A friendly annual games contest that explores the boundaries of freeform larp.
Check out this year's contest and all past submissions here: https://goldencobra.org
Speaker, filmmaker, writer, journalist, MC and former chief adviser to Zoe Daniel MP.
Board Game Beat post feed.
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://www.wericmartin.com/, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
They/She, a disabled artist and game maker. Sometimes poet. Sometimes podcaster.
Bi, Polyam, Genderfluid, Trans. 33.
Living on Worimi and Awabakal Land in so called australia.
Award winning Games Curator at Powerhouse Museum Sydney.
Board Chair 🪑 at Freeplay.
Indie game lover. Pokemon freak.
linktr.ee/chloeappleby
game developer pop star made of slime. love u always.
Working on Dicot, a 2D sci-fi immersive sim about devotion among the stars and cave exploration.
she/it
https://siobhan.creature.love/
https://siobhan-dent.itch.io
Associate Professor: videogames, creative labour, cultural industries. Gamemaker and critic.
The Videogame Industry Does Not Exist (MIT Press): http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262545402/
Brisbane, Australia | he/him
"Voices of" community group in the Victorian state Bentleigh District
https://linktr.ee/voicesofbentleigh
People-led. Grassroots. For housing abundance.
Board Game Designer: Cascadia + Landmarks & Rolling & Alpine Lakes & Junior, Tabriz, Malarkey, Avalanche, Quiver & Quake, and Mykonos.
he/him
Mostly lurking 👀 might drop the occasional pet pic or fresh tattoo
Technology reporter at the Guardian, in Melbourne, Australia. Tech, infosec, FOI, politics, media 🌈 (he/him) https://linktr.ee/joshtayl0r
Writer in Melbourne, Australia
Author of 4 books on media, politics, technology and work
Advocate for bottom-up democracy beyond the two-party system
https://tdunlop.substack.com/
Co-CEO at The Australia Institute
Economist, Author of books and writer of columns often for Saturday Paper, The Monthly & The New Daily (previously The Guardian, Australian Financial Review)
Join our community group in the federal electorate of Bennelong. We're about active participation in our democracy. Everyone welcome!
CUNY, Jewish Currents, New York Times, MSNBC. Foundation for Middle East Peace fellow.
former games editor, current freelance writer
team Frosty Games Fest (as seen at Summer Game Fest!)
he/they
https://linktr.ee/kieron.verb
📧: kieron.verbrugge@gmail.com
Social Producer, Community Manager, all things online ✨ works with @auntydonnaboys.bsky.social ☕️ 1/5 of @frostygamesfest.com ❄️
Short, fast and loud✨🏳️🌈
Illustrator and Game Dev based in Naarm/Melbourne.
🍦Art Wizard at Frosty Games Fest
🔫Drew the memes for 420BLAZEIT:2
🎨Currently making art for other wonderful folks
NO AI/NO NFTs🗑️
Art queries go to heylucymutimer@gmail.com
Helping you find the coolest games made in Australia & Aotearoa NZ 🍦🎮 Join our Frosty Fans mailing list to stay up to date! 👉 https://frostygamesfest.beehiiv.com
frostygamesfest.com
Powered by @nz-code.nz and @strangescaffold.bsky.social 🤝🏽
On a mission to organise the world’s games.
www.aftergame.co
makes games, does swing dancing & photography, and likes to talk
Director @deadteapot.games making Shape Sender Deluxe ⭐🟡🟧
ex-Technical Designer
@dinopoloclub.bsky.social on Mini Motorways & Mini Metro
he/him
Aotearoa, New Zealand-based studio making Shape Sender Deluxe!
🟡 🟧 ⭐️
⭐️ Wishlist here ⭐️ s.team/a/2976470
⚙Senior Engineer @ League of Geeks
Previously:
Oddlark
⇀ 🖐️ Noibs!
League of Geeks
⇀ 🔥 Solium Infernum
⇀ 👽 Jumplight Odyssey
I'm queer and scared, pls be nice to me...
🌺 He/Him
creating quality oddities https://oddlark.com
https://store.steampowered.com/dev/oddlark
game dev / comics editor / author
probably worked on that thing you like
lapsed hockey reporter / aotearoa based
represented by ed wilson @ J&A
these views represent my employers so hard that my boss is actually holding a gun to my head as I type this
Writer, Director w/ @nickfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer @ Riot Games • Prev: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank, Miles Morales, MASSIVE CHALICE • voice on @scriptlock.bsky.social • Rep: Rain Management
Writer/Twin w/ maxfolkman.bsky.social • Now: Senior Writer at Insomniac Games • Past: Spider-Man 2, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, We Lost Our Human, Massive Chalice • Also co-host @scriptlock.bsky.social
Studio Momager for @newblood.games. Executive Producer for Oddlark. Publishing Producer for hire. For legal reasons I am a joke and so is everything I say
Partially irresponsible for @folly.studio, Dogpile, Gubbins, Real Bird Fake Bird, etc etc
Games & Arts Producer. Solium Infernum.
