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Johannes Koski<p>James P. Carse: Finite and Infinite Games – A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (1986).</p><p>A book that asks what life would look like if we mushed it into a paste and blorped it through two game-shaped holes. (Answer: Carse isn’t all that good at shaping the holes, so it just turns into two lines of goop that you CAN play with but probably don’t want to. (1/X)</p><p><a href="https://ohai.social/tags/gamestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamestudies</span></a></p>
Eugen Pfister<p>Mein zweiter ordentlicher Druck: Eugen’s Roger Wilco in eigens abgemischter Farbe. <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a></p>
Eugen Pfister<p>Erster echter Druck: „Eugen‘s Sid Meier‘s Pirate“ <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a></p>
Eugen Pfister<p>Jetzt auch auf meinem Blog: In der jüngsten Folge unseres <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/KritischeController" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>KritischeController</span></a> Podcast habe ich den Arno Görgen zu seinem Paper über Tuberkulose und Medikalisierung in <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/RedDeadRedemption2" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RedDeadRedemption2</span></a> befragt uvm. <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a></p><p><a href="https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/8134" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">spielkult.hypotheses.org/8134</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
µP<p>Today the will be a block seminar on economic simulation <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> for the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Commodore64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Commodore64</span></a> at University Bonn. I had introduced the different topics, sub-genres, and theoretical backgrounds to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/simulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>simulation</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gaming</span></a>, and economics for the last 10 weeks and now there will be a hands-on part for the partitioners on the real machines from the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MediaStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MediaStudies</span></a> department:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/C64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>C64</span></a></p>
Aurelia Brandenburg<p>Jetzt kann ich es auch nochmal richtig teilen: Das "Handbuch Gaming &amp; Rechtsextremismus", herausgegeben von Linda Schlegel, Felix Zimmermann und mir ist erschienen! 🎉 <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a></p><p>Für 5€ im Print oder kostenlos als PDF bei der bpb erhältlich: <a href="https://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/563171/handbuch-gaming-rechtsextremismus/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenr</span><span class="invisible">eihe/563171/handbuch-gaming-rechtsextremismus/</span></a></p>
µP<p>Save the date: on 11th+12th september there will be the "Historizig G.A.M.E.S. conference" in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Bern" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bern</span></a> (switzerland). I'll be there with a talk about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BASIC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BASIC</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/game" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>game</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/programming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>programming</span></a> in the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1970s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1970s</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/1980s" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>1980s</span></a> </p><p>Website with program: <a href="https://dhbern.github.io/content/projects/ch-ludens/20250911-historicizing-GAMES/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dhbern.github.io/content/proje</span><span class="invisible">cts/ch-ludens/20250911-historicizing-GAMES/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroGaming" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroGaming</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/RetroComputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RetroComputing</span></a></p>
AKGWDS<p>Der Countdown zur Jubiläumstagung läuft! 🎉<br>Aber Moment mal... wer steckt eigentlich hinter dem AKGWDS?</p><p>🎮 Wann begann die Liebe zu Spielen?<br>📖 Wie kam's zum ersten Kontakt mit Game Studies?<br>💬 Und warum ausgerechnet der AKGWDS?</p><p>In den nächsten Wochen stellen wir euch einige unserer Mitglieder vor – mit persönlichen Einblicken und spannenden Geschichten rund um Wissenschaft &amp; Spiel. Bleibt gespannt! 👀</p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/AKGWDS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AKGWDS</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Jubil%C3%A4umstagung" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Jubiläumstagung</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/WerSindWir" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WerSindWir</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/NerdsUnite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>NerdsUnite</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DigitaleSpiele" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DigitaleSpiele</span></a></p>
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him)<p>"Da fehlen schon etliche wichtige Spiele!" Bei <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23OffTopic" target="_blank">#OffTopic</a>, dem Podcast mit Roland Austinat &amp; Jürgen Hüsam, findet man klare Worte zu unserem neuen Buch <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Computerspiele" target="_blank">#Computerspiele</a> 50 zentrale Titel. <a href="https://off-topic-der-podcast.de/?p=1267" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">off-topic-der-podcast.de?p=1267</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23gamestudies" target="_blank">#gamestudies</a><br><br><a href="https://off-topic-der-podcast.de/?p=1267" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Folge 103: Ellie, Ernst und Da...</a></p>
Eugen Pfister<p>Gerne Teilen! Die <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://literatur.social/@lenafalkenhagen" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>lenafalkenhagen</span></a></span> und ich planen schon seit längerem einen Sammelband zur politischen Ideengeschichte von DSA herauszugeben. Jetzt nimmt das Ganze langsam konkretere Form an 😊 <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/DasSchwarzeAuge" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DasSchwarzeAuge</span></a></p>
Frederik Elwert<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fedihum.org/@jomla" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jomla</span></a></span> I guess this would also be interesting for the <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/ReligiousStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ReligiousStudies</span></a> + <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> crowd? There is actually some activity in the intersection.</p>
