If you’ve found your way here, welcome. Whether by curiosity, coincidence, or through digging into the stranger corners of Australian history, I hope you enjoy your stay.

My name is James Ball, a Creative Media Generalist with a long-standing fascination for folklore, lost history, unexplained events, and the strange spaces where fact and fiction begin to blur together. The Boulderdash Times is an ongoing world-building and creative writing project; a growing archive of fictional investigations, fabricated documents, historical oddities, and interconnected narratives inspired by Australian landscapes, culture, and mythology.

What began as a small creative experiment gradually evolved into something much larger: a sandbox for storytelling, visual development, immersive media concepts, and experimental production workflows. Many of the articles, case files, and materials throughout the site are intentionally designed to feel discovered rather than written. Fragments of a larger hidden history waiting to be pieced together.

The site also serves as a personal exploration into evolving creative production techniques. From digital art and animation workflows to emerging AI-assisted tools, The Boulderdash Times functions as both a narrative project and an ongoing creative experiment documenting new approaches to storytelling, world-building, and modern content production.

A special thanks goes to my partner Tash for enduring endless drafts, late-night idea spirals, and countless works-in-progress while continuing to provide invaluable feedback and edits. Thanks also to smith.smyth for proofreading support, and to Tim Moore, historian at Boulder Town Hall, for offering historical insight and helping ground aspects of the project in authentic regional history.

And finally, thank you for taking the time to explore this strange little archive.

I hope these stories, mysteries, and collected fragments encourage you to look a little closer at the landscapes around you; and to wonder how many stories have simply been forgotten, buried, or deliberately left untold.

The investigation continues.

For investigation leads, collaborations, general enquiries, or simply to say hello, you can contact me at: jamesballanimation@gmail.com

If you’d like to view some of my previous professional and creative work, you can also visit: www.jamesballanimation.com