New article out! 🎮🚨 I explore hegemonic and counter-hegemonic forces in video game receptions of Greco-Roman mythology, considering whether the contrast between conservative and progressive depictions maps onto the similar distinction between AAA and indie games. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Ah yes...the steam sale is tmrw...ill be doing that tmrw afternoon instead with 10hr Wii shop music. Hope yall enjoy me selecting more indies!

talking sex, actual play, and barmaids (yes, really) with @t0mm7.bsky.social at this delightful romp of a conf next month!

um actually gotta be the only trivia show that approaches the correct ratio of animorphs questions to non-animorphs questions

if i speak.

headed to #DiGRA2026 in Maynooth to present these two delightful talks with some lovely people 💕 come find me!

It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social

new lit review wrangling game: 10 points every time a seminal digital games scholar uses theater or performance as a guiding metaphor without acknowledging theater and performance studies as a field. i have roughly one billion points

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

it's that time of year again...are you a historical videogame player living in the Netherlands? do you want to contribute to player-focused research on past-play? come sign up for a gameplay session so i can watch you 👀 for science! check out edu.nl/cd849 to learn more 🏛️🎮⚔️🎲

i know he's likely not a good king. if he was, the serpent and the lava wouldn't be in his castle. perhaps I'd use the final moments before my final match 3 to convince him to abdicate his throne and allow for a more equitable government to take his place. but i wouldn't let him die

There’s a lot of talk (rightly so) today about courses in high demand being marginalized/downplayed/cancelled, that the humanities in particular are very “cheap” & high ROI comparatively. I do want remind us that justifying “what matters” via revenue generation is what got us here in the 1st place.

it's getting really crowded up in this alley of mine

Hello all! If you're an Australia-based ttrpg designer looking for support to finish your first ttrpg, then have j got good news for you: 🎲 The ARC TTRPG Mentor Program is back for 2026! 🎲 We have 4 mentee spots open, so follow the link to submit your EOI! forms.gle/DgVQNrGuxVrF...

seeing as how i was forced by the train schedule to abandon what was to be my last stream, it's only fair that my Actual last stream be something a) suitably grandiose for the sendoff and b) train related. so, naturally, skyrim.

A new collection added to Exhibit:Play 👀 Deciphering Languages Featuring games from @inkle.co, @rundisc.bsky.social, @kevindu.itch.io, @playismen.bsky.social @lizardrydev.bsky.social and more. 11 games in total and always on the lookout for more.

so much fun to talk painted plywood histories in games yesterday. if you're ever worried people aren't going to listen to your talk, try slowly pulling a prop knife out of the bag at your feet as you speak. works wonders! (firewatch bg unrelated)

day one of our authenticity ouroboros workshop with no context @playfultimemach.bsky.social

it is so rewarding to do research that lets me have insightful conversations with players all over the world, but it is also so demoralizing to have people sign up to take part in a focus group, indicate their preferred timeslot, accept that timeslot, and then ghost on the day

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01 A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format. Thanks for playing and sharing!

kind of charmed by my weather app calling the part-sludge, part-hail, part-snow situation a "wintry mix". like a spice blend that breaks your tailbone

gang, this will be my first and last stream of the spring semester, so if you're overdue for your dose of vitamin yap, come get it while it lasts! we're talking lore, worlds, and what makes a good yarn this thursday over at twitch.tv/streamingthepast 🧶📚🔮

it's me. the surprise character in Avengers Doomsday is John Darnielle from the Mountain Goats. I murder half the Avengers with my sick rhymes but you have to see the movie to find out which ones

spending christmas eve writing a call of cthulhu session to be played at midnight on new year's. i cannot beat the luckiest guy alive allegations

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Sorry there is no more room in the bandwagon

come hang out with us tomorrow! we'll be discussing digital drip and (inevitably) talking shit about dress to impress 🕺

we're still looking for respondents on this survey! are you a player of historical videogames with 10 minutes of free time on your hands?

switcheroo alert‼️question and reading* are staying the same this afternoon, but we're playing Tavern Keeper by @greenheartgames.bsky.social 💚 *Crafting is So Hardcore: Masculinized Making in Gaming Representations of Labor, c/o @annetropy.bsky.social @anasalter.bsky.social @melstanfill.bsky.social

such an honor and a joy to be included in this volume, talking (inter)disciplinarity in historical game studies and the importance of putting "current" methods in context. ain't no party like a @times-new-roman.bsky.social @docrandom.bsky.social cowriting party ‼️

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

it's my birthday (for 6 more minutes) so here is the cake i made and ate with loved ones after a screening of chicago (2002). all of this is a brag im the luckiest guy alive!

This is FATAL for the true sickos.

yapping like it's my job (it is my job)

every video game is just a different type of gay bar

Last session is under way! We begin with @copperkeerthi.bsky.social discussing Hamlet in the Hypertext!

getting weird @ #TIPC4 this afternoon, and we're streaming all of today's wonderful programming over on twitch.tv/streamingthepast! come hang out at the event of the season 🎭🎮💀

it's been such a delightful month for my e-reader. i love when words

this thursday i will attempt to hold off my deeply unprofessional tirade on crowdfunding in indie game dev for a generous 15 minutes. stream is 2 hours though so you will absolutely get to hear it

I wrote something new for History Respawned today. It's a review of a new book about Red Dead, but it's really about academic writing and historical game studies as a field. Please read, but also know, I really really really really REALLY didn't want to write this review.

Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years! It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship. #GenerationAnalog2025 #StayAnalog www.youtube.com/@analoggames...

talking actual play, sex, and comedy futures at #GenerationAnalog2025 next week!

that's a wrap on #DiGRA2025. ft. stellar conversations, great food, and my pronoun sticker minigame, which i am tentatively calling "I MEAN--"

voor iedereen die op tweetalige skeets hoopt, blijf hopen

must a conference talk be "good"? is it not enough to sit somewhere with ac and see a beautiful font, huge?

so stoked to be at #DiGRA2025, with an interactive discussion on trans/gressive utterances for the Queer/Trans Game/Studies workshop and a presentation on my pilot study to rep @playfultimemach.bsky.social 🎮🎲

It's finally done!📝 In this blog post, I apply my theory of an archaeological gameworld mental model to Blue Prince, and argue that half the fun of the game is in what happens off-screen: florencesmithnicholls.com/2025/06/03/d...

We're proud to announce that Possum Creek will be publishing LAST TRAIN TO BREMEN by @seaexcursion.itch.io. Four doomed musicians flee from the devil in this dramatic RPG, soon to be available in print for the first time! bit.ly/bremen_bk

got to nerd out with @miriammthsn.bsky.social on all things labor, aesthetics, and method recently 😌 take a listen: