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Grez

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I’d pay to see Austalian figure skaters dressed in their flannies and gracing the ice to our traditional music

Pic of The Angels in 1976 singing Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again

February 13, 2026 at 8:58 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

The public loos at the small Victorian town of Yarragon, midway between Melbourne and east Gippsland
artist Matthew Thompson (Ling)
#streetart #urbanart #Gippsland

June 2, 2025 at 9:09 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

monster in a courtyard behind a cafe
Foz, 2021
#streetart #westernNSW #BrokenHill

street art mural of a cute monster, on the rough cement wall of a small shed

May 20, 2025 at 3:45 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

Molochus horridus (Thorny Devil)
a super spiky looking desert lizard all in colours of orange, brown and tan
(from Australia, go figure)
actually tho the spikes are quite soft

May 6, 2025 at 10:38 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

( #indiegames I saw at #PaxAus)
I don't know if anything I say could adequately encompass a city built on a spacefaring Sky Whale. Looks gorgeous, release date in 2025. By new Zealand group @balancingmonkeygames.com, reviewed on www.rockpapershotgun.comm

game artwork of a huge craggy dark interstellar Sky Whale, outlined against the red-gold light of a sun in deep space. The whale has a town built on its dorsal surface.

May 5, 2025 at 11:44 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

(#indiegames I saw at #PaxAus)
#Tavernkeeper
So business sims are a thing? I'm done with farming and peasant towns, I'm gonna have a pub. Customisable filth & flammability! Looks like it's got humour, characters, and character.
By
@greenheartgames.bsky.social, listed for 2025 release on Steam

Screenshot of design setting for the game's tavern. There's a blueprint/model of the pub building, ornamented with decor and sprites. To the right, a panel listing the building's customisable features : temperature, brightness, filth, noise, decoration, damage, and flammability.

May 3, 2025 at 12:20 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

Australian elections are so chill that it's a nationwide excuse to hold a sausage sizzle or cake stall at your local primary school
#democracysausage #Straya #vote

Clip from the Democracy Sausage web page, it's a map of Melbourne with symbols showing the polling booths where a community group is holding a stall on election day. The symbols indicate what's available : sausage in bread, halal option, vegetarian option, cake stall, coffee.

May 2, 2025 at 11:04 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

#Adelaide 's Botanic Garden is the absolute goods. We went there for the #Chihuly exhibition, which was exceptional, then went around the gardens afterwards and that was fab too. Adelaide is so great.
#art #glassblowing #sculpture

Chihuly glass sculpture, red and yellow, in a tropical garden

Chihuly glass sculpture, kind of like a huge bowl with a fluted edge, swirled red on the outside green inside. Or maybe it looks more like a giant clam. Or an enormous alien flower

Chihuly glass sculpture., peak-topped bubbles about the size of beach balls, floating in a pond. They are all shades of blue

April 30, 2025 at 11:00 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

mural in a parking garage, Adelaide
Jasmine Crisp 2022
#streetart #adelaidestreetart #Adelaide @jasmin_crisp on Insta

looking into entrance of a parking garage in the city

April 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

I have a dirigible
#Outlanders

Outlanders game screenshot, looking down from the night sky at a stylish red dirigible, the gondola beneath illuminated by its flame. It's aiming for the anchor mast far below: a wooden tower in a snowy landscape lit by a flaming beacon. There's a windmill as well.

April 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

Love the way the winter bunnies peep out of their burrows and adorably flop their ears. I mean, their whole purpose is to be trapped for meat and skins, but still cute.
#Outlanders #PomeloGames

very simple art style, scene of a winter rabbit peering out of its burrow, snowy ground, snow -covered pine trees

April 16, 2025 at 1:12 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

#boxing
#Brunswick
#Melbournestreetart
@paink_artist on insta

photo Black-painted exterior of a suburban boxing gym, finely detailed greyscale portrait: oblique face view of (I think) the young Muhammed Ali

April 12, 2025 at 10:27 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

Another one I liked at previous #PaxAus was Hissy Fit. It's a snake game: customise your danger noodle, wreck things, grow. Cute graphics; fun. Parents of little kids: this isn't Bluey. The playable beast chomps people and dies in cartoon-gruesome.
@hissyfitgame from
Panda Arcade

Cartoon image of imaginary beach landscape. A yellow snake of unlikely size is chasing some people.

April 12, 2025 at 6:37 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

always good things to see in the Kiwi area #PaxAus
Looking forward to trying Adaptory, sweet team crash landed in space, build base, survive and thrive
#indiegames
@stormcloak.games

2D pic, cute playable characters building an underground habitat

April 1, 2025 at 10:13 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

I'd like to think I'd relax with a game that challenges my brain or engages my emotions.
idk though after a stressy work day I'm all about cheap adrenaline thrills and whimsical humour
#crossyroad
*nearly gets squished by a parade float of dancing dinosaurs*

Theme park setting. Playable character is trying to cross a stream by hopping from log to log, while carrying an overloaded ice cream cone. It will not go well.

March 11, 2025 at 8:51 AM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

Another fine #indiegames I saw at previous #PaxAus : Dungeon Heart by @ghostmothhq.bsky.social
A post-life match-3 adventure with narrative and (possible) romance. Review checkpointgaming.net/features/202...

Clip from Ghost Moth webpage, 5 character portraits. The hopeful -looking skeleton is the player

March 5, 2025 at 8:55 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

the Kiwi rugby player and sheep 😂

pixel art image of New Zealand rugby player in a haka-like pose. He's wearing all-black sports uniform and waiting to cross a busy road. Sheep are looking at him.

March 1, 2025 at 9:29 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

I've been watching youtube 2024 #PaxAus omegathon & so encountered #crossyroad for the first time. Adrenalin!

Gamescape, character must cross a train track and a crocodile infested stream

February 25, 2025 at 10:24 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

continuing my pre- #PAXAUS reflection on cool things I've seen in previous years:
from Darwin, Salty Games studio's farm sim is a cattle station in Australia's Top End. I love the fine local flavour in the visuals 🐊Playtest recently concluded. On Insta @saltygamesofficial

A brown Australian landscape, 2-person helicopter flying & mustering cattle, POV behind helicopter

February 23, 2025 at 10:02 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

musk lorikeet mural
#streetart #streetartmelbourne
#northcote
@jimmy_dvate on Insta

mural of a green and red lorikeet, a building's industrial fittings nearby

laneway mural of lorikeets, artist's name visible : Jimmy Dvate 2019

February 22, 2025 at 9:18 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

continuing my pre- #PAXAUS reflection on cool things I've seen in previous years: Project Regolith
This two-player looked interesting but life happened to it, hats off to the sweetly frank devblog that laid out the hidden challenges in bringing home an ambitious project.
#indiegames #PaxRising

two stylish robots drawn in a palette of purple and sunrise orange

February 19, 2025 at 9:36 PM

Grez

@grez.bsky.social

as the #PAXAUS2025 hype bus winds up, I'm going to remember some neat things I saw in the last couple of years
First up -
Primordial Legends: Hollow Hills
from Toybox Studios
#combatwombat #indiegames
checkpointgaming.net/features/202...