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✨ Hong Kong-born multimedia artist & designer based in Narrm/Melbourne (she/her) ✨ playful installations, experimental games, alternative controllers, public art activations ✨ https://helenkwok.net

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Amalgamate by sunil. merge.

Amalgamate is superb, another sunil 7drl banger! Managed a score of 955, which I think is as far as I can go +- random chance. Highly recommended! zunil.itch.io/amalgamate

10.03.2026 07:51 👍 64 🔁 15 💬 3 📌 3

We made a videogame about this!

Atuel is a surrealist documentary videogame about a river that crosses a desert in western Argentina, its history, and how the climate crisis threatens its future.

It's 30 minutes long and completely free!

store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...

07.03.2026 12:36 👍 106 🔁 48 💬 0 📌 6
A blue zine mockup for a game called Chord, the cover shows a morose face surrounded by piano keys and small creatures hopping around them.

A blue zine mockup for a game called Chord, the cover shows a morose face surrounded by piano keys and small creatures hopping around them.

CHORD is coming March 24, two player miniature capture the flag skirmish game played on a piano keyboard that generates ambient music while you play.
My first skirmish game release!
Pay what you want on itch and a few scrappy diy zines in my bag at adepticon.

05.03.2026 14:42 👍 90 🔁 31 💬 8 📌 9
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New Release: Magpie (v0.1 - Sorrow)

Magpie is a visual livecoding tool made in Picotron! Make little art performances in crunchy 480x270 resolution, by writing Picotron code. It runs in the web, on desktops, and on Picotron itself. This is an early release.

Get it here: illomens.itch.io/magpie

06.03.2026 13:04 👍 76 🔁 19 💬 1 📌 3
Energy

Analysis

Environment

Technology

Australia’s data centre lobby stumbles in its dance to avoid real regulation
Google’s new data centre is entirely self-sufficient when it comes to power. Sounds like a good thing, right? Think again.
Ketan Joshi
Ketan Joshi
Mar 4, 2026
7 min read

Energy Analysis Environment Technology Australia’s data centre lobby stumbles in its dance to avoid real regulation Google’s new data centre is entirely self-sufficient when it comes to power. Sounds like a good thing, right? Think again. Ketan Joshi Ketan Joshi Mar 4, 2026 7 min read

Hey!!! Got a new piece up at @crikey.com.au for you, about how Australia's data centre lobby is trying the subtle dance of avoiding regulation by suggesting weak voluntary actions

But something new has thrown them off balance.........

www.crikey.com.au/2026/03/04/a...

04.03.2026 22:33 👍 108 🔁 48 💬 4 📌 1
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I love that solo RPGs are having their moment! Here are some of my favorites. These are all solo journaling role playing games and they’re all available through our website, link is in our bio. #ttrpg #ttrpgtok #roleplayinggame #solorpg #sologame

03.03.2026 20:17 👍 50 🔁 15 💬 4 📌 2
game dev bingo sheet made with buzz word bingo

game dev bingo sheet made with buzz word bingo

It's been a while since I put together a game dev bingo! Have you scored a bingo this month?

#indiedev #gamedev #ttrpg 🎲✂️

23.02.2026 05:02 👍 39 🔁 14 💬 4 📌 3
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Human Centric Game Design: A Manifesto Exploring how we make games designed for humans to play with humans.

I blogged:
personable.blog/human-centri...

14.02.2026 18:48 👍 33 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 2
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The Endtimes Trilogy Live through the end of the world again and again with this set of three standalone roleplaying games for 2-5 players.

games? get your games here. I've got games

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/a...

10.02.2026 23:33 👍 19 🔁 14 💬 0 📌 8
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Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

