: Yesterday was my graduation ceremony, a year after my Viva and just over ten years after I enrolled. …
: I'd been decentering celebrities from my internet use - then I met one. For several years I’ve been decentering celebrity/influencer culture on my social media e.g. …
: “Nu-metal is about gender dysphoria, dude!” -> a stitch introducing my trans reading …
: Why aren't leftist video essayists on Peertube? I just got done watching a Leftist Cooks video essay. The title is “when your hero is a …
: Is 'Society' in the Room with us Now? | Intrapology S01E02 Is ‘Society’ In The Room With Us Now? 21st November 7pm UK time Hedi (Fadumo Hassan) is a rising …
: Screening at Edge Hill University An edited recording of the September performance of "Assigned Earth at Birth" is screening this …
: Intrapology: Assigned Earth at Birth tickets link now live! Tickets are now available for Assigned Earth at Birth, via our audience partner Now Play This. It …
: Intrapology Autumn 2024 dates I have so much exciting news to share about Intrapology in the coming weeks. For now, the important …
: VIDEO panel discussion at book launch for INCITE: Digital Arts and Activism The Photographer's Gallery have very kindly posted the full video of a panel discussion between …
: Arts Council Project Grant for Intrapology In absolutely amazing news, Intrapology has managed to get a £60,400 grant from Arts Council …
: Moving Between World(views) with Database Narratives I had the honour of being invited to write about my research and art practice, including …
: Cis Penance at Trafo Gallery, Budapest This evening I'm doing a remote event with Max*ine Vajt of No Fun Collective, connected with an …
: Intrapology at Lincoln Arts Centre Demo Night Date: 21 March, 7pm Running Time: 120 min Location: Studio 2, Lincoln Arts Centre We're performing …
: Cis Penance at Now Play This 2024 Cis Penance is going to be displayed at Now Play This, definitely one of my favourite festivals! …
: Intrapology at ASSEMBLE Festival Scratch Night #2 I'm developing a new episode of Intrapology, with the support of a couple of fantastic scratch …
: Book launch for INCITE: Digital Arts and Activism Date: 06:30pm - 08:00pm, Thu 07 Mar 2024 Price: £8, £5 concessions Location: The Photographers' …
: The email that lost me a collaboration When preparing for the November 2023 performance of Assigned Earth at Birth (Episode 1 of …
: I/we need queer disabled online art 'Layered principles, values and activities for creative, anti-oppressive and trauma aware practice' …
: Patreon launch for Intrapology (Assigned Earth at Birth) I've launched a small Patreon for my big dream project! It would mean a lot to have just a few …
: INCITE: Digital Arts and Activism I've been so excited for this book to come out, and it's finally ready! It's a gorgeous …
: Worlds in Play conference I'm excited to be taking Intrapology to the Worlds in Play conference at Arizona State University …
: Social Model & More Festival Tickets for the Social Model & More Festival are now available! You can book a place at the …
: Sightlines Festival Next week I'll be on a couple of panels for Sightlines Festival, an online week-long festival …
: Assigned Earth at Birth Shirts for Intrapology at Typeset CIC https://shop.typeset.space/products/aeab-shirt I'm making a limited run of shirts with local …
: Interactive Soup 12th September 2023 I've very kindly been offered one of five spaces to pitch a project at Interactive Soup this …
: Game Changers announcement I've had the absolute pleasure of doing some research work to support Megaverse's Game Changers, a …
: Social Model & More Festival November 2023 - Assigned Earth at Birth, Intrapology I'm thrilled to be working on an interactive play for the Social Model & More Festival at …
: Event with No Fun Collective, Prague Date: 13.05.2023 Beginning: 18:00 FREE ENTRY / IN ENGLISH etc. galerie z.s. Sarajevská 68/16 Praha 2 …
: DYCP Award Amazingly, somehow I've gotten one of the coveted DYCP grants from Arts Council England! I'm really …
: More info on test performance of It's Just What You Do The TL;DR is that at 7pm on 23rd March at Barnsley Civic Theatre, there is going to be a live …
: Test performance of new interactive play I'm currently working on a new piece of interactive theatre that uses the tool that Squinky built in …
: Reviewing my practice in 2022 In this post, I share an overview of my art practice in 2022 - what I got done, where you can find …
: Climate playmakers focus group I'm involved in a research project supporting the development of an episodic game about climate …
: Critical Distance Fundraiser Critical Distance, a non-profit I volunteer for on the board of directors, needs help. We have been …
: Essay Jams and Collaborative Writing as a Community Event Last year I worked with Joey Eschrich on a collaborate writing event with Critical Distance, and we …
