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Beat Suter

@cybersuter.bsky.social
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Co-Director GameLab, Senior Lecturer for Game Design at the University of the Arts Zurich. Member of ArtGroup AND-OR. Researcher CH-Ludens, and publisher of electronic literature.

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Achim Fehrenbach @achimfehrenbach.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The 1980s and 1990s saw #cracktros flourish: short, creative programs that appeared before cracked #games. Swiss researchers René Bauer and Beat Suter have written a book about this fascinating subculture. An interview. www.games.ch/schweiz/arti... @cybersuter.bsky.social @chludens.bsky.social
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Das digitale Graffiti - Interview-Special - Graffiti- und Cracktro-Kunst in der Schweiz
Die Achtziger- und Neunzigerjahre des vergangenen Jahrhunderts waren die Blütezeit der Cracktros kurzer, künstlerischer Computerprogramme, die vor die gecrackten Games platziert wurden. Die Schweizer ...
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Beat Suter @cybersuter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The book Digital Graffiti is out. It compares the graffiti scene with the cracker and demoscene www.chronos-verlag.ch/node/29247#k...
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Das digitale Graffiti
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Beat Suter @cybersuter.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Archiving Digital Interactive Games / FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF GAME DESIGN [OpenAcess] -- the article is available at www.wallstein-open-library.de/978383536017...
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Archiving Digital Interactive Games | Wallstein Open Library
Unlike a book, a game has complex components. Its main difference starts with interactivity and gameplay as access to the artifact. The technology that makes it possible consists of different layers ...
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Pierre-Yves Hurel @pyhurel.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
POV you're swiss in 87 and connect to your regional bank teleservice on the Vidéotex (swiss minitel)
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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
🗣️ Pierre-Yves Hurel and Sophie Bemelmans interviewed Swiss game developer Daniel Roux, creator of the Blupi/Eggbert games 🥚 We're dropping this in: FRENCH (original) romchip.org/index.php/ro... ENGLISH (translation) romchip.org/index.php/ro...
Menu principal du jeu Blupi is Back (2024), disponible sur Android et Windows. https://www.maniabricks.com/games/blupi-is-back/

Main menu of Blupi Is Back (2024), a video game available for Android and Windows. https://www.maniabricks.com/games/blupi-is-back)
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Game Studies FR @gamestudiesfr.bsky.social · 06/12/2023
« Yannick Rochat - Pierre-Yves Hurel : Sur les traces des œuvres vidéoludiques des premiers temps » youtu.be/hHsjTUsRseA
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Yannick Rochat - Pierre-Yves Hurel - Sur les traces des œuvres vidéoludiques des premiers temps - YouTube
Yannick Rochat est professeur assistant à l’Université de Lausanne et membre-fondateur du GameLab UNIL EPFL ; Pierre-Yves Hurel est cofondateur du Liege Game...
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Confoederatio Ludens (SNF Sinergia) @chludens.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Good news everybody! This autumn the first book from our project will be published by CHRONOS. René Bauer and Beat Suter examine the works of a young cracker and the demo scene from the 1980s and 1990s as digital graffiti. #GameStudies #DemoScene
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