Hanging out at #SeriousPlay25 with my new teammates. We called ourselves Power Strangers and will save the world. Note by doing this we are set up to maybe win things! Yay

Are you interested in serious games? Join this free, hybrid conference happening June 6th! We got over 15 games, 8 speakers, and live designer interviews!! www.badgamearcade.ca/2025-pre-con... #seriousgames #educationalgames #edgames

Deadline to apply is soon!

Are you interested in Serious games? Educational Games? Learning Games? Or any other term around them. Come to the free, hybrid pre-conference event: Serious Game Arcade! In Montreal before the @cgsaacej.bsky.social conference, Come share, talk, and play. Full call: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Starting off the year with a new @theconversation.com piece with @scottdejong.bsky.social! We recap some of our industry research on gig economy #gamedev, using Fiverr as a case study. Global wage inequities, digital mediation, and devalued creative labour all undergird the platform's operations.

In 2022 @michaeliantorno.com and I asked what game design was like in the gig economy. We looked at the fantasy of the 5 dollar videogame and the makers behind them. Happy to share this conversation piece on our work. theconversation.com/how-gig-plat...

Next, @scottdejong.bsky.social & @michaeliantorno.com provide a fascinating account of precarious freelance game developers selling their services on Fiverr in "Game Design for a Fiverr: Precarity, Regionality, and Platform-Mediation in the Gig Economy" journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Publication day! @scottdejong.bsky.social and I wrote an article for Media Industries about game design practices on Fiverr.💸🎮 It's part of their "Local Digital Game Production" issue edited by Chris Young, Emilie Reed, and @brkeogh.bsky.social. journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Come see me (and all the awesome Concordia folks) next summer!

Bluesky, Today is my 2nd day on here as an escapee from The Bad Place. I am BEGGING y’all to repost this I have $80,000 in scholarship money to give away to women and girls NATIONWIDE. I worked so hard to raise this money. Applications open THIS week. I’m scared the mass migration will impact this

I am hanging out at CHI play 2023 talking about educational games. I might have caused some tension when I quoted Jaako Stenros who told me, "Fun is overrated". Seriously though, fun is a crutch to effective design (imo).

🎮Free Event for anyone interested in Disinformation and Games!🎮 Next Friday, I will be running a workshop going over my research on designing, running, and making a disinfo boardgame (Lizards and Lies)! Feel free to join - aodnetwork.ca/monthly-camp...

I'm not surprised, just sad. But also the fact that videogame streamers/tubers are becoming part of mainstream political commentary and discussions on intersectionality reminds me how critical game studies is. www.forbes.com/sites/conorm...

Anyone else got a word that they like so much they use all the time in their writing? For me lately, it has been "obfuscate". Such a fancy way to hide things. 🥷☁️

So Sea of Stars 🌟.... I should play it right?!? It looks so pretty!

I feel like its really struggling with its identity.

Late night panel at #GenerationAnalog2023! Talking with @marclaje.bsky.social about Homebrew and table top roleplaying games :D

Who on earth thinks that an X is cooler than a bird?

🦎Happy to say that as of today, my boardgame about disinformation is now available in French! Pour mes amis français, c'est ici - https://www.thegamecrafter.com/games/lizards-and-lies-french-

So, I'll be taking vacation soon. This time, I'm staying home and playing games. Any suggestions of must play summer games? Board, video, anything in between. Just looking for something fresh.

👋Hi! I'm Scott! I make games and study games about disinformation. I love a good meme, puffins, baking, and getting existential about play. Game - https://www.lizardsandlies.ca/ Website/blog - https://www.scottbdejong.ca/ Recent Papers - https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=9puMhRAAAAAJ&hl=en