Sign in

Adriana X Jacobs

@axjacobs.bsky.social
259 followers 139 following 48 posts

poet-gamer, professor, Returnal enthusiast www.adrianaxjacobs.com

PostsRepliesMedia
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I had the best time talking to @jon.inkle.co and @sagarberoshi.bsky.social about poems, video games, environmental storytelling and more. And after listening to this episode, be sure to check out the other conversations in this brilliant series!
0134
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
inkle @inkle.co · 09/09/2026
New Kaleidoscope! A magical episode where poet and professor @axjacobs.bsky.social discusses the uses of poetry and spoken performance in game writing to deepen the world of the game, and to draw the player in. Listen here - www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope...
0247
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Reached the Baby Steps credits today and saw that there was quite a bit that I didn’t explore. I came across some of my favorite landmarks by accident (falling/slipping). The game doesn’t offer you a map. And yes this is a metaphor for growing up.
Screenshot of the Baby Steps credits.
000
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 20/07/2026
A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org
azhdarchid.com
The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition
Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.
7335169
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 13/06/2026
📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀📈🚀 Hey come check out some experimental clicker / idle / incremental games! 👇📈👇📈👇📈👇📈👇 For their final projects in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some awesome incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread sharing their work! 🧵⤵️ 1/~15
16421
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Inspired by Tomb Raider, Peggy Ahwesh, and Returnal, I wrote a poem about dying in videogames, over and over again.
021
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Difference Engine @differenceenginesg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
FAST TRAVEL by Adriana X. Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social The flame renews you and you’re back in your armour fighting for your life. You die. You reset. What is this feeling that you’ve felt before? ✨ “Free to Play: A Video Games Anthology” is available for preorder worldwide (link in bio).
012
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
kottke.org @kottke.org · 20/05/2026
My friend Adriana wrote about her story game based on Dante’s Inferno. “In Vya, I modeled Pom after the poet Alice Notley, whose Descent of Alette (1996) is one of the great contributions to the literature of katabasis.” [adrianaxjacobs.com]
adrianaxjacobs.com
The Final Stretch — Adriana X. Jacobs
This is a post about my last two weeks as a graduate student in game design, the spring showcase, and my game Vya.
0122
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Over a year ago, I spoke with @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social about Dreams on a Pillow for a piece that was killed before it could be published. I am honored that he was willing to take the time to speak with me again in spite of that and tell me about his beautiful homeland: kotaku.com/upcoming-ste...
kotaku.com
This Upcoming Stealth Game Wants To Show You A Beautiful Palestine
“We wanted to talk about Palestine, which is a land full of people
162047903
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I’m definitely quoting Naomi in my future Vya publicity materials. Reposting as evidence!
030
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
I graduated this past week from NYU's MFA in Game Design. Going back to school mid-career was challenging, but I never second-guessed that decision. This program changed my life. Here’s a post about our spring showcase and watching people play my game Vya. www.adrianaxjacobs.com/blog/the-fin...
adrianaxjacobs.com
The Final Stretch — Adriana X. Jacobs
This is a post about my last two weeks as a graduate student in game design, the spring showcase, and my game Vya.
262
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
Yes, 💯. I have an essay in my head about this and will write it soon. But after I submit my Returnal-inspired thesis game about a woman descending through midlife hell. You can read about it here: www.adrianaxjacobs.com/blog/introdu...
adrianaxjacobs.com
Introducing Vya — Adriana X. Jacobs
Introducing my MFA thesis game.
020
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 15/04/2026
Returnal is not only a mom game but I have it on good authority that it's going on to inspire more mom games. Sincerely, mom who works as a mom game enabler
11157
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
i think a good question to ask is: why aren't there any "mom games" but "dad game" is a defined genre
4259994
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Enjoying not being rejected by @tacobellquarterly.org for as long as that status lasts. Live más!
040
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Mitu Khandaker @mitukhandaker.com · 03/04/2026
Recently, my esteemed ex-colleague Bennett gave an NYU Game Center Lecture Series talk on his work — most recently Baby Steps. @axjacobs.bsky.social has this excellent critique tho: WHOSE truths about how we move thru the world are we treating as universal?! 🔥 www.adrianaxjacobs.com/blog/player-...
083
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Skateboarding is cool, but I have mild vertigo. Instead, I put a 20-yr academic career on pause and went back to school to study game design. Also, I still haven’t been rejected by @tacobellquarterly.org.
030
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Launch day! I had such fun writing my piece on why “poems make games better” but really only scratched the surface of the topic. What follows in this thread is both a preview and an addition to an example I raise briefly in my essay: 🧵
191
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Game Developer @gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Book excerpt: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
gamedeveloper.com
Book excerpt: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope
Narrative designer Jon Ingold shares the foreword to The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope: 100+ Essays on the Craft of Game Writing.
02814
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
🎉🎉🎉
010
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Ólafur Waage @olafurw.com · 06/05/2025
"Boss" is a common term for the ultimate enemy battle in video games. It's common enough that many other languages just adopted that word. But not Icelandic. It's Endakall or "Final dude"
101067