NB. Wurundjeri land. They/them.
https://morganlittle.dev/
Managing Editor of @minimap.com.au He/They
Jeremy@minimap(dot)com(dot)au
Obiwanjezz most other places
Co-founder @ IndieBI & Uwu Advisory, advisor @ Kepler Interactive💃
Biz @ PVKK/Gang Beasts/The Baby in Yellow
Board @ Radical Forge -------------Past: Robot Teddy, Among Us, SUPERHOT VR, Oculus, Kowloon, Raw Fury
--| Graphics Fanatic // Internet Freak |--
📍 Brisbane 🇦🇺
💫 Working on Freeline! - a frenetic, kinetic, Y2K parkour platformer.
📹 Also HyperRouter - a bizarre, first-person, early-internet dreamscape.
🌐 https://piers.zip/
19 | They/Any
Award-winning noisemaker for games • dad • director of @Supertonic.au • bi 💖💜💙🏳️🌈 • (he/him) • Meanjin/Brisbane
Prev: Kotaku Australia, ABC Gamer. https://linktr.ee/rhunwords
Oh No! Oh Dear! Oh My!
Games...person? Currently co-developing Key Fairy: keyfairy.com.au
Other games/art/blog-posts?
yes: neighbourhoodsnake.com
she/they
🦦 Freelance Games Producer
🐕 IGDA-F Next Gen Leaders Cohort Coordinator & NGL Alum '24
🐦⬛ Volunteer Org. and Art for brIGDA
🦭 Hobby Artist, Cosplayer, and Zinester @UncannyTitans
♏ She/Her • 🩷💜💙
🗺️ Meeanjin 🖤💛❤️ (Brisbane, Australia) • AEST
Awards-nominated freelance writer (ScreenHub, Kotaku Aus, Stevivor, PowerUp!, Byteside, Player 2, CheckPoint, SUPERJUMP, Qualbert, NG+, LT3, JPG). Highly opinionated on games, miniatures, & wrasslin'.
They/Them.
https://muckrack.com/jam-walker
graphic designer ✦ game maker ✦ sports enjoyer ✦ lithgow panther truther
working on my IF game DAWN CHORUS ✦ writing/narrative @ghoulish.com.au ✦ editing @fine-fiends.bsky.social
haraiva.itch.io ✦ cecilerichard.design
(she/her)
Speaking Angel, kindergarten Christmas Show.
Sour cream and onion chip devourer.
Former TikTok wrangler @summerfallstudios.com
Cosplay Insta @ whatkatydidcosplay
👋 I'm Jarrod. I run events, help Aussie game devs and make games on Ngunnawal Country in Canberra
🎮 President @canberra.games
💻 Games Admin screencanberra.com.au
💭 Creative Director anecdotegames.com
🎲 Designer paperkeygames.itch.io
linktr.ee/jarrodfn
🪷just here for attention🪷 making games. Mystiques, Solium Infernum, Rumu etc
Creative Director @electricsaint.bsky.social
BAFTA Breakthrough // artsy weirdo // illustrator, gamedev, stubborn idiot 🧹🏍️
she/they
annahollinrake.com
👇 Crescent County Kickstarter 👇
kickstarter.com/projects/annahollinrake/crescent-county
agent of chaos at massive monster & back pocket | former slopstress at kotaku au | illustrator
Award winning* Designer at @lemonadegames.bsky.social
(peoples choice award SXSW)
quit tech to make the most stupid game possible
🏩 Building Relationships 🏘️
indie dev - GDC Speaker - He/Him 🏳️🌈
pole dances to video game music
pls wishlist 👇
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2666920/Building_Relationships
Official Bluesky for GBAtemp, a free video game community. News, info, retweets, discussions, and more -- all gaming related! http://t.me/gbatemp
games + marketing + my dog 👩🏼💻 ✧* kiwi in sydney *✧ she/her ✧* the @FrostyGamesFest.com / @buzzbang.bsky.social / @synty.bsky.social girl 🎮 join my lil indie games club: @pixelexplorersclub.bsky.social
“Strike at the roots, not the branches.”
At the intersection of people, data and politics.
Using data to know them, love them, and work it better.
Trouble. But good trouble.
“Kooyongkoot”, Wurundjeri Land. (Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.)
I assist with managing board games during the day, roll dice professionally by night, and am still occasionally the original Hot Dog Wizard. | [E] | He/They
Cheese lover, union member, scientist
Concerned about the future.
Still learning.
Australian politics with a focused eye on Goldstein 👁. Vote 1️⃣ Community independents. #goldsteinvotes . Email your tips/leads to eyeongoldstein@gmail.com . Links: https://linktr.ee/eyeongoldstein
Greens Senator for NSW. Living and working on unceded Gadigal land.
Authorised by David Shoebridge, Australian Greens, Canberra ACT 2600
News from song contests across the world 🌍 from the Americas to the Asia and much more. European news via Eurovoix
For the billions, not the billionaires!
