Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia)

What is Confoederatio Ludens? In this premiere episode of the CH Ludens podcast, hosts Eugen Pfister and Arno Görgen present the project ‘Confederatio Ludens. Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000’. They explain t...

"I mean, there's of course the research interest and the motivation for this research, which I will come to later. But there's also a very pragmatic reason, um, I like to also talk about this pragmatic reasons in academia"

What is @chludens.bsky.social? The Podcast

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Now that I'm back from holiday, I can finally properly promote our project podcast. In the first episode, @pachuki.bsky.social and I give a general introduction to the @snf-fns.ch funded Sinergia project @chludens.bsky.social!

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Zurück aus dem urlaub kann ich jetzt endlich ordentlich Werbung für unseren Projekt-Podcast machen. In der ersten Episode stellen @pachuki.bsky.social und ich ganz allgemein das @snf-fns.ch finanzierte Sinergia-Projekt @chludens.bsky.social vor!

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#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 „Bridging Disciplines: Reflections on ReAnimate Summer School and Interdisciplinary Approaches in Digital Game Studies.“ Read the full article on our blog ➡️
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#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 In June 2024, a delegation from the Confoederatio Ludens project visited the Museum of Communication depot in Schwarzenburg, particularly to explore its computer hardware collections. Read the full article here. ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

What can go wrong with @pachuki.bsky.social and @eugenpfister.bsky.social on the mic? 😍

What is Confoederatio Ludens? In this premiere episode of the CH Ludens podcast, hosts Eugen Pfister and Arno Görgen present the project ‘Confederatio Ludens. Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000’. They explain t...

They explain the interdisciplinary collaboration, the project's goals, and the significance of digital gaming culture for the digitisation of (Swiss) society. ➡️ letscast.fm/sites/ch-lud...

What is Confoederatio Ludens? In this premiere episode of the CH Ludens podcast, hosts Eugen Pfister and Arno Görgen present the project ‘Confederatio Ludens. Swiss History of Games, Play and Game Design 1968-2000’. They explain t...

CH Ludens the Podast is here! 🎙️👾 In this premiere episode, hosts @eugenpfister.bsky.social & @pachuki.bsky.social present our project.

Friendly reminder that @pachuki.bsky.social and me have a CfP on gaming zines for you! #GameStudies

Back from the Dead: Re-Animating Viruses of the Floppy Disk Era While the final week of the year usually finds the public preoccupied with the quiet digestion of holiday feasts, the global hacker community prepares for its annual pilgrimage. For decades, the Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) in Germany has served as the epicenter of European hacker culture. However, as the event’s popularity has surged, securing a … Back from the Dead: Re-Animating Viruses of the Floppy Disk Era weiterlesen

„Back from the Dead: Re-Animating Viruses of the Floppy Disk Era.“ How a piece of hardware from our GameLab in Bern kept a group of hackers busy at HUGOCON 2025 with a 40-year-old virus, and inspired a new dating method ➡️

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: *The case study of the game ’Ball Raider’* by Aurelia Brandenburg, Adrian Demleitner, Arno Görgen, Addrich Mauch, and Eugen Pfister. Full article here ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

A collage of screenshots from the 1989 Ubisoft game, Ilyad.

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek 🕹️👾 is "Ilyad", a side-scrolling shoot-'em-up game from Ubisoft released in 1989. The game features large sprites, and the aim is to defeat enemies while controlling a spaceship. Have you heard of it? ➡️ stage.chludens.ch/ga...

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: LINEL – a Swiss Game Publisher – Part 2: Collaborations and Unreleased Games ➡️ found in our blog #archive: chludens.hypotheses....

