#gamesstudies — Public Fediverse posts

42 - obviously the "Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything", as readers of #speculativefiction are well aware - and also the number of the new #Inklings Yearbook! Read our blogpost & download the Yearbook from our repository, free & #openaccess

head over to: https://libaac.de/home/full-view-post/detail/News/read-the-new-inklings-yearbook-42-in-open-access/

#LiteraryStudies #Fantasy #FantasyLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies

A new addition to our #openaccess repository The Stacks - Vol. 42 of the Inklings Yearbook - on children in #fantasy literature & on fantasy for children!

📖 Follow the link to read & download for free https://s.gwdg.de/kzWLox

#childrensliterature #EnglishLiterature #FilmStudies #GamesStudies #RPG

This essay collection, ed. by Kelly I. Aliano & Adam Crowley analyses a great variety of #videogames through an #EnvironmentalHumanities / #Ecocriticism lens. How do games shape environment(s) & our perception of it outside of the game?

#GamesStudies

Read essays on subliminal dream creations in 200 years of #Gothic works - from #Coleridge & #Walpole to #Piranesi #Goya & #Fuseli & #MaryWollstonecraft to #vampires #Marxism & videogames such as #TheWitcher & #Bloodbourne

Find the book here:
https://s.gwdg.de/B3pPBe

#LiteraryStudies #GamesStudies #Romanticism #RomanticLiterature

#Brettspiel "Jagd auf Kohlenklau" im #Museum #Uelzen. NS-Propagandaspiel 1942 ohne einschlägige Symbolik.

#GamesHistory #GamesStudies #HistoryOfGames #DrittesReich @historikerinnen @archivistodon #histodons @histodons
Brettspiel

NEU bei VSG von Rudolf Inderst

"Wie digitale Spiele unsere Wahrnehmung von Demokratie prägen" geht der Darstellung dystopischer Welten in digitalen Spielen und ihre Auswirkungen auf unser Demokratieverständnis nach.

https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/die-macht-der-dystopien-ein-vortrag-auf-dem-gamescom-congress-2024/

#GamesStudies #Dystopien

Critical Hits, an anthology edited by @jrobertlennon & #CarmenMariaMachado featuring 18 essays & 1 comic by writer-gamers about their relationships with #videogames. hf!
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lvl up here: https://opac.sub.uni-goettingen.de/DB=1/XMLPRS=N/PPN?PPN=1872102158

#AmericanLiterature #GamesStudies #LiteraryStudies #CulturalStudies

I’m looking for #books about #gamedev written by authors with a #socialjustice lens. Any suggestions??

#BooksWorthReading #games #gamesstudies #anticapitalism #anticolonialism

Back in October 2021, Crystal Dynamics announced that the Storyworld museum in Groningen, the Netherlands, would be hosting a special exhibition – “The World of Lara Croft – 25 Years of Tomb Raider” – which would detail the history of the #TombRaider games and highlight Lara Croft’s impact on popular culture.

✨ Read the account of my visit over here: https://tombraiderhorizons.com/2022/02/13/a-visit-to-storyworlds-the-world-of-lara-croft-exhibition/

#LaraCroft #Gaming #RetroGaming #VideoGames #GamesStudies

Games studies friends, JRPG buffs, and good ol' weebs: Looking for names of JRPGs (and other genres) where the player character is "mute" or only responds with "..."

#JRPG #GamesStudies #MediaStudies

Le dernier numéro de Sciences du #jeu est en ligne :
https://journals.openedition.org/sdj/4374

Cartographier la poésie et la politique du bruit vidéoludique avec @Gouximan @ypsenn @EstebanGrine #gamesstudies