10.02.2026 22:28 👍 12807 🔁 6982 💬 377 📌 867
PROTEST ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT
MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY
SYDNEY
5:30PM
TOWN HALL
DARWIN
5:30PM
PARLIAMENT
MELBOURNE
5:30PM FLINDERS STREET STATION
PERTH
CANBERRA
5:30PM
5:30PM
FORREST
GAREMA
PLACE
PLACE
HOBART
ADELAIDE
HAM ABC
5:30PM
ROUNDABOUT PARLIAMENT
BRISBANE
5:30PM KING
GEORGE SQ
WYONG
4PM EMMA
MCBRIDE OFFICE
CAIRNS
GOULBURN
5:30PM 204
MULGRAVE
5:30PM THE
RD
BIG MERINO
MOSS VALE
5:30PM
LEIGHTON GDNS
TOWNSVILLE
6PM STRAND
PARK
BATHURST
5:30PM
KINGS PARADE
LISMORE
5:30PM
LISMORE
PEACE PARK
WAGGA
5PM RURAL
PLACE
MARGARET RIVER
4PM
REUTHER PARK
ALBANY
5:30PM
ANZAC
PEACE PARK
COFFS HARBOUR
5:30PM
PACIFIC HWY
OPP COFFS
HOSPITAL CAMPUS
BENDIGO
5:30PM
BENDIGO SIGN
PALL MALL
NEWCASTLE BLUE MNS
5:30PM
5:30PM
CITY HALL
LAWSON SHOPS
BENALLA
5:30PM
MAIR ST BENALLA
WOLLONGONG
BLOCKADE BISALLOY
FEB 8 - 10

PROTEST ISRAEL'S PRESIDENT MONDAY 9 FEBRUARY SYDNEY 5:30PM TOWN HALL DARWIN 5:30PM PARLIAMENT MELBOURNE 5:30PM FLINDERS STREET STATION PERTH CANBERRA 5:30PM 5:30PM FORREST GAREMA PLACE PLACE HOBART ADELAIDE HAM ABC 5:30PM ROUNDABOUT PARLIAMENT BRISBANE 5:30PM KING GEORGE SQ WYONG 4PM EMMA MCBRIDE OFFICE CAIRNS GOULBURN 5:30PM 204 MULGRAVE 5:30PM THE RD BIG MERINO MOSS VALE 5:30PM LEIGHTON GDNS TOWNSVILLE 6PM STRAND PARK BATHURST 5:30PM KINGS PARADE LISMORE 5:30PM LISMORE PEACE PARK WAGGA 5PM RURAL PLACE MARGARET RIVER 4PM REUTHER PARK ALBANY 5:30PM ANZAC PEACE PARK COFFS HARBOUR 5:30PM PACIFIC HWY OPP COFFS HOSPITAL CAMPUS BENDIGO 5:30PM BENDIGO SIGN PALL MALL NEWCASTLE BLUE MNS 5:30PM 5:30PM CITY HALL LAWSON SHOPS BENALLA 5:30PM MAIR ST BENALLA WOLLONGONG BLOCKADE BISALLOY FEB 8 - 10

TODAY. Be there if you can - share endlessly if you can’t to fight the algo.

08.02.2026 22:24 👍 81 🔁 74 💬 1 📌 5
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Type specimen borders from 1900. www.presentandcorrect.com/blogs/blog/b...
Deliriously good.

23.01.2026 16:34 👍 159 🔁 31 💬 1 📌 0
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Backgroundese Fonts for Nonsense Text in Games We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects.

We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use. #GameDev

20.01.2026 12:44 👍 511 🔁 219 💬 10 📌 14

Ultimately, I hope Freeplay finds a way to return to and persist in its more ragtag low budget from, relying on the community that in turn gets so much from it to sustain it. Or people start new ragtag events in new dojos without a budget to make the new CEOS of the game industry feel uncomfortable.

20.01.2026 10:15 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 1
An image of a zine called interpretation on a wooden table surrounded by ephemera - playing cards, sea glass, maps, a feather

An image of a zine called interpretation on a wooden table surrounded by ephemera - playing cards, sea glass, maps, a feather

I've finally got round to getting my new anthology zine Interpretation up on @itch.io
Three solo journaling games about making history - check it out!
joreid.itch.io/interpretation

15.09.2025 15:07 👍 15 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Letter from the Hon Peter Malinauskas MP, Premier of South Australia - Whiting, Tracey - fB526314 (B2460669).pdf

The Advertiser has the letter Malinauskas wrote to the board of Adelaide Festival. It is very hard to see how this is not a direction to remove Abdel-Fattah, despite a line saying board decisions are independent. drive.google.com/file/d/169Pi...

