Our program for #GenerationAnalog2026 is now available! #GameInLab #StayAnalog analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

I’m not saying I’m flying home in time for Generation Analog but I’m not NOT saying it. Free! Virtual! Kind to as many time zones as humanly possible! The coolest kindest Discord community in all of TTRPGs!

Please join us! I will be there as well 🔥💚

For the late crowd: YOU are invited to attend our free, 100% online conference Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN" on July 15-16. Keynotes from Alenda Chang (Playing Nature) and Matteo Menapace (Daybreak), as well as dozens of high-quality talks. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...

Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN" Conference Registration open: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... -- free to attend, registration required! July 15 & 16, 2026, feat. keynotes by Alenda Chang & Matteo Menapace! Full schedule forthcoming! #StayAnalog! w/ @analoggamestudies.bsky.social & #GameinLab!

It's still jaw-dropping to see all our @analoggamestudies.bsky.social journals light up in the library databases, with DOIs and everything! This one's my 2023 interview with @lincodega.com during that period when D&D chose to torpedo itself. doi.org/10.5070/V7.4...

HEAR YE, HEAR YE: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Volume 10, Issues 1-2 (2023) are now available on AGS's eScholarship site, starting with Issue 1: escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... #analoggamestudies #gamestudies

NEW DROP: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Volume 11, Issues 1-4 (including the #LatinAmericanRPG special issue) are now available on AGS's eScholarship site, starting with Issue 1: escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... #analoggamestudies #gamestudies

NOW WITH DOIs: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's Volume 12, Issues 1-4 (including the #QueerAnalogGameStudies special issue) are now available on AGS's eScholarship site, starting with Issue 1: escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... -- more back catalog coming soon! #analoggamestudies #gamestudies

Generation Analog 2026 acceptances and non-acceptances went out yesterday by email, so please double-check to see if you've received yours. If your work wasn't accepted, keep in mind that our acceptance rate this year was 58% and some years it's been less than 40%. You have (good) competition.

The wonderful thing about this year is that you'll now begin to see our *previous years'* AGS issues populating the new site as we finish the process of adapting them. For example, here is last year's special issue on Queer Analog Game Studies, ready to read: escholarship.org/uc/analoggam...

New platform, same great content! Come check out our new e-scholarship site!

We have moved to a more stable platform this year, and our back catalog will migrate there as well. Here's to solid ground in turbulent Internet seas (eg, Wordpress in 2026). escholarship.org/uc/analoggam...

Back from the verrry first issue of @analoggamestudies.bsky.social analoggamestudies.org/2014/08/post...

I want to mark the occasion that it was 20 years ago when I first met @brennanrtaylor.bsky.social running the @ipr.bsky.social booth at @originsgamefair.bsky.social in Columbus, OH, and he ran Mortal Coil for Kat and me right on the spot. IPR was and remains the vital future of TTRPG distribution.

For those interested in the academic research of role-playing games, we have just released our latest issue of the International Journal of Role-Playing (17!). 221 pages of work, all for advancing knowledge about this medium. journals.uu.se/IJRP/issue/v...

A long read from me today, about the delicate task of designing respectful historical board games. Massive thanks to @amabel.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social for talking to me about their design approaches. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...

#GenerationAnalog2026 "GREEN" CFP EXTENSION to Sunday, March 8, 2026, by end of day! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies

Last day (though tomorrow sometime is fine, too) to submit an abstract for #GenerationAnalog2026! This year's theme is "GREEN." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies #analoggames #greengames

#gaming the past And Part I is here. If you're interested in the mechanics of historical games and how they represent different different levels, meta-levels, and models of history, I suspect you'll find our dialogoge quite interesting. @vinicius-marino.bsky.social plays 3D chess on these topics!

We want to hear from YOU! What's GREEN in analog games? Submit your pitch for #GenerationAnalog 2026 by March 1st!

