Now that I'm back from holiday, I can finally properly promote our project podcast. In the first episode, @pachuki.bsky.social and I give a general introduction to the @snf-fns.ch funded Sinergia project @chludens.bsky.social! #GameStudies

Zurück aus dem urlaub kann ich jetzt endlich ordentlich Werbung für unseren Projekt-Podcast machen. In der ersten Episode stellen @pachuki.bsky.social und ich ganz allgemein das @snf-fns.ch finanzierte Sinergia-Projekt @chludens.bsky.social vor! #GameStudies

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 „Bridging Disciplines: Reflections on ReAnimate Summer School and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Digital Game Studies.“ Read the full article on our blog ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 In June 2024, a delegation from the Confoederatio Ludens project visited the Museum of Communication depot in Schwarzenburg, particularly to explore its computer hardware collections. Read the full article here. ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

What can go wrong with @pachuki.bsky.social and @eugenpfister.bsky.social on the mic? 😍

CH Ludens the Podast is here! 🎙️👾 In this premiere episode, hosts @eugenpfister.bsky.social & @pachuki.bsky.social present our project.

Friendly reminder that @pachuki.bsky.social and me have a CfP on gaming zines for you! #GameStudies

„Back from the Dead: Re-Animating Viruses of the Floppy Disk Era.“ How a piece of hardware from our GameLab in Bern kept a group of hackers busy at HUGOCON 2025 with a 40-year-old virus, and inspired a new dating method ➡️

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: *The case study of the game ’Ball Raider’* by Aurelia Brandenburg, Adrian Demleitner, Arno Görgen, Addrich Mauch, and Eugen Pfister. Full article here ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek 🕹️👾 is "Ilyad", a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up game from Ubisoft released in 1989. The game features large sprites, and the aim is to defeat enemies while controlling a spaceship. Have you heard of it? ➡️ stage.chludens.ch/ga...

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: LINEL – a Swiss Game Publisher – Part 2: Collaborations and Unreleased Games ➡️ found in our blog #archive: chludens.hypotheses....

A quick first glance at our HKB-UniBe Gamelab @chludens.bsky.social #GameStudies

Starting the Machine for our Design & Rhetoric Meeting with our colleagues from the HKB. @chludens.bsky.social

Nachtrag b: Die restliche Zeit in unserem @chludens.bsky.social of Gamelab hab ich u.a. genutzt um gmöglichst viele Spiele am Amiga auszuprobieren. „Ich bin Herzog Leto Artreides, Dein Vater“ 😂 #GameStudies

Back in our @chludens.bsky.social Bern Gamelab with my last additions from the East. Our collection keeps expanding beautifully thanks also to the work of @hekabeohnename.bsky.social et al. #GameStudies

New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

A #GameStudies CFP not from one but from two of my favorite colleagues: @pachuki.bsky.social anf @hekabeohnename.bsky.social: CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social focusinh on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters etc. journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga...

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek is “Rings Of Medusa” (also known as ROM). This strategy, role-playing, and economic simulation game was published by Starbyte Software in 1989. Have you heard of it? ➡️ stage.chludens.ch/ga...

Thanks to @hekabeohnename.bsky.social I was allowed to research a bit the history of the BRAVO for the historical context of our @chludens.bsky.social case study on the #BravoScreenFun

#FromTheBlog 📖 *The Feel of Sweaty Fingers* – the CH LUDENS team's first memories of digital games. How did we, as scientists, become who we are today? Where does our interest in digital games come from? Join us on a short journey to the beginnings of the CH LUDENS team ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek is “A Young Person’s Guide to Walking Outside the City”, a computer animation by Alexander Hahn (1983). It follows a small blue protagonist on a surreal journey through the countryside, which is full of strange events. Have you heard of it? ➡️ stage.chludens.ch/ga...

#FromTheBlog #archive #Repost: Back to April 2024, when we started "Collecting Historical Gaming Magazines“. You can find the full blogpost here: ➡️

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Wie entstehen gemeinsame Werte in einer Gesellschaft? Und was haben Geschichte und digitale Spiele damit zu tun? Tobias Nowak hat dazu @felixfelixson.bsky.social und mich für den Podcast zum „Handbuch Gameskultur“ interviewt. #GameStudies podcasts.apple.com/at/podcast/h... @gameverband.bsky.social

Diese Woche noch meine Lieben sammeln wir Vorschläge. Bitte verbreiten!

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: LINEL – a Swiss Game Publisher – Part 1: A complete list of LINEL’s games ➡️ found in our blog #archive: chludens.hypotheses....