: Imaginary Papers Issue 12 I wrote a short essay in the "Science Fiction Frames" format for Arizona State University Centre for …
: Interactive Portrait Cushions at BitBash Chicago / Chicago Humanities Festival An installation of Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan will be hosted at BitBash Chicago's …
: Games in Action conference Vancouver BC Cis Penance is on display this weekend at Heart Projector's pop-up arcade at the University of …
: Desperate Livin interactive archive This year I've had the pleasure of doing a little project with Raju Rage and Studio Voltaire, …
: Bundle for Ukraine A quick note that my book Delay: Paying Attention to Energy Mechanics is in the itch.io Bundle for …
: Sheffield Theatres Bank Cohort I'm delighted to share that I'm one of a number of artists receiving support from Sheffield Theatres …
: Caroline Sinders: Feminist Data Set I'm excited to be in conversation with Caroline Sinders this Saturday at Site Gallery, in the final …
: NEoN Digital Arts 2021 A quick note to say that I'm going up to Dundee for a few days this week to help out with NEoN …
: Squinky Collab live performance next week! The interactive live performance of my collab project with Squinky is next week, and tickets are …
: CSI Skill Tree: Kentucky Route Zero On 27th July, as part of a series of online events run by Arizona State University’s Centre …
: Reclaiming the Rainbow Photo Challenge I am one of three judges on Andro & Eve's Reclaiming the Rainbow Photo Challenge - details …
: Pride, queer haunting, and Geralt of Rivia's itchy doublet I've realised recently that a surprisingly large number of things are both gay and homophobic at the …
: Joining NEoN's trustees I recently had the joy of becoming one of 8 new trustees of digital arts festival North East of …
: Raju Rage with the Right Lube: Desperate Living Cis Penance is currently on display online at Studio Voltaire, as part of artist Raju Rage's …
: Ludonarracon panel April 23rd Update 26 April: you can now watch this panel here! …
: Collaboration with Squinky as part of "New Conversations" I'm delighted to announce that I'm starting a project in collaboration with Dietrich "Squinky" …
: 30 characters now playable in the Cis Penance WIP update To go with the launch of Space Studios London's Art + Tech showcase, today I pushed a big update to …
: DEEP PLAY: Art + Tech Residency Showcase I'm updating the Cis Penance work in progress build for next week, when it will be featured as part …
: Event: Social Gold - MONUMENTS & MEMORIAL. Social Art Network, Sheffield (Featured/header image is from Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley's Black Trans Archive) Next week I'll be …
: Book Launch: Old Land New Waters, Freelands Foundation I have a chapter in this forthcoming book, which features work by artists selected for the first …
: More characters added to Cis Penance I just pushed a new update to Cis Penance, doubling the number of characters. It feels very …
: Cis Penance soundtrack out now Liz Ryerson has just released the soundtrack that she created for Cis Penance! It's twinkly and warm …
: Cis Penance update - seven characters, one world I pushed a big update to Cis Penance today! Not only is the number of characters now up from 3 to 7, …
: Sheffield Creative Mornings talk On Friday 25th September I'm giving a talk on zoom with Sheffield Creative Mornings, at 08:30am UK …
: Cis Penance update - RBMicah and Hailey An update to the Cis Penance preview just launched, with two new characters. Check it out, and get …
: Open City Documentary Festival Expanded Realities Exhibition The work-in-progress of Cis Penance will be on display online this September as part of an …
: PISSF****T: about a jacket in Disco Elysium Disco Elysium’s Harry DuBois does not know who he is. I assumed at first that his amnesia was …
: Paper on livecoding and collaboration Through a strange turn of events, I’m one of the authors on a collaborative paper about …
: High Fidelity Emotional Tools on Soundcloud [soundcloud url=“https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/871239124” …
: Montez Press Radio I kind of threw together an hour-long audio documentary over the past couple of weeks. It turns out …
: Cis Penance first preview I’ve put out the first little bit of work on Cis Penance, which will eventually be a massive …
: Cis Penance work-in-progress update A quick update on Cis Penance, my project that involves interviewing lots of trans people in the UK …
: Indie Games Bundle for Racial Justice and Equality Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan is in itch.io’s Bundle for Racial Justice and …
: Neo cab and the materiality of emotion Spoilers for the ending of Neo cab start immediately! Early on in Neo Cab, the protagonist Lina is …
