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Hugh Davies

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Artist, Curator, Media and Games Researcher www.hughdavies.au

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Press Start Journal @psjournal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Open Call for Papers 2026🥰📢 Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by Dec 4, 2026, for a potential spot in our 2027 issue! More details below in this thread👇 #CallForPapers #GameStudies
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Leah Dungay @leaheline.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Are you at @londongamesfest.bsky.social tomorrow checking out New Games Plus? If yes, come and have a chat! I'll be upstairs mezzaine with our Behind the Screens Project wanting to hear all about your gaming memories. You can help us shape our summer exhibition at @nvmuk.bsky.social 🎮✨️
Event space with one pink banner that reads 'Tell us your gaming stories, Learn More: thenvm.org/behind-the-screens' and one yellow banner that reads 'Hi, we're a unique museum where you can play,  explore and create videogames' and 'Come Visit Us: thenvm.org @nvmuk'Leah stands in front of a pink banner with the text 'National Videogame Museum' and  'Tell us your videogame stories'.
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PixelChark @pixelchark.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
The Dreams on a Pillow store page is live! If you want an emotional piece of Palestinian history, then please check it out! The team have been working really hard and are crowdfunding soon to raise more money to develop the game. Please wishlist 🖤 store.steampowered.com/app/4438850/...
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Dreams on a Pillow on Steam
From an award winning game designer, Dreams on a Pillow is a folk tale based on the true events of the 1948 Nakba. Play as Khadra, a young woman fleeing a massacre in this stealth-puzzle adventure gam...
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
Chinese DiGRA 2026 Call for Papers: Chinese Game Studies: Publishing, Platforms, and Player Cultures: 19–20 September, Wuhan; 15 May deadline. chinesedigra.org/call-for-pap...
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George Dunford @george-dunford.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
@hughdavies.bsky.social shared this Chinese made console which has an unknown providence. Was it a popular version of Pong? #FACT2026
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Adrian Hon @adrianhon.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Psst - over half the tickets have sold out in just two days! We might be able to increase capacity a bit but we’re limited by the number of GMs we can rustle up, plus the space itself… (More announcements about games coming soon!)
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Buy tickets – Jubensha Con 2026 – Theatre Deli
Jubensha Con 2026 – Theatre Deli, Fri 8 May 2026 - Sat 9 May 2026 - Join the world's first convention dedicated to English-language jubensha! Play jubensha games, learn from talks and workshops, and h...
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Will Stancil @whstancil.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
in case you're curious about how angry Minnesota is about ICE, it was -20 today
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Liz @lizbarr.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
The important thing is that, instead of tightening gun restrictions after the Bondi massacre, we made it illegal to talk about genocide.
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 20/01/2026
The first Parallels ran on a real budget of ~$800. The ten-day festival in 2015 ran on around $10k. That was sweat and tears of volunteers and me as director (never let me do a ten day festival again pls). But I’m sorry that’s just what Freeplay is. Freeplay is unprofessional, plan accordingly.
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Dan Golding @dangolding.com · 20/01/2026
On Freeplay itself: many of the people running it and on the board are good friends of mine, but (sorry!) I think I should say this in public: let Freeplay be unprofessional. It cannot be sustained if the director/s need a salary. Look around. How many cultural events beyond games have managed this?
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shivverz @siobhan.creature.love · 20/01/2026
Livid and extremely sad to see that the most important institution in Victoria's game culture couldn't get the support it needs to run, already making do with shoestring budgets and incredible amounts of thankless, unpaid work. I love Freeplay, I owe it everything, and I refuse to let its spirit die
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
First and most importantly is to recognise its legacy. Freeplay was the longest-running independent games festival in the world. It was one of the first dedicates spaces for the countercultural and political side of gamemaking.
Screenshot of a Tweet from Katharine Neil that say "Conference banner on the wall at the first #freeplay20 in 2004. "Innovation in the Field of Excellence" was a dig at the bullshit corporate themes that the Australian Game Developers' Conference used to go with every year."