17.01.2026 23:13 👍 96 🔁 45 💬 6 📌 18

It is fucking wild that the board of a major cultural event decided to make a public statement that drew a direct link between an individual and a massacre they had nothing to do with, on the basis of their ethnicity. Interestingly not a feature of this contrition

15.01.2026 00:55 👍 31 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 0
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Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund This fundraiser is being run for Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah by Readers and Writers Against the Genocide. RWAG is a community of readers and writers who believe in the power of literature to enable us to sp...

Randa Abdel Fattah Legal Fund
#AusPol
chuffed.org/project/rand...

14.01.2026 23:12 👍 12 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0

Bendigo Writers Festival, Meanjin, now Adelaide Writers … powerful vested interests would rather destroy the cultural institutions they are supposedly responsible for than allow certain voices to be heard

09.01.2026 01:41 👍 445 🔁 188 💬 13 📌 5

Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers.

14.01.2026 23:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 2
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Resignations, Racism, and Resistance Zionist Australia's cultural apartheid continues & according to Labor, it's good to be genocidal, bad to be Palestinian

I am so very tired. Here’s more on the debacle that tanked Adelaide Writers Week, and the staggering racism involved. sakr.substack.com/p/resignatio...

14.01.2026 09:24 👍 189 🔁 70 💬 3 📌 12

In Albo's new antisemitism bill, the definition of "hate crime", which underpins the new regime to proscribe "hate groups" like the Nazis, specifically excludes "advocating genocide". That is, advocating genocide is treated as not being a racist hate crime. Now, why would that be?

13.01.2026 22:41 👍 612 🔁 255 💬 32 📌 26

The Albo government's antisemitism bill is a rushed hatchet job. Nobody has proper time to consider it carefully enough, and it will have all sorts of unintended consequences if passed. It is the worst kind of law-making: moral panic induced, pandering to powerful lobby groups' demands.

13.01.2026 21:40 👍 605 🔁 218 💬 32 📌 6
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Review of the Exposure Draft Legislation: Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill 2026 The Minister for Home Affairs, Hon Tony Burke MP, wrote to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (the Committee) on 12 January 2026 to refer an Exposure Draft of the Combattin...

Want to make a submission into the inquiry on the "Combatting Antisemitism, Hate and Extremism Bill that was released yesterday?

You got till 4pm Thursday (ie TOMORROW)

That is quite disgraceful
www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentar...

13.01.2026 22:09 👍 301 🔁 240 💬 45 📌 27

this was such a delight to work on. thank you to everyone who participated & contributed, and a big thanks to @helenkwok.bsky.social who led & steered the project. my favourite part of the project was getting to chat to our mums about the games they used to play when they were younger 🥰💖

20.12.2025 04:58 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Bondi terror attack updates: NSW premier says proposed reforms to restrict protests after terror incidents would prevent ‘combustible situation’ Follow live

And so it begins.
Minns tries to distract from a security failure in the face of terrorist attack:
by suppressing the right to protest.

If he was really concerned about "community disharmony", he would stop sucking up to the Israel lobby. #nswpol
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

17.12.2025 05:06 👍 108 🔁 37 💬 14 📌 4

The idea that changing a definition to include criticism of Israel as being anti-Semitic and cracking down even further on anti-genocide protests would have in any way made anyone safer is madness. That the Coalition have so comprehensively jumped to blame here is insanity. Who is this speaking to?

17.12.2025 08:14 👍 874 🔁 275 💬 74 📌 12

something quite relevant to this that I completely forgot I wrote a few months ago"

"Australia’s lead advisor on fighting antisemitism has singled out X for successfully using artificial intelligence to “root out hate”

More: www.crikey.com.au/2025/07/11/a...

16.12.2025 23:20 👍 223 🔁 108 💬 10 📌 4
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IT'S A WRAP! ✨ @chadtoprak.bsky.social & I have de-installed Traces of Play at Footscray Community Arts. With over 40 game contributions, we want to thank everyone who played/contributed a game, our workshop participants, the exhibition curators, producers, artists & FCA staff. 💛

📸 Yi Li & Thuy Vy

17.12.2025 06:24 👍 23 🔁 2 💬 2 📌 1

Excellent reporting from Daniel on the Meanjin saga

17.12.2025 05:29 👍 71 🔁 28 💬 0 📌 0