Elisa Mekler

CHI writing trip back to ITU Copenhagen - whiteboard scrawl in my old office still untouched and evergreen in relevance.

I'm pretty sure some of you need to hear this:

Earthbound Doom

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Currently just three (big) levels, with more planned, but the foundation is all there.

Mashina is OUT NOW.

Dig and mend the world in this chill stop-motion mining adventure.

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YouTube video by All Nintendo Music "Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori" Music : 6 - Which Way's the Station

Played this years ago, didn't understand any Japanese. But the music always stuck with me: www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0If...

Famicom Bunko: Hajimari no Mori was released 26 years ago by PaxSoftonica via Nintendo Power. It's one of SFC's best-told stories, up there with Ihatovo Monogatari or Gokinjo Boukentai, and the great forerunner to Boku No Natsuyasumi. An English translation is urgently needed.

Really good article! Not only do women need much better representation in the medium, but also in the historical game niche (7%… that's pretty embarrassing). Women are a huge part of history, ya know 😀
I can affirm that Pentiment and Hob's Barrow are phenomenal, must-play games.
#Blutoid #VideoGames

The most exhausting thing about Game Studies *by far* is all the rampant Columbusing that happens, both within and beyond the field (like when someone outside the field fails to even mention prior work on a particular game...)

I'm watching someone play Space Quest IV, and I realize we need more adult adventure games where puzzles are solved via licking things, with custom animation reactions.

Platform-produced Heteronormativity: A Content Analysis of Adult Videogames on Patreon - Petri Lankoski, Thomas Apperley, J. Tuomas Harviainen, 2023 This article examines the prominent role of Patreon in the rapidly growing sector of crowdfunded pornographic games. Recent research has indicated that, on aver...

RE: the recent targeting of LGBTQ+ content on Steam and itch.io (see following tweet), our #OA article "Platform Produced Heteronormativity" outlines the restrictive self-regulation of platform-based gender and sexuality of adult videogames on #Patreon journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

the special issue is out! please read it and join the discussion — what do YOU think is critical his? have we missed a perspective? how can we grow, learn, and build together?

it’s an excellent set of submissions in two parts

The NSFW games ban currently hitting game platforms comes from the same kind of people that lobbied for UK bathroom bills and used to pilot police crackdowns at gay bars.
It's yet another proxy to force LGBT people and sex workers out. Let's not go down quietly.

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I feel this more than I care to admit. I think I now enjoy the idea of playing (most) JRPGs more than the actual activity.

a man in a suit and tie is sitting in a chair and talking to a camera . Alt: Gif from Twin Peaks. David Lynch (as Gordon Cole, Coop's boss) regarding trans agent Denise: "I told all your colleagues, those clown comics, fix your hearts or die!"

Wishing a life full of misery to every transphobe out there. Happy Pride!

Like a podcast? Share their episodes. Enjoyed a book? Pass it along to a friend. Love a YouTuber? Drop a link in group chat. Admire an author? Let them know with a message.

Creating can be isolating, but sharing helps these works grow and stay alive well past when they’re knocked from the nest.

The newest budget numbers out of NSF are... not good. We're looking at worse than worst case scenarios for U.S. research universities. That's in addition to all the other attacks. Every person w/ a word processer and an hour of time should be penning an op-ed to their local papers this weekend.

We love to see it! We need to see it! Practical, accessible, guidance on resisting the anti-trans narrative written with cis allies in mind! Share, read, and get loud!

Nice post and thank you for the shout out! Saturn is easily one of my favorite platforms.

Without a Dawn is now available on Steam and the reviews are awesome: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... Get your copy -15% off and support indie dev for making deeply personal games without compromises. Thank you! 😍
#visualnovel #steam #gaming #gamedev

24 Killers on Steam Explore a desert island full of oddities, transform into monsters you've rescued, collect mysterious spirits, and unlock mods that change up future playthroughs.

24 Killers is cuter than the title makes it out to be... but you do still play as an alien ghost puppeteering a human corpse.

Inspired by the classic 'anti-RPG' Moon, you're out to make weird monster friends, take selfies with them, and show the world your strange, cursed island isn't so bad really

Alien Squatter on Steam You are a homeless extraterrestrial living in a futuristic version of Japan. Struggle to survive in this new style of RPG.

ALIEN SQUATTER IS A BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE/FUCK YOU TO WHOLESOME GAMES AND I STILL DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY SUCH A CHARMING GAME GOT ZERO ATTENTION, ESPECIALLY FROM THE CROWD WHO LOVED SPACEPORT JANITOR
store.steampowered.com/app/1131750/...

"Made from crafts and pixels" -- This looks so cool!

Gaming media, press! I'm releasing Without a Dawn next Monday, email me for a review copy! ☺️
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Not sure my message reaches them, but better to try, right? 😁
#gaming #press #game #media #review #indiegame

Bahamut Fayth: You're gay.

Tidus: What are you talking about?

Bahamut Fayth: Everyone in Zanarkand is gay.

Tidus: I literally like women???

Bahamut Fayth: You can like women if you're gay. It's called Bisexuality.

Narrator Tidus: I had forgotten about Bisexuality.

Last year the Japanese variety show Gaki no Tsukai had the famous singer Yoko Takahashi go undercover at a restaurant where she fooled everyone right up until she took the stage and belted out A Cruel Angel's Thesis, the intro song to Neon Genesis Evangelion. Just stunning.

DL just around the corner! Apply by May 15 if you're interested in advancing research on theory translation and games

Rethinking the cognitive foundations of the attention economy The attention economy is the economic system in which human attention is the scarce resource. This literature takes a particular passage in Herbert Simon’s seminal Chapter Designing Organization fo...

Questioning the cognitive assumptions underlying theories of the attention economy
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