The photo is a banner with "Innovation in the field of excellence" crossed out and replaced with "Freedom and independence in game development!"
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BURD @tezamondo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
i'm gonna run the Freeplay awards out the back of the bikeshed
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The Scales ⚖️ @shakethescales.bsky.social · 11/01/2026
Two headlines on the BBC website: 1. Iran protesters defy crackdown as videos show violent clashes 2. Thousands march and dozens arrested in Minneapolis protests against ICE The two most pertinent editorial word choices here are 'crackdown' and 'arrested.' See how this works?
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
First as Simpsons, then as farce.
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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 15/10/2025
kids teacher just sent this home as part of an assignment he's doing and i want to smash every computer at the school
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
lazy devs
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
I am intensely proud of my wife Yoko who has just had her book published! Next Wednesday, Yoko will be book signing at Kinokuniya in Sydney. Please book a seat and come along if you are in town. tinyurl.com/bdfxrs9z
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Colorado Socialist ☭🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍🌈 ♿ @leftwardswing.bsky.social · 21/08/2025
The Thai cover band you didn't know you needed in your life. Crank it! 😀 🎸
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Nick Feik @nickfeik.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Bendigo Writers Fest confirms that 59% of speakers withdrew. What an own goal. I hope those responsible for trying to silence writers are feeling good about themselves. Wrecked an important cultural institution.
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Resist 🕎🍉 @antizionistjew.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
Tel Aviv Anti-War Riots Riot police - most without identification tags and some masked - violently attack protesters and beat them, while their colleagues shield the actions with their bodies and stand in a ready-to-attack position
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GiGi Angel @gigiangel.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
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Kate Knibbs @knibbs.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
so so excited that we were able to excerpt Seth Harp's incredible new book, The Fort Bragg Cartel, which was one of the most jaw-dropping reading experiences I've had this year. www.wired.com/story/the-fo...
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The Rise of the US Military’s Clandestine Foreign War Apparatus
Seth Harp’s new book, “The Fort Bragg Cartel,” goes deep into the forming of the Joint Special Operations Command and its origins in the aftermath of 9/11.
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Meg Penvose Clark @megpenvose.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
If you have plans to attend the Bendigo writers festival as a speaker or participant, now would be a good time to loudly withdraw www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
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Writers festival requires ‘complete self-censorship’ over Gaza war, academic claims, as speakers withdraw in protest
Dr Randa Abdel-Fattah among those to boycott Bendigo writers festival, arguing she cannot appear ‘as a Palestinian’ due to speaker code
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Damon Young @damonyoung.com.au · 14/08/2025
Yeah, here’s a piece by @alexmckinnon.bsky.social: www.deepcutnews.com/p/authors-wi...
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Authors withdraw from Bendigo Writers Festival over anti-Palestinian 'censorship'
Festival organisers sought compliance with controversial definition of antisemitism that includes criticism of Israel
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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
Wow! Bendigo Writers Festival (15 - 17 Aug) is making guest speakers sign a last-minute agreement to not mention Israel's genocide of Palestinians. Writers who care about human rights are cancelling. Any writer/guest still thinking of appearing should seriously reconsider. Stand up! Refuse to comply
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 14/08/2025
This weekend as part of the IndieCade Festival, I will be discussing Alternate Reality Games (ARGs) in the Age of “Alternative Facts” with Michael Andersen and Celia Pearce. The event is online and in US/European time. www.indiecade.com/playablethea...
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Playable Theatre Symposium – IndieCade
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Outstanding words by Ge Zhang on Sino-Sinopessimism madeinchinajournal.com/2025/08/05/o...
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On Sinopessimism, or Junkies of Futility | Made in China Journal
This essay is written precisely so that it could be dismissed. —Paul Mann (1991: 141)   Gary Zhexi Zhang (2021) first coined the term ‘Sinopessimism’ as a speculative counterpart to Afropessimism, ima...
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💢Marx Was Right.🕊 @paulwalker44.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
Israel doesn’t want anyone to see this aerial photo.
Gaza.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 03/08/2025
Deadline extended! Following popular demand, we have extended the deadline for abstract submissions to the Video Games in Museums event in Shanghai this November. New deadline is August 12th. chinesedigra.org/934-2/
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Frederik Vanhoutte - Winterbloed @winterbloed.be · 31/07/2025
250731 Inclusions #GenerativeDice
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South East Asia Game Aesthetic @seagamethetic.bsky.social · 27/04/2025
"At the start of the rainy season, I climbed the stairs to the balcony, drenched, and saw a woman wearing a floral dress on the balcony amidst the heavy rain" that's what Arka describing while clouded his thoughts in Our Monsoon Balcony by Rakoratsu (Indonesia)
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New full length paper presented at the International Symposium of Electronic Art in Korea. Unearthing ancient genealogies of QR code design, this paper examines how these operational images can be read technologically , culturally, and prognostically.
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Axel Bruns @snurb.info · 07/06/2025
Can’t shake the thought that having all this matériel in DC and provoking anti-ICE riots in LA, Chicago, and gods-know-where would make a handy little setup for declaring martial law. Meh, it’s probably nothing. 😬
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Daniel J. Leahy @danieljleahy.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Assassin's Creed and other games are using historians to get their facts right, and a new study shows it's fostering an interest in history (via ABC News)... www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...
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Meet the historians making sure video games get their facts right
A new study has found that players who engage in historic games like Assassin's Creed or Age of Empires are driven to keep learning after they put down the controller. So historians are stepping up.
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Alex Koppel @arsduo.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Woof, what a thing to find in a book you're about to start reading (Stanislaw Lem's Solaris)
A book with this written in cursive: 

