Adriana X Jacobs

We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...

The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential!
gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...

I think poetry makes games better and explain why in this forthcoming volume of essays edited by @jon.inkle.co. I can’t wait to read the other contributions!

Limits and ladders — Adriana X. Jacobs “Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending.”—George Eliot

And a return to blogging, which I have missed so much! There are a few posts up already like this one, where I reflect on parenting, pandemics, and The Last of Us.
www.adrianaxjacobs.com/blog/limits-...

Adriana X. Jacobs

New year, new website.
www.adrianaxjacobs.com

I had the opportunity to be a late-stage playtester—a first for me!—and can confirm that this game is STUNNING. So good to see you again, Mara Whitefish!

Important status update: “not rejected by TBQ-yet” ❤️🌮

NYU Game Center Presents No Quarter, An exhibition of new games by Jana Romanova, Julian Cordero, Nicole He & Remi Forcadell, Patrick LeMiewux & Stephanie Boluk. 7:00pm November 22nd, 2025, Brooklyn, New York

No Quarter is back!

On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!

No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com

I love the em dash! I’ll take a stab at an answer. The first one is an accumulation of the hyphens that precede it. Little cuts and jabs that come together to form the longer, more persistent disruption of the em dash.

He really does! I do appreciate that even his scathing critiques could be deeply thoughtful, so much so that in the process he planted the seeds for his future change of heart.

I am reading your gorgeous and wise essay on the beach, observing how the waves turn olive green as they start to break. I started drawing this past year and have been so inspired by your work!

Shared some thoughts on poetic repetition (esp anaphora) and narrative design in contemporary roguelikes at gs1, a conference showcasing the scholarly work of the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social MFAs.

Title slide: Poetic Roguelikes (Adriana X. Jacobs)

Text of Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” with “we paused” repetitions in bold

Screenshots of Returnal representing Death, Cutscene, Rebirth

How do “poetic roguelikes” such as Returnal and Hades resemble poetry? Similar to e.g. Dickinson, they have a kind of anaphora, with recurring motifs, language, sensory elements. Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition highly useful to understand cyclical gameplay; imagination draws out difference

☺️

My translation of Merav Givoni Hrushovski’s End— is out and available for purchase (online and in person at AWP). ⭐️

From my friend Adriana X. Jacobs, “I put my doom into a love poem” is 8-bit video game that incorporates some of her poems. “If you find the neighbor’s garden, your afterlife will be extra sweet.” [ladymacabea.itch.io]

I put my doom into a love poem by Adriana X. Jacobs poem-game inspired by my poetry zine Afterlife is Sweet (rinky dink press). Play in your browser

My poem-game “I put my doom into a love poem” is now public! It adapts poems that first appeared in my poetry zine “Afterlife is Sweet” (rinky dink press). #bitsy

Fantastic! I’ll check this out.

Stack of four books about gaming, from the bottom up: Eric Zimmerman’s The Rules We Break, Miguel Sicart’s Play Matters, Shira Chess’s Play Like a Feminist, and Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon’s (eds.) Critical Hits.

Winter reading 🎮

Christine (1987, John Carpenter) and Christine (2016, Antonio Campos).

Thank you! ❤️

“A mother falls through a bed of chalk flowers, pulling her child behind her. A store/ crumbles, spilling votives into the street. The rats pour out of a manhole cover,/ shedding future plagues.”

Is this a future dystopia? Or are we already the survivors? Stunning poem by @axjacobs.bsky.social.

I have a new poem out in The Account! This one is called “Deformation”: theaccountmagazine.com/article/jaco...

Roguelike Celebration 2023 was fantastic and inspiring. Esp enjoyed talks on music and reality TV, depths and gardens. And really loved exploring the Mall of Moria as ladymacabea, my avatar since 2002.

I’m reading Katherine Isbister’s How Games Move Us and thinking about “meaningful choices.” As I play test my interactive poem for the millionth time, this moment, at the very beginning, is still my favorite, taking me back to that moment when I chose “start” in the spring of 2020. #bitsy

Me too! 😂

🎉🎉🎉

BITSY FEST (bitsy jam #77) A game jam from 2023-09-22 to 2023-10-15 hosted by Museum of Screens, Alicia Luna Ripp & ledoux. Hello and welcome to the BITSY FEST JAM! The Museum of Screens is partnering with Bitsy to celebrate it...

Bitsy Fest is ON! And the theme of the jam has been picked, it is:

MUSEUM

I am not making this up, I am so happy this is the theme that has been picked. Good luck to everyone who participate!

itch.io/jam/bitsy-fest

Traveled far out of my comfort zone and attended my first Playtest Thursday at the NYU Game Center and people who are not my kid and @djacobs.bsky.social played my so very much in-progress Bitsy game. I loved every minute of it. 🎮

#thelastofusday

The journal Asoophit has been so supportive of my work. You’ll find “Ars Poetica” in the latest issue פרור (crumb). drive.google.com/file/d/1qQWW...