Vergangenes Jahr habe ich mich mit Hiloko für @chludens.bsky.social Erfahrungen über Schweizer mediale Diskurse zu digitalen Spielen ausgetauscht! Ich hab mir die Presse angeschaut und Hiloko das Fernsehen: Exotik, Gewalt, Modernität und Sucht galore #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/4579

Jetzt ist auch auf meinem Blog verlinkt, wie @hekabeohnename.bsky.social und ich uns für eine gute Stunde gutgelaunt durch die erste #BravoScreenfun lesen. Pager! Techno! Lara Croft! spielkult.hypotheses.org/8627 #KritischeController #12 #GameStudies

Als vorzeitiges Weihnachtsgeschenk gibt es just noch die neue Folge KRITISCHE CONTROLLER! Darin geht’s um Psychiatrien, das unvermeidliche Clair Obscur und Das Schwarze Auge! Endlich kann @eugenpfister.bsky.social seiner Frankophilie frönen! 💙🤍♥️ kritische-controller.letscast.fm/episode/wahn...

Als erstes erschien der Versuch uns gemeinsam an die Ursprünge, Geschichte, Probleme, Erfolge des @akgwds.bsky.social zu erinnern und unsere Wünsche für die Zukunft. Von Alina, @hekabeohnename.bsky.social, @lhaasis.bsky.social, Tobias und mir. #GameStudies gespielt.hypotheses.org/8606 2/

This is the last #Repost from #FromTheBlog for 2025. With an impressive 16 blog posts, there are a lot of interesting articles to discover. Do you have a favorite? You can find them all here #Archive ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....#Repost#FromTheBlog#Archive're curious to see what next year will bring 👀✨

Aus gegebenem Anlass: Weil ich gerade an einer Vignette zu dem Spiel für unseren @chludens.bsky.social Sammelband sitze. #GameStudies

Inputing data for our upcoming database stage.chludens.ch for @chludens.bsky.social #GameStudies

Ich habe für @chludens.bsky.social auf unserem Blog mit Hiloko Kato über unsere Forschung und den Mediendiskurs zu digitalen Spielen im Schweizer Fernsehen und Print diskutiert. #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/4579

Endlich wieder mit dem @pachuki.bsky.social podcasten. #KritischeController Teil 13. Es geht um Psychiatrie in Digitalen Spielen, Clair Obscur und Ideengeschichte in der Welt des Schwarzen Auges- #GameStudies

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: Monsters, space, guns, and more in our case study about "Necronom," published by Linel in 1991. ➡️ Found in our blog #archive: chludens.hypotheses....

(Eugen Pfister / Police Quest 1 / 1.7.2016).

Und zum Abschluss dieses Threads: Für meinen eigenen Beitrag habe ich mir angesehen, wie der deutsche Spielejournalismus um 2000 an seine Grenzen kam, Die Sims überhaupt nur in der Logik von Spielemagazinen einzuordnen und zu besprechen. #GameStudies paidia.de/die-sims-und...

Adrian Demleitner and me did a little experiment on combining qualitative and computational approaches and analysed over 1000 covers of German gaming magazines in a blogpost that just got published on the @chludens.bsky.social blog. #GameStudies chludens.hypotheses.org/4520

#Repost #FromTheBlog #Archive 📖 Take a look at Beat Suter’s blog post about „Starbyte Super Soccer“ (1991), in which he writes about the dawn of German football management games. ➡️ Read more here:

At @chludens.bsky.social, we are currently working on a case study about the German games magazine Bravo Screenfun (1997-2009). I am looking specifically at how technology is explained in the Know-How section. What would interest you most here?

🚨New case study alert! 🚨 Our team in Bern took a close look at „GATE“ (1991), a Swiss, Gauntlet-inspired action game that reveals many interesting facts about the early days of digitalization. #GameStudies ➡️ Read here: chludens.hypotheses....

Der @eugenpfister.bsky.social und ich haben einen schönen kleinen Text zu KI, Ideologie und Popkultur zur aktuellen Schwerpunktausgabe der HKB-Zeitung beigetragen: hkb-zeitung.ch/artikel/kuen...

Über das Politische von Imaginationen der KI in der Populärkultur haben der @pachuki.bsky.social und ich diesen schönen kurzen Text für die HKB geschrieben: hkb-zeitung.ch/artikel/kuen...

#Repost #FromTheBlog #Archive 📖 This week, we're featuring a blog post by Aurelia Brandenburg and Adrian Demleitner. They discuss bare-chested men as protagonists and the depiction of violence in 1980s video games. Read the full article here: chludens.hypotheses....

That post and the dataset it's based on still remain one of my favourite little projects of the last couple of years, and it's been nice to see how well both have been received ever since publishing them! 💖 #GameStudies

#Repost #FromTheBlog #Archive 📖 @hekabeohnename.bsky.social discusses 'Print runs of German gaming magazines 1980–2000' and the important role that gaming magazines have played in gaming culture since the 1980s. Read the full article here: chludens.hypotheses....

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek is “Galaxus,” a shoot 'em up game from 1996 by Algomedia Studio. Have you played it? ➡️ swissgames.garden/ga...

Ob die Psychologen es mittlerweile herausgefunden haben ? (Der Bund, Band 145, Nummer 137, 15. Juni 1994 ) #GameStudies @chludens.bsky.social

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek is "Eliminator" (Linel, 1988), a shoot 'em up set on a multicoloured road. You are in control of a ship with a basic weapon, flying along at breakneck speed. Have you played it? ➡️ www.lemonamiga.com/g...