Dearest Sara,

Happy Birthday!

I'm so excited to share this book with you. It's one of my recent most favorites. 

Can't wait to discuss once you finish,

Love,

Ilyua
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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Today, children are taught about history’s worst crimes against humanity. We ask how the world could have possibly let them happen. Future history books will shame those who could have stopped the genocide in Gaza, but chose to enable atrocity after atrocity instead.
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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 02/06/2025
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South East Asia Game Aesthetic @seagamethetic.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
[Announcing The Hungry Ghost Festival - a Steam Festival] Celebrate the horrors from Asia and the world in The Hungry Ghost Festival! Game Submissions Form: forms.gle/E17Yw8nX7PyU... Content Creator Program Form: forms.gle/boXbVVfHj5Xn...
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Marked 35 student works then visited an insect museum.
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Ong's Hat @ongs-hat.com · 07/05/2025
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Something Bizarre Is Happening to People Who Use ChatGPT a Lot
ChatGPT "power users," or those who use it the most, are becoming dependent upon — or even addicted to — the chatbot.
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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珍寶海鮮舫沉船畫面模擬影片 CG動畫重現全船翻側過程 Sinking Jumbo floating restaurant at sea simulation
YouTube video by The Underground
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Dave@Not-Convention Recovery @sasuraiger.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
video games aren't political! *your switch 2 costs a suspicious amount of money due to recent bizarre developments in international politics*
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
A fascinating discussion with one of the authors of the new antisemitism definition being adopted by Australian university campuses. www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
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Defining antisemitism on university campuses - ABC listen
Amid ongoing campus protests, and in the wake of a federal inquiry, 39 Australian universities have agreed to a definition of antisemitism to be adopted on campuses nationwide. The definition declares...
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Shaun Mooney @mooneysart.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
More traditional stuff. Chunky retro tech PT 2!
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Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Do you make weird, artsy, short-form videogames? Or know someone who does? Check out this new zine project I've been working on (intended to kind of bridge poetry/academia/art world/indie games) - and consider submitting a game for the first issue! www.gamepoems.org
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Game Poems Magazine
Game Poems is an online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames. The videogame poem is a concept that challenges traditional boundaries betw...
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Hugh Davies @hughdavies.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Exciting new publication out this month in which I discuss the Japanese Virtual Influencer ‘Imma’ exploring her liminal presence between reality and imagination, virtual and actual, East and West, commodity and authenticity. Ping me if you want a pdf. shorturl.at/dION4
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GingerOfOz @gingerofoz.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I built a Playstacean!
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