Join us for this exciting event with the wonderful @lauraodbeke.bsky.social on environmental games!👾

Registration: www.easlce.eu/easlce-webin...

Loving this review of Ecogames by Lykke Guanio! I contributed a chapter on sustainable fandom for this book, edited by @lauraodbeke.bsky.social among others. 💚

Download the book for free: www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10...
Read the review here: eludamos.org/index.php/el...

Decided to join this European game jam on the topic of environmental justice even though I don't know how to code. Figured I would make a bitsy game, or a Discord game or something. Excited for it! itch.io/jam/european...

related: come do a PhD with me? I am also hiring 2 doctoral candidates to join my 4-year research project “Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation” (ALGOFOLK) at the University of Bergen

I'm at Solmukohta in Tampere! AKA Knutepunkt, the annual Nordic larp conference. Once again I'm blown away by this community's passion, insight, and commitment to its craft. And boy do they know how to throw a party

Spread the news, job opening for assistant prof in urban, mobile media for inclusive and sustainable cities: www.uu.nl/organisatie/...

When it rains it pours. I have a chapter in this wonderful #OA book about how communities are revising their seasons ed.
Scott Bremer and Arjan Wardekker. It's about the emerging trend of dark seasonality in videogames: think storms, droughts, floods etc. www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

My edited volume Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis not only includes a comprehensive intro to ecocritical games studies it also features the best chapter to come out of my dissertation: "Dark Play and the Flow Time of Petroculture in Oil-Themed Games."
www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

My online #envhum reading group #Unearthed is kicking off the year with a meeting next Tuesday on the near future in climate fiction - readings by David Sergeant. Graciously hosted by the Network for Environmental Humanities at Utrecht. All are welcome: un-earthed.group/2024/01/09/t...

Ecogames: Playful Perspectives on the Climate Crisis is almost out! It will be published this winter by Amsterdam University Press, kick-starting a new book series on green media. Don't look at the price because it'll be open access babyyy www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...

Larp news from larp land. Benediction, my game of nunsploitation won a Golden Cobra! This is a friendly little annual larp-writing competition. Big thanks to the judges for their glowing review! Check out the others winners as well: www.goldencobra.org/2023winners....

I wrote a poem about the deep time hubris of the 10.000 year clock. Check it out

A mechanical pulse, a throbbing pain
And in time, a car park and a gift shop
But all this business cannot last
Not in this heat.

Read full poem here: ecozona.eu/article/view...

this nipple bra in honor of climate change

My #envhum reading group is meeting next week to talk about activist cultures. Here is where I recapped our last session on Empirical Ecocriticism: un-earthed.group/2023/06/23/c...

www.un-earthed.group is open to everyone and always online. Feel free to reach out to me if you want to pitch a topic.

Love being back at Oslo's Grenselandet, an annual Nordic larp festival. Yesterday I ran Benediction, a larp about about a group of medieval nuns who are told that in five days their abbey will be blessed with a visit from a traveling priest and miracle worker. www.grenselandet.net/2023/09/bene...

Snapshots from an unnamed beaver games project I am working on with Linas Gabrielaitis. Making the most of my stay at the Center of Excellence in Games and Culture / Gamification group at Tampere University. 🦫

Let's build something nice here! Check me out on lauraopdebeke.com. I work on ecogames, climate fiction, petrocultures, climate futures, and Nordic larp.