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Dr. Jack Murray

@jackademia.bsky.social

Asst. Professor of Game Design. Sword Nerd. (Secretly a Tekken and Wrestling account) He/They/Any

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Did you know the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 now has a blog?

As we we hit milestones, we will be doing short posts to update what is happening and our next goals.

February 2026 Update: eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...

04.02.2026 18:44 β€” πŸ‘ 7    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application

Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application

The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production)
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115

28.01.2026 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application

Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application

The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production)
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115

28.01.2026 22:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)?

(would love to see portfolios)

28.01.2026 21:53 β€” πŸ‘ 98    πŸ” 93    πŸ’¬ 9    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Quiet Year (box set) The Quiet Year is a map game. You define the struggles of a community living after the collapse of civilization,Β and attempt to build something good within their quiet year. Every decision and every a...

The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!

The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!

store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...

26.01.2026 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 351    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 13

Me: So the Drukhari are the evil elves that need pain and suffering to nourish their souls.
Friend: So it’s like Monsters Inc.
Me:

24.01.2026 03:49 β€” πŸ‘ 322    πŸ” 35    πŸ’¬ 19    πŸ“Œ 3

Today is my birthday and all I’m asking for is for you to support and/or talk about your favorite Ranged Touch show or project!

Patreon.com/rangedtouch

20.01.2026 23:24 β€” πŸ‘ 210    πŸ” 50    πŸ’¬ 32    πŸ“Œ 58

Designing my first 50+ student class for next fall so I will definitely be referencing this!

06.01.2026 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Containing games Published in Critical Studies in Media Communication (Ahead of Print, 2025)

GOING BOX MODE πŸ“¦ Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies."

From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunkers, 13 articles square up for an expanded definition of gaming cultures:
doi.org/10.1080/1529...

05.01.2026 19:41 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

Your mom dunking on you in the family group chat again?

05.01.2026 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Wolves good.

Not a movie or show, just, like, the animal. Wolves.

They're pretty cool.

02.01.2026 18:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1228    πŸ” 166    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 13
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With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...

02.01.2026 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 358    πŸ” 109    πŸ’¬ 18    πŸ“Œ 52

The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is:

Book of the New Sun
The Earthsea Cycle
A Unit on Junji Ito
The Herald Mage Trilogy
Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Dr. Bloodmoney
Brown Girl in the Ring
A Unit on Alan Moore
An array of Hallmark movies

02.01.2026 19:20 β€” πŸ‘ 276    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 2

Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment?

We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.

29.12.2025 01:35 β€” πŸ‘ 312    πŸ” 59    πŸ’¬ 153    πŸ“Œ 7

When I got into game design nobody told me I'd need *math*

27.12.2025 16:40 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Game Pitch:

- Get lost in Weird Environment
- Talk to Weird Little Dudes

24.12.2025 05:17 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This is fascinating. I almost wish it didn't have any combat mechanics.

24.12.2025 05:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
ELO 26: (un)supervised - graphic by PD Edgar

ELO 26: (un)supervised - graphic by PD Edgar

The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!

19.12.2025 17:30 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Call for Submissions The Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) seeks submissions for Volume 5 of the Electronic Literature Collection.

The deadline for Electronic Literature Collection 5 has been extended from 6 January 2026 to 31 January 2026!

eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/

20.12.2025 04:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health.Β  Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.

🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening πŸ™ Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...

16.12.2025 22:14 β€” πŸ‘ 203    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 3

The U Cant See Me branded socks, I'm dying

14.12.2025 06:02 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The Perfect Video Game

12.12.2025 00:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Not speaking about anyone in particular here.

Generalizing.

But:

IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF HEARING β€œHOW TO FIX EDUCATION” FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A CLASSROOM.

09.12.2025 22:49 β€” πŸ‘ 576    πŸ” 71    πŸ’¬ 31    πŸ“Œ 8
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WHALE ROADS by sulcata | Brendan McLeod A megazine about Wolves Upon the Coast

Out now: WHALE ROADS

The chronicle of a year-long, 30+ player West Marches campaign of Wolves Upon the Coast by @lukegearing.bsky.social

A 250-page "zine" filled with play summaries, original art, and Referee commentary.

Available now, and it's 100% completely free.

sulcata.itch.io/whale-roads

09.12.2025 15:06 β€” πŸ‘ 248    πŸ” 104    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 18

With Harada leaving Tekken and releasing this 30 Minute 30 year tekken retrospective DJ set, I feel like I should get back to this thread.
soundcloud.com/katsuhiro-ha...

08.12.2025 16:34 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Call for Proposals - ELO 2026

The call for proposals is posted for the Electronic Literature Organization 2026 conference. It will be hosted fully online July 15-18, 2026 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world.

(Submissions will open soon!)

projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/cfp....

07.12.2025 15:44 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

shelved by genre is a good podcast

21.11.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 174    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 2
Submit a Claim

Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.

Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

18.11.2025 07:39 β€” πŸ‘ 3074    πŸ” 2542    πŸ’¬ 77    πŸ“Œ 135

Time to pull off an Oceans 12 style heist

18.11.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Its certainly some of the dialogue of all time

18.11.2025 00:33 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0