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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸
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Assistant Professor Game Design, Iowa State University Gamer, scholar, author, hobbyist dev. Research interests include game cultures, video game history, and archeogaming. Gen AI is theft. 🏳️‍⚧️🤝🏳️‍⚧️
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Senior illustrator, with 20 years of experience and a specialty in game art.

I haven't been able to find a paying project for months. Can you help? Every share is appreciated.
The symposium will be 3-6 May 2026 in Iowa, USA, and the deadline for submissions is 19 December, 2025. Here's the flyer:
We're hosting the 3rd Geogames Symposium next year at Iowa State! The call for papers has opened on EasyChair, and we're welcoming proposals for short papers, workshops, game demos, or a students' forum. #gamestudies #geogames #seriousgames easychair.org/conferences?...
Log in to EasyChair for 3GGS
easychair.org
Rolled my ankle on the way to campus this morning, and I’m supposed to teach this afternoon… I think I need to find a stool for my classroom
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Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
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This is amazing: @ladwp.com, the Los Angeles utility, has launched a program that will install solar+battery systems on qualifying low-to-moderate-income households, *for free*.

Yes: free.

If you know someone eligible, tell them to apply!
Self-Generation Incentive Program
The Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP) helps qualified LADWP residential customers install solar and battery storage systems by providing financial incentives. This program supports clean energy...
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No worries about tangents, I’m a long winded professor myself. And your points about the genealogies of games is also important. I’m not saying that the three tracks were isolated, but all three grew out of separate spaces to eventually merge in the modern day.
Again, looking at the games in the ‘80s you see D&D-inspired strategy-focused games for PCs. Arcade games were borrowing from pinball & focused on coin-drop with fad-based games that would come and go. And video games were trying to bridge the gap between the two w/ inferior tech. to be affordable.
Even looking solely at the US, yes there was a “video game crash,” but the industries of arcade games and PC games in the US were barely affected. Pop. game history broadly needs to recognize non-US history and acknowledge that for the longest time PC/arcade/video games were all very different. 2/
I think it’s also important to get semantic about it too. There is a bit of push back amongst game historians to separate the three industries. While yes, we can call everything digital a “video game,” historically that term was tied directly to the unique technology of home consoles and CRT TVs 1/
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Long shot, but did anyone by chance download Japanese game hacker makimuraMFG's VRC7 Family BASIC or MMC5 Family BASIC hacks in the past 11 or so years they've been online? His website is down and they weren't crawled by Archive.
I have no background in it, but I’ve noticed that blind spot as well. Lots of analysis of games as texts, or works of art, but not performance.
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We're looking to get a Game Gear cartridge PCB designed!

If someone with cartridge PCB design experience is interested, please send us a DM!

This would be PAID work!

RTs appreciated x3
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One of these days I’ll finish the planned trilogy, as well as revise the books. I wrote them in grad school, so paying for a copy editor was too expensive.
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Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.

OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
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As an academic/scholar/person, what are some “classics” in your field other people are shocked you haven’t read/watched/played?

People are shocked when they find out I’m in #gamestudies and haven’t played The Last of Us.
Guess I shouldn’t dress casually on campus
In the campus bookstore today:

Elderly person: (trying to make small talk) “So what year are you? Freshman?”
Me: (In shorts and flip flops) “I’m faculty, actually”
Due to a file corruption I lost 5-6 pages of writing. Not a ton of work, but I found out about a week later so I can barely remember what those pages were about
Considering that Academia was my plan D as an adult, I could have been a few other things. But right now my plan is to open a Lego café when I get burnt out, lose my job to budget cuts, or retire (whichever comes first). Part of me wants to go make games for a living, but not be in the industry
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REPLY TO THIS FORM AND REPOST with your game or any game you know that has been removed by itch.io or steam because of this ban and if possible where the creator can be found and the game can be accessed (No Piracy)