Back from the excellent "Games and game studies beyond postmodernism" conference in Konstanz and felt inspired to blog up some ideas on metamodernism from my book, Beyond Happy:
profmarkfabian.substack.com/p/metamodern...
Metamodern Meta-Ethics: How we learn to float in the postmodern abyss.
Sam Amiotte-Beaulieu reviews Paco for AGH. A gorgeous free small-scale adventure about a tiny clown with a lot of heart
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#indiegame #adventuregame
@gamesbeyond.bsky.social was a great conference with two extraordinary keynotes from which I learned a lot. I was very happy to present my recent work on dialectics in video games and look forward to a possible collective volume.
Congratulations to @nattgoo.bsky.social et al. for organising it.
thank you for your fantastic talk and for being part of our conference! ❤️
The first day of presentations here in Konstanz is about halfway done with the first day.
It's fantastic to be together in a cohort that is aligned directly with my research experience
Gonna start referring to productivity software like people talk about video games.
"Oh yeah Google Docs is a Cloud-bases Word-like."
"Trello is a Lanestyle Jiracore Tasklike"
"Only weaklings need to use a Pomodoro to get through Sheetstyle work."
We’re thrilled to welcome Sonia Fizek (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences) as a keynote speaker at #GamesBeyond!
🌍 Don’t miss her talk “Caught Between Distant and Planetary Play”
📆 5 Sept. 2025 | 11:15–12:30 | Y311, Uni Konstanz
We’re delighted to announce that Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo) will be joining us as a keynote speaker at #GamesBeyond!
❔ Don’t miss his talk “What is the question to which metamodernism is the answer?”
📆 4 Sept. 2025 | 9:00–10:30 | Y311, Uni Konstanz
STRONG poster! 😍
Keynotes speakers: Timotheus Vermeulen (University of Oslo) & Sonia Fizek (TH Köln - University of Applied Sciences).
For more info: www.gamesbeyond.org
#gamestudies #gamedesign #gamedev
The #GamesBeyond conference programme is now LIVE 🎉 Explore the schedule and latest updates here: www.gamesbeyond.org/programme.
Come join us in beautiful Konstanz for these incredible talks!
Games with endings, or games that end, preferably single player and of a reasonable length (short!) = the best kind of games.
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J: Are you a game developer? Me: I am J: What kind? Me: Unemployed (J heart-reacted that final iMessage)
Texting with my college roommate from back in '03
happy gone girl day to all those who celebrate
Me: I have not written for weeks. I am a failure, a wretch, a nothing. I have lost my way. I am squandering my one precious life. Abandoning myself. All is darkness. All is despair.
Me: *writes 500 words, discovers life is worth living again*
Me, 4 hours later: okay but what if the book is bad
Women like women too, officer. Try not to fixate on this. Let's move on.
Try to be a kind person in the world.
After that, be a mischievous ghost that haunts historic theaters, or a vengeful sea witch who stalks windswept shores, or something cool like that.
TFW you decide to learn a language by writing a novel in it
He bent over your tired body and breathed – what he saw, what he thought, what he felt – into you. Then he asked you about – palpabilities, infinities, and continuities – what you saw, what you thought, what you felt. You saw sunshine playing hide-and-seek and thought of barefoot beggars in nameless cities; You saw fresh-cut hay and thought of all the Scotts and Bens who fought for freedom and now lay forgotten under our feet; You saw a spear of grass and felt the wound in the chest of the child who was not meant to die having seen nothing but pain.
a piece of a poem inspired by Whitman's Song of Myself😊
"Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
Ray Bradbury
no worries, I can still finish this book in time, all I need to do is write approximately 16,000 words a day
My little book CRACKS is dedicated to everyone who still avoids stepping on cracks in the sidewalk🪴
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(Thank you for doing this, John!)
