Love seeing former students do great things! Check it out - pre-order it and beef your game design game ;) www.routledge.com/Designing-Ga...
This book talks about the importance of social mechanics in games and how these mechanics evolved over time to accommodate new technologies and new social contexts. It looks at the innovation happenin...
Need a reason to attend the last panel of CGSA? @hanine.bsky.social and I are presenting a paper on the troubling fact that you can cook squid in front of your octopus villagers in Animal Crossing and nobody bats an eye! Come for the slides full of memes, stay for the critique of anthropocentrism.
It was a pleasure to present on the Ecology, Environmentalism, and Climate Change panel today at the @cgsaacej.bsky.social annual conference. I'll have my paper, "Dreams of Extraction: The Techno-Ecological Imaginary of Bethesda Game Studios' Starfield," up on on Zenodo soon.
OUR CONFERENCE IS RELOCATING! CGSA 2024 will be held at Concordia University instead of McGill. In particular, we have secured rooms in the EV building, home of the Milieux Institute and just a 25-minute walk from our original venue. The hybrid format will remain fully intact. More news soon 🫡❤️🔥
Are you a student attending CGSA this June? Submit to this year’s Best Paper Awards for a chance at a cash prize and bragging rights! Send us your 5 to 15 min video papers by May 17th! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
CGSA/ACÉJ has landed on Blue Sky! Calling all gamer scholars to follow, like, and skeet(?) this new beginning! (And see you at our 2024 conference this June!)
