Back from the excellent "Games and game studies beyond postmodernism" conference in Konstanz and felt inspired to blog up some ideas on metamodernism from my book, Beyond Happy: profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/metamodern... Metamodern Meta-Ethics: How we learn to float in the postmodern abyss.

Sam Amiotte-Beaulieu reviews Paco for AGH. A gorgeous free small-scale adventure about a tiny clown with a lot of heart adventuregamehotspot.com/review/4999/po…#indiegamem#adventuregameme

@gamesbeyond.bsky.social was a great conference with two extraordinary keynotes from which I learned a lot. I was very happy to present my recent work on dialectics in video games and look forward to a possible collective volume. Congratulations to @nattgoo.bsky.social et al. for organising it.

The first day of presentations here in Konstanz is about halfway done with the first day. It's fantastic to be together in a cohort that is aligned directly with my research experience

Gonna start referring to productivity software like people talk about video games. "Oh yeah Google Docs is a Cloud-bases Word-like." "Trello is a Lanestyle Jiracore Tasklike" "Only weaklings need to use a Pomodoro to get through Sheetstyle work."

We’re thrilled to welcome Sonia Fizek (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences) as a keynote speaker at #GamesBeyond! 🌍 Don’t miss her talk “Caught Between Distant and Planetary Play” 📆 5 Sept. 2025 | 11:15–12:30 | Y311, Uni Konstanz

We’re delighted to announce that Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo) will be joining us as a keynote speaker at #GamesBeyond! ❔ Don’t miss his talk “What is the question to which metamodernism is the answer?” 📆 4 Sept. 2025 | 9:00–10:30 | Y311, Uni Konstanz

STRONG poster! 😍 Keynotes speakers: Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo) & Sonia Fizek (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences). For more info: www.gamesbeyond.org #gamestudies #gamedesign #gamedev

The #GamesBeyond conference programme is now LIVE 🎉 Explore the schedule and latest updates here: www.gamesbeyond.org/programme. Come join us in beautiful Konstanz for these incredible talks!

Games with endings, or games that end, preferably single player and of a reasonable length (short!) = the best kind of games. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/18/a...

Texting with my college roommate from back in '03

happy gone girl day to all those who celebrate

Me: I have not written for weeks. I am a failure, a wretch, a nothing. I have lost my way. I am squandering my one precious life. Abandoning myself. All is darkness. All is despair. Me: *writes 500 words, discovers life is worth living again* Me, 4 hours later: okay but what if the book is bad

Women like women too, officer. Try not to fixate on this. Let's move on.

Try to be a kind person in the world. After that, be a mischievous ghost that haunts historic theaters, or a vengeful sea witch who stalks windswept shores, or something cool like that.

TFW you decide to learn a language by writing a novel in it

"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future." Ray Bradbury

no worries, I can still finish this book in time, all I need to do is write approximately 16,000 words a day