A quick first glance at our HKB-UniBe Gamelab @chludens.bsky.social #GameStudies

Starting the Machine for our Design & Rhetoric Meeting with our colleagues from the HKB. @chludens.bsky.social

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b: Die restliche Zeit in unserem @chludens.bsky.social of Gamelab hab ich u.a. genutzt um gmöglichst viele Spiele am Amiga auszuprobieren.
„Ich bin Herzog Leto Artreides, Dein Vater“ 😂 #GameStudies

Back in our @chludens.bsky.social Bern Gamelab with my last additions from the East. Our collection keeps expanding beautifully thanks also to the work of @hekabeohnename.bsky.social et al. #GameStudies

New CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social and me! We'll be editing a special issue at gamevironments and are looking for contributions focused on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters and even DIY aspects of commercial gaming magazines. #GameStudies

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A #GameStudies CFP not from one but from two of my favorite colleagues: @pachuki.bsky.social anf @hekabeohnename.bsky.social: CfP by @pachuki.bsky.social focusinh on DIY print publications like fanzines, newsletters etc.
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Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek is “Rings Of Medusa” (also known as ROM). This strategy, role-playing, and economic simulation game was published by Starbyte Software in 1989. Have you heard of it? ➡️ stage.chludens.ch/ga...

Thanks to @hekabeohnename.bsky.social I was allowed to research a bit the history of the BRAVO for the historical context of our @chludens.bsky.social case study on the #BravoScreenFun

#FromTheBlog 📖 *The Feel of Sweaty Fingers* – the CH LUDENS team's first memories of digital games. How did we, as scientists, become who we are today? Where does our interest in digital games come from? Join us on a short journey to the beginnings of the CH LUDENS team ➡️ chludens.hypotheses....

Our #SwissGameOfTheWeek is “A Young Person’s Guide to Walking Outside the City”, a computer animation by Alexander Hahn (1983). It follows a small blue protagonist on a surreal journey through the countryside, which is full of strange events. Have you heard of it? ➡️ stage.chludens.ch/ga...

CH Ludens Starts Collecting Historical Gaming Magazines by Aurelia Brandenburg Researching the history of digital games means, among other things, researching the discourses about games in gaming magazines. For that, the Bern Team of CH Ludens is starting a collection of physical copies of gaming magazines in German (primarily) published in the 1980s and 1990s. This post serves as a living document … Continue reading CH Ludens Starts Collecting Historical Gaming Magazines

#FromTheBlog #archive #Repost: Back to April 2024, when we started "Collecting Historical Gaming Magazines“. You can find the full blogpost here: ➡️

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#05 Kann ich mit Games mehr über Geschichte lernen? Podcast-Folge · Handbuch Gameskultur: Der Podcast · 07.01.2026 · 1 Std. 31 Min.

Wie entstehen gemeinsame Werte in einer Gesellschaft? Und was haben Geschichte und digitale Spiele damit zu tun?
Tobias Nowak hat dazu @felixfelixson.bsky.social und mich für den Podcast zum „Handbuch Gameskultur“ interviewt. #GameStudies

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Diese Woche noch meine Lieben sammeln wir Vorschläge. Bitte verbreiten!

#Repost #FromTheBlog 📖 This week: LINEL – a Swiss Game Publisher – Part 1: A complete list of LINEL’s games ➡️ found in our blog #archive: chludens.hypotheses....

“Sie sind ein typisches Produkt unserer Zeit in der das Technische überbewertet wird!”  Der Computerspiel-Diskurs in Schweizer Medien in den 1980er Jahren von Hiloko Kato und Eugen Pfister Hiloko Kato beschäftigt sich seit mehr als 10 Jahren mit Games aus sprachwissenschaftlicher Sicht. Für das laufende SNF Sinergia Projekt CH Ludens sieht sie sich das ...

Vergangenes Jahr habe ich mich mit Hiloko für @chludens.bsky.social Erfahrungen über Schweizer mediale Diskurse zu digitalen Spielen ausgetauscht! Ich hab mir die Presse angeschaut und Hiloko das Fernsehen: Exotik, Gewalt, Modernität und Sucht galore #GameStudies
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Im Abgrund der 90er: Analyzing Bravo Screenfun (KRITISCHE CONTROLLER #12) von Aurelia Brandenburg und Eugen Pfister Extrablatt! Oder eher: Extra-Podcast. Denn: In dieser Sonderfolge unterhält sich Eugen nicht mit Arno, sondern mit Aurelia über die Bravo Screenfun, eines der...

Jetzt ist auch auf meinem Blog verlinkt, wie @hekabeohnename.bsky.social und ich uns für eine gute Stunde gutgelaunt durch die erste #BravoScreenfun lesen. Pager! Techno! Lara Croft! spielkult.hypotheses.org/8627
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