Stephanie Boluk

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: EP: A Year of UFO 50 - Pilot Quest We're joined by Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis), Patrick LeMieux (UC Davis), and Eileen Hollinger (Capybara Games) to discuss Pilot Quest, the 44th game in the UFO 50 collection. “The Campanella has crashe...

Eggplant Presents: A Year of UFO 50 - Pilot Quest

We're joined by Eileen Hollinger (from @capygames.bsky.social), @chouxsalad.bsky.social, and @alt254.bsky.social.

"The Campanella has crashed! Fix it by harvesting resources and exploring the wild zone."
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Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: EP: A Year of UFO 50 - Mortol II We're joined by Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis), Patrick LeMieux (UC Davis), and Aaron “ix” Kearsley (Speedrunner) to discuss Mortol II, the 32nd game in the UFO 50 collection. “How many will have to sacrifice their lives to save Mortolia yet again?” Next week: Fist Hell Audio edited by Dylan Shumway. Discussed in this episode: Mortol II Map   Redder   A Year of UFO 50 - Rock On! Island   A Year of UFO 50 - Mortol   Into the Depths: Kentucky Route Zero - Part 1   Spelunky Showlike: Breaking world records with Kinnijup and ix     Spelunky Showlike: Death in Roguelikes with Kawa      

Eggplant Presents: A Year of UFO 50 - Mortol II

We're joined by
@alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social
(UC Davis)
+
@aaronak.bsky.social
(Speedrunner) to discuss UFO50's first sequel.

“How many will have to sacrifice their lives to save Mortolia yet again?”

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This is tomorrow!

Come out and play some web games, watch talks, hang out, eat snacks, talk websites.

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Project talks will also be streaming 6 - 7pm EST on twitch at www.twitch.tv/evereverest!

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: EP: A Year of UFO 50 - Rock On! Island We're joined by Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis), Patrick LeMieux (UC Davis), and Gab Koenig (Tux and Fanny) to discuss Rock On! Island, the 30th game in the UFO 50 collection. “Rally your cavemen and defen...

Podcast! At the Dino -- we are back with an all-new episode on UFO50's 30th game, Rock On! Island. A prehistoric riff on tower defense with ~dev drama~ hidden in a secret level. Thanks to @chouxsalad.bsky.social @alt254.bsky.social @ghosttime.bsky.social for joining us! eggplant.show/ep-a-year-of...

come hang with us in SF!!:)

We’ve been using this and it works really well! (Also if you want a Deadlock invite lmk :))

QGCon 2025: September 26-28, 2025 — QGCon The Queerness and Games Conference is back! QGCon 2025 will be held on September 26-28 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada . If you are interested in presenting your work at QGCon, we w...

🌈Hello, friends! <3

QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal!
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨

🦄QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.

Join our mailing list for updates!
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the "games against the empire" panel tuesday may cap! if you're interested in coming to our upcoming events this week, please rsvp!

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zine jam: eventbrite.com/e/zine-jam-b...

outdoor games: eventbrite.com/e/outdoor-ga...

show: eventbrite.com/e/games-agai...

This was one of the most fun online escape roomesque experiences I had the pleasure of playing during lockdown

Eggplant: The Secret Lives of Games: EP: A Year of UFO 50 - Mortol We're joined by Aaron "ix" Kearsley (speedrunner), Stephanie Boluk (UC Davis), and Patrick LeMieux (UC Davis) to discuss Mortol, the sixth game in the UFO 50 collection. “How many people will lay down...

Eggplant Presents: A Year of UFO 50 - Mortol

We're joined by @chouxsalad.bsky.social, @alt254.bsky.social, and @aaronak.bsky.social to discuss Mortol (1984), the 6th game in the UFO 50 collection.

"How many people will lay down their lives to save Mortolia?"
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One of the things I've discovered while working on this class is that a lot of my friends and colleagues have written brilliant things about FFVII. If you are someone who I may have missed, please send me links so I can read and share it with my students!

I deeply love your essay Brendan! (They're reading Hayles so I think it will work well). Working on this class has been a really fun way to discover that so many of my friends and colleagues have written cool things about FFVII.

Just out of curiosity, how many hours? We spent ~20 incredibly satisfying hours playing until reaching what felt like a natural stopping point

Way to go Hannah and Ben! I think the implications here about WFH footprints go far beyond games since much larger corps than indies devs could easily use employee home energy usage as a way of cooking their books

"Unacceptable Loss: Video Game Preservation in Libraries and Archives" with Phil Salvador, Laine Nooney, and Meredith Rose. Presented by Library Futures.

Hey! This is today! Come hear us talk about the future of video game preservation in libraries and archives!

nyu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

In Dota 2 you can mute the chat/voice but you can't block tipping -- so of course it's mainly used as a sort of universal language for trash talk and tilting

Does anybody know of games out there that have a tipping system similar to the one in Dota 2?

Speaking of BB, we haven’t gotten too far into seasons of The Challenge but I’m still in awe of the fact that in the early 2000s it was totally cool to have a newborn on set in the middle of a hurricane while drunken toga parties are raging

I really can’t think of anything that feels like the modern equivalent of the Sesame Street song where a shifty guy sells a hot vowel to Ernie from out of his trench coat.

Just joined an hour ago. I laughed :)

“esports person”

Still thinking about the English translation of Genshin Impact where an NPC named “Lessig Lawrence” is thwarted by the mysterious and powerful “Eula.”

I remember my mum got invested in this conversation and sent me some strange Toad Mouth emails as a result of this