: Getting started with LED embroidery As part of the Art + Tech residency with Space Studios, London (which they have kindly allowed me to …
: Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan, release for International Transgender Day of Visibility vimeo.com/401492347 It’s International Transgender Day of Visibility, and you’re …
: International Transgender Day of Visibility March 31st launch of Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan (Update: launched! Check it out at zoy.itch.io/iportrait…) This Tuesday March 31st will be …
: Panel talk at The Artist's Journey #3 I’m excited to be speaking on a panel with Manish Harijan (artist) and Lady Kitt (artist, …
: Call for participants: UK interviews with transgender people for interactive documentary installation about experiences of waiting I am looking to interview more transgender people across the UK for my next art project. Details are …
: SPACE Ilford grand opening The lovely folks at SPACE studios in London have opened a new space in Ilford, and have kindly let …
: Cis Penance workshop in Dundee This weekend, Jennifer Booth will be facilitating a workshop for the Cis Penance project, as part of …
: Final week of Platform 19 I’ve gone to Vancouver for a month, but theSite Gallery show continues for another few days! …
: Interview in Our Favourite Places Our Favourite Places is a site that reviews cultural stuff in Sheffield, and is an incredibly …
: SHEFFIELD call for interviews for transgender interactive documentary In one week, I’ll be part of a show at Site Gallery in Sheffield with other artists on the …
: Arts Council Project Grant for "Empty Carriage: An Interactive Self-Portrait" [caption id=“attachment_3351” align=“aligncenter” …
: Site Gallery platform exhibition Having returned from a fascinating and disorienting residency in Belfast (I’m still looking …
: BELFAST call for interviews for transgender interactive documentary I’m going to Belfast between 24th June and 11th July to spend some time at the PS2 art space. …
: Mid docfest update Docfest is about halfway done, and it’s been so lovely so far. The Interactive Portrait …
: Critaoke I’m going to embarrass myself this Saturday by performing a Karaoke version of Sara …
: Interactive portraits at Doc/Fest Interactive Portraits has been selected for the Sheffield Doc/Fest Alternate Realities exhibition at …
: Video: Curating artist-made games at SF MoMA [vimeo 332515057] This is a short documentary that I made a while ago but never published, about a …
: Video: Collecting games at UC Irvine vimeo.com/331049055 This is a short documentary that I made a while ago but never published, about a …
: What kind of a world will videogames rebuild? Business Insider has an eye-catching take on the fire of Notre-Dame: “rebuild effort could get …
: AMAZE Berlin events, including talk with Squinky! I’ll be in Berlin next week for some cool events connected to the Rainbow Arcade exhibition at …
: Now Play This 2019 Interactive Portraits: Trans People in Japan is going to Now Play This festival at Somerset House in …
: Talk for LGBT+ History Month this week I’m giving a talk this week as part of Sheffield Uni’s LGBT+ history month events. …
: How gaming nostalgia can open up conversations about trans rights – Just Geek Stuff Stephanie Farnsworth was kind enough to interview me about the interactive portraits project. Check …
: Rotherham display of interactive portraits: transgender people in Japan Today is the first day of a three-week display of my transgender interactive portraits installation …
: Hampering the search for real criticism: Personality-based content marketing This is the fifth post in a series about why critical writing about games is hard to find - see part …
: Hampering the search for real criticism: the algoritualism of Youtube culture This is the fourth post in a series about problems facing games criticism - see part one here. It …
: Hampering the search for real criticism: Two platform deaths See part one of this series This is the third part in a series of articles about barriers to …
: Hampering the search for real criticism: Mainstream vs. fringe See part one of this series This is the second part in a series of articles about why we keep …
: Hampering the search for real criticism: Discourse Empress of the World Discourse Empress of the World Adapted from Carl Orff's translation of the Carmina Burana 1. Oh …
: Pattern Swatches for Pico-8 A while ago I made myself a kind of digital haberdashery for Pico-8, that allows me to sample …
: Postmortem: Hanging textile for Interactive Portraits by Anne Smithies [gallery ids=“3216,3215,3214,3213,3212,3211,3210,3209,3208,3207” …
: Mozilla Festival My work is being displayed at Mozilla festival, for the Art + Data exhibition. The Art+Data …
: Icon Magazine article on Videogames architecture I wrote the cover article for this month’s issue of Icon magazine! Huge thanks to Priya …
