Miguel Sicart
@miguelsicart.bsky.social
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Play scholar, among other things
A bit of self-indulgence, but this is a life goal achievement: one of my books in display at Llibreria Finestres in Barcelona.
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Michael Frei 🪰
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«I’d rather the full game give the feeling of being “a little too short” than “a little too long”. I hope that when I face death, the same is true of life.»
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A few weeks ago we run a new conference, Playing Futures (
playingfutures.today
). Scholars and creators from 4 continents (!) met in Copenhagen to discuss play and games and climate and energy. I am happy to announce that the proceedings are live:
www.youtube.com/channel/UCfH...
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Playing Futures
Playing Futures is a conference about the role of games and play during and after the impending climate and energy catastrophes. The goal of the conference is to serve as a meeting point for the commu...
https://playingfutures.today
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Friends! I’m happy to announce that we have two more talks available at the Center for Digital Play YouTube channel! (1/3)
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The Making of Zen and Slow Games - a talk by Victor Navarro Remesal
YouTube video by Center for Digital Play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyW5CHjqnpg
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The World Cup starts tomorrow. I love football, and I have a few things to say. (also, we wrote a book:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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The Laws of the Game | A Game Studies Book about Soccer | Miguel Sicar
This book applies theories, methods, and concepts from game studies to soccer. This is a game studies book about soccer that studies the rules and design of
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003636762/laws-game-miguel-sicart-bo-kampmann-walther
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Elisa Mekler
27 days ago
Our team recently read a bibliometric analysis of Games & Culture papers (
doi.org/10.1177/1555...
) – and it's iffy, to say the least. The paper makes all kinds of claims about the journal's influence on game studies – and there's hardly any analysis that would support this ...
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120251413955
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So, is done, and I am happy and exhausted and ready to start planning Playing Futures 2027.
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2026 :: Playing Futures Conference
https://playingfutures.today/conferences/2026/
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So, is done, and I am happy and exhausted and ready to start planning Playing Futures 2027.
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2026 :: Playing Futures Conference
https://playingfutures.today/conferences/2026/
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to all my friends and enemies and acquaintances at IO Interactive: congrats on launching First Light!
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Bo Kampmann Walther and me wrote a book about football, and we're presenting it! Friday the 29th at 16:00 in Auditorium 4 at the IT University, you can learn more about our book, and you can hear two academics' predictions for the Champions League final!
en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Pr...
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What can game studies teach us about soccer?
A new book co‑authored by ITU Professor Miguel Sicart examines soccer through the lens of game studies, analysing how rules, interpretation, and play shape the world’s most popular game.
https://en.itu.dk/About-ITU/Press/News-from-ITU/2026/New-book-about-the-game-of-football
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Final day of Playing Futures: a workshop with Patrick Prax on Systemic Sustainability: what is meaningful sustainability in and through games.
about 1 month ago
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Closing keynote: Patrick Chuang on What is and what is not possible in a society without fossil fuels
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Seventh talk(!): Bart Simon, Darren Wershler, Rosie MacDonald, Shahrom Ali, and Maia Earl on We have never been ecomodern
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Sixth talk: Patrick Smith on Sandcastles
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Fifth talk: Cindy Poremba on M*55 (picture by Rune Nielsen)
about 1 month ago
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Expect play in play conferences! (Testing a Mycelium network-creation game)
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Fourth talk: Adrián Brito, Debashee Chatterjee, and Ilana Mallak on The Unknown Realms of Mycelium: Mycelial logics and more-than-human in critical board game design
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Third talk: Matteo Menapace on Daybreak: a possitopian game to imagine post-capitalist futures
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Second talk: Heather Kelley and Marie LeBlanc Flanagan on Grow Still: A Game Poem
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Playing Futures continues today! Day 2 starts with Niva Kay and Sustainable Futures in Videogames Toolkit
about 1 month ago
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Seventh talk: Paolo Ruffino on Videogames in the Anthropocene: Rethinking the scalability of play
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Sixth talk: Alejandra Rosales-Diaz & Aida Navarro-Redón on Playing Displacement: The Aesthetics of Climate Mobility in Video Game Futures
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Fifth talk: Elle Fieggen on Striving for Tomorrow: A Study of Agency in Post-Catastrophic Videogames
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Fourth talk: Udbela Escanero Xi on Sentient Others at the Edge: Precautionary Play in Ecocritical Games
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Third talk: Violeta Moldes-Rivas from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, on Growing up in the post-apocalypse. Coming-of-age imaginaries of ecology and climate crisis in Horizon Zero Dawn and Caravan Sandwitch.
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Second talk: Hajo Backe on The Paradox of Scale: Stellaris and the (Im)Possibility of Transcending Anthropocentrism Let’s read Stellaris from an eco critical perspective!!
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First talk, Steffen Dalsgaard on Twin transition and other kinship metaphors (What do we mean about “twin transition” and the intersection of the digital and climate futures)
about 1 month ago
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Gearing up for Playing Futures (https://playingfutures.today)
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Elisa Mekler
about 1 month ago
Do you make games? Do you study or teach games? Do you create videos or blog about games? -- What theories or ideas help make good games? -- Share your opinion in our 10min online survey w
@dooleymurphy.bsky.social
&
@florencesn.bsky.social
res58.itu.dk/limesurvey/I...
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With a bit of delay, I want to highlight a couple of journal issues where I have some texts. The issues are great and you should read them in full!
about 1 month ago
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Anders S. Løvlie
about 1 month ago
Off to Oslo to help out with this event. Looking forward to being reborn in XR
www.munch.no/hva_skjer/at...