Socialist-alliance.org
The Victorian Socialists conference of June 2025 voted to apply to change the name of the party, as registered with the Australian Electoral Commission, to the Socialist Party.
Board game lovers, geeky players who create immersive, high-quality entertainment for other geeky players.
🔗 Czechgames.com
🌳 linktr.ee/czech_games_edition
We make award-winning tabletop games!
BuffaloGames.com and Gamewright.com
New Zealand board game publisher known for the North Sea, West Kingdom, and South Tigris trilogies, and Ancient Anthology. Founded by Shem Phillips in 2009, the team includes Sam Macdonald, Sam Phillips, and Zach Smith.
The game studio behind Wavelength, Monikers, Hot Streak, Magical Athlete, and more!
Find us at cmyk.games
Hi! We’re a Korean publisher behind Vale of Eternity, Dracula vs. Van Helsing, and Kushi Express—board game enthusiasts who refuse to stick to just one style!
Lucky Duck Games is a tabletop game publisher known for highly innovative and engaging digital hybrid and family friendly board games!
luckyduckgames.com
Publisher of some of the most delightful board games on the planet!
Roxley’s unending quest is to conquer minds with the most innovative, addictive, beautiful, polished, replayable games you’ll experience!
Proudly independent board game reviewers.
https://youtube.com/nopunincluded
All the shenanigans from the Player 2 team... now on Bluesky!
Writer & presenter for Quinns Quest & People Make Games. quinnsquest.quintinsdomain@gmail.com
Digital Content Specialist | Board Games | Opinions are my own | (she/her) 🏳️🌈
https://raybird.squarespace.com/
CEO of Cheek Media, co-host of Big Small Talk and bestselling author of Bite Back and Taboo
Playwright & theatre critic (The Saturday Paper, Time Out, Theatre First).
Bi. He/him. Melb, Australia
Loves: theatre, TV, film, travel.
http://www.keithgow.com/
Support my writing: https://ko-fi.com/keithgow1975
Ruby committer, principal engineer at Groq. Melbourne, Australia
Working to support independent community driven local representation in the Nicholls electorate. Subscribe at https://www.voicesfornicholls.com/join to access our newsletters and to volunteer
Découpeur de proto niveau 8
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The world's longest-running festival celebrating the art and culture of independent games and playful media. Established in 2004.
freeplay.net.au
games that come alive at dvc.games | queer fem + enby game design collective & publisher | tabletop, rpg, digital, immersive, intersectional, accessible | account co-run by jono & sometimes ben and jess
Psephologist, polling analyst and poll transparency advocate, political commentator, ecologist, chess player/admin. No party loyalties. Not-A-Pollster.
🚲More safe cycling infrastructure now!
📅Usually last Friday of every month
⚠️https://criticalmass.melbourne
Community independent for the Sunshine Coast | People before party politics. Let’s make Fairfax matter ALL the time. Authorised by F Wiig. Suite T2.312, 55 Plaza Parade, Maroochydore QLD 4558
https://www.francineforfairfax.com.au
Email: hello@francinefor
Creative professional in tabletop games and performing arts.
Main cast member on the Stream of Chaos @chaosium.bsky.social.
JacksonHeenan.com
Prev done:
Dev Co-Ordinator on Armello: The Board Game
Sales Manger at Campaign Coins
Currently doing: My best
Menswear writer. Editor at Put This On. Words at The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, Esquire, and Mr. Porter.
If you have a style question, search:
https://dieworkwear.com/ | https://putthison.com/start-here/
"Woke Leftard" from the other place. Expect Grammar & Spelling Errors. No DM's.
Independent English-language journalism in Ukraine
Become a member: kyivindependent.com/membership
Former independent candidate for Riverina, Federal election 2025.
#RealRepresentation
Authorised by J.Rolfe Wagga Wagga 2660.
Making Minecraft Youtube Videos!
🇨🇦 Youtuber & Streamer http://twitch.tv/geminitay
🌲 She/Her
💛 geminitaybuilding@gmail.com
CEO & founder @ polipedia.com.au, writer, startup founder, feminist. Can’t have a democracy without transparency or accountability. #sussexsquad
Official account of the Tabletop Game Designers Association. More information at ttgda.org
Career politicians are not your friends
mostly cat pictures
He/him
Independent Candidate for Moore
www.nathanbarton.com.au
Authorised by Nathan Barton, 1/2 Plaistow St, Joondalup
Digital political data start-up on a mission to foster political transparency and accountability.
Polipedia.com.au
I'm Phil Scott, a proud Territorian, community advocate, and your community independent candidate for Nightcliff.
https://linktr.ee/PhilScott4Nightcliff
Authorised by: P.Scott Shop 20 / 48 Trower Rd, Rapid Creek 0810
Jordan Dube
I design/write/illustrate TTRPG's and card games!
Good Soup, Honk Daddy, Choosey Goosey, Big Stretch, and Pigeon Chess are the favs
Find it all on goosepoopgames.com
Ex-philosopher, ex-Tweeter.
Email: info@contrapoints.com
