Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸

My new ID card, compliments of my 5 year old.

Tiled is a great level editor and is free. I’ve used it with all my GB Studio games

Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives.

If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜

Any Amstrad CPC devs on here?

I am using a pc to build, and I want to draw my graphics in a modern tool and export out as binary suitable for mode 0. Google has not been kind and not found any editors for Windows.

Any recommendations?

As a fellow millennial academic I’ve done it before and think it’s fine. But I think the Thumbs Up emoji can usually carry the same meaning in work emails and is very safe.

So much writing recently. My brain is leaking out of my ears.

I Want You to Understand Chicago Politics Chicago 2025-11-08 I want you to understand what it is like to live in Chicago during this time. Every day my phone buzzes. It is a neighborhood group: four people were kidnapped at the corner drugstore. A friend a mile away sends a Slack message: she was at the scene when masked men assaulted and abducted two people on the street. A plumber working on my pipes is distraught, and I find out that two of his employees were kidnapped that morning. A week later it happens again. An email arrives. Agents with guns have chased a teacher into the school where she works. They did not have a warrant. They dragged her away, ignoring her and her colleagues’ pleas to show proof of her documentation. That evening I stand a few feet from the parents of Rayito de Sol and listen to them describe, with anguish, how good Ms. Diana was to their children. What it is like to have strangers with guns traumatize your kids. For a teacher to hide a three-year-old child for fear they might be killed. How their relatives will no longer leave the house. I hear the pain and fury in their voices, and I wonder who will be next. Understand what it is to pray in Chicago. On September 19th, Reverend David Black, lead pastor at First Presbyterian Church of Chicago, was praying outside the ICE detention center in Broadview when a DHS agent shot him in the head with pepper balls. Pepper balls are never supposed to be fired at the head because they can seriously injure, or even kill. “We could hear them laughing as they were shooting us from the roof,” Black recalled. He is not the only member of the clergy ICE has assaulted. Methodist pastor Hannah Kardon was violently arrested on October 17th, and Baptist pastor Michael Woolf was shot with pepper balls on November 1st. Understand what it is to sleep in Chicago. On the night of September 30th, federal agents rappelled from a Black Hawk helicopter to execute a raid on an apartment building on the South Sho…

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer.

He is a computer safety researcher.

And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine.

In under 1600 words.

aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.

I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.

A colorful flyer that reads: "Games and play for a better world, 3rd Geogames symposium May 3-6, 2026, Iowa, USA. The 3rd Geogames Symposium provides an international forum for researchers, developers, and game enthusiasts to present, exchange, and advance knowledge in the field of geogames. The symposium examines the potential of analogue and digital geogames. It highlights how geogames can be employed to explore Earth as a complex, living system of interdependent actors and self-regulating processes, thereby inspiring more sustainable ways of living and informing the reshaping of human-environment interactions. Key research topics include and are not limited to: geogames and community engagement, envisioning the future with geogames, geogames applications, emerging technologies and geogames, Geogame design and evaluation. Submission types: short paper, workshop, game demonstration and game play, students' forum. Deadlines: first submission for peer-review (December 19), reviews completed (January 30); acceptance letters sent to the authors (February 15); Upload the final contributions (March 16). Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=3ggs Conference website: geogameslab.net

The symposium will be 3-6 May 2026 in Iowa, USA, and the deadline for submissions is 19 December, 2025. Here's the flyer:

We're hosting the 3rd Geogames Symposium next year at Iowa State! The call for papers has opened on EasyChair, and we're welcoming proposals for short papers, workshops, game demos, or a students' forum. #gamestudies #geogames #seriousgames easychair.org/conferences?...

Rolled my ankle on the way to campus this morning, and I’m supposed to teach this afternoon… I think I need to find a stool for my classroom

Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd

Self-Generation Incentive Program The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...

This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.

Yes: free.

If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!

No worries about tangents, I’m a long winded professor myself. And your points about the genealogies of games is also important. I’m not saying that the three tracks were isolated, but all three grew out of separate spaces to eventually merge in the modern day.

Again, looking at the games in the ‘80s you see D&D-inspired strategy-focused games for PCs. Arcade games were borrowing from pinball & focused on coin-drop with fad-based games that would come and go. And video games were trying to bridge the gap between the two w/ inferior tech. to be affordable.

Even looking solely at the US, yes there was a “video game crash,” but the industries of arcade games and PC games in the US were barely affected. Pop. game history broadly needs to recognize non-US history and acknowledge that for the longest time PC/arcade/video games were all very different. 2/

I think it’s also important to get semantic about it too. There is a bit of push back amongst game historians to separate the three industries. While yes, we can call everything digital a “video game,” historically that term was tied directly to the unique technology of home consoles and CRT TVs 1/

I’m part of the newly launched game design program at Iowa State University: www.design.iastate.edu/academics/un...

Long shot, but did anyone by chance download Japanese game hacker makimuraMFG's VRC7 Family BASIC or MMC5 Family BASIC hacks in the past 11 or so years they've been online? His website is down and they weren't crawled by Archive.

I have no background in it, but I’ve noticed that blind spot as well. Lots of analysis of games as texts, or works of art, but not performance.

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We're looking to get a Game Gear cartridge PCB designed!

If someone with cartridge PCB design experience is interested, please send us a DM!

This would be PAID work!

RTs appreciated x3

One of these days I’ll finish the planned trilogy, as well as revise the books. I wrote them in grad school, so paying for a copy editor was too expensive.

It is!

Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.

Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.

Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

As an academic/scholar/person, what are some “classics” in your field other people are shocked you haven’t read/watched/played?

People are shocked when they find out I’m in #gamestudies and haven’t played The Last of Us.

Guess I shouldn’t dress casually on campus

In the campus bookstore today:

Elderly person: (trying to make small talk) “So what year are you? Freshman?”
Me: (In shorts and flip flops) “I’m faculty, actually”

Due to a file corruption I lost 5-6 pages of writing. Not a ton of work, but I found out about a week later so I can barely remember what those pages were about