biweekly round-up 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...
biweekly round-up 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!
Games 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, queer, and transgender
Games 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 quand je me
Games 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 pot of jasmine
Games 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 One of my
Games 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
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 over the years,
Games The gentleman farmer, labour and land: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley Earth savage, earth broken, the brutes, the dawn-man there in the sunset,And the plough that is twin to the sword, that is the founder of cities! — Padraic Colum, The Plougher (Wild Earth
Games Dumpster diving and pickling pumpkins: ecocritical possibilities in Stardew Valley I started playing Stardew Valley this past weekend, because I'd heard it had all of the elements I liked from Minecraft (farming, being in a "outdoors" setting) but with RPG elements,
commentary 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
Games 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
Games 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 Head by Squinky.
Games 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 about a transwoman
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 Minecraft Colloquium (see
Games 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. - Leonard Nimoy (1931-2015)
Games 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 with using 1.
Games #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 in a fun,
Games Gone Home I am often intensely homesick for places I’ve never been, ages I’ve never lived, and things I’ve never seen. On the other hand, I’m almost never homesick for anything
microagressions Alex Epstein on Characters: Women NPCs are plot devices, Heroes are brooding ‘daddy figures’ #MIGS2013 This morning I sat in the Palais des Congrès room 519 at the Montréal International Games Summit. I was attending a seminar run by Alex Epstein from COMPULSION GAMES. The extraordinary A accompanied
