minecraft Let's Play Germinal Minecraft (with Joachim) Joachim and I played Minecraft together and had some meandering conversations about Minecraft, the modding culture, the history of the server, and the inherent colonial nature of these games.
2019 Blogging Challenge Brief Assortment of Interesting Things — 12th of April 2019 Here's the round-up from between the 30th of March and the 12th of April, 2019.
Games ∙ Les jeux Why Skyrim Remains My Favourite Place To Get Lost In I realised when I was thinking about the videogames I love that I've written about, that I had never actually written about Skyrim, and I decided to try. So here are some of the reasons Skyrim, 8+ years after it launched, remains my favourite game to escape into.
dungeons and dragons Dungeon Mastering For The First Time I've started Game Mastering a Star Wars table-top RPG set in the Old Republic/pre-Mandalorian Wars era, and it's one of my favourite things right now.
2019 Blogging Challenge Assortiment bref de trucs intéressants — 15 février 2019 Cette semaine, on regarde un recueil de bandes dessinées sur des contes de fées nonbinaires, un jeu pour détruire tes livres pour en faire de l'art, un livre sur comment le féminisme est devenu un buzzword du marché privé, et encore plus!
2019 Blogging Challenge Brief assortment of interesting stuff — 15th of February 2019 This week, let's look at a comic book collection of nonbinary fairy tales, a ritual on destroying your books to make art, a book that shows how feminism became a marketplace buzzword, and more...
Games ∙ Les jeux Life Is Strange 2: Episode 1 "Roads" Play-through notes Here are some quick n' dirty notes on the first episode of Life Is Strange 2 I'm putting here to refer back to later.
Twine Notes on my presentation on Twine anti-games for the Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique Version française de l’article est ici. I was invited to speak on October the 11th by the Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique at Université de Montréal on Twine games and feminist,
Games ∙ Les jeux Notes sur ma présentation sur les anti-jeux Twine pour le Groupe Féministe Vidéoludique Read the English version of this post here. Note: comme j’ai remarqué sur Twitter l’autre jour, j’utilise des pronoms et des accords au masculin dans ce texte
Games ∙ Les jeux A Tale of Two Dominique Pamplemousses On a bright, late April day, Squinky walked up to the third floor of a typical Plateau triplex and rang the bell. I put on a kettle and made a
Games ∙ Les jeux The Cyborg and Colonization: Mass Effect Andromeda Play-through Notes Oh, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in ’t! The Tempest, Act 5, Scene 1, 188-191
Games ∙ Les jeux End of Year Review 2016 For many, many people around the world, 2016 will be remembered as the year famous baby-boomers dropped like flies. It will also be remembered, I think, as the year the world watched with mute consternation as the destruction of Syria and genocide and forced-displacement
minecraft Ephemeral landscapes and being in a Minecraft documentary webseries Civilizations are born and die within Minecraft. —William Brownridge On my Linkedin, one of my top profile bylines is "Minecraft Phenomenologist." I've worked on several projects in Minecraft
Games ∙ Les jeux The gentleman farmer, labour and land: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley In my first post about Stardew Valley, I wrote about the romanticization of agriculture and rural life, dumpster diving, as well as what kind of gameplay the game encourages in its players. In this post I'll expand on some of that, as well as explore the game's treatment of labour and the land.
Games ∙ Les jeux Dumpster diving and pickling pumpkins: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley My first post on the ecocritical possibilities in the video game Stardew Valley.
Games ∙ Les jeux The apolitical fallacy Politics is pervasive. Everything is political and the choice to be "apolitical" is usually just an endorsement of the status quo and the unexamined life.—Rebecca Solnit I've been hearing the word apolitical a lot recently, and I wanted to have a
Games ∙ Les jeux Building an inventory in Twine 2 with the built-in Harlowe macros If you're looking for an inventory system in Twine 2's default Harlowe Story Format, I have here a fairly simple system which I wrote for my incomplete Myst Jam twine game.
philosophy Today I livetweeted a talk by Pippin Barr Storified for convenience. I think. Because there are many tweets, click the big Read Next Page button when you reach the end. Update May 2018: Storify shut down. I exported the tweets, but it may be buggy. Thanks for reading this livetweet thing, all
Games ∙ Les jeux A Short Review: Conversations We Have In My Head Pronouns, sexual attraction, bodies, parental acceptance, privilege and passing, these are some of the topics in the conversation between Quark and Lex in the videogame Conversations We Have In My
Games ∙ Les jeux A Short Review: Bloom Spoilers, and perhaps rampant speculation, ahead. If you have not played Bloom I highly recommend you go play it right now first. Bloom by Caelyn Sandel is a serial fiction
minecraft Presentation Notes on Big Fried Chicken Company On February 13th, 2015, at Concordia University, I presented my research working on The Big Fried Chicken Company in Minecraft for the Amplab at The Building Blocks of Life: A
Games ∙ Les jeux Eat Long, and Prosper Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special. -
altgames Patronage Report for January 2015 January is not usually a productive month for me, so I'm very happy to report that I've done lots of things this January! If I were to qualify my overall
Games ∙ Les jeux Using Twine 1.4.2 As A Prototyping Tool for Unity3d I have been using Twine 1.4.2 almost exclusively since it was released, and have not had time to properly explore Twine 2. As such, this article is concerned
Games ∙ Les jeux #GAMERella and building Outsider This past weekend I was a participant in GAMERella, a game jam aimed at women and beginners, whose mission is to foster a safer space where game jamming can happen
