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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 5d

This weekend, put on some amazing talks from the summer as you figure out that "work-life balance" thing.

#GenerationAnalog
#StayAnalog

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GENERATION ANALOG 2025 "PUNK" - YouTube

Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2025. This year’s one-day conference will be on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The onli...

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 15d

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social 12.3 is out: analoggamestudies.org feature essays about transmediation and Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Tabletop Simulations as Museums, Leveraging Contingency in Taskmaster and in Mental Health, and a review of Around the World in Eighty Games #analoggamestudies

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 7d

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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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 16d

Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available!

Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.

#StayAnalog

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 18d

Analog Game Studies had a strong showing at The Strong -- We held a roundtable about our origins and what an open-access, curated, BIPOC-centered academic games journal looks like.

Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 28d

Deeply impressed that the BIPOC Game Studies Conference at The Strong Museum hasn't happened yet--it's in 2 days--but the Proceedings are already available: playstorypress.org/books/procee... (@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has an entry, Aaron Trammell & I have a brief essay...) #playstorypress

Proceedings of the BIPOC Game Studies Conference 2025 – Play Story Press

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · 23d

There are MANY journals in analog game studies, & journals that publish on AP!

And you're in luck: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social virtual conference Generation Analog are on YouTube, where designers and academics and more share their insights and hang out together:

www.youtube.com/@analoggames...

Analog Game Studies

The official journal of Analog Game Studies. Scholarly content about tabletop, live-action, performance, and generally awesome games. Read more at our website analogamestudies.org.

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Aug 22

The website is restored and up!
Go read your fave article and maybe a new one?

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Aug 21

It's grant-writing & course prep season for many of us in the analog games community, which of course means that AGS would be taken offline by a substantial cyberattack, depriving us all of crucial scholarship for our proposals and syllabi. We are working to restore the site as quickly as possible.

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Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social · Aug 7

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has its own Wikipedia entry now! Woo! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_...

#GameStudies #BoardGames #NerdyAcademics

Analog Game Studies Journal - Wikipedia

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · Aug 12

I referenced a "purple breakdancing book" in my keynote for the conference run by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ... Edmond found the book and sent it to me.

Overflowing with gratitude and emotion to have this piece of my childhood.

Thank you!!!!

Photo of the book "Breakdancing: Mr Fresh and the Supreme Rockers show you how to do it!"

Purple cover with two breakdancers in blue jumpers on the cover.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · Jul 25

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.

Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!

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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · Jul 23

Fresh off of @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's #GenerationAnalog2025, I wonder what'll be on the docket for @MoPOP's "Your Turn! Roll the Dice. Build the World. Make Your Move." www.mopop.org/events/table...

Your Turn! Roll the Dice. Build the World. Make Your Move. | Museum of Pop Culture

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Jul 20

Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years!

It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.

#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog

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The official journal of Analog Game Studies. Scholarly content about tabletop, live-action, performance, and generally awesome games. Read more at our website analogamestudies.org.

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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · Jul 19

Just so happens that @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's #GenerationAnalog2025 was all about #punk #hope #community: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... The synergy is real... Superman Soars, Brimming with Hope and Punk Rock mycomicrelief.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/s... #supermanispunk #kindnessispunk

Superman Soars, Brimming with Hope and Punk Rock

To say I was excited for the writer/director James Gunn’s Superman movie and the official birth of the new DCU is an understatement. As a kid, I enjoyed Superman. When I returned to reading comics …

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Jul 18

Missed Generation Analog 2025?

Want to revisit a panel or lecture?

Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

GENERATION ANALOG 2025 "PUNK"

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Quinn murphy @gamefiend.bsky.social · Jul 17

This was really fun. Thanks for having me!

Really loving the community around this conference and the other talks and panels that are happening. Y'all should definitely join.

Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Jul 17

We had the remarkable @gamefiend.bsky.social keynote talk about intersections of hip-hop and TTRPGs!!

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PB Berge ✨ @persephone.blue · Jul 17

So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨

A title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.

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Tim Hutchings @timhutchings.bsky.social · Jul 17

Generation Analog was very good and I am deeply ashamed that I forgot to promote it in my newsletter.

Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · Jul 17

Now we are learning about Play, Punk, and Pedagogy on this remarkable panel!

#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog

Generation Analog Punk Pedagogy and Play slide

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Aasa T 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @rosgakori.bsky.social · Jul 17

Generation Analog 2025 was amazing, as it was last year! This year I contended myself to be just a spectator, but I will hopefully be back speaking there again in the future! Thank you @analoggamestudies.bsky.social for this gift of a conference.

STAY ANALOG, GAMERS! GET EXCITED, NERDS!

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Dr. Emily Friedman @friede.bsky.social · Jul 18

@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has been VERY quick, so if you missed the live panels and keynotes, all of the conference recordings are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now:

GENERATION ANALOG 2025 "PUNK" - YouTube

Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2025. This year’s one-day conference will be on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The onli...

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Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · Jul 18

This is your (and my) chance to catch up with the excellent panels at Generation Analog 2025, the free online conference organized by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social on July 17.

Click on the link below!

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#analoggamestudies #generationanalog2025

GENERATION ANALOG 2025 "PUNK" - YouTube

Analog Game Studies and Game in Lab are proud to announce Generation Analog 2025. This year’s one-day conference will be on Thursday, July 17, 2025. The onli...

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Shelly Jones (they/them) @shellyjones.bsky.social · Jul 18

We had an amazing PUNK conference yesterday and the videos are already up thanks to the talented team @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #StayPunk #StayAnalog❤️🎲❤️🎲❤️🎲❤️ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...