Mauricio Castro Valdez

Bless u

20 hour commute ahead.

Goals:

- finish Devil Survivor 2.

Happy bday Richy!!

New #openaccess article in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social

"Sidetalking: Domesticating Nokia's playful designed identity"

On the Nokia mobile gaming platform: the Nokia NGage, released 2003.

A THREAD.

Download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

#gamestudies #platformstudies

Ahora, en @digraspain.bsky.social inmersión como presencia cognitiva simulada. ¿Cómo diseñar juegos de mundo abierto que estimulen estas experiencias cognitivas simuladas en vez de limitarlas?

Reinterpretaciones de los tropos del noir clásicos como mecánicas de juego. Cosa seria. @digraspain.bsky.social

📣 ¡Comienza oficialmente #DigraES25! Tenéis acceso al directo aquí: tv.uvigo.es/directo2

Amsterdam in History and Board Games One of the great cities of Europe celebrates its 750th birthday this year – Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, famous for tolerance, trade, and tulips. While the earliest settlements in the reg…

ICYMI: Here's my exploration of Amsterdam's history through board games

1 year #vibecoding and working with #agentic entities (sic). Some side effects:

- complete alienation from coding as "carpentry".
- tiredness, irritability, feeling of being hungover after creating massive artifacts in a short span (ex. a full app in 1 day).

Carapulcra pretty decent

I'm cooking all the Peruvian stews I know using gochujang paste instead of panka chili paste. So far, so good.

#This

It's kind of weird to see these Peruvian hackers and cyberpunk fans from the 80's and 90's turned into cholo-supremacists.

YouTube video by ADH Gaming Let's Play SNES ROM Hacks | Sonic The Hedgehog 4 | SNES Mini

This was my first experience with Sonic, a weird Peruvian ROM created by TEG. Weird SFX and Mario in a cage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqF9...

Sí

Csm

Been thinking about idle games a lot and had this phenomenal progression in the shower

An edited screenshot of Jet Set Willy for the ZX Spectrum, giving details of the game's release and when it reached #1 in the UK chart

An edited screenshot of Beach-Head for the Commodore 64, giving details of the game's release and when it reached #1 in the UK chart

An edited screenshot of The Lords of Midnight for the ZX Spectrum, giving details of the game's release and when it reached #1 in the UK chart

An edited screenshot of Elite for the BBC Micro, giving details of the game's release and when it reached #1 in the UK chart

Over the last five months on my blog, I've written about the 19 different computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1984. I've made a post about the history of each one.

Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!

Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢
Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue!
More details below in this thread👇
#CallForPapers #GameStudies

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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!

Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com

Big me - Foo Fighters

Best karaoke song. Get out now.

Oh man.

With this soundtrack.

Cooking Carapulcra today. I'll try not to eat the whole pot.

It's true. I still love Obsidian. It was distraction free / reliable enough to help me finish my thesis... I tried some other md editors in the last weeks but none of those get it right.

beach ratas

Violencia de Estado en el Perú. Del Conflicto Armado Interno (1980-2000) a la “Generación de Bicentenario”. Anouk Guiné, Mónica Cárdenas y Fabiola Escárzaga (Eds). Perú: Fondo Editorial del Instituto para la Investigación Social del Perú, Université Le Havre Normandie, Gric Groupe de Recherche Identités et Cultures, 2024. Nota Editorial Pacarina del Sur En es…

Violencia de Estado en el Perú 1980-2000.

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Artes y memorias del conflicto interno peruano (1980-2000) Mathilde Salaün

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Guns & Roses 2025 sounds like Cartman doing karaoke