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Book cover: THREAT OR PROMISE?: ON MEDIA FEAR AND MEDIA EUPHORIA SURROUNDING DIGITAL GAMES

1556. THREAT OR PROMISE?: ON MEDIA FEAR AND MEDIA EUPHORIA SURROUNDING DIGITAL GAMES
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👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/threat-or-promise-on-media-fear-and-media-euphoria-surrounding-digital-games

#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames

A New World

New music release! A fantasy RPG overture/main theme kind of piece.

➣ Full song: youtu.be/zjPdRBBD2E0

#gamedev | #indiedev | #dtm | #rpg | #composer | #vgm

The Video Game Library Newsletter - Vol. #027 New FF7 stories, an Elden Ring epic, Amnesia’s haunted history, canceled classics resurrected, and cocktails straight out of Diablo...game books have never gone this hard!

"Everything Is Permitted: On Assassin’s Creed", @ckunzelman.bsky.social's long-awaited study of the Assassin’s Creed franchise, released this past week.

This one is high on the reading list for the holidays!

Just one of over a dozen releases/announcements in the world of Video Game Literature 👇

CfP: #Ludo2026 will take place 6 – 8 August, 2026, at Edge Hill University. The 15th anniversary conference theme is ‘Pushing limits and crossing borders’.
Please find all info here: www.ludomusicology.org/2025/11/16/l...

#ludomusicology #gamestudies #gamesound #gameaudio #vgm #music #soundstudies

Soundwalk concert at PlayBern on 1 November 2025: CyberGwen and Addrich Mauch invited listeners on a live improvisation soundwalk through Swiss Amiga games from the early 1990s at the Markuskirche in Bern. A recording of the complete session will follow.

Colloque international "Que nous dit la musique de jeu vidéo de la musique ?" / What Does Video Game Music Tell us About Music ?" Colloque / Symposium : “Que nous dit la musique de jeu vidéo de la musique ?” / “What Does Video Game Music Tell Us About Music?”. 1st edition: September 15-16 2026, University of Liège (Belgium)

🚨 Screen Music / Ludomusicology CFP

ℹ️ Symposium: “What Does Video Game Music Tell Us About Music?”
🗓️ 15–16 Sep 2026
📍 University of Liège (Belgium)
📩 Deadline: 31 Dec 2025

www.liegegamelab.uliege.be/cms/c_127714...

Have you heard our version of "Lavender Town?" Nothing scarier than a jazz band playing borderline metal music!
Full video: youtu.be/ESrl8z4oMwo?...

The Way Home

New sheet music/score video! Fantasy RPG/anime sort of end theme. For piano and orchestra :)

➣ Full song: youtu.be/-QvzBdp0q1Q

#gamedev | #indiedev | #dtm | #rpg | #animation | #composer

An AI generated book

Back of the book description

"...Explolits & Emuilator Setup..." 🤦‍♂️

Sorting through this nonsense week after week is driving me insane... 😔

I spend more time vetting AI-generated books than I do cataloguing real ones onto the site 😡

#GhostOfYotei is out and I can't be more proud of our audio team across sound design, music, dialogue and cinematics. So much love & detail has been poured into the sonic world we've built. I'll start sharing anecdotes and videos once I finish celebrating and recovering from celebrating 🥳 #GameAudio

MARSHIE MALLODY
Now available at @shortboxcomicsfair.bsky.social

A man chooses to remain in a dangerous city with his son after a deadly global pandemic, despite the opportunity to move to a safer community. A sad horror comic about fatherhood, guilt, & redemption. 48 pages.

More preview below.

旅するぬいぐるみうさぎ、うさきち。 久しぶりのラーメンは、とってもおいしい鹿児島味噌ラーメン。

姉夫婦を福岡空港まで送った際。
昼食は、空港内の金斗雲にて黄雲を。
福岡に来てまで鹿児島の味噌ラーメンでしたが、甥っ子が喜んでいて、とても幸せでした。
本店にも行ったことがあるのですが、空港のもとても美味しかったです。
This is Kagoshima miso ramen that I had at Fukuoka Airport.
I ate it with my sister and her husband when I was dropping them off at the airport.
It's delicious!
　#青空ごはん部　#青空ラーメン部
　#外食班　#food

AI Pixel art and how to detect them - Final AI Pixel Art and How to Detect them (Illustration by Spriter Gors) Spriter Gors 2025 Version 3 (proofreading version) Dedication 3 Preface 4 Keywords 4 Disclaimer 5 What is AI Generative art? 6 Gener...

