YouTube video by Mary & Amabel Holland
Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning
Itโs finally here! Mechanisms as Metaphors: How Board Games Create Meaning takes a look at how board games make persuasive arguments, how they might move us emotionally, and how the ways we talk about the form might hinder its development.
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๐ฒ Love Daybreak? Curious about climate games?
Join us for Playtest Dawn โ a fast-paced version of @baddeo.bsky.social โs acclaimed game Daybreak ๐
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Wed 16 July, 2โ4pm
๐ Sustainability Clinic, Uni of York
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A #PlayForThePlanet network session ๐ฎ๐ฑ
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Game design as a policy-making method
A game is a playable model of a system. Games create meaning through rules. And what are rules, if not policy?
Hello, my name is Matteo and I am a very serious game designer.
Hereโs what I actually do: PLAYABLE SYSTEMS.
Mostly for policy co-design and climate action.
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Me and my partner playing Daybreak in the dark, by candlelight.
Yesterday there was a massive outage in Portugal. No power, water, internet or phone signal from 11h30 to 00h30. We were prepared.
What better time to crack open our copy of Daybreak, a co-op game about dealing with climate change? We finished it by candlelight, and won!
@mattleacock.bsky.social
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independent researcher and artist specialising in climate change in relation to people, colonial histories, technologies and justice.
Current research: 'Critiquing a 'sustainable military''- Heritage for Global Challenges, Uni of York
angelaytchan.net ๐ฑ
Interdisciplinary research partnerships generating sustainable solutions to global challenges. Newsletter: http://bit.ly/2yVFYz6, YESI ๐ฌ: https://ow.ly/8u2A50Tz00M
Games - Narratives - Things
I'm just some dude. A cardboard cowboy. I also write Space-Biff!, the world's first and only board game review site.
The worldโs leading source of industry news and analysis for board game professionals. Got a story? An anonymous tip? DM or email Mike Didymus-True on mike@boardgamewire.com
Darren Cullen
""Artist"" - Daily Mail
"Britain-hating anarchist who knows the value of nothing" - Johnny Mercer MP.
Hell Bus / Co-curator Museum of Neoliberalism
www.spellingmistakescostlives.com
www.linktr.ee/spellingmistakescostlives
Materialist Videogames Industry Critic โ Author of "Everything To Play For" (Verso Books) w/ 7 translations
Bylines Vice, Guardian, Kotaku etc Bikes, Post-rock, Adorno, Gramsci, Antifascism, Anarcho-Syndicalism, Lust, Negronis ๐ธ๐ด
Email etc: marijamdid.com
Co-director of Abundance. Co-author of Radical Abundance (2025) and author of Generation Left (2019). Co-host of the #ACFM podcast.
UK-based game-maker, writer, university researcher and Green Party member.
manchestergamecentre.org
Tabletop Games, LARP, TTRPG, Horror, Gothic, Weird, Fantastika, Environmental Philosophy.
Find stuff at frankandalex.itch.io and over at academia.edu.
Lecturer/Asst Prof @ Kingโs College London
Host @ Novara Live
Agent: Emma Paterson @ aitken alexander
Writing a book on why capitalism is structurally racist
We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy.
http://common-wealth.org
linktr.ee/common.wealth
The largest mentorship program for marginalised people working in the UK games industry.
Applications for 2025 are closed
Community union for low paid, precarious, migrant and marginalised workers. Our members come from over a hundred countries and work across the economy.
Game Designer known for cooperative games including Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Daybreak
gay artist, game dev in nz // https://debacle.us // auckland, aotearoa new zealand
making Tryhard, a tactics RPG about rugby https://store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/Tryhard/
Game maker, professor at Carnegie Mellon University. My employer has many, often contradicting, views. Currently making Future? No Thanks!
he/him
An independent publisher of radical, leftโwing nonยญโfiction books. Established in 1969, we are one of the oldest radical publishing houses in the world.
plutobooks.com
The largest union for game devs in the UK.
Work in game dev or TTRPG? Join the union: https://www.gameworkers.co.uk/
Former editor at Polygon, and the first tabletop editor named to a major media publication in the US. Founding member of the Vox Media Union, @wgaeast. Email is always best: charleshall14@gmail.com.
