How did we as scientists become what we are today? Where does our interest in digital games come from? Join us on our blog for a short autobiographical journey through the ludic beginnings of the CH LUDENS team. #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/2467
2024 and back on our quest. Gotta Catch ’Em All! This time we got the old Atari setup of a musician, among which a monochrome monitor and a SyQuest 44MB drive, as well as a large private floppy collection.
#VideoGameHistory #VideoGameStudies #CHLudens
We were prominently featured in this comprehensive recap of Jean Frédérics of the Wikidata’s WikiProject Video games for 2023 <3
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Each Monday at 9 am, discover the Swiss game of the week! Today: Planet Blupi (1997), an adventure game made by Daniel Roux (Epsitec) Learn more and play here: planet.blupi.org Played it? Know other Swiss games? Let us know! #SwissGameOfTheWeek
Each Monday Morning, discover the Swiss game of the week! Today: Der Schatz im Silbersee (1993), a graphic adventure game made by Linel & Cybervision. Learn more: swissgames.garden/games/der-scha… Played it? Know other Swiss games? Let us know! #SwissGameOfTheWeek
In his 5. essay on the Lausanne 'Computer' trade fair, Pierre-Yves Hurel looks for digital games. Here again, the dichotomous attitude of professionals becomes apparent: Frowned upon as unproductive pastime but later instrumentalised as an attraction.
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Awesome 😍! First business cards at the team ZHdK bi-weekly on-site meeting of our SNF Sinergia project CH Ludens
Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia) team ZHdK #digitalgames #swissgames #digitalheritage #swissgamedesign
Die Geschichte digitaler Spiele zu erforschen bedeutet auch, ihre Diskurse in Magazinen zu erforschen. Dazu werden wir eine physische Sammlung von deutschsprachigen Spiele Magazinen anlegen, die in den 80er/90er veröffentlicht wurden. chludens.hypotheses.org/2395
Aurelia Brandenburg
Dans le quatrième volet de sa série sur l'exposition 'Computer' de Lausanne, Pierre-Yves Hurel aborde de manière critique la focalisation des organisateurs sur un public 'professionnel' et la peur de la 'foule'. chludens.hypotheses.org/1826 #DigitalHistory
Pierre-Yves Hurel
On Thursday morning, Noah from Radio Bern - RaBe was with us in the Gamelab at the Universität Bern to interview Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺, Arno Görgen and Addrich Mauch about our project and record original sounds from #Necronom . #GameStudies
While writing an article for BBC Future Media, Chris Baraniuk wanted to get a researchers' perspective on dealing with floppy disks. He reached out to Adrian from our team after reading his text on doing historical research on that obsolete media.
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Last Wednesday our teams from Bern and Lausanne met at the 🚨 L'UNILGameLab est devenu le GameLab UNIL-EPFL ! for So Bemel-s lecture on the #Smaky (with Pierre-Yves Hurel, Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺, Y. Rochat and A. Demleitner). #GameStudies
Each Monday Morning, discover the Swiss game of the week! Today: Neverending Story II Arcade Game (1990), a a platform game made by Michael Tschoegl (Linel). Learn more: mobygames.com/game/528/the-n… Played it? Know other Swiss games? Let us know! #SwissGameOfTheWeek
Our 'Friendly Reading Salon' was today in session. Together we read and now discussed Laine Nooney's 'A Pedestal, A Table, A Love Letter: Archaeologies of Gender in Videogame History' hosted by Aurelia Brandenburg this time.
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Auch Aurelia (Aurelia Brandenburg) ist in der Bande sehr aktiv. Sie hat Geschichte und Digital Humanities studiert und forscht u.a. als Doktorandin bei Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia) vor allem zu Gender und (Geschlechter-)Geschichte von/in/mit Digitalen Spielen.
Eugen Pfister Eugen Pfister 🇪🇺 and Adrian Demleitner presenting the DACH database of games in Deutsches Literaturarchiv Marbach for a bold start into the third day of the conference Games & Literatur. Bern team of Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia)
