“You see the journey starts here, the real fun starts here, when everything changes…” – Evan Jennings as Habit We’ve charted a course through two alternate reality games on Serious Play. We investigated the voyeuristic view of This House has… Continue Reading
…At the center of a low dishonest decade where selves grow immense, then shrink… – David Wojahn Let’s start with a simple question. What is this thing (Figure 1.0)? Well, in the world of Code Vein this little object is called a… Continue Reading
“I do not Dunkey, but I might have Spaghetti and meatballs if you ask nicely” Landon from GameStop Recently, the Lunch Zone crew and I got around to playing Heart of Enya – which is a game with relatively… Continue Reading
Ok, obviously not all of that is play time. I’m in graduate school, and none of my seminar projects are about Wingspan, so this isn’t something I do for hours on end. But…I did convince half of my family to… Continue Reading
You can watch this (admittedly quite long) video rather than read the text below, if that floats your boat: Thinking Outside the Box with Sokoban and Baba is You There are some game concepts that feel like they have existed… Continue Reading
You are cordially invited to join us for Communities of Play: A Livestreaming Symposium, hosted by Serious Play/the Digital Cultures Collaboratory. The symposium is taking place on April 17-18, featuring online presentations of and about streaming video gameplay and… Continue Reading
Lately, I’ve been thinking about the games I spent a lot of time with during our mass social exile. The middle of March might usually be rather late for this kind of year-end retrospective, but if we learned anything these… Continue Reading
CW: Violence and suicide are mentioned. The term “memento” has a complex etymology. From the Latin for “remember” or “I remember,” memento may point to a sinister remnant or a “memento mori,” a physical reminder of the death that… Continue Reading
During Coffee Break last week, I demonstrated an aspect of a programme I have been writing for Dungeon Masters. This programme will allow a group of DMs to build a world together, which is stored on an SQL Server.… Continue Reading
I personally started to use Discord late 2017, early 2018. I made a server to keep in contact with a few friends that had moved away from my undergraduate college and I was invited to another server to hang out… Continue Reading