: Festival of the Mind [gallery ids=“3178,3177,3176,3175,3180,3197,3198,3199,3200,3201,3202,3203” …
: Freelands Artist Programme In an amazing piece of good news, I’ve been selected for a new programme supporting artists in …
: Rainbow Arcade Kickstarter This winter, some of my work is going to be shown in the Schwules Museum in Berlin, the oldest and …
: Creator Ikusei Residency for International Creators with Exploratory Projects in Tokyo, Japan This is a little last-minute, but the residency programme in Tokyo that I took part in at the start …
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: Work in progress on the Open Theremin Open Theremin is an Arduino shield that produces, at relatively low cost, a great quality Theremin …
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: ROAR at The Factory This weekend a bunch of artists met up at an abandoned industrial building currently being used by …
: Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market 2018 In June I will be taking a project proposal to the Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market. Building on …
: Interactive Portraits updates from February-May www.instagram.com/p/BfXicvX… www.instagram.com/p/BfaxCSJ… …
: Play Generated Map and Document Archive minidoc www.youtube.com/watch ZAM has published the third of a series of five short documentaries I’ve …
: Replicast Studios Facebook page This year my studio building Replicast is participating in OpenUp Sheffield, the largest open art …
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: Interactive Museum of Gaming and Puzzlery minidoc www.youtube.com/watch ZAM has published the second of a series of five short documentaries …
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: PE is hell: How to actually get kids enjoying physical activity PE is hell: How to actually get kids enjoying physical activity This is so uncannily similar to my …
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: Presentation in Tokyo 23 Feb I’m currently in Tokyo on a residency, working on a lo-fi interactive documentary about trans …
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: Museum of Pop Culture minidoc The first of a series of five minidocs I made about people who collect, archive, and curate games …
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: Vanishing Point listed in BFI's best video essays of 2017 The online version of BFI’s Sight and Sound magazine asked 30-odd video essayists to list …
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: Rotherham Artists Directory 2017 As a member of Rotherham Open Arts Renaissance who had a studio in Rotherham town centre earlier …
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: Lana Polansky at Memory Insufficient Just published the first new Memory Insufficient article in a while! Check it out here: …
: Skeleton in a Beret is now online! The short documentary I wrote and presented last year is now online, after a year of screenings at …
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: Sensible Object information for parents on videogames I’ve been doing some work for Sensible Object, conducting interviews and writing up articles …
: Vanishing Point showing at NEoN Digital Arts Festival, Dundee A short film that I made at the beginning of this year, Vanishing Point, is being screened at NEoN …
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: Blow Up Blight Town #theartassignment [gallery type=“circle” size=“large” ids=“2947,2946,2945”] Here …
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: Skeleton in a Beret at Whose Body, Whose Space? [su_note note_color="#ffffff" text_color="#032938"]On November 6th, I’ll …
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: Dublin Fringe Queer Oasis This week I’m presenting work at the Dublin Fringe festival as part of the Fully Automated …
: Dublin Fringe Queer Oasis This week I’m presenting work at the Dublin Fringe festival as part of the Fully Automated …
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: I'm bringing a virtual petting zoo to Orchard Square! I’m excited to announce that I’ve been granted a four-week residency in the Orchard …
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: Skeleton in a Beret showing at Trans Pride Brighton Skeleton in a Beret, the short film I wrote and presented as part of EDEN Shorts is showing at Trans …
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: Recommended: Nothing better illustrates where we went wrong as a society than the concept behind the app Love… I recommended Nothing better illustrates where we went wrong as a society than the concept behind …
: Psychological landscape #theartassignment www.instagram.com/p/BVCSoW4… www.instagram.com/p/BVCTEoo… Pompous? Empowered? …