We want to hear from YOU! What's GREEN in analog games? Submit your pitch for #GenerationAnalog 2026 by March 1st!

March 1st is the upcoming submission date for our summer 2026 Generation Analog Conference. This year's topic is "Green." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

First newsletter of the year is a revised version of a keynote I gave for Generation Analog (run by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ): Thinking of a Master Plan: Hip Hop, TTRPGs, and the Power of Imaginative Defiance: thoughtcrimegames.beehiiv.com/p/thinking-o...

Our December issue is now available! Postcards from the 2025 BIPOC Game Studies Conference Getting in Good Troubles with Mancala — Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Joseph M. Bayeck, and Olu Randle Defining the Miniatures Wargame: Five Pillars — Ian Williams Check it out: analoggamestudies.org

A December reminder to submit to #GenerationAnalog 2026! Deadline is (only) three-ish months away on March 1: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... :) @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameInLab

This weekend, put on some amazing talks from the summer as you figure out that "work-life balance" thing. #GenerationAnalog #StayAnalog youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social 12.3 is out: analoggamestudies.org feature essays about transmediation and Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Tabletop Simulations as Museums, Leveraging Contingency in Taskmaster and in Mental Health, and a review of Around the World in Eighty Games #analoggamestudies

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available! Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games. #StayAnalog analoggamestudies.org

Analog Game Studies had a strong showing at The Strong -- We held a roundtable about our origins and what an open-access, curated, BIPOC-centered academic games journal looks like.

There are MANY journals in analog game studies, & journals that publish on AP! And you're in luck: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social virtual conference Generation Analog are on YouTube, where designers and academics and more share their insights and hang out together: www.youtube.com/@analoggames...

The website is restored and up! Go read your fave article and maybe a new one? analoggamestudies.org

It's grant-writing & course prep season for many of us in the analog games community, which of course means that AGS would be taken offline by a substantial cyberattack, depriving us all of crucial scholarship for our proposals and syllabi. We are working to restore the site as quickly as possible.

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has its own Wikipedia entry now! Woo! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_... #GameStudies #BoardGames #NerdyAcademics

I referenced a "purple breakdancing book" in my keynote for the conference run by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ... Edmond found the book and sent it to me. Overflowing with gratitude and emotion to have this piece of my childhood. Thank you!!!!

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

Fresh off of @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's #GenerationAnalog2025, I wonder what'll be on the docket for @MoPOP's "Your Turn! Roll the Dice. Build the World. Make Your Move." www.mopop.org/events/table...

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...

Just so happens that @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's #GenerationAnalog2025 was all about #punk #hope #community: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... The synergy is real... Superman Soars, Brimming with Hope and Punk Rock mycomicrelief.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/s... #supermanispunk #kindnessispunk

Missed Generation Analog 2025? Want to revisit a panel or lecture? Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

This was really fun. Thanks for having me! Really loving the community around this conference and the other talks and panels that are happening. Y'all should definitely join.

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

Generation Analog was very good and I am deeply ashamed that I forgot to promote it in my newsletter.

Generation Analog 2025 was amazing, as it was last year! This year I contended myself to be just a spectator, but I will hopefully be back speaking there again in the future! Thank you @analoggamestudies.bsky.social for this gift of a conference. STAY ANALOG, GAMERS! GET EXCITED, NERDS!

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has been VERY quick, so if you missed the live panels and keynotes, all of the conference recordings are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now:

This is your (and my) chance to catch up with the excellent panels at Generation Analog 2025, the free online conference organized by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social on July 17. Click on the link below! www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #analoggamestudies #generationanalog2025

We had an amazing PUNK conference yesterday and the videos are already up thanks to the talented team @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #StayPunk #StayAnalog❤️🎲❤️🎲❤️🎲❤️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has posted videos of the panels from the latest Generation Analog conference: www.youtube.com/@analoggames...

Now we are learning about Play, Punk, and Pedagogy on this remarkable panel! #GenerationAnalog2025 #StayAnalog