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You Can Carry it With You

June 12, 2021Wren Dalton Leave a Comment

…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 →

Lunchzone, Serious Play, Shows Artifact, Code Vein, Memento, Space, Vestige

Big Number, Bigger Questions

May 8, 2021Wren Dalton Leave a Comment
BEEG Yoshi

“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 →

Games, Lunchzone, Multiplayer, RPG, Serious Play, Shows, ttrpg beeg, big number, data visualization, interview, number, yoshi

How I Racked up 200 Hours on Wingspan

April 26, 2021Janelle Malagon 2 Comments
Audio settings menu for Wingspan. Players have control over

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 →

Games, Multiplayer, Multiplayer, Uncategorized digital board game, music, sound, wingspan

Thinking Outside the Box with Sokoban and Baba is You

April 26, 2021Erik Kersting 1 Comment

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 →

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Communities of Play: A Livestreaming Symposium, April 17-18, 2021

April 9, 2021Janelle Malagon Leave a Comment
Communities of Play announcement banner. Livestreaming symposium dates: April 17-18, 2021, broadcasted on twitch.tv/serious_play.

  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 →

Serious Play, Uncategorized events, serious play, symposium

What I Played Over My Pandemic Staycation

April 9, 2021Ryan House 2 Comments

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 →

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The Heart of the City: Constructing Tokyo in Persona 5 Royal

March 31, 2021David Kocik 1 Comment

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 →

RPG, Single Player, Uncategorized

Excel DM: Borrowed Descriptions and the Indeterminate Promise of Self-Regulating Data.

March 19, 2021@matthewkeracher 2 Comments

  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 →

Coffee Break, ttrpg D&D, DM, Excel, programming

Come Disco on the Discord

March 10, 2021Morgan Forbush 3 Comments

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 →

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Carrion: The Movie Monster Simulator

March 8, 2021Erik Kersting Leave a Comment

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 →

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