: The quietest place #theartassignment www.instagram.com/p/BU2dcfl… This video was taken while walking with my girlfriend through …
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: Intimaterial A quick note that I’m giving a presentation about my PhD research at this conference at the …
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: Sentient Games Last year I made a Twitter bot to tweet “great again” slogans, out of frustration at the …
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: Dril Tarot The prophet Dril will reveal your destiny. [su_tabs] [su_tab title=“Single …
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: Queer Game Studies is out now! I have a chapter on community histories in this book edited by the excellent Bonnie Ruberg and …
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: Abstract Games with Raph Koster Here’s a documentary short I made during my trip down the West Coast of North America in …
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: BFI Flare festival screening Skeleton in a Beret Great news! The short film I made with a team as part of Transforming Cinema, Skeleton in a Beret, …
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: Vanishing Point: a visual essay I made a video for Visual Essay Jam about linear perspective, video games that position the player …
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: The making of Portal 2: The Musical I made a video about nerdy Vancouver, BC cabaret group The Geekenders for ZAM! Check out the full …
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: Check out this behind-the-scenes footage from Skeleton in a Beret and other Eden shorts [su_vimeo url=“https://vimeo.com/191379223”] I’m really looking forward to being …
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: A film I made, 'Skeleton in a Beret', is up for an award this Sunday Update: it won! My short documentary film about trans people and videogame avatars, ‘Skeleton …
: Games to actively help trans people during trans awareness week, from the Action for Trans Health Bundle It’s trans awareness week, a time of year when trans people work extra hard for visibility, …
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: Games to help you get through all this awful shit, from the Action for Trans Health Bundle Many people are having trouble getting to sleep at the moment, and no wonder: the world looks like a …
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: Now live: Action for Trans Health games bundle The Action for Trans Health games bundle is now live, right in time for the weekend! Pay what you …
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: Skeletons I have known and loved I wrote a piece for ZAM! Check it out: Skeletons I have known and loved | ZAM - The Largest …
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: One Day Jam this Sunday! A quick note that this Sunday is the One Day Jam, a little event to raise money for Action for Trans …
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: "Unfixed" reality Unfixed: the meeting point of art, disability and technology | Pervasive Media Studio A lot to learn …
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New art and writing in public spaces.
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Japanese-English Translation
Difficult texts interpreted with nuance.
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Language construction
Giving voices to imaginary societies.
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Freelance writing
Sharing remarkable encounters.
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Consulting
Making sense of disorder.
: Announcing the 9.9.99 Dream Bundle A bundle to celebrate the anniversary of the Dreamcast’s 9.9.99 launch in the US. Sit back and …
: Memory Insufficient | Immersion is easier than action Check out Immersion is easier than action on Memory Insufficient.
: Critical Distance | August 28th Check out August 28th on Critical Distance.
: ビデオゲームの翻訳に適している表現は? A post I wrote summarising discussions by Japanese bloggers about the words used to describe games …
: Critical Distance | Episode 38 – The Spawn of History Check out Episode 38 – The Spawn of History on Critical Distance.
: Recommended: The Online Abuse Playbook I recommended The Online Abuse Playbook on Medium.
: Critical Distance | August 21st Check out August 21st on Critical Distance.
: Great Again Bot twitter.com/greatagai… I’ve been disturbed lately by the uptick in marketers' use of …
: Big Think Big Think Comedian John Cleese speaks his mind about political correctness. It’s an opinion …
: Inflorescence.city Beautiful, engrossing, magical. I take so many screenshots here, because everything feels fragile …
: Critical Distance | August 14th Check out August 14th on Critical Distance.
: Recommended: Against Representation I recommended Against Representation on Medium.
