Amazing work by students in UCSC's game design capstone! Several of my former students were on this team and I'm so proud of them.

he’s so me

I wish more Escape Rooms would have credits for the artists, writers and designers that brought the game to life, just like movies, theater, and games. This could be part of a end-game experience, a poster in the lobby, or recognition on the web site. Recognize creative work!

I'm studying how game genres have been adapted across media (e.g. board game Cantaloop is advertised as a paper point-and-click game). Can anyone recommend work about how genres are adapted between media? Like if genre tropes of Western novels carried over into Western films.

when workers make record profits, execs are rewarded with massive bonuses and payouts for guiding company vision when economic pressures produce difficulty, workers are punished and execs are lauded for canny stewardship rotten. my heart goes out to everyone laid off.

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#makeagamejam february 2024 is live and the theme is announced!

ROMchip Presents: Jaroslav Švelch on Player vs. Monster. Join us Friday, March 8, 1pm, as ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories hosts Jaroslav Švelch on his recent book, Player vs. Monster: The Making and Breaking of Video Game Monstrosity. EST, twitch.tv/romchipjournal.

#makeagamejam march 2024’s theme is announced! lost in the library

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I don't think I got enough credit when I arranged a medley of songs from Battlestar Galactica (composed by Bear McCreary) and called it "Bear's Beats: Battlestar Galactica"

bad news for game scholars

I'm excited to announce that I have just started a new job as the curator of board games and puzzles at The Strong National Museum of Play! I would love to continue working with game scholars and historians, so please feel free to reach out.

Congrats to everyone at NFSA National Film and Sound Archive of Australia who worked on this study of the state of game preservation efforts around the world. It was good to collaborate with them and have chris arneil present the results at the Save the Games conference at The Strong Museum abc.net.au/news/2024-08-2…