a breakup and house move and reiterating; neo-nazis microsoft-execs ai-losers pro-genociders should shut the fuck up forever. Hopefully not leaving out any new and concerning freaks 💛🔥

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hello pals, I am looking to either start a new 2 person home in the heart of North Melbourne or move into an already existing nice one. Please let me know if you or any cool people you know wanna live with a nice clean dweeb who loves the pub 💛

Two random keys to connote wanting to live with another person!

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jul 22

Hello pals, I am looking to either start a new 2 person home in the heart of North Melbourne or move into an already existing nice one. Please let me know if you or any cool people you know wanna live with a nice clean dweeb who loves the pub 💛

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jul 22

Happy bday sorry about bug!

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jul 18

YES! YEEESSSSS !! glad to see people I admire doing nice things !!

Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · Jul 17

Hello. About a year and a half ago, some guy called Ralph asked me if I wanted to make a new videogame website.

We're launching it today. Maybe you can even visit it if people stop hammering the server for a second.

This Week in Videogames - TWIV

Covering the important things happening in the world of videogames. News, reviews, and insights without ads or filler content.

thisweekinvideogames.com

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jun 27

Only got onto these games early this year and I’m a big dummy for it! Don’t be a loser like me! Be gay and play with rocks and pebbles this weekend!! 🪨

Pete from Fuzzy Ghost @ MIGW 🔜 SXSW @fuzzyg.host · Jun 27

We try to only put our games on sale during Pride for gay-reasons. But then we forget to do even that.

So Pebble Witch and Queer Man Peering are now in the Steam Summer Sale! WOW! It's basically Delayed Pride! Arrested Pride? Tardy Pride?

Buy our f*ggy games!
store.steampowered.com/app/1711420/...

Save 10% on Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg on Steam

A joyful, strange experience in which a middle-aged queer man toddles around a strange island attempting to re-furnish his empty house.

store.steampowered.com

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Pete from Fuzzy Ghost @ MIGW 🔜 SXSW @fuzzyg.host · Jun 27

We try to only put our games on sale during Pride for gay-reasons. But then we forget to do even that.

So Pebble Witch and Queer Man Peering are now in the Steam Summer Sale! WOW! It's basically Delayed Pride! Arrested Pride? Tardy Pride?

Buy our f*ggy games!
store.steampowered.com/app/1711420/...

Save 10% on Queer Man Peering Into A Rock Pool.jpg on Steam

A joyful, strange experience in which a middle-aged queer man toddles around a strange island attempting to re-furnish his empty house.

store.steampowered.com

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jun 25

I am still so in love with this game

Link on his boat surrounded by seagulls as the sun rises

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kat @kgt.bsky.social · Jun 18

"AI serves fascism and its bosom buddy, capital, and nothing else. It is a nihilistic Moloch that can exist solely via the sacrifice of sanity, soul and, more tangibly, our environment. Like anything fascist, there is only one real solution to it: swift and brutal elimination, by any means."

Patrick Marlborough @cormacmccafe.bsky.social · Jun 18

I’ve got a long essay on AI slop and fascism and the rest in the new @meanjin.bsky.social

Wrote it back in Jan but the core stupidity of this grifting industry has not changed. Check it out!

meanjin.com.au/essays/%F0%9...

🌹 Beautiful Cabin Crew, Scarlett Johansson 💋💋: Post-slop: four prompts and responses

These people don’t know what art is, so they will never truly be able to kill it. Not in the way they think, anyway.

https://meanjin.com.au/essays/🌹-beautiful-cabin-crew-scarlett-johansson-💋💋-post-slop-four-prompts-and-responses/

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Drew Mackie @drewgmackie.bsky.social · Jun 15

Did Koji Kondo accidentally compose the same melody twice? Or was he inspired by a city pop track from 1982? Or were they both doing a riff on Chopin?

Was the Zelda Fairy Fountain Music Inspired by a Track From Super Mario Bros. 3? — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games

You too can learn about cultural inspiration, homage and imitation through the history of a Koji Kondo composition.

www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com

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Josefina Huq @josefinahuq.bsky.social · Jun 19

This is so so cute

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