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Edmond Chang @edmondchang.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

*NEW ISSUE* *SEPTEMBER 2026* Analog Game Studies Vol. XIII, No. 3 is out! escholarship.org/uc/analoggam... -- featuring: Evan Torner, Alex Roberts & Stephen Shapiro, Cameron Kunzelman, Lucy Roach, & Kathryn Volz, and Helen Roche @analoggamestudies.bsky.social Jrnl #analoggamestudies #ags

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Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Hey everyone, just a reminder that the NFTS game poems jam is happening on