: Vancouver! Residency? Desk space? Location: Vancouver, BC Dates: 2 months between November 2016 and March 2017 Requirements: Desk …
: Notes on the Seaman game manual Sega Seaman manual, Vivarium inc. 1999-2000 (subheadings are from the original text) It is well …
: Zoyə Street on Medium | The other first-person walkers I’m going to argue that in order to make sense of this form not just as a genre but as a mode of …
: Critical Distance | August2016: ‘Bugs’ Check out August2016: ‘Bugs’ on Critical Distance.
: Spevt | Flivl Check out Flivl on Spevt.
: Critical Distance | August 7th Check out August 7th on Critical Distance.
: Comments on 'The Sexual Is Political' Critical comments on Slavoj Zizek's wildly misguided essay, 'The Sexual Is Political'. Part 1: The …
: Walkers Between Worlds | The Daily Grail Occultist discusses how VR and AR may or might enhance their ritual practice, with reference to the …
: Zoyander Street on Medium | Imagining Pokecologies Check out Imagining Pokecologies by Zoyander Street on Medium.
: The Best Time I Pretended I Hadn’t Heard of Slavoj Žižek — The Hairpin This is GREAT and in the right situation can genuinely make a conversation much more interesting. …
: The Critical Engineering Manifesto This manifesto is for a group that runs public education workshops on DIY connected technologies. …
: Post-genesem: Alien Flora [gallery type=“slideshow” size=“large” …
: Alien Flora games: Orchids to Dusk [su_animate type=“fadeInUp” delay=“1”]From the 12th to the 14th May (i.e. …
: Alien Flora games: Prune [su_animate type=“fadeInUp” delay=“1”]From the 12th to the 14th May (i.e. …
: Alien Flora games: Strawberry Cubes [su_animate type=“fadeIn” …
: Language services for games [su_note note_color="#fafafa"] Announcement On 20th October I will be back in the UK after …
: Digital Bodies: essays on materials and craft 2012-2014 I’m launching a new book today! In the essays brought together here I unpick some of the ways …
: I've left Gamesbrief: here's how you can hire me and/or support my work I just finished my final week at Gamesbrief, where I was Deputy Editor (here’s the …
: Happy 9th September, Dreamcast fans! Today is the anniversary of the Dreamcast's 9/9/99 launch in the US! Fifteen years ago people were …
: Funded, bundled, and Silverstrung Lots of things to announce happened in the past 24 hours. A history of mobile games is funded! A …
: A history of mobile games, 1998-2008 I’m crowdfunding a book Goal: £3,400 Can you help? Contribute now Personal devices before the …
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Mini-book about energy mechanics
Since late November of last year I’ve been on-and-off working on a mini book project. …
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You were made for loneliness
: Conversations between languages Some time last year I stopped blogging here and started using Medium instead. More recently, …
: Memory Insufficient has moved to rupazero.com Quick, overdue news update: Memory Insufficient has been relocated to rupazero.com. As before, the …
: Meet me at GDC Hey. I’m going to GDC this year on a press pass, and the emails from PR companies are starting …
: 13 things I wrote in 2013 It’s been a good year. Here are thirteen of the things that were in it: 1. Silliness I shifted …
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Histories of Marketing in Games
The new issue of Memory Insufficient is out now! My friend Cameron Kunzelman had these kind words to …
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Dreamcast Worlds is in Games Storybundle #2
Set your price for the whole set
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Progress, chaos and Memory Insufficient
Last month I gave a talk at the Queerness and Games Conference. I took it as a chance to reflect on …
: Call for submissions: disabilities and games history zoyastreet.com/memory-insufficient memoryinsufficient.rupazero.com
: Dreamcast Worlds is out! It’s finally ready! Dreamcast Worlds is out now, just in time for the 14th anniversary of the …
: Histories of games hardware: Memory Insufficient Issue 5 I am so pleased with this month's Memory Insufficient. People have taken on the subject of games …
: Call for submissions: Hispanic Heritage and Games History DEADLINE EXTENDED to 20th September zoyastreet.com/memory-insufficient …
: Imperialism and games history: Memory Insufficient Issue 4 From the 'morality games' of 19th-century Britain to the optimistic futurism of High Frontier, games …
: Histories of games hardware: call for submissions zoyastreet.com/memory-insufficient memoryinsufficient.rupazero.com
: Histories of gender and sexual diversity in games: Memory Insufficient Issue 3 The new issue of Memory Insufficient covers alternative queer histories, exploring and expressing …
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Call for Submissions: Imperialism in Games
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Projection
I made another game this week! Click here to play it. Even though the graphics are a rough and the …
: Please send in histories of gender and sexual diversity in games You can read the first two issues of Memory Insufficient and sign up for updates at: …
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About beta-launching Dreamcast Worlds
Visit dreamcastworlds.com
A couple of weeks ago I launched Dreamcast Worlds in beta. That means …
: Transworld I Spy I made a game today! Play it Read about it
: Memory Insufficient: Asian Histories in Games [caption id=“attachment_1302” align=“aligncenter” width=“730”] …
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Raph Koster seems to be achieving the impossible
These are some over-excited thoughts that I’ve written on an empty stomach with very little …
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Call for Submissions: Asian Histories in Games
: Memory Insufficient: Women in Games History Last month I asked for submissions for a collection of essays on women’s history in games. …
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I made a post-dating sim card game!
