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Mature music games in YOUR area?

...or maybe further away, and you've just heard of them? Anyway, please tell! :)

We are rebuilding a section for traditional music games:
http://musicgames.wikidot.com/wiki:traditional

It is being (somewhat arbitrarily) separated from "historical" ones. But a great moment to extend both!

#musicology #ethnomusicology #music #folkMusic #gameStudies #analogGameStudies #ethnography #culturalStudies

📣 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

... 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

Oh, neat! Researchers have developed a "Living Framework for Understanding Cooperative Games", providing not only useful (sub)categories to analyse such games, but also plenty of game examples:

https://www.lfcooperativegames.com/

This is an incredibly useful tool for my current research focus.

#Gaming #CoOpGames #GameStudies

Neues Jahr, neuer #CfP!
Die letzte #Didaktik #Sonderausgabe auf PAIDIA ist lange her. Was hat sich in der Zwischenzeit getan? Welche neuen Ideen gibt es, um #GameStudies in den Deutschunterricht zu bringen? Was hat sich bewährt?
Thomas Müller und Robin Fürst nehmen sich des Themas an.
https://paidia.de/cfp-game-studies-im-deutschunterricht/

Game design is simple, actually https://www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/game-design-is-simple-actually/ #Fun, #GameDesign, #GameGrammar, #GameNarrative, #GameStudies, #GameUx, #TheoryOfFun, #Ux

🦣🐟🎨 Mammut, Mondfisch & Mona Lisa: In #AnimalCrossing : New Horizons wird #Sammeln zum Spielprinzip – ganz ohne Staub, Erhaltungsrisiken oder Platzmangel. Aber Vorsicht: Nicht der #Fälschung auf den Leim gehen!

Teil 1 der Studierenden-Serie über "Sammeln als kulturelle Praxis" des neuen Blogs der #Museumswissenschaft #Würzburg : https://wuemu.hypotheses.org/179

@st_samida

#GameStudies #Nintendo #Museum

Nataliya Gorbina schlägt in ihrem neuen #Paidia Beitrag den Begriff des 'Animal Fable Games' für eine bestimmte Art #Indiegame vor.
#gamestudies #foxgame #ecogame #humananimalstudies
https://paidia.de/ludic-fox-tales/

Hoch die #Kampfsport - Tassen! Zusammen mit Stefan Simond habe ich ein neues #DiscussionPaper veröffentlicht: "Zwischen Wettkampf und Arbeit am Selbst: Die narrative, ästhetische & spielmechanische Inszenierung von #MartialArts in Digitalen Spielen" repository.iu.org/items/d323ba... #gamestudies

Zwischen Wettkampf und Arbeit ...

Got a little crazy with the Japanese additions...😅

Here are a bunch more #GameStudies and #GameHistory books catalogued into #TheVideoGameLibrary. 🎮❤️

📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙

👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org

Volunteers Wanted! 📕📗📘📙📕📗📘📙

🔴 Join #TheVideoGameLibrary project today! 📚

🔴 Apply here: http://discord.gg/4JqJUs2s2n

Become part of this growing initiative to catalogue #VideoGame literature from across the globe!

Please share with fellow #Readers/#Authors/#Gamers

#Book #Books #bookstodon @bookstodon #GameHisotry #GameStudies #Comics #VideoGames #VideoGame #Gaming #Gamer #Games #Nintendo #Xbox #PlayStation #PS5 #Steam #PC #PCGaming #VideoGameHistory #Retro #RetroComputing #Bookworm #Library #Fun

ANOTHER book with "Sun Tzu" in the title graces
#TheVideoGameLibrary
🤯

Stretching from 3000 BC to today (2006), this book investigates how military cultures and the evolution of
#VideoGames
have been closely linked.

Find more here: thevideogamelibrary.org

#GameStudies #War #VideoGame #VideoGames #Game #Gaming #Gamer #Strategy #Military #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #SunTzu #COD #CallOfDury #MedalOfHonor #Battlefield #FPS

In 2001, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky authored "Lara Croft: Modell, Medium, Cyberheldin" - a German analysis of the top-down marketing strategies and bottom-up frenzy surrounding the #TombRaider phenomenon. 🇩🇪

In 2005, it was translated into English as...

LARA CROFT: CYBER HEROINE
👉
https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/lara-croft-cyber-heroine

#TombRaider1 #TombRaiderII #AngelinaJolie #CrystalDynamics #SquareEnix #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Gaming #Game #Games #GenderStudies #GameStudies #Comics #Book #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

In 2001, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky authored "Lara Croft: Modell, Medium, Cyberheldin" - a German analysis of the top-down marketing strategies and bottom-up frenzy surrounding the #TombRaider phenomenon. 🇩🇪

In 2005, it was translated into English as...

LARA CROFT: CYBER HEROINE
👉
https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/lara-croft-cyber-heroine

#TombRaider1 #TombRaiderII #AngelinaJolie #CrystalDynamics #SquareEnix #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Gaming #Game #Games #GenderStudies #GameStudies #Comics #Book #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

In 2001, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky authored "Lara Croft: Modell, Medium, Cyberheldin" - a German analysis of the top-down marketing strategies and bottom-up frenzy surrounding the #TombRaider phenomenon. 🇩🇪

In 2005, it was translated into English as...

LARA CROFT: CYBER HEROINE
👉
https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/lara-croft-cyber-heroine

#TombRaider1 #TombRaiderII #AngelinaJolie #CrystalDynamics #SquareEnix #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Gaming #Game #Games #GenderStudies #GameStudies #Comics #Book #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

In 2001, Astrid Deuber-Mankowsky authored "Lara Croft: Modell, Medium, Cyberheldin" - a German analysis of the top-down marketing strategies and bottom-up frenzy surrounding the #TombRaider phenomenon. 🇩🇪

In 2005, it was translated into English as...

LARA CROFT: CYBER HEROINE
👉
https://www.thevideogamelibrary.org/book/lara-croft-cyber-heroine

#TombRaider1 #TombRaiderII #AngelinaJolie #CrystalDynamics #SquareEnix #VideoGame #VideoGames #Gamer #Gaming #Game #Games #GenderStudies #GameStudies #Comics #Book #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon

«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

Congrats to Jordan Magnuson for the release of #GamePoems earlier this year!

Discover how #VideoGames and #Poetry intersect, transcending linguistic boundaries to create a fascinating and innovative art form.

Now catalogued in #TheVideoGameLibrary:

👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/game-poems-videogame-design-as-lyric-practice

#VideoGame #Game #Gaming #Gamer #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon #Poem #GameStudies

Je ferai un #stream #Twitch demain mercredi 19 avril à 20h, sur le thème de la modernité :

- À 20h, je lirais l'article de W. Ayres-Bennett, "La modernité de l'usage linguistique de L'Astrée vue par les yeux d'un remarqueur", disponible librement en ligne :

https://www.cairn.info/revue-dix-septieme-siecle-2007-2-page-255.htm&wt.src=pdf

- Ensuite, nous jouerons à "Sonic Mania" (2017, Headcannon et PagodaWest Games)

#GameStudies #JeuVidéo #Linguistique #Astrée #Vulgarisation

https://www.twitch.tv/mathieugoux

Funded PhD studentship available in representations of ecology in tabletop/board games!
Really fantastic project with Richard Carter and Pen Holland: https://www.york.ac.uk/professorial-jobs/lcab/#phd3

Deadline 9th Jan

#phd #studentship #funding #gamedesign #gamestudies #tabletop #boardgames