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"The Midwest has always been a quiet powerhouse in game development.”

We’re thrilled to announce that Gordon Bellamy, Executive Director / CEO of the Gay Gaming Professionals and Director of Cinematic Ethics at USC, will headline MDEV 2025 as our Day 1 Keynote Speaker!

#MDEV #WisconsinGames

Thumbnail art for "The History of Chunsoft's Sound Novels" video. Shows a girl wearing headphones while reading a book. The English and Japanese words SOUND (音楽) and NOVEL (小説) are behind her.

!!NEW VIDEO!!

This time I cover Chunsoft’s Sound Novel franchise, a hugely important series in the history of Japanese video games that served as the progenitor to the visual novel genre and was a source of inspiration for all kinds of developers.

WATCH - www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9BT...

David Crane: „Wir wurden wie namenlose Fabrikarbeiter behandelt!“ Die Legende von Pitfall! – Teil 2: David Crane über seine dunkelsten Stunden bei Atari, die Gründung von Activision und ein Michael-Jackson-Spiel, das er nie machen durfte.

https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/david-crane-wir-wurden-wie-namenlose-fabrikarbeiter-behandelt/

#Activision #DavidCrane #Pitfall #Gaming #History

👁️ We have an opening at @redbarrels.bsky.social! 😱 We are looking for a Senior Gameplay Animator to join us, so if you love all things horror, now is your chance to make your mark in the #Outlast universe alongside our passionate team of animators!
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#Montreal #Hiring #GameDevJobs

Introducing Dr William Huber (he/him)!

He's a researcher, lecturer and writer focusing on the aesthetics of games, media, and software. He is the current associate professor of game studies at Falmouth University.

Hear from him & others at the 2025 Game Educators Symposium!

How to Draw When You Can’t Picture Anything: Glen Keane’s Story and the Phenomenon of Aphantasia - Animationclub School Glen Keane creates iconic animation but he can't picture anything in his head. Learn how he learn to draw even though he has aphantasia

Excellent reading for those artists, like me, who are "blessed" with Aphantasia, the lack of the ability to create mental images.

"I don’t draw because I see something in my head. I draw in order to see it."

animationclub.school/blog/how-to-...

Dive into the transformative impact of gaming during Melbourne International Games Week with two exciting events at our precinct. Gamer, educator, policymaker or simply curious about digital culture, learn why this growing industry demands serious attention → melbconnect.com.au/whats-on-at-...

Who bought EA? Here's what you need to know about PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners

EA is set to be acquired by an investment consortium comprised of Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund (PIF), Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners. But who are these investors?

www.gamesindustry.biz/who-bought-ea

Dog Eat Dog book with a teal cover and an image of a red pitbull sits on the keyboard of a black laptop. Text reads Listen to an interview with designer Liam Liwanag Burke NOW on Beyond Solitaire.

@beyondsolitaire.bsky.social just dropped a fantastic interview with @thoughtfulemoji.bsky.social on Dog Eat Dog! Listen here: https://bit.ly/3KoRmuW

Follow the BackerKit prelaunch page for the launch of Dog Eat Dog and more on Wednesday: https://bit.ly/4mE1Ncn

Dog Eat Dog art: Samuel Araya!

The tilesets I use have these animated doodads (trees and grass and stuff). To fake blowing in the wind, I made a little script to attach to each object that applies a random speed, duration, and pauses. It works surprisingly well.

#indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Home – Warhammer Conference Hello and welcome to Warhammer Conference – the world's first academic conference dedicated to all things Warhammer!

We are go! #warhammerconference #gamestudies #nerdlings

Ever thought about how video games mirror personal growth? 🎮✨ 
Much like leveling up a character, we level up in real life—learning, adapting, and becoming stronger with every challenge we face. 
Discover more in The Gamer's Journey—available now. 🌟 
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Call for Papers: “Vom Staat der Amazonen bis Praios’ Zorn – Die politische Ideengeschichte in der Welt von Das Schwarze Auge” von Lena Falkenhagen & Eugen Pfister  Zum geplanten Sammelband: Das Schwarze Auge war lange Zeit das bedeutendste Pen-and-Paper-Rollenspiel im deutschsprachigen Raum. Für viele Jugendliche und junge E...

Call for Papers: “Vom Staat der Amazonen bis Praios’ Zorn – Die politische Ideengeschichte in der Welt von Das Schwarze Auge”. Die @lenafalkenhagen.bsky.social und ich wünschen uns da schon länger einen Sammelband und freuen uns auf Eure Zusendungen. #GameStudies

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Exciting news! 🎉 Join us the night before GameSoundCon for a family-friendly event celebrating diversity in #gameaudio. All proceeds support creating an inclusive #gameaudio community. 🚀 Tickets coming soon—stay tuned! Everyone's invited! 🌟 #GameSoundCon #GADA #FCSL #GameAudio
#FamilyEvent

Just adding some tags to this symposium announcement! #larp, #gamestudies, #analoggames, #trpg

Why do some gamers invert their controls? Scientists now have answers, but they’re not what you think The phenomenal response to an article we published on this question led to detailed cognitive research – and the findings have implications that go way beyond gamers

Do you invert your controllers? Do you think about why? Well, someone did and published a research paper on just that.

