2020 Freeplay Digital Festival: Belonging
JUNE 10–14
Freeplay is the world’s longest-running independent games festival, located in Melbourne, Australia.
Established in 2004, the festival embraces the fringes, spotlights grassroots artists and game makers, and acts as a response to and critique of the status quo. For over 16 years, Freeplay has been exploring the vital margins of independent, alternative, and experimental games culture. The festival continues to champion artistic exploration and experimentation in games and play, and positions game making as arts practice.
Join us in June 2020 for a 5-day digital festival filled with online talks, panels, workshops, and more!
Latest News
Three big Freeplay events for 2014 and 2015
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_1q16NYfY Today we are super excited to announce not one, not two, but three big Freeplay events for both this year and next: On August 31 we're running 'Play By the Book' as part of the Melbourne Writers Festival 'LitHop' event. We're...
Well, we’ve got some announcements to make…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS_1q16NYfY Join us this Wednesday the 13th at 1pm AEST in our live Google Hangout for Freeplay's Lunch Launch, where we'll be announcing our upcoming programme of events! You can either just hit 'play' above on the embedded link at 1pm,...
New appointments for Freeplay heading into our 2014 festival!
We're really excited to announce today that we've assembled a new team for our 2014 festival. We've got journalist and academic Dan Golding on as our new director, and two new board appointments, in the guise of artist, writer and game designer Jess Kilby (of Pop Up...
Freeplay acknowledges the Wurundjeri & Boon Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation as the Traditional Custodians of the Lands upon which the festival takes place.
We pay respect to their Elders past, present, and emerging, and to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the wider community and beyond.
Sovereignty was never ceded, and this always was and always will be Aboriginal land.