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📣 Announcing the judging panel for the 2026 Toxify Game Design Challenge!
🧐 This panel of experts in game design and/or trauma-informed practices will score & critique the games submitted by this year's Finalists. Winning games will share a $10,000 USD prize pool.
📆 The Finalists will submit their completed #toxify games by July 28th.
🌐 https://toxify.org/judges/index.html#judges
#gamedesign #gamedev #contest #indiegame #TraumaInformed #nonprofit #games #toxic #GameStudies #prevention #GameJournalism #VideoGames #education #manosphere #ToxicRelationships #noAI
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... heute habe ich es endlich geschafft, mein Profil dort zu vervollständigen und freue mich nun auf den Austausch sowie Kooperationen mit Gleichgesinnten! :)
#Spielwissenschaft #gamestudies #Mitgliedschaft #academia #Forschung #Lehre #Spiel #games #modding #research #education #Bildung #Spiele -
My proposal for this years SHOT conference in Luxembourg was accepted! I contribute to the "Code Histories" session with a talk about my #BASIC research project.
#GameStudies #BreakOut #CriticalCodeStudies #ComputerArchaeology #ComputerPhilology
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Save the date & spread the word:
Tomorrow I will visit the "Haus der Computerspiele" (http://www.spielepower.de/) in Leipzig to meet René Meyer who curates an enormous collection of #Games, #RetroComputers and #GameConsoles. The tour will be presented in my lecture series "The World of #GameLabs".
If you like, you can attend online:
17.12.24 - 16:15pm at https://mluconf.uni-halle.de/b/ste-zv2-y8r-ecd
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«I videogiochi fanno male!» urla inferocita la folla di genitori, insegnanti, e… mi sembra anche di vedere dei pediatri. Ma sarà vero? Come dicono il Bardo, il papà di Calvin, i Weight Watchers, e perfino i Bon Jovi: il troppo stroppia. 🧵👇
#VideoGiochi #MythBuster #Educazione #Socialita #GiocoDiRuolo #DipendenzaDaGioco #Scienza #ImpattoPositivo #GameStudies #Gamification #ViolenzaNeiVideogiochi #GameIndustry #SaluteMentale #EduGames
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Next up: This fantastic book dives into the evolving discipline of procedural storytelling in #GameDesign. 📚
I've only ever heard great things about it:
#VideoGames #Gaming #VideoGame #Writing #GameDev #CuriousExpedition #Duskers #DwarfFortress #FrostPunk #MuderOnTheZinderneuf #StateOfDecay #TheChurchInTheDarkness #TheShroudedIsle #TheSims #Voyageur #WeHappyFew #NarrativeDesign #CRCPress #Book #Books #Bookstodon #GameWriting #GameStudies #Ludology #WorldBuilding
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Another entry to #TheVideoGameLibrary that explores #Storytelling in #VideoGames.
Beginning with the structural features of #GameDesign and play, Prof. Amy Green's #Book explores #Games as both compelling examples of storytelling and important cultural artifacts. She analyzes fundamentals like immersion, world-building and player agency.
#Gaming #Bioshock #Fallout #Fallout4 #MassEffect #TheLastOfUs #McFarland #GameStudies #GameWriting #Writing #GameDev #Bookstodon