✊🏾🏳️‍🌈 Saffista, PhD📓🕹️

Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide Video Games, Literature, and Close Playing: A Practical Guide offers twenty-four case studies of mainstream and independent video games from Tetris to The Sims, Undertale to Animal Crossing: New Horiz...

Looks like we finally have a cover... (we were limited in what we could select/do in terms of stock image/template...this was a decent option...) #VideoGames, #Literature, and #ClosePlaying is out in November! www.routledge.com/Video-Games-... @routledgebooks.bsky.social

As a content creator, all I ask is that you watch all my content from start to finish within the first 48 hours, like and comment, and then watch it a second time with a VPN. It's not an unreasonable request!

POV Saffista’s lap with a mint green comforter, two cats, a Nintendo Switch 2, a DK amiibo figure, and the LogitechG G522 headset in black.

Unexpected summer surgery sucks, but what doesn’t suck is being able to recuperate with my 2 snuggle bunnies, Donkey Kong Bananza and my new favorite LogitechG headset, the G522, with the LED lights set to match my joycon accent colors. They sound great and are super light! #ad

My mother demands this every time she visits. Usually it’s with my kiddo as the stream this time since I had taken over the game room for surgery recovery I got roped in. 😳

July 27th Welcome back readers. We’ve got a big issue for you this week. If you appreciate our weekly/monthly/annual work keeping abreast of important and interesting critical games writing, give our P…

This week: Twenty five pieces spanning censorship, porn games, media artifacts, historical game studies, writing advice, and much more:

critical-distance.com/2025/07/28/j...

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

Go read the intro! ❤️ And then read/view my Magic Colonizer Fingers™️ piece!

We do have good ice cream too. 🤣

🦥 HIRING 🦥

We're looking for a freelance Senior Game Designer for something new!
🔹 10-month contract, remote
🔹 5+ years exp
🔹 Create quest designs combining gameplay designs and story beats and balance gameplay elements

Apps close Aug 13. Apply!
innersloth.bamboohr.com/careers/32

Ours has the Butcher Block. Their pork patties are top tier…their politics, not so much.

YouTube video by Saffista Magic Colonizer Fingers: On the Theft of Culture in Shadow of the Tomb Raider

My piece "Magic Colonizer Fingers: On Whiteness, Womanhood, and the Theft of Culture in Shadow of the Tomb Raider" just went live in @femmediahist.bsky.social and on YT!

WATCH 🙏 & SHARE it widely.

Article: online.ucpress.edu/fmh/article/...

Video: youtu.be/Ptk9TZYKvEM

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Weird thing about me is that I will bug the shit out of academics for collabs, but I get nervous AF when I reach out to content creators to collab. I have been doing this for well over a decade (almost 2), but I still get butterflies!

I wanna collab with more amazing content creators!

A little better every day. Thank you. ❤️

I had to buy so much Lego to get it! It’s a racket! 🤣

Red Lego astronaut

Lego blue shell from Mario Kart

Haven’t been playing a lot of games while I heal, but I have been chipping away at some of my smaller Lego kit stash. Now to figure out what to start tomorrow.

Look at us up there with the other amazing @dames4games.org alumni! 🥹 What an incredible group! Go check out the event on Steam and support these games made by amazing women in #gamedev 🩷🩷🎉🎉

Support the things you like or watch them die

Shit. Most 1st year TT profs with whole ass PhDs in the humanities ain’t getting this bag. They want y’all to stay stupid and compliant.

Sam holding a newly freed copy of Donkey Kong Bananza for the Switch 2.

Never give up. 🤣

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Me currently looking for a hammer.

Yep…🤣

Donkey Kong game still in the locked security case.

Me: I really wanna play the new Donkey Kong game, but I don’t know if I’m up to driving yet after my surgery.

@motorespawns.bsky.social : Have it delivered!

Me: Bet!

Walmart delivery (no one else had it available for delivery):

I can’t think of a better example to show my students interested in community management! Thank you for sharing your knowledge! ❤️

Grabbing a copy of this to review for classroom use. This could definitely work well in my writing/communication in the games industry course! ❤️

Hell yeah! Congrats!

Permafrost?!? This looks right up my alley! 🥶❄️

Copy on image: We’re hiring! 
X1 Senior Audio Designer
X1 Senior VFX Artist The images colour profile is white and teal + the logos for both ‘Wylde Society’ & ‘Studio Drydock’

We're making an ambitious cozy game - can you help us, or know someone who can?

Open Roles
🔊 Senior Audio Designer
🪄 Senior VFX Artist

Folks from diverse communities, we'd especially love to hear from you!

Apply below ⬇️ Please share 💖
jobs.studiodrydock.com

Did anyone get the plate number on that Mack truck? 🚛

I appreciate you! ❤️

A screenshot of the no ice in California front page bundle showing it has made $37, 630 of its $50k goal

Might be a good time to remind folks of the No ICE in California itch bundle raising funds for the immigrant defenders law center (or you can donate to them directly) itch.io/b/3110/no-ic...