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Återfödelsen/Rebirth
Bli en del av et unikt forskningsprosjekt og opplev XR-verket «ÅTERFÖDELSEN / REBIRTH» av Silvana Imam og Paula Strunden
https://www.munch.no/hva_skjer/aterfodelsenrebirth2/
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Friends! Registration for our conference Playing Futures (
playingfutures.today/conferences/...
) will stay open until Wednesday May 13th at 23:00 Copenhagen time:
miguelsicart.limesurvey.net/589896?newte...
(you don't need to have a paper accepted to attend!)
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about 1 month ago
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Hilo larguísimo! (versión en English más abajo) Nuevo libro: acaba de salir publicado Jugar en el fin de un mundo. El libro está publicado en la colección ludografías de Shangrila Ediciones:
shangrilaediciones.com/producto/jug...
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Jugar en el fin de un mundo
MIGUEL SICART
https://shangrilaediciones.com/producto/jugar-en-el-fin-de-un-mundo/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
Novedad: La colección Ludografías llega a su nº 8 con el libro más atrevido y libre que hemos publicado hasta ahora: JUGAR EN EL FIN DE UN MUNDO de
@miguelsicart.bsky.social
Una alegría enorme tener este texto valiente y provocador con nosotros.
shangrilaediciones.com/producto/jug...
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about 2 months ago
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! DEMO OUT
about 2 months ago
Carnage Infernational Featuring:
@cybrlich.bsky.social
/// Michael Overton Brown ///
@strangescaffold.bsky.social
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@direkris.itch.io
/// Playables
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Friends! You may have heard that Bo Kampmann Walther and me have written a game studies book about football:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
Well, we’re going to do a book presentation!
miguelsicart.net/football_book/
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The Laws of the Game | A Game Studies Book about Soccer | Miguel Sicar
This book applies theories, methods, and concepts from game studies to soccer. This is a game studies book about soccer that studies the rules and design of
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/10.1201/9781003636762/laws-game-miguel-sicart-bo-kampmann-walther
about 2 months ago
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Registration for our conference Playing Futures is now open! Register here:
miguelsicart.limesurvey.net/589896
Some notes: entrance is free, there are limited seats, and we will not be livestreaming. Also,we're running this with a skeleton crew, so apologies if things are not smooth and professional
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about 2 months ago
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Friends! New book announcement! It’s finally out! Bo Kampmann Walther and me have written The Laws of the Game: A Game Studies Book About Soccer, and now you can buy it:
www.taylorfrancis.com/books/mono/1...
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Florence Smith Nicholls
2 months ago
Next Monday I will be presenting our paper "Video Game Archaeology as Hauntological Practice: A Collaborative Autoethnography in Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree" at
#chi2026
! The preprint is available to download here:
kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/en/pu...
#archaeogaming
#archaeology
#hci
#gamedev
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Klaatu Barada Nikto
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The acceptance/rejection emails for Playing Futures have been submitted. We have accepted 13 very interesting works by junior and senior scholars. I look forward to hosting the conference and learning from all this wonderful people!
3 months ago
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Max Haiven
3 months ago
Join us at the
@claptoncfc.co.uk
clubhouse on Sunday for the finale of my (exhausting) 2 month Billionaires & Guillotines board game tour (pub by
@plutopress.bsky.social
). Organized w.
@gamestransformed.bsky.social
and kicks off the 2026 game jam: SMASH THE FASH
www.tickettailor.com/events/rival...
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Leon Xiao
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We'll host a conference on the convergence between videogames and gambling in late September 2026 in Hong Kong. 🇭🇰🇨🇳 Call for papers:
tinyurl.com/thegamblingcfp
Let’s think “outside of the loot box.” Abstract deadline: 26 June 2026 Results notification: 20 July 2026 Conference: 28–29 September 2026
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Gam(bl)ing CfP.pdf
https://tinyurl.com/thegamblingcfp
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404 Media
3 months ago
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
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This Web Tool Sabotages AI Chatbots By Making Them Really, Really Slow
Artist Sam Lavigne created ‘Slow LLM’ to make people question their dependence on tools like Claude and ChatGPT. Or at least, make them super annoying to use.
https://www.404media.co/this-web-tool-sabotages-ai-chatbots-by-making-them-really-really-slow/
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Daniel Bellingradt
3 months ago
I have an idea for academic publishers: why not do the "10 Euro each book campaign" that Palgrave did once? Your book prices are ridiculously absurd.
#academicchatter
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Mike Cook
3 months ago
I've written a book! Next Level: Making Games That Make Themselves is the story of procedural generation - the tech behind games like Minecraft and Dwarf Fortress. It's about how it works, the games that use it, and the art and magic behind it. Out May 7th, in bookshops:
linktr.ee/next_level
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Copenhagen friends, I need a bit of help: I have to find a venue that can host around 80 people in late May, preferably affordable. I just need the space, no need (nor budget) for catering. Suggestions here in the open or in DM. Thanks!
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Friends! Game designer and scholar Max Haiven is visiting the ITU on Friday, March 20th, at 15:00:
digitalplay.itu.dk/event/max-ha...
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What are antifascist games? Political imaginaries and collective agency beyond Nazisploitation - a talk by Max Haiven | Center for Digital Play
What are antifascist games? Political imaginaries and collective agency beyond Nazisploitation - a talk by Max Haiven
https://digitalplay.itu.dk/event/max-haiven-talk/
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meghna jayanth
3 months ago
all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging
@nogamesforgenocide.com
— it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft
"We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/indie-deckbuilder-all-will-rises-dev-joins-no-games-for-genocide-boycott-and-plans-to-hand-back-funding-it-received-from-microsoft/
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