Noah Springer

The MiT Press GenCon booth with lots of books set up

Day 3 let’s goooooooo!!!! Don’t forget to stop by the @mitpress.bsky.social booth (269) at 2pm for @increment.bsky.social’s books signing for Playign at World. See you there!

Our first book to sell out!

Any of you weirdos at #GenCon2025? It's a good place to get @stuhorvath.com's book, MONSTERS, ALIENS, AND HOLES IN THE GROUND from @mitpress.bsky.social!

The first time Noah told me MIT had a booth at GenCon I confess I bluescreened.

Go read a book nerds!

The MIT Press booth at GenCon 2025. The picture shows stacks of amazing books for sale!

Alright, @mitpress.bsky.social is all set up for the first day of #GenCon2025! Stop by and get a copy of our Ennie nominated book, Playing at the World by @increment.bsky.social and come back on Saturday at 2 and get it signed!

The MIT Press booth at GenCon 2025. The picture shows stacks of amazing books for sale!

Alright, @mitpress.bsky.social is all set up for the first day of #GenCon2025! Stop by and get a copy of our Ennie nominated book, Playing at the World by @increment.bsky.social and come back on Saturday at 2 and get it signed!

Just saw someone reposting starter packs, and remembered mine! Check out some @mitpress.bsky.social authors here

I may never leave my room tbh

A jacuzzi in a hotel bedroom

My hotel room for GenCon has a jacuzzi tub in the bedroom with green tinted lights

The cover of the July 2025 issue of Unwinnable Monthly, featuring art of a humble town on an island with a bustling city across the water. Text at the bottom reads "Hometowns."

Every journey starts somewhere. July's Unwinnable Monthly features Giorgio Chiappa on videogame hometowns and @daytenrose.bsky.social on procgen in Shadows of Doubt. You'll also find our regular columnists exploring the topics close to their hearts.

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I want you all to know about the most perfectly curated playlist I’ve ever made, in all its agonizing glory

Peak Orthodontist Music - Unwinnable If you were being tortured by some dentist around the end of history, check out the Orthodontist Music playlist.

ICYMI: "I want to lay out the boundaries, the textures of Orthodontist Music."

@noahspringer.com defines the Orthodontist Music genre and collects it into one his most proudly-made playlists:

I want you all to know about the most perfectly curated playlist I’ve ever made, in all its agonizing glory

Book titled "QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" with 20% discount code 25AFLY2*

In 7 days (July 18), my book "QAnon: From Conspiracy Theory to New Religious Movement" is going to be published. It's grounded in 5 years of digital ethnographic work in QAnon milieus. I never thought my PhD research would be relevant 8 years after QAnon emerged.

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What a monumental achievement for such an important bastion (generally and for me personally) of game criticism.

Last month, Unwinnable turned 15 years old.

A third of my life has been spent maintaining Unwinnable as a place that publishes stories no one else will print.

So long as I am around, Unwinnable will be around.

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We're doing a lazy summer subscriber drive at the moment. We're over halfway to our goal of 100 new subscribers. That will pay for some cool new writers.

I think I have something like 1200 followers here? If all of you subscribed, boy, everybody'd get a raise. Wouldn't that be something?

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The cover of the July 2025 issue of Exploits, featuring "Puck on Top of a Column" (1914) by William Heath Robinson, black and white art of a puck sitting on an ivy-covered column. Text at the bottom indicates that this issue covers gore, Tribulation, The Liminal Zone, The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, Celeste and Jesse Forever and Hotel Dusk: Room 215.

Tread lightly in the Puck's garden -- there are tribulations and gore to behold. Enter the gate to get our micro-criticism.

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Trans Technologies Mainstream technologies often exclude or marginalize transgender users. Trans Technologies describes what happens when trans people take technology design in...

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New @unwinnable.com subscription drive goal, if we get 10,000,000 subs in the next hour we will bid for this.

I think the soundtrack from the second level of Mario may have forever altered my taste in music

Check it out! The book I edited has a cover now!

Oh yeah! Forgot to send that over to you

Run and Jump: The Meaning of the 2D Platformer How abstract design decisions in 2D platform games create rich worlds of meaning for players.Since the 1980s, 2D platform games have captivated their audie

When I wrote Run and Jump (direct.mit.edu/books/oa-mon...) I thought that airing my thoughts on 2D platformers would let me take some distance from the genre. Actually, it has only made me pay closer attention to new releases. So, I thought I'd share what I've seen so far this year.(1/17)

Flaxman Low Flaxman Low, literature’s first professional, full-time “occult detective,” i.e., an intrepid investigator who deploys the scientific metho...

I’m publishing this next Spring

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That Book Is Dangerous! In That Book Is Dangerous!, Adam Szetela investigates how well-intentioned and often successful efforts to diversify American literature have also produced s...

We're live at #ALAAC25! Swing by booth 2028 for swag and a first look at our Fall 2025 galleys, including "That Book is Dangerous!," an exposé on how well-intentioned efforts to diversify American literature have also produced serious problems for literary freedom: @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social

In my head, this is best read to the beat of Lil Jon's Turn Down for What

Oh I see! I do still wonder about when retro starts. Just played Alan Wake for the first time, and it felt a bit .. well, retro for lack of a better term