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
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
You can watch this in video form here! You can tell a lot about how a horror movie by considering who the film is asking you to root for. Sometimes, we root for the “final girl,” or some potential victim… Continue Reading
Hello everyone! Unbelievably, we’ve already arrived to March 2021, and with a new month comes a new show in the Serious Play franchise. (Maybe the Serious Play Cinematic Universe!) Every Thursday from 4-6pm CST, I’m going to be playing,… Continue Reading
I started playing Final Fantasy 14 in 2019. It was for my undergraduate senior thesis in which I compared communities of two Massive Multiplayer online roleplaying games (MMORPG). It was fun. I ran around on my first character getting… Continue Reading
But how does one love what’s made of light and so far away – Emilia Philips Latte foam, the smell of a hastily made lunch, and buzzing computer fans are the essence of Serious Play. Our little collab, spread out… Continue Reading
Given the interest in last week’s episode of Lunchzone, I thought that I would put out a public version of my dungeon generator with a brief outline here on how it is to be used. The post is divided into… Continue Reading
Originally, this post was going to be an exploration of Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot as a JRPG—and I guess it’s not…not that, in some ways—but then I finally finished the Kakarot main story and thought it would be a good… Continue Reading