This weekend there were two game jams running at the same time: one was a challenge to make dating …
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Reading list
If I had a limitless budget to kit out a new games studio with lovely, physical books, what would I …
: Call for submissions on women's history in games This year’s Women’s History Month theme is “Women inspiring innovation through …
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Shenmue: Historical accuracy as nostalgic fantasy
Featured in February’s Critical Distance Blogs of the Round Table. This is a work-in-progress …
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Voting in the GDC choice awards
Last week I was absolutely over the moon to be invited to vote for the winners of the GDC choice …
: Announcement: Manga girl seeks herbivore boy Great news! My undergraduate dissertation, which I wrote in 2010, is going to be published in a …
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What is a game? It depends who's playing
: 2012 in writing A Borderhouse post arguing that a camp video game character is not necessarily gay The latest piece …
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Boyfriend maker, Google, and the hilarity valley of computer learning
We’re spending much more of our time living with faulty semantic feedback from digital …
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Don't leave me in a ditch: why you should self-censor the em-dash
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I'm bored of hearing about your wife
@shayhowe "when I think of cleaning up my code, I think of my wife doing the dishes..." …
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The science behind non-virality
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Backer-editing Dreamcast Worlds
I feel obliged to point out that, by popular request, I’ve set up a way for you to pre-order …
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Advice for using servos
This summer I worked on a technical solution for Jan Barcentewicz, a vehicle designer who wanted a …
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How did it gogo?
I published this on Gamesbrief this week and thought it would be nice to keep it here too as a …
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Console wars rock paper scissors
Today’s Gamesbrief post about Nintendo reminded me of the history of the Rock-paper-scissors …
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Why Lim is an incredible accomplishment
I played Merritt Kopas’s Lim a couple of weeks ago. I was very impressed, but thought it was …
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Landlords are arseholes: on Steam Greenlight
For a much better post on this issue, go here.