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 11/02/2026
The NYU Game Center's hiring! A senior, tenure-track professor post for an experienced game designer, artist or industry pro with a notable body of creative work. Experience finishing games and mentoring/teaching more important than any kind of academic credential! gamecenter.nyu.edu/were-hiring-...
gamecenter.nyu.edu
We're Hiring! Join the NYU Game Center Faculty as an Associate Professor! - NYU | Game Center
Description Associate or Full tenure professor position for the NYU Game Center New York University, Tisch School of the Arts Position Overview The NYU Game Center is seeking applicants to join its fa...
5183149
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
I think poetry makes games better and explain why in this forthcoming volume of essays edited by @jon.inkle.co. I can’t wait to read the other contributions!
060
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
New year, new website. www.adrianaxjacobs.com
adrianaxjacobs.com
Adriana X. Jacobs
130
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
I had the opportunity to be a late-stage playtester—a first for me!—and can confirm that this game is STUNNING. So good to see you again, Mara Whitefish!
030
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Important status update: “not rejected by TBQ-yet” ❤️🌮
1332
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
No Quarter is back! On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition! No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
NYU Game Center Presents No Quarter, An exhibition of new games by Jana Romanova, Julian Cordero, Nicole He & Remi Forcadell, Patrick LeMiewux & Stephanie Boluk. 7:00pm November 22nd, 2025, Brooklyn, New York
05825
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
Shared some thoughts on poetic repetition (esp anaphora) and narrative design in contemporary roguelikes at gs1, a conference showcasing the scholarly work of the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social MFAs.
051
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 26/04/2025
How do “poetic roguelikes” such as Returnal and Hades resemble poetry? Similar to e.g. Dickinson, they have a kind of anaphora, with recurring motifs, language, sensory elements. Deleuze’s Difference and Repetition highly useful to understand cyclical gameplay; imagination draws out difference
Title slide: Poetic Roguelikes (Adriana X. Jacobs)Text of Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” with “we paused” repetitions in boldScreenshots of Returnal representing Death, Cutscene, Rebirth
1236
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
☺️
020
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 19/01/2024
My translation of Merav Givoni Hrushovski’s End— is out and available for purchase (online and in person at AWP). ⭐️
040
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
kottke.org @kottke.org · 14/12/2023
From my friend Adriana X. Jacobs, “I put my doom into a love poem” is 8-bit video game that incorporates some of her poems. “If you find the neighbor’s garden, your afterlife will be extra sweet.” [ladymacabea.itch.io]
0176
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
My poem-game “I put my doom into a love poem” is now public! It adapts poems that first appeared in my poetry zine “Afterlife is Sweet” (rinky dink press). #bitsy
ladymacabea.itch.io
I put my doom into a love poem by Adriana X. Jacobs
poem-game inspired by my poetry zine Afterlife is Sweet (rinky dink press). Play in your browser
071
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 27/11/2023
Winter reading 🎮
Stack of four books about gaming, from the bottom up: Eric Zimmerman’s The Rules We Break, Miguel Sicart’s Play Matters, Shira Chess’s Play Like a Feminist, and Carmen Maria Machado and J. Robert Lennon’s (eds.) Critical Hits.
290
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Valarie Smith @valarie.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
“A mother falls through a bed of chalk flowers, pulling her child behind her. A store/ crumbles, spilling votives into the street. The rats pour out of a manhole cover,/ shedding future plagues.” Is this a future dystopia? Or are we already the survivors? Stunning poem by @axjacobs.bsky.social.
theaccountmagazine.com
Deformation | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought
132
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 31/10/2023
I have a new poem out in The Account! This one is called “Deformation”: theaccountmagazine.com/article/jaco...
theaccountmagazine.com
Deformation | The Account: A Journal of Poetry, Prose, and Thought
040
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 23/10/2023
Roguelike Celebration 2023 was fantastic and inspiring. Esp enjoyed talks on music and reality TV, depths and gardens. And really loved exploring the Mall of Moria as ladymacabea, my avatar since 2002.
010
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 14/10/2023
I’m reading Katherine Isbister’s How Games Move Us and thinking about “meaningful choices.” As I play test my interactive poem for the millionth time, this moment, at the very beginning, is still my favorite, taking me back to that moment when I chose “start” in the spring of 2020. #bitsy
040
Reposted by Adriana X Jacobs
Museum of Screens @museumofscreens.bsky.social · 22/09/2023
Bitsy Fest is ON! And the theme of the jam has been picked, it is: MUSEUM I am not making this up, I am so happy this is the theme that has been picked. Good luck to everyone who participate! itch.io/jam/bitsy-fest
itch.io
BITSY FEST (bitsy jam #77)
A game jam from 2023-09-22 to 2023-10-15 hosted by Museum of Screens, Alicia Luna Ripp & ledoux. Hello and welcome to the BITSY FEST JAM! The Museum of Screens is partnering with Bitsy to celebrate it...
044
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 29/09/2023
Traveled far out of my comfort zone and attended my first Playtest Thursday at the NYU Game Center and people who are not my kid and @djacobs.bsky.social played my so very much in-progress Bitsy game. I loved every minute of it. 🎮
050
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 26/09/2023
#thelastofusday
010
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 09/09/2023
The journal Asoophit has been so supportive of my work. You’ll find “Ars Poetica” in the latest issue פרור (crumb). drive.google.com/file/d/1qQWW...
030
Adriana X Jacobs @axjacobs.bsky.social · 06/08/2023
New poem “Dead Girls” and new translations in Tupelo Quarterly 30 www.tupeloquarterly.com/editors-fea…
tupeloquarterly.com
Dead Girls: A Portfolio of Literature in Translation —curated by Lisa Katz
Tal Nitzán’s celebrated oeuvre includes seven books of poetry—most recently Atlantis (2020, Afik Press), winner of the Bar-Ilan University prize—two novels, a short story collection, children...
040