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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 3d

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.

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · 6d

The symposium will be 3-6 May 2026 in Iowa, USA, and the deadline for submissions is 19 December, 2025. Here's the flyer:

A colorful flyer that reads: "Games and play for a better world, 3rd Geogames symposium May 3-6, 2026, Iowa, USA. The 3rd Geogames Symposium provides an international forum for researchers, developers, and game enthusiasts to present, exchange, and advance knowledge in the field of geogames. The symposium examines the potential of analogue and digital geogames. It highlights how geogames can be employed to explore Earth as a complex, living system of interdependent actors and self-regulating processes, thereby inspiring more sustainable ways of living and informing the reshaping of human-environment interactions.
Key research topics include and are not limited to: geogames and community engagement, envisioning the future with geogames, geogames applications, emerging technologies and geogames, Geogame design and evaluation.
Submission types: short paper, workshop, game demonstration and game play, students' forum.
Deadlines: first submission for peer-review (December 19), reviews completed (January 30); acceptance letters sent to the authors (February 15); Upload the final contributions (March 16).
Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences?conf=3ggs
Conference website: geogameslab.net

Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · 6d

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

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Oct 2

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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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · Oct 1

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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David Roberts @volts.wtf · Sep 30

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...

www.ladwp.com

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 27

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.

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 27

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.

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 27

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/

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 27

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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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 27

I’m part of the newly launched game design program at Iowa State University: www.design.iastate.edu/academics/un...

Bachelor of Science in Game Design – College of Design

Iowa State University College of Design

www.design.iastate.edu

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Kevin Bunch (ubersaurus) @atariarchive.org · Sep 25

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.

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 24

Indiana Jones Belongs In A Museum GIF

Alt: Indiana Jones Belongs In A Museum GIF

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 22

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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Two Black Cats @twoblackcats.jp · Aug 6

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

a cartoon drawing of a bear and a cat with the number 36 on their heads

ALT: a cartoon drawing of a bear and a cat with the number 36 on their heads

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 9

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.

Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 9

It is!

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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · Sep 6

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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Florence Smith Nicholls @florencesn.bsky.social · Sep 3

I wrote a piece for the Guardian games newsletter this week on my PhD research into preserving play experiences, and why I think that the most archaeological games are those that that actually make you *think* like one 🏺

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/s...

Forget Tomb Raider and Uncharted, there’s a new generation of games about archaeology – sort of

In this week’s newsletter: an archaeologist (and gamer) on why we love to walk around finding objects in-game and in real life

www.theguardian.com

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Sep 2

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.

Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Aug 22

Guess I shouldn’t dress casually on campus

Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Aug 22

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”

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Aug 9

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

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Jared Hansen, PhD. 🇵🇸 @jaredchansen.bsky.social · Aug 1

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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mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · Jul 26

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)

mandoqueer (Hypnobait) @mandoqueer.itch.io · Jul 26

I've also made a google form for this exact purpose
forms.gle/1ERJtaVUxQSq...

NSFW Game Compendium Submission

This is a form made for people to let us know about NSFW material that has been affected by recent policy changes in Steam and Itch.io. Please verify if the game has been added into the document befor...

forms.gle

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