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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

I am at DiGRA Malta talking about game preservation, and when I shared the attitude of the ESA that people only want access to preserved games in order to play them FOR FUN! (rather than serious research) someone facetiously replied “well if it’s fun why shouldn’t you pay” and it got me thinking 1/2

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

“Bad games have more to teach than good games” - Lane D Koughan. Saving bad games can be extremely impactful for games education.

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

@mariaobrien.bsky.social and I hosted a workshop at #DIGRAMalta2025 on the Law & Policy of Games. After our #keynote we used the rest of the time to gather knowledge from our participants and think about pathways to fill gaps and increase impact.

A wooden wall with many flip chart pages filled with notes and keywords

Post it notes of many colors, with text on them in many different hands, some legible some not.

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17/04/2025

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

Defend the Internet Archive.
Protect the Wayback Machine.
Tell the music labels: Drop the 78s lawsuit.
Sign our open letter on change.org

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Hearing about a new project from @kierannolan.bsky.social ‘Video Games that Don’t Exist’

A large screen on a wall that reads “paratexts without texts: Experiments in AI Machinima” with images from Machinima film. Below these images it reads “Dr. Kieran Nolan”

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Eoghan and Justin of IMIRT giving a presentation on the Past Present and Future if the Irish Game Makers Association #DiGRAIreland @leglessgamer.bsky.social

Two men stand behind a podium in front of a screen displaying text. Only “The Future” is readable

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Aaron Trebble, Jemma Costin, and Adrian Aronsson-Storrier presenting on Mods, Hacks and Cheats and IP protection. Extremely interesting research on how IP law can and whether it always should prevent these activities! #DiGRAIreland

Two men and a woman stand behind a podium in front of a screen displaying old fashioned video game avatars of each person

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Dr Maria O’Brien talking about her research into the Irish Games Tax Credit at the inaugural DiGRA Ireland Conference #DiGRAIreland #interdisciplinary

A woman stands at a podium behind her are two screens displaying a slide reading “Why study taxation”

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Fabulous keynote on how to make the games industry sustainable in 2025. He calls for more precision in game development, and not being distracted by the lure of great money and more time. #FísGamesSummit

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

This is a very scary piece of legislation - it will make voting difficult if not impossible for a huge swath of Americans, including anyone who has ever changed their name for any reason.

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Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association @imirt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Game of the Year 2025 recognises the best games released in 2024! Congratulations to our Runner-Up, Dungeons and Naggins by Steve Bennett - @dungeonsandnaggins.bsky.social! #ImirtIrishGameAwards #FísGamesSummit

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Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association @imirt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The Rising Star Award is designed to recognise an individual who is an emerging talent in the Irish games industry, in any development discipline. Huge congratulations to our winner, creator of the Enigma Trilogy, Jamie Gavin - @enigmastud.io #ImirtIrishGameAwards #FísGamesSummit

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Imirt - The Irish Game Makers Association @imirt.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

And winning the award for Best Game Design is the incredible Amber Isle from @ambertail.games! #ImirtIrishGameAwards #FísGamesSummit

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The IMIRT Irish Game Awards 2025 have made me want to spend the weekend playing these games #FísGamesSummit

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Good morning from the #FísGamesSummit Very excited to hear more about #AccessibleByDesign Games in the first roundtable discussion.

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 07/12/2024

Irish Times headline for a profile of incredible activist musician/poet/artist Joan Baez not about Joan Baez, but about a man with whom she was in a relationship decades ago. Do better. Joan Baez: Do I ever hear from Bob Dylan? ‘Not a word’ www.irishtimes.com/life-style/p...

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Joan Baez: Do I ever hear from Bob Dylan? ‘Not a word’

Looking young and powerful at 83, Baez is still engaged in politics, but has recently revealed a dark secret

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Fellow teachers of law, what are some of the challenges you have faced in integrating tech into your classrooms?

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Dr Abby Rekas (she/her) @letsopenculture.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Conference alert and Call for Papers - Legal Tech Ireland: Impacts Policies and Pathways www.universityofgalway.ie/business-pub...

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News & Events - University of Galway

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