Josefina Huq
@josefinahuq.bsky.social
writer + researcher of play + place!
🙃 josefinahuq.com.au
🙃 josefinahuq.com.au
The @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social team should feel super proud. I reckon a perfect post-MIGW game that makes you want to put down the controller and flee to the nearest body of water (in a good way!)
REVIEW // Letters to Arralla
Letters to Arralla is a wholesome and cheeky Australian-made experience
Read: www.well-played.com.au/letters-to-a...
Letters to Arralla is a wholesome and cheeky Australian-made experience
Read: www.well-played.com.au/letters-to-a...
October 19, 2025 at 1:32 AM
The @lil-pink-clouds.bsky.social team should feel super proud. I reckon a perfect post-MIGW game that makes you want to put down the controller and flee to the nearest body of water (in a good way!)
Super stoked to be included here (for the second time!) and would like to draw particular attention to the coverage of Palestinian Voices in Games 🍉 by @ignasvieversys.bsky.social
October 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
Super stoked to be included here (for the second time!) and would like to draw particular attention to the coverage of Palestinian Voices in Games 🍉 by @ignasvieversys.bsky.social
These AI scraped summary blog posts of a recent piece are killing me dead
October 13, 2025 at 10:37 AM
These AI scraped summary blog posts of a recent piece are killing me dead
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Respect to anyone who took time out of MIGW or Fringe to attend this week's demonstration
bsky.app/profile/dave...
bsky.app/profile/dave...
Massive crowd in Melbourne/Naarm today (in case you thought this movement was going to be placated with more colonisation). Until the occupation ends. Until Western war criminals and their enablers face justice. Until Palestine is free.
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Respect to anyone who took time out of MIGW or Fringe to attend this week's demonstration
bsky.app/profile/dave...
bsky.app/profile/dave...
Killed the final boss of PAX (the cringe that tells you not to buy a dagger)
October 12, 2025 at 6:45 AM
Killed the final boss of PAX (the cringe that tells you not to buy a dagger)
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Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?
"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…
Story by Josefina Huq.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-play-exploring-gaming-through-tactility-phys…
October 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?
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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
October 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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
Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?
"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…
Story by Josefina Huq.
➡️ https://www.superjumpmagazine.com/material-play-exploring-gaming-through-tactility-phys…
October 6, 2025 at 11:33 AM
Another lovely bunch of smart and creative people let me ask them the hard-hitting question; what if play, but not video game?!?
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
October 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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!
My board game 📦 FRAGILE 🃏 will be playable at the next ACMI WIP night !
October 1, 2025 at 1:14 AM
My board game 📦 FRAGILE 🃏 will be playable at the next ACMI WIP night !
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From 'Fairy Bred' by Elizabeth Tan. Read more: bit.ly/3IcxhHu
September 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
From 'Fairy Bred' by Elizabeth Tan. Read more: bit.ly/3IcxhHu
ACMI Game Worlds unsurprisingly good + important
September 21, 2025 at 4:34 AM
ACMI Game Worlds unsurprisingly good + important
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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-...
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
September 12, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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-...
www.acmi.net.au/stories-and-...
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General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️
Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺
www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25
Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺
www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25
September 16, 2025 at 2:02 AM
General tickets for Parallels 2025 are now on sale 🎟️
Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺
www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25
Speaker and playable showcase line-up on our website 📺
www.freeplay.net.au/parallels25
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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
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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September 16, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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
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
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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 💛🔥
September 2, 2025 at 6:20 AM
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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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 💛
July 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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 💛
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 💛
July 22, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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 💛
YES! YEEESSSSS !! glad to see people I admire doing nice things !!
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.
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.
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July 18, 2025 at 2:20 AM
YES! YEEESSSSS !! glad to see people I admire doing nice things !!
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!! 🪨
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/...
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
June 27, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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!! 🪨
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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/...
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
June 27, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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/...
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/...
I am still so in love with this game
June 25, 2025 at 11:36 AM
I am still so in love with this game
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"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."
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...
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/
June 18, 2025 at 5:33 AM
"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."
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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
June 15, 2025 at 9:20 PM
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?