Asterisk<p>Hey <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/gamestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamestudies</span></a> and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/digitalhumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalhumanities</span></a> (maybe even at <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/dh2025" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dh2025</span></a>?) and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/arthistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arthistory</span></a> and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/gamedesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedesign</span></a> and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/humanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humanities</span></a> and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/gamedev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamedev</span></a> and <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/whatever" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>whatever</span></a> folks, we have extended the deadline for our planned anthology about <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/Blasphemous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Blasphemous</span></a>. We have exciting unconventional submissions already but still some space for another few.</p><p>Details here: <a href="https://zenodo.org/records/15516402" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">zenodo.org/records/15516402</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br>New deadline: **August 6**</p><p>If you have an exciting idea but don't know if you are qualified/researcher/dev enough: Don't think no further, submit!</p>
instantiatethis<p>Because it is not so much my professional life anymore I haven't really looked for <a href="https://keyboards.social/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a> folks but if anyone is interested Generation Analog's conference is free and tomorrow (Thursday) with a punk theme <a href="https://analoggamestudies.org/generation-analog/generation-analog-2025-punk/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">analoggamestudies.org/generati</span><span class="invisible">on-analog/generation-analog-2025-punk/</span></a></p>
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him)<p>WIR VERLÄNGERN UNSERE DEADLINE FÜR EURE CFPs! Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven auf die Total-War-Spielserie <a href="https://share.google/cX0sP5WNLeqhwzORf" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">share.google/cX0sP5WNLeqh...</a> <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23gamestudies" target="_blank">#gamestudies</a> Gerne teilen <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/akgwds.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@akgwds.bsky.social</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/ludobande.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@ludobande.bsky.social</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/languageatplay.de" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@languageatplay.de</a> <a class="mention" href="https://bsky.app/profile/dgswev.bsky.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@dgswev.bsky.social</a></p>
AKGWDS<p>📖 📢 Buchankündigung: seit spätestens der Anschlag in Hanau wird die Verbindung zwischen Gaming und Rechtextremismus im deutschsprachigen Raum thematisiert. Und seitdem ist es klar, dass die beiden sich beeinflussen. Mit ihrer neuesten Veröffentlichung </p><p>Handbuch Gaming und Rechtsextremismus</p><p>bespricht die <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.bund.de/@bpb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bpb</span></a></span> dieses Thema und seine Facetten. Die Veröffentlichung könnt ihr unter dem Link finden:</p><p><a href="https://www.bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenreihe/563171/handbuch-gaming-rechtsextremismus/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">bpb.de/shop/buecher/schriftenr</span><span class="invisible">eihe/563171/handbuch-gaming-rechtsextremismus/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/games" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>games</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/gamestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamestudies</span></a> <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/rechtsextremismus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rechtsextremismus</span></a></p>
Rudolf Thomas INDERST (he|him)<p>Check out our 'Game Studies' podcast archive with now 150 episodes: <a href="https://newbooksnetwork.com/category/arts-letters/game-studies" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">newbooksnetwork.com/category/art...</a> Get ready for insightful Interviews with scholars &amp; editors about their new books in <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23gamestudies" target="_blank">#gamestudies</a> &amp; <a class="hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23gamedesign" target="_blank">#gamedesign</a> 🎙🎧🎮🕹🎲</p>
Eugen Pfister<p>Still working a bit (tihi) on the case study on Gate and the Apple II in Switzerland for @chludens.bsky.social <a href="https://fedihum.org/tags/GameStudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GameStudies</span></a>.</p>
V ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯<p>Interesting read on the idea of research universities in Germany and universities as spaces of knowledge production: <a href="https://asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-origin-of-the-research-university" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">asteriskmag.com/issues/10/the-</span><span class="invisible">origin-of-the-research-university</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalhumanities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>digitalhumanities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/academicchatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>academicchatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/education" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>education</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/research" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>research</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamestudies</span></a></p>
Ingram Braun<p>Today 18:15 Dr. Alessandro Pace (Mailand): „Play and Game in the Ancient World.<br>New data from Pompeii“</p><p>Online: <a href="https://heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/w46r-w2r6-y4h9-p3wk?fbclid=IwY2xjawLYX-xleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHsAjo_Dr77rh3DOcBJeoezR7Is8igAVZvlYd7kYXIYU6FI6lKO7CsrJ9Yfpk_aem_5wdGm-1wfY7WamPtLDbCeg&amp;sfnsn=scwspmo" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">heiconf.uni-heidelberg.de/w46r…</a><br><a href="https://friendica.ingram-braun.net/search?tag=Gamestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Gamestudies</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.ingram-braun.net/search?tag=GamesHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GamesHistory</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.ingram-braun.net/search?tag=Archaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Archaeology</span></a> <a href="https://friendica.ingram-braun.net/search?tag=PompeiI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PompeiI</span></a> 🏺<br><a href="https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/fakultaeten/philosophie/zaw/klarch/aktuelles/aktuell.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Aktuelles</a></p>
V ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯<p>The strangest part about introduction rounds: I often can't remember what I actually said about myself. The performance anxiety is so intense that I black out my own introduction.<br>Dissecting the thirty-second self, tomorrow here: <a href="https://open.substack.com/pub/nodiscipline42/p/the-thirty-second-self?r=4ctw90&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">open.substack.com/pub/nodiscip</span><span class="invisible">line42/p/the-thirty-second-self?r=4ctw90&amp;utm_campaign=post&amp;utm_medium=web&amp;showWelcomeOnShare=true</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AcademicChatter" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AcademicChatter</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gamestudies" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gamestudies</span></a></p>