Lu Gossian

Luiza Gossian - Come chat to me about Seriously Casual Games, Genocide Games, Applied Game Design, Technical Design, and/or Experimental Design

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Today's highlight: Luiza Gossian whose research involves some seriously casual games..
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Do what you love for a living, and you will never have a day off for the rest of your life.

Detachment Undone A casual game about the ten stages of genocide.

I've been working on a game that turns the ten stages of genocide into a casual game that can serve as a primer for understanding the topic.

Learn more about it here: www.lugossian.com/games/detach...

Detachment Undone A casual game about the ten stages of genocide.

I've been working on a game that turns the ten stages of genocide into a casual game that can serve as a primer for understanding the topic.

Learn more about it here: www.lugossian.com/games/detach...

Many don't know about it, despite it having inspired the Holocaust and the coining of the term "genocide".

Many also don't know that genocide isn't a one-off event, but a process where each step is geared towards destroying the concept of a specific group of people.

Today is the 110th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide where prominent Armenian intellectuals and community leaders were rounded up and detained, deported, or killed. What followed were the massacres and death marches that reduced the Ottoman Armenian population to a quarter of its original size.

Belonging Doesn't Need Permission Finding a home at GDC

Late little GDC post. Safe to say I had a good time.

www.lugossian.com/post/belongi...

Three self-inflicted days of frenzied torture later and we have The Missteps of Jonathan Gruber: A minimalist platformer where you swim through blocks suspended in a drab abyss.

Buggy, but playable. Just missing the cacophony jazz soundtrack

Play it!
gossianblurs.itch.io/the-missteps...

#LDJam

Today is panic day #LDJam

The most important thing for staying sane in a game jam is to have a personal development goal. For this one, I'm determined to get to grips with Unity's animation system, so I don't feel guilty for spending the entire first day rigging, breaking, and re-rigging a single character 🤷‍♀️ #LDJam

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Gee I sure wish I had a way to organise all these ideas and make sure I wasn’t missing anything OH WAIT I doo! Game design notebook is doing its job nicely #ldjam

“Deeper and deeper” feels like it was only a few jams ago but ok there’s a theme to the themes so be it

Kicking off the jam with an unreasonable lie in 😴

LUDUM DARE LUDUM DARE LUDUM DARE! It’s going to be a fine weekend

The rush that comes after making a Windows-only game work on a Mac after way too much tinkering is why gaming on a Mac will always be more satisfying

Last night I managed to get my little game as a little app onto my little phone and I have been riding that puny achievement high all day

Have you typed those keys to transparency?!

I'd say as an academic who has also worked in the industry and does practise-based research: don't write us off so fast! Many academics are designers, and many designers are doing academic research

That explains my new carpet crevice

That’s what that was?!? 😮

David Lynch saying one day the sadness will end. R.I.P.

Detachment Undone A casual game about the ten stages of genocide.

And this little oxymoron:

www.gossianblurs.com/games/detach...

Packing Pack your bags and leave. A short game about the exodus of Nagorno-Karabakh.

Hello 🤠 Lately I've been testing my resilience by making games about genocide and whatnot

Like this one:

www.gossianblurs.com/games/packing

Oh goody, another timesink