As promised, I have revised the text after much deliberation and it has been proofread by five people who all agreed with the changes.

Thanks for your patience, and I hope this text will be of great use.

AI PIXEL ART AND HOW TO DETECT THEM

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
online.ucpress.edu/jsmg

🚨 The pre-order for Video Game Maps: SNES - Vol 3 is up!
retrogamebooks.com/products/vid...

From the colorful landscapes of Secret of Mana to the depths of Super Metroid, this book showcases the stunning artwork that captured the imagination of gamers around the world.

*Credits in thread*

There was something really special about how 8-bit games would be enhanced by hand-drawn art found in guides and magazines. Pictured here is a segment from Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen - Official Guidebook, 1990, detailing a mountain village.

Book cover: PLAYFUL PAST: TEXTS FROM SEVEN YEARS OF AKGWDS

960. PLAYFUL PAST: TEXTS FROM SEVEN YEARS OF AKGWDS
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👉 https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/playful-past-texts-from-seven-years-of-akgwds

#Books #Booksky #Gaming #VideoGames

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:

とんかつ（すみっコぐらし）とシャインマスカットのタルト。

とんかつより、シャインマスカットのタルトなんていかがでしょうか？
クラウスノミが作るのが得意だったというライムタルトも、いつか食べてみたいです。
今週もお疲れ様でした。
Please enjoy the Shine Muscat tart from Tonkatsu.
I'd also like to try the lime tart that Klaus Nomi was known to make someday.
　#ぬい撮り　#ぬい活　#ぬいぐるみ
　#青空ごはん部　#甘党部　#sweets
　#すみっコぐらし

Making the title screen to remind myself that this is, in fact, a horror game, and blood will be spilt this night.

(Also I'm really really happy with how it turned out ahhhhh...)

#visualnovel #horrorVN

Screenshot from the video game Nier: Automata. It shows playable character 2B holding her arm out, with her Pod (a flying robot) right behind her.

I'm giving a talk about adaptive music design in games next month and I'm starting with a cold open to talk about Nier Automata's music

And no one can stop me 🥰

Tragedy

New sheet music video! This song felt like a heartbreaking moment- maybe like a hard truth learned or a moment where a character is losing someone and doesn't want to accept it.

➣ Full song: youtu.be/lnDefnWUoh0

#gamedev | #indiedev | #dtm | #rpg | #animation | #composer

working on my playable dandelion...
the idea is that you play one of those little dandelion wisps. you float, then you land and the plant grows, and then you can float again... so you're floating through the world.
you're the only sign of life.
#ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev

YouTube video by John Oeth Guitar Voice of No Return (NieR: Automata) | Classical Guitar Cover

Voice of No Return (NieR: Automata) arranged for guitar. Composed by Keiichi Okabe.

youtu.be/LBmbWB6UmNM

ChatGPT's diagram of the Circle of Fifths. Many wrong key names (including two Bs, and the enharmonic pair C-sharp, G-flat, and 100% incorrect key signatures, mostly mixing flats, sharps, and the occasional double sharp)

wake up babe, new key signatures just dropped.

[Adding an AI policy to my syllabus this semester, and wanted an illustration so I went to ChatGPT. Now I'm really considering just making the policy, "If you'd like me to give you grades based on stuff like this, knock yourself out"]

【告知/お知らせ】
We've worked with Toby Fox for the RPG game OFF! You can listen to all the soundtrack on YouTube, please check the link below!
ゲーム「OFF」にToby Foxと楽曲を作りました！下のリンクから全曲が聴けますので、是非チェックしてみてください！⚾️

Paths

Parallel lives existing from branches of decisions we made (or didn’t make) that could have been—but aren’t—this one. Living with the choices we make; did we choose well? Are we on the right path?

➣ Full song: youtu.be/1JFzk09MDws

#gamedev | #indiedev | #dtm | #rpg | #animation | #composer

We did this animation! 🧢⚾️👻

Holland Albright Holland Albright: inspired by all things fantasy, creating faraway worlds and telling stories through music. Whether it be warlocks slaying dragons, or the feeling of sitting by a window watching the...

Reminder that my music is still on sale for $2/album until the end of August!

I'll need to set up a new home studio to write music here, so anything from Bandcamp will go towards that. :)

Thank you!

#bandcamp #dtm #piano #orchestra

🎸 i accidentally perfectly timed getting this life up shroom with the music