Adrianna ✨

A mockup of The Time We Have packaging surrounded by floating door cards. The cover features two brothers sitting on opposite sides of a door with a purple flower motif

The Time We Have: A Conversation Between Brothers is NOW AVAILABLE

A tragic two-player zombie roleplaying game played on opposite sides of a closed door. A game about what it means to be a brother.

Want to learn more about the game? It's time for a megathread ⬇️

Conference // Conférence Version française ci-dessous The 2026 CGSA/ACÉJ annual conference will be a hybrid event co-hosted by the Technoculture, Art and Games Lab (TAG) at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec&nbs…

📣✨Call for Papers!📣✨

CGSA 2026 will take place at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec from June 11-14th, 2026.

This year’s chosen theme is “On Repeat”.

Submissions are due January 7th, 2026 at 11:59 PM PST

Full CfP here: gamestudies.ca/conference-c...

The Expressionist Games Manifesto “Work! Intoxication! Brain-racking! Chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up! Rapturous birth pangs! Jabbing of the brush, preferably right…

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

Title: Gender Census 2025. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Illustration: Two boxes, each with photos of relevant dictionary pages.

Are you gender Teflon? Do you hoard genders like a squirrel?

If so, do this survey: survey.gendercensus.com

We're about 60 responses short of 32,000.

#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #gender

We can’t let the market decide what we remember and forget Emily Friedman and Evan Torner on why gaming histories matter.

On Rascal today, Emily Friedman and Evan Torner talk about the fragility of digital spaces, the danger of letting the market decide who gets remembered, and how history was always more diverse than we might think.

Officially ran out of all 250 of my #BlacklistCGE zines—so I’m printing 500 more!!!!!

Indie Game Design and Music 🖋️📖🎶 Make a Playset for Jukebox (Workshop) Signup in the thread 👇 Thursday 10am – 12pm @ Diana Jones Awards table (Hall C) Saturday 10am – 12pm @ Diana Jones Awards table (Hall C) Jukebox ChainxLink MASH-UP 🎤🔗 (Signing & Creator Meetup) Friday 1pm-2pm @ Booth 449 Buy Jukebox @ GenCon 💸 Plus One EXP & Indie Press Revolution @ Booth 449

Jukebox is at GenCon!

Indie Game Design and Music 🖋️📖🎶
Make a Playset for Jukebox (Workshop)
www.gencon.com/events/299907
www.gencon.com/events/299910

Buy Jukebox
@plusoneexp.bsky.social & @ipr.bsky.social @ Booth 449

Jukebox ChainxLink MASH-UP 🎤🔗
Friday 1pm-2pm @ Booth 449

Come hear me yell at you about orbital blues

A handmade copy of Giant High Tide!! Coming to Gen Con!!

Working on something BIG for gen con this year! 🌊🐚

Come check out this special demo edition of High Tide at Underdog Games booth #1319

🎲✂️

A reminder for anyone going to Gen Con next week:

Please MASK on the plane there, in the convention, in bars, restaurants, anywhere that isn't well ventilated!!!

I LOVE them

This was such a phenomenal panel to be a part of. 😭🫶 big shoutout to Matt for live skeeting us—playbour at work! 🤘

OH MY GOSH YES! I’ve been itching to write something on playersexual games, but dissertation, so I’m over the moon you did instead. Hyped to read it!

another dwts fan hell yes!! and the good takes 👌

Congratulations to my student Dr. @iceberge.bsky.social on a successful @ucftandt.bsky.social defense of "Unplayable Games: A Ludoarsonist's Manifesto on Trans Play and Possibility in Digital and Analog Gaming" today! 🎉🎉🎉

Picture of poster and three other panelists

This is my favorite picture in the universe rn, oh my gosh! Shoutout to the AMAZING @internetmaggie.bsky.social @jeanketterling.bsky.social @percivalhornak.bsky.social so grateful to have presented with y’all this #SCMS24

😂😂😂

Promotional image for a talk on the video game Scarlet Maiden. Title: “Scarlet Maiden’s NSFW Monster Menagerie: How Sex Games Can Reshape Toxic Gaming Culture” by Adrianna Burton and Isabelle Williams. Panel is on Saturday 3/16 from 9-10:45 AM EDT. Sponsored by the Adult Film & Media SIG and Video Game Studies SIG

Promotional image for a panel titled “Playing (With) Sexy Beasts.” Panel is on Saturday 3/16 from 9-10:45 AM EDT. Sponsored by the Adult Film & Media SIG and Video Game Studies SIG. Small note that reads “AI art is bad but we’re broke grads.”

Ahh, it’s almost tomorrow! Join us bright and early in Back Bay B (2nd floor) for an erotic start to the day 😅 #SCMS24

Why must our panels be at the same time 😭🥲

Whoops, wrong hashtag 😭 #SCMS24

Promo image for talk titled “Scarlet Maiden’s NSFW Monster Menagerie: How Sex Games Can Reshape Toxic Gaming Culture” by Izzy Williams & Adrianna Burton. Sponsored by the Adult Film & Media SIG and Video Game Studies SIG. Panel occurs on Saturday 3/16 from 9-10:45 AM

So excited to be co-authoring a paper on indie game Scarlet Maiden with the one and only Izzy Williams! Saturday morning at 9 AM, come on over while we discuss flesh capital, bodies, & sin 👿😝 #SCMS2024

Cover image for panel “Playing (With) Sexy Beasts” which is sponsored by the Adult Film & Media SIG and Video Game Studies SIG. The panel takes place Saturday 3/16 from 9-10:45AM. Small note saying “AI a art is bad but we’re broke grads.”

It's that time of year when I talk about monsters at #SCMS2024 🧌 @jeanketterling.bsky.social & I are honored to co-chair "Playing (With) Sexy Beasts." Join us @ 9 AM on Saturday to hear about hot monsters from us and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, @internetmaggie.bsky.social, & Izzy Williams 🔥

TTRPG content creator & scholar chiming in, would love to!

Aforementioned co-conspirators are @higheredgaming.bsky.social, Annie Wofford, & Kimberly Dennin! ✨

cover image of toolkit

My colleagues and I have finally released our equity-minded mentoring toolkit. Research shows that mentoring relationships are associated with vital, positive outcomes for graduate student development. Learn more and view our hands-on activities: equitygraded.org/wp-content/u...

Screenshot of the front page of the Game Studies journal, volume 23 issue 2

It’s here!!! My first Game Studies publication, with the one and only Kimberly Dennin! Come check it out:

https://gamestudies.org/2302/articles/denninburton