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Mads Mackenzie 💀 narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer 💀 co-director @ Freeplay 💀 they/them, icon by Penta
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Freeplay Angles 2025 dates are confirmed! From Thursday 31st July to Saturday 2nd August, at Science Gallery Melbourne. We've also extended speaker submissions by a week. New deadline is 3rd June. Get your talks in, and we'll see you in July! forms.gle/rVZqqgRbCnpk...

submitted 14 hours ago • 0 comments

Delighted to announce that Frosty is joining the official Summer Game Fest showcase lineup! ☀️🍦 Mark your calendars for a jam packed weekend of games 🗓️

submitted 1 day ago • 14 comments

bring back rental stores. i want to pay a nominal fee to try a new video game for two nights. demos and refund windows are not the same.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

finishing the most 'read Devilman at a formative age' scene of Drac yet

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Can I come to your house and stand like this?

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

The House in Fata Morgana is a masterpiece. It is one of the best visual novels ever made and one of the most beautiful stories I've ever read. I genuinely cannot recommend it highly enough to anyone and everyone. Grab it while it's on sale.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

I love when I spend a long time researching something about folklore only to discover the answer sounds like something from an anime so no-one's going to realise I arrived at it via a careful process and not just thinking it's cool when a guy flash steps and has a magic sword

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

reading a 16th century book on how to identify a witch. they stole this guy's charcuterie board. can you believe it.

submitted 8 days ago • 3 comments

(in the weary voice of a guy who just accidentally overwrote a video they spent multiple hours rerendering to fix a codec issue) computers were a mistake

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

writing a summary document for Drac and I have to state what the themes are which I think might be the most diabolical thing to ask anyone who is still working on a project.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

one of my eternal Game Pet Peeves is when you can say no to a romance in dialogue options but all the surrounding material assumes you're going to say yes and doesn't have any variation.

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

A monster steals brides on their wedding nights. Two rivals are the only people powerful enough to stop it. Neither are prepared for the sparks and blood that will fly. The Vow is a 300 page queer, erotic horror, dark fantasy graphic novel. You can buy it digitally now: 🔞🌹⚔️ arden.itch.io/the-vow

submitted 163 days ago • 5 comments

new blog post: turned my gdc 2025 level design theory talk into a blog post www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2025/05/spac...

submitted 13 days ago • 20 comments

is there anything better than reading a brain-meltingly bad comic and then convincing two wonderful friends to read it to also have their brains melted 💜

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment

in the spirit of Bram Stoker, I try to be accurate with travel times in Drac, which means I've spent a portion of today reading debates about how much faster horses used to be

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

❄️ Frosty Games Fest will premiere Sun, June 8 ⏰ Tune in at 9am AEST, 11am NZT, or 4pm PDT (June 7)! 🍦 With 50+ games set to be featured, the lineup is chocka-block with some of ANZ's finest. We can't wait to share our first ever showcase with you! 💙

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

I painted this!! It was really fun and kinda :O to have Freeplay reach out about it, I've really enjoyed everything of theirs I've attended in the past :]

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments