Oscar Moralde
@oscarmoralde.com
Visiting Lecturer in Media Studies, Washington University in St. Louis. I study embodied aesthetics and ideology in video games and digital media. Steam tells me I have 2,710 hours played in Time Clickers
When I have students look at old video game magazine ads, that is the one that gets shocks and confuses them the most. That and the one showing all the Interplay devs at a pool party
September 13, 2025 at 2:45 PM
When I have students look at old video game magazine ads, that is the one that gets shocks and confuses them the most. That and the one showing all the Interplay devs at a pool party
Alt text: A clip from the claymation film The Wrong Trousers (dir. Nick Park, 1993). Gromit the Dog is at the head of a speeding toy train and laying down railroad track just as the train passes over it. Wallace the Human, in his underpants after losing the titular trousers, flails about helplessly
August 25, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Alt text: A clip from the claymation film The Wrong Trousers (dir. Nick Park, 1993). Gromit the Dog is at the head of a speeding toy train and laying down railroad track just as the train passes over it. Wallace the Human, in his underpants after losing the titular trousers, flails about helplessly
Also with my last credits I took a chance on the claw machine, and I choose to believe this is an auspicious sign for my travels
August 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Also with my last credits I took a chance on the claw machine, and I choose to believe this is an auspicious sign for my travels
High level DANCERUSH play is really something youtu.be/uhKchIC-ilU
[#DANCERUSH_STARDOM] Crazy Shuffle MELBCREW Roulette!
YouTube video by DJLaniDance
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August 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
High level DANCERUSH play is really something youtu.be/uhKchIC-ilU
Instead I remembered I still had credit on a Round1 card, and since I am moving to apparently the place in the continental US most distant from any Round1s (actually it's probably northern Montana but St. Louis is close) I played some DANCERUSH STARDOM, because who knows when I'll get another chance
August 8, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Instead I remembered I still had credit on a Round1 card, and since I am moving to apparently the place in the continental US most distant from any Round1s (actually it's probably northern Montana but St. Louis is close) I played some DANCERUSH STARDOM, because who knows when I'll get another chance
It's really quite illuminating, less in the way of any biographical drama but far more about contextualizing his scholarly and political projects within a personal-familial trajectory.
Though we do learn about how he becomes obsessed with espresso when the first machine arrives in London
Though we do learn about how he becomes obsessed with espresso when the first machine arrives in London
July 30, 2025 at 10:35 AM
It's really quite illuminating, less in the way of any biographical drama but far more about contextualizing his scholarly and political projects within a personal-familial trajectory.
Though we do learn about how he becomes obsessed with espresso when the first machine arrives in London
Though we do learn about how he becomes obsessed with espresso when the first machine arrives in London
If you've read this far, I suspect you may have an interest in upping the view count on my dissertation. If not for the triangulation of Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt through CRUSADER KINGS III, at least to see my HADES winstreak memorialized in the conclusion... escholarship.org/uc/item/3180...
The Protopolitics of Play: From Gameworlds to Playing-in-the-World
Author(s): Moralde, Oscar John Arellano | Advisor(s): Mamber, Stephen | Abstract: How might we understand the medium of video games beyond the static structures of encoded processes and audiovisual si...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
If you've read this far, I suspect you may have an interest in upping the view count on my dissertation. If not for the triangulation of Merleau-Ponty and Hannah Arendt through CRUSADER KINGS III, at least to see my HADES winstreak memorialized in the conclusion... escholarship.org/uc/item/3180...
And considering the tactility of the interface, in how games can create the "feel" of objects in the gap between what you see and what you touch, is something that continues to thread through my work years after I looked at how PAPERS, PLEASE did it... works.hcommons.org/records/znyx...
Well Played V4 N1: DiGRA and GLS
The Well Played Journal is a forum for in-depth close readings of games that parse out the various meanings to be found in the experience of playing a game. It is a reviewed journal with CfPs for subm...
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April 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
And considering the tactility of the interface, in how games can create the "feel" of objects in the gap between what you see and what you touch, is something that continues to thread through my work years after I looked at how PAPERS, PLEASE did it... works.hcommons.org/records/znyx...
Like the idle game's relation to time, the walking simulator's reconfiguration of space in front of the player allowed for thinking about landscapes in games and what it means to get "lost in gamespace"... mediafieldsjournal.org/haptic-lands...
Media Fields Journal - Haptic Landscapes
mediafieldsjournal.org
April 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Like the idle game's relation to time, the walking simulator's reconfiguration of space in front of the player allowed for thinking about landscapes in games and what it means to get "lost in gamespace"... mediafieldsjournal.org/haptic-lands...
One fascinating excursus of this focus on embodied aesthetics was tracing the intersection of fashion and the athletic body in the culture of the NBA... doi.org/10.1111/jpcu...
The NBA Dandy Plays the Fashion Game: NBA All‐Star All‐Style and Dress Codes of Black Masculinity
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April 3, 2025 at 3:14 PM
One fascinating excursus of this focus on embodied aesthetics was tracing the intersection of fashion and the athletic body in the culture of the NBA... doi.org/10.1111/jpcu...