No Quarter is back!

On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!

No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com

Shared some thoughts on poetic repetition (esp anaphora) and narrative design in contemporary roguelikes at gs1, a conference showcasing the scholarly work of the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social MFAs.

How do “poetic roguelikes” such as Returnal and Hades resemble poetry? Similar to e.g. Dickinson, they have a kind of anaphora, with recurring motifs, language, sensory elements. Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition highly useful to understand cyclical gameplay; imagination draws out difference

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My translation of Merav Givoni Hrushovski’s End— is out and available for purchase (online and in person at AWP). ⭐️

From my friend Adriana X. Jacobs, “I put my doom into a love poem” is 8-bit video game that incorporates some of her poems. “If you find the neighbor’s garden, your afterlife will be extra sweet.” [ladymacabea.itch.io]

My poem-game “I put my doom into a love poem” is now public! It adapts poems that first appeared in my poetry zine “Afterlife is Sweet” (rinky dink press). #bitsy

Winter reading 🎮

“A mother falls through a bed of chalk flowers, pulling her child behind her. A store/ crumbles, spilling votives into the street. The rats pour out of a manhole cover,/ shedding future plagues.”

Is this a future dystopia? Or are we already the survivors? Stunning poem by @axjacobs.bsky.social.

I have a new poem out in The Account! This one is called “Deformation”: theaccountmagazine.com/article/jaco...

Roguelike Celebration 2023 was fantastic and inspiring. Esp enjoyed talks on music and reality TV, depths and gardens. And really loved exploring the Mall of Moria as ladymacabea, my avatar since 2002.

I’m reading Katherine Isbister’s How Games Move Us and thinking about “meaningful choices.” As I play test my interactive poem for the millionth time, this moment, at the very beginning, is still my favorite, taking me back to that moment when I chose “start” in the spring of 2020. #bitsy

Bitsy Fest is ON! And the theme of the jam has been picked, it is:

MUSEUM

I am not making this up, I am so happy this is the theme that has been picked. Good luck to everyone who participate!

itch.io/jam/bitsy-fest

Traveled far out of my comfort zone and attended my first Playtest Thursday at the NYU Game Center and people who are not my kid and @djacobs.bsky.social played my so very much in-progress Bitsy game. I loved every minute of it. 🎮

#thelastofusday

The journal Asoophit has been so supportive of my work. You’ll find “Ars Poetica” in the latest issue פרור (crumb). drive.google.com/file/d/1qQWW...

New poem “Dead Girls” and new translations in Tupelo Quarterly 30 https://www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-feature/dead-girls-a-portfolio-of-literature-in-translation-curated-by-lisa-katz/