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

We had the remarkable @gamefiend.bsky.social keynote talk about intersections of hip-hop and TTRPGs!!

WOW! Just finished the first panel of #GerationAnalog and I'm overwhelmed of the quality of their presentations. @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #MarcLajeunesse @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social #ThomasBrandstetter #ValerioMoccia #Zoheb #MargareteJahrmann

#GenerationAnalog 2025 Bingo Card by PB Berge, featuring citations of: @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social @edmondchang.bsky.social @saraahmedfav.bsky.social @megueyb.bsky.social @lumpley.bsky.social @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #StayAnalog

Opening panel is LIVE Punks, Politics, and Power Examining eco-games and how games model agency and resistance. #GenerationAnalog2025 #StayAnalog

Let's gooo Generation Analog time! #StayAnalog

My timeline is healing.

Did you miss #GenerationAnalog2025 "PUNK" this year?? Nah, you got this. Register and JOIN US later today from 8:45 am until 7:45 pm EDT. www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...

#GenerationAnalog2025 "PUNK" is this week! Thursday, July 17, online! Registration is free & required for online event link: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...! Session times are all Eastern Daylight Time (EDT)/GMT-4. Brought to you by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social & #GameinLab

"Generation Analog" is a wonderful free and online conference organized by the great folx at @analoggamestudies.bsky.social - this year the theme is "Punk!" and it will be on July 17, 2025. Sign up to attend and find more info here! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

Find your way to our excellent Generation Analog 2025 online conference with the topic of PUNK, next Thursday July 17th *all day*. FREE to all! Program and registration here: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

"I take the idea that PbtA is a game engine [that] embodies feminist principles of platform design and provokes digital game engines to incorporate human input and computation in new and different ways." This is a truly fascinating piece! Read more at: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social

We love to see an @aabria.bsky.social citation by the splendid @edmondchang.bsky.social :

Happy #FourthofJuly! Happy belated #Pride special issue of @analoggamestudies.bsky.social: "Queer Analog Game Studies" -- analoggamestudies.org -- feat. four amazing essays & my introduction "Be Queer, Do Games: An Introduction to #QueerAnalogGameStudies" #analoggamestudies #queergames

Our Queer Analog Game Studies Special Issue is now LIVE. Kaelan Doyle-Myerscough on PbtA as queer platform, Brandon Blackburn on solo journaling games, Susan Haarman on queer domesticity in Yazeba's, and PB Berge & Percy Hornak on lyric games and trans life. Check it out! analoggamestudies.org

#GenerationAnalog2025 "PUNK" is a little over two weeks way! Thursday, July 17, 2025! Don't forget to register for this free online conference: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameinLab #analoggamestudies #gamestudies

Join us please!

Come PUNK with us!! July 17th is Generation Analog 2025 "PUNK" with keynotes by @aarontram.bsky.social and @gamefiend.bsky.social A full day of analog games scholarship and design thinking from around the world. Register NOW: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...

We congratulate Yazeba's Bed & Breakfast on its 2025 Origins award for Best RPG Core Product. Check out Jay Dragon's keynote speech for Generation Analog 2024: youtu.be/7k4_xVZpSBc?...

And FEAR NOT: past Generation Analog talks are available on YouTube on @analoggamestudies.bsky.social channel, including past keynotes: Scott Nicholson @bdavewalters.bsky.social @elizhargrave.bsky.social Anna Westerling @dreamwisp.bsky.social @jeeyon.bsky.social Jessica Hammer @jdragsky.bsky.social

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social GENeration Analog conference does not miss on its keynote speakers! Check out past keynotes (and all presentations/panels) at YouTube.com/analoggamestudies