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James Manning

@jimaroonie.bsky.social

Videogames, digital cultural heritage and digital play cultures researcher. Lecturer, RMIT University. Board Member, Freeplay.net.au. Managing Editor, Journal of Games Criticism.

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Mario Kart is all about skill. Ofc I knew where I was going.

16.11.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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How to catch a darn(er) dragonfly.

14.10.2025 10:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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dur

#pixelart

21.09.2025 21:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 345    ๐Ÿ” 70    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

All the better for you asking!

11.09.2025 11:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

How cool are these!?

09.09.2025 23:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Old habits die hard.

23.07.2025 04:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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โ„๏ธ Frosty Games Fest will premiere Sun, June 8
โฐ Tune in at 9am AEST, 11am NZT, or 4pm PDT (June 7)!
๐Ÿฆ With 50+ games set to be featured, the lineup is chocka-block with some of ANZ's finest.

We can't wait to share our first ever showcase with you! ๐Ÿ’™

08.05.2025 01:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 128    ๐Ÿ” 79    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 3    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14
A tarot spread of The Lovers, Death, and Fortune, in bright red and pale blue, with the words 'Freeplay - Angles' on top.

A tarot spread of The Lovers, Death, and Fortune, in bright red and pale blue, with the words 'Freeplay - Angles' on top.

Freeplay Angles 2025 - Coming this Winter

Talk submissions now open: forms.gle/U5jQ2RRnTPxb...

Info @ freeplay.net.au

30.04.2025 04:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 75    ๐Ÿ” 42    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9
WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY DID SOMETHING
"LIKE A BOSS" I ASSUME THEY DID NOTHING AND JUST TOOK CREDIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK.

WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THEY DID SOMETHING "LIKE A BOSS" I ASSUME THEY DID NOTHING AND JUST TOOK CREDIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S WORK.

26.04.2025 05:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Digital Cultural Heritage Archives - University of London Press

The University of London Press is now accepting for new proposals for short-form books (20,000โ€“30,000 words) on Digital Cultural Heritage on themes of use, access, value(s) and ephemerality uolpress.co.uk/book-series/... #BDCAM25

03.04.2025 15:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 67    ๐Ÿ” 53    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Call for Paper: Historicizing G.A.M.E.S. 2025 โ€“ Gaming, Artifacts, Memory, Experience and Society by Confoederatio Ludens Bern, Switzerland, September 11-12, 2025 Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=histgames2025 Submission deadline: March 14, 2025 How do we write a history of...

A great team of colleagues from @chludens.bsky.social together with @unil.bsky.social are organising a very cool conference on the โ€˜History of video games from the playersโ€™ perspectivesโ€™ #GameStudies this September

HERE you can find the #CFP: chludens.hypotheses.org/3389

@pachuki.bsky.social

05.03.2025 09:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Heaps oโ€™ stuff ey.

30.03.2025 10:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

RHYTHM HEAVEN

30.03.2025 02:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I built a Playstacean!

21.03.2025 23:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32105    ๐Ÿ” 8834    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 349    ๐Ÿ“Œ 451
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Alpha Impact: Understanding the Atomisation of Gen Alphaโ€™s Attention Today, weโ€™re launching Alpha Impact, a new piece of research from SuperAwesome on the technological, economic, and cultural trends shaping Gen Alpha (kids born between 2010 and 2024) and their impact ...

The era of microscenes.

14.03.2025 21:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Significant developments.

14.03.2025 21:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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PORTAL - laboratory blueprints www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...

13.03.2025 12:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 94    ๐Ÿ” 19    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

I love this.

12.03.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Here internet, have a spreadsheet I did a few years ago.

This is a categorization of Mario 64's stars. I tried to see what kinds of mechanics the game had, if there were any patterns to it, etc.

Maybe you'll find it interesting!

07.03.2025 21:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 12    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

La biblioteca de Babel.

07.03.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I love seeing the canopy cloth sim kicking in. No pre-simulating required!

23.02.2025 19:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Dr. Mario will be with you in just a moment. Just need to confirm he's in network

Dr. Mario will be with you in just a moment. Just need to confirm he's in network

DR. MARIO
NINTENDO R&D1 1990
NES

06.02.2025 16:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 107    ๐Ÿ” 15    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

๐Ÿ‘†this is what I thought it was called but perhaps only in painting?

30.01.2025 06:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

For research.

25.01.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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THE meme of 2025 for me.

24.01.2025 22:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8032    ๐Ÿ” 977    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 310
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the making of legends ๐ŸŒŸ

#nightinthewoods x #animalcrossing

22.01.2025 08:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 196    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is indeed great! Try it out.

21.01.2025 07:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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here, have some fish from 2002

20.01.2025 17:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 14717    ๐Ÿ” 2502    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 368    ๐Ÿ“Œ 149
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OK, so this is cool. I wonder how much of this has to do with broadcasting rights. Cool, nonetheless. www.youtube.com/live/zpiR6LC...

14.01.2025 06:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Secret Sandy Beach (Boku no Natsuyasumi 2, Ps2, Millennium Kitchen, 2002)

10.01.2025 21:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 62    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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