#gamestudies

Journal of Sound and Music in Games | University of California Press

Out now: the latest special issue of JSMG (Volume 6, Issue 3) with a focus on "Fostering a Latin American Approach to Ludomusicological Research". Congratulations to all guest editors and authors! 🥳
#ludomusicology #gamestudies #gameaudio #vgm
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The academic papers!

At the welcoming keynote for the Conference of BIPOC Game Studies.

The Weird is present at the Conference of BIPOC Game Studies.

A close up of our display at the Conference of BIPOC Game Studies.

Last weekend was the first Conference of BIPOC Game Studies at the Strong Museum in NY!

A lot of great talks and networking about critical thinking in games. You can also download the book with all of the academic papers as a free pdf or purchase it here: playstorypress.org/books/procee...

Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis Is Reimagined As A ZX Spectrum Text Adventure "Of all the shops in Algeria and we had to walk into this one"

Indiana Jones And The Fate Of Atlantis Is Reimagined As A ZX Spectrum Text Adventure. (Repost)

Full Professor of Virtual and Augmented Reality at @uniklagenfurt.bsky.social with application deadline: September 28, 2025 multimediacommunication.blogspot.com/2025/07/full...

For everyone who wants to participate in a hackathon/game jam but is unsure how: This is your guide! ✍️

The #acmmm2025 hackathon invites everyone to join and create some awesome games that focus on health, AI, and LLM's acmmm2025.org/hackathon/ 🕹 🎮

Stay tuned for more on the hackathon ✨

Image for the BAFTA Games in Concert.

🎮 Join BAFTA Games in Concert for an epic night where game visuals meet a live orchestra. Experience music from Tomb Raider, Hitman, Baldur’s Gate, Cuphead, and Assassin’s Creed. 🎻

Tickets available now at liveconcert.games for January 31, 2026 at the Royal Festival Hall.

#BAFTA #TombRaider

Technical Sound Designer on Star Citizen and Squadron 42 at cloudimperiumgames.com (Manchester, 🇬🇧) "implement audio playback systems and maintain audio project setup" cloudimperiumgames.wd503.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/CIG_Gl... #gamejobs

Tabletop Train Jam 2025 A game jam from 2025-10-01 to 2025-10-30 hosted by Maggie Mahoney. Welcome to the Tabletop Train Jam 2025! We're back for a second year, because people asked for it! Just like last year, your goal is ...

🚂 One month out from #TabletopTrainJam and 27 creators have already joined! I can't wait to see what folks make.

🛤️ This month, I'll be highlighting some #ttrpg entries I love from last year's jam, to help get everyone in the creative spirit for this year.

🚋 Join us >> itch.io/jam/tabletop...

Game Studies: Aktuelle Calls for Papers (CfPs, CfAs) / neuester Call (September 2025): Diskurse, Dynamiken und Dissonanzen in Grand Theft Auto Dieser Beitrag sammelt ausgewählte Calls for Papers, Calls for Abstracts oder Calls for Proposals aus dem Bereich der Game Studies. Die einzelnen Calls werden nicht nur wiedergegeben, sondern die r…

Ein neuer Call for Abstracts aus dem Bereich der #GameStudies! Unter dem Motto "Diskurse, Dynamiken und Dissonanzen in #GrandTheftAuto" sind Beitragsvorschläge für einen interdisziplinären Sammelband erbeten. Einsendeschluss ist der 01. November. #GTA

Genauere Infos gibt's in unserem CfA-Überblick:

Gender of Game Designers: Board Game Geek Top 500, January 2025 A pie chart: 92% of the pie is Designed only by men. They made 461 of the top 500 games. 6% of the pie is Designed by a mixed-gender group. They made 28 of the top 500 games. 1% of the pie is Designed only by women or non-binary people. They made 5 of the top 500 games. Data are for January 1, 2025, using the names in the Designer field on BGG. Not shown are 6 games in the top 500 that have uncredited designers.

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6)
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One of the early Fairlight logo

Razor 1911 logo

Since there's been some interest in the early cracking groups, a lil thread with some info I had when speaking with people working in cracking groups in the 80s. 🧵
Some early members of Fairlight told me that cracking a Commodore 64 game took an average of eig

Get your controllers ready, kids! We're recommending Press Start to Play by Sam Gayton.
In this fast-paced, laugh-out-loud poetry adventure, Carnegie-nominated Gayton celebrates every kind of play—video games, board games, word games, even “feeling sad” games.
#NationalPoetryDay

Nearly a third of female gamers feel guilty about their hobby – new study Almost 60% felt that they do not play enough games to consider themselves a ‘gamer’ and more than 30% would be embarrassed to call themselves one.

‘Strikingly, even among women who spent more than five hours a day playing games, only 16% identified as a “hardcore gamer”. Our results suggest that many women feel excluded from video game culture’ #gamestudies theconversation.com/nearly-a-thi...

The Warhammer 40k conference matters more than you think - here's why The second ever Warhammer conference brings together academics from many disciplines - and gives me hope the global fandom can ascend.

I am talking at Warhammer Conference 2025 about polycrisis and Age of Sigmar! Really looking forward to this, but if you want to have a deep dive into accessible academic writing about Warhammer, check out Psychgeist of Pop Culture: Warhammer in my pinned post!

But I also have a second point...