Remember that theory that the internet is morphing …
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Dream come true
This feels strange. I’ve got a bunch of client work out of the way for the day, and now …
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"The best time at Sega Europe was at the launch of the Dreamcast"
As part of further research for my possible book Dreamcast Worlds (fund it here or it can’t …
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Still thinking - learning from Dreamcast game design history
This is one of two talk proposals I’m sending for GDC. It kind of relies on Dreamcast Worlds …
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Jason Lee Weight FTW
Jason Lee Weight (@usernametoobig). Influential Shoreditch dude Edward Saperia desribes him as a …
: The Marooning of Thirsty Ann To thank people for supporting Dreamcast Worlds and sharing it on their social networks, I published …
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I love YouTube comments
It’s so nice when people clear up complicated issues in a single paragraph. Show’s over …
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How to make Monopoly not suck: stage a revolution
I hate Monopoly. I've always hated Monopoly. It takes 3-4 hours to finish a game, and the last 1-2 …
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Phantasy Star Online 2: a glimpse of the future through the prism of the past
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Dreamcast worlds: a design history
I’ve launched an indiegogo campaign to fund a book expanding on the 30,000-word thesis I …
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A quick try with Chromium OS
I gave Chromium OS a try because I wanted the fast, light performance of Bodhi Linux without the …
: GDC poster presentation Some people have been asking me to upload my GDC poster for months. Sorry for the delay. Here it is! …
: Change is the ultimate weapon cation changes the theme of the game, to the tension between fragmentation and wholeness, between …
: Concluding thoughts to my thesis cance that could not be satisfactorily covered here. What has been achieved through this thesis is …
: Wood, metal, plastic: ship design in Skies of Arcadia first twenty hours or so of gameplay, the Little Jack is a second home to the main characters. Its …
: Technologically flat game design nity as they learn how to game the battle system in order to achieve progress. Another game that …
: Narrative architecture and verticality fight in order to pass through. The use of underground architecture for subversive action is …
: Productivism in play gured as a setting for entertaiment.' These worlds are not representations of the real-world, but …
: Taxonomising play finitely win eventually. In reality, the risk is minimal, and the probabilistic nature of attack …
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A lasting lesson from Ze Frank's Kickstarter campaign
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Players gonna play, consumers gonna consume
In a brilliant post on developers' perceptions of free-to-play, Jesper Juul linked to a study on …
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Gaming creeps up on you
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Free-to-play games and talking backwards in French
Yesterday I kind of hyperbolically said that Jetpack Joyride was seductive, and I scolded game …
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Free-to-Play games and the Epic Bath of Mohenjo Daro
I’ve had enough Twitter debates with disgruntled game designers to know that even if …
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Mechanic and narrative
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Games, stories and narrative
Judging from Nicholas Lovell’s recent Twitter conversation about stories in games, many …
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"How frustrating this whole business of studying is"
I’m wading through Bruno Latour and finishing my dissertation this month, feeling ever more …
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Winter is coming: the dire landscape of 2011-2012
Game of Thrones is back in the US, and snow is forecast for next week in the UK, leaving a large …
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Console generations: it's propaganda
Any book on video games needs to have a history section at the start. Most of those potted histories …
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Nostalgia cascade
Some of my business cards carry the title, ‘Time Lord’. While I don’t own a tardis …
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Design an engaging virtual economy
Copyblogger recently advised marketers to tell their audience’s story, taking Downton Abbey as …
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Game design history
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Games are now officially culture
This week I will be attending not one, but three lectures on video games given in an academic …
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Western games don't exist
West is a four-letter word
As a specialist in Japanese video games, I often hear the word 'West' …
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Fictional Economics: announcing my GDC presentation
This was originally published on Gamesbrief, where I work at editorial assistant
Fictional …
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Custom-made watch - trading time
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How to use Wikipedia
I’ve kept putting off writing this article, because I go on believing that one day people will …
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Wired disconnection
Arduino and LEDs showing results of an internet search
This is a quick write-up of an Arduino art …
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Photographic Game Space
The critically acclaimed psychological adventure game Trauma finally came out earlier this year, as …
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Selling to social selves
Facebook has become more panoptic. In doing so, it is leading the trend towards greater sharing …
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Gamification in history: game mechanics as social models
Being a grown-up is not fun and games. To amend this, some cheerful people from a nice part of the …
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Materiality and Procedurality
This is my position paper for a seminar in IT Copenhagen’s game studies department called …
: Surface 2 Here's another surface colour experiment on Sonic the Hedgehog. I think this one works a little …
: Surface I'm currently working on a hypothesis that an early stage in the development of virtual materiality …
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What is an image board? Reflections on Image Threads
I’ve just taken down the Image Threads installation that I described in my last post. It …
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Panoptic games
This blog post contains spoilers. Go play Portal and Metal Gear, then come back and read this. I …
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Constructing the self
I’m reading Judith Butler on how the self is constructed out of normative gender. It reminds …
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Agency and Intelligence in computer games
Implicit in the prevalent …
This man is stupid but free
I just wrote this in my essay for this term:
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Representation is chunky and clunky
Science fiction shows used to make the surface appearance of future technologies extra clunky, …