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Douglas Wilson
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🎮 Mutazione, Saltsea Chronicles, Sportsfriends, JS Joust

🎓 Senior Lecturer (in Games)

🎭 Clown+Theater w/ @melmcglensey.bsky.social

🎙️ Co-host @ https://eggplant.show/

🌏 Naarm/Melbourne (by way of NJ/NY)

he/him
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Super excited to share that I will be attending @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town in December! I've heard such good things about the festival.

I'll be there giving a talk (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...) and exhibiting a new iteration of Canopy Co-op (doougle.itch.io/canopy-coop)
Photo of hanging PS Move controllers in a garage. The controllers are hanging by strings, glowing different colors (pink, yellow, green, white). A painted wall with test is blurry in the background. Photo by Nick Robertson.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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Y'all talking about egg games this week and I have yet to see one of you chuckleheads recognize the GOAT

(De Mol Belgie S11, Ep 3, 2023)
Screenshot from reality tv show De Mol Belgie. A group of people in pink jumpsuits sit laughing in the back of a truck. Their jumpsuits are covered in little pockets, many of which are filled with an egg.
October 31, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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A couple people guessed it, I used a level 0 item, Shovel Bite, then leveled up the Spade.

(Sadly, the Green hero reverted back to Red on the next loop. But I did get a lot of use out of Robot for a couple levels)

Level 0 items can be fun and situationally useful, don’t fully ignore them!
Screenshot of Slice & Dice, inventory menu. The item selected reads “0 Shovel Bite: Levels up into Spade”.
October 29, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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btw here’s a fun quiz for any fellow Slice & Dice sickos out there:

How did I get a Statue into Cursed Hyper in a Basic party layout?

(I was very amused by the trick that allowed this)
Screenshot from Slice & Dice videogame on iOS. A party consisting of Trapper, Fighter, Squire, Statue, and Jester face four enemies entering Fight 26.
October 29, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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November is almost here which means, the Bottlebrushes are popping off
Close up photo looking up at a bottlebrush with bright red blossoms
October 28, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Naarm/Melb!

We're still trying to adopt out these (bonded pair) beautiful, incredibly sweet (indoor only) cats. Finally got a formal listing via Maneki Neko Cat Rescue, get in touch if you know anyone interested and reliable.
www.petrescue.com.au/listings/114...
Two long haired grey cats lying on a bed, looking at the camera. The one closer to the camera is lying on a towel, the one at the back of the bed is lying in a blue cat bed. The bed is strewn with other cat beds and carriers, and a cat brush.
October 25, 2025 at 5:13 AM
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Naarm/Melbourne!

We are re-fostering these beautiful two cats (indoor only) and looking to adopt them (as a pair).

They are so so so sweet and we would have adopted them ourselves if we didn’t already have our own.

Get in touch!
Two grey and white fluffy cats on a carpet, the left one is on his back and had his eyes wide open, looking at the camera Two white and grey fluffy cats. The left one is on the ground, the right one is on a towel on a bed. Both looking upwards towards the ceiling.
September 18, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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Here's a nice photo of me and Melissa from Edinburgh Fringe, pre-show at Pleasance in our dressing room

(Photo by Jennifer Forward-Hayter)
Photo of Melissa and Doug in a dressing room, smiling at the camera, chairs scattered in the background. Melissa is on a stool in a white tennis dress, Doug is wearing a backpack and holding a laptop.
September 9, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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Layover in Ho Chi Minh City
Photo of urban walkway with motor scooters parked on sides and Vietnamese flags hanging on building sides, skyscraper in background
September 6, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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Melissa representing Team Australia here in the Meadows at the 2025 Clown Olympics (lol)
Group photo of six colorfully dressed clowns, in the park, smiling at the camera.
August 18, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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Hello from Edinburgh Fringe!

If you're in town, come see our new clown show! Until Aug 24:
www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...

Gameshow/videogame logic meets contemporary clown, with custom audio by David Kanaga.
Photo of Doug standing on the sidewalk, in sunglasses, next to a large show poster for "Mel McGlensey is NORMAL", featuring a picture of a huge zoomed in face and show text.
August 14, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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"Come along for a one-of-a-kind collaborative clown experience plumbing the depths of normaldom, as decided by you. Let's have a normal one, folks!"

www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...
Show poster, titled: "Mel McGlensey is NORMAL". Four award laurels at top. Photo is a zoomed-out full body photo of a woman in a white tennis dress, standing awkwardly and grinning at the camera. The background is entirely white and empty. Middle of the poster reads: "Stop the clown from being weird". Bottom of the poster reads: "Pleasance Courtyard Below, 23:05, 12th - 24th August, Presented by BRIGHTSIDE, Directed by Sharnema Nougar, Co-created by Douglas Wilson"
June 5, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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🎭 ANNOUNCING 🎭

Mel McGlensey is NORMAL

"Stop the clown from being weird"

a brand new @melmcglensey.bsky.social clown show, co-created by me and w/ live tech by me

Edinburgh Fringe
Pleasance Courtyard
August 12-24

Tickets here:
www.pleasance.co.uk/event/mel-mc...
Show poster, titled: "Mel McGlensey is NORMAL". Four award laurels at top. Photo is a zoomed-in face, eyes wide open and weird grin. Bottom of the poster reads: "Pleasance Courtyard Below, 23:05, 12th - 24th August, Presented by BRIGHTSIDE, Directed by Sharnema Nougar, Co-created by Douglas Wilson"
June 5, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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First time voting as an Australian citizen! (Frantically web searching Senate micro parties)

Greens, Socialists, let’s do this! Flip Wills, kick out the ALP ✌🏻
Photo of Doug, in sunglasses and Always Was jacket, thumbs up, schoolyard sun shade and sun in the background
May 3, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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Damn, I blew it at the end! The early loop is always the scariest part.

Still, proud to reclaim a spot in the Top 10 (imo Cursed Hyper is the best mode in Slice & Dice)
Screenshot excerpt from videogame Slice & Dice show high score list in white and magenta pixelated font. Cursed-Hyper, entry is for “doougles” at #6 at level 103.
April 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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One last gasp of warm weather this weekend, final boogie boarding session of the season at Torquay
Photo of Torquay Surf Beach, ocean and waves in distance, pine tree and beach goers on grassy hill in foreground Selfie of man in black wetsuit, ocean and surfers in immediate background, cliffs in distant background
April 12, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Beach by day, alt comedy by night, that’s Adelaide Fringe babyyy
Selfie of Doug in sunglasses and hat, one person on each side also jn the selfie, with beach and turquoise water in the background below Photo of Melissa and Ben on stage, audience in the foreground, blue mood lighting behind them. Melissa is pointing at an audience member.
March 1, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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Melissa got me this bouquet of Australian flowers for Valentines Day (from Bush, same place that did our wedding flowers)
Photo of bouquet of Australian native flowers, various bright colors, in a vase on a table. Wall decoration and bookshelf in background.
February 15, 2025 at 2:54 AM
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Yooo Boorloo what’s up, visiting town briefly for Perth Fringe 🎭😎
Photo of Melissa and Doug in sunglasses, hill and Boorloo Perth skyscraper skyline in background and blue sky
January 27, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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4th Round evening action at The Tennis! 🎾
Photo looking down at lit tennis court at Rod Laver Arena, crowd on all sides. Sunset sky, skyscrapers slightly visible behind the court
January 20, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Boogied too hard, wave snapped my board in half 😲
Photo of Doug in a wetsuit, on a broad beach, holding up a blue boogie board with a big white foam crack through the middle
January 11, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Blessed by this beautiful kookaburra on my first walk of the year
Photo of a light brown kookaburra, sitting on a branch, other trees in background
January 1, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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This certainly won't last long, 70 isn't a particularly good score, but I had to take the #1 spot in Cursed-Hyper in the new Slice & Dice re-balance, even if just briefly.

(Previous score submitting bugs just got fixed in a new 3.1.20 patch)
Screen shot Slice & Dice, leaderboard for Cursed-Hyper mode. "doougle" is in #1 position with level 70, submitted today on platform desktop. The next highest entry, from JexxMixx, is level 35, 4 days ago, on desktop.
November 24, 2024 at 4:50 AM
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Fun news: Sabby gallery is exhibiting our Game-a-Week undergrads' work on Saturday, Nov 23, 7pm-11pm in Collingwood

Lots of excellent games this semester, this is going to be a fun evening!
Poster image, with an anthropomorphic television using a yellow game controller. Poster reads: Student Game-a-Week Showcase 7pm - 11pm Sat Nov 23 Hangout and play local games made in only a week! 141 Victoria Pde Collingwood (not Fitzroy)
October 30, 2024 at 8:55 AM
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"Craft is a machine built to produce and reproduce ethical failures; it is a counterrevolutionary machine."

Fargo Tbakhi - "Notes on Craft: Writing in the Hour of Genocide"
proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/n...

Especially worth reading in light of all the ongoing USA newspaper crises.
Quote from the article: "Above all, Craft is the result of market forces; it is therefore the result of imperial forces, as the two are so inextricably bound up together as to be one and the same. The Craft which is taught in Western institutions, taken up and reproduced by Western publishers, literary institutions, and awards bodies, is a set of regulatory ideas which curtail forms of speech that might enact real danger to the constellation of economic and social values which are, as I write this, facilitating genocide in Palestine and elsewhere across the globe. If, as Audre Lorde taught us, the master’s tools cannot dismantle the master’s house, then Craft is the process by which our own real liberatory tools are dulled, confiscated, and replaced. We believe our words sharper than they turn out to be. We play with toy hammers and think we can break down concrete. We think a spoon is a saw."
October 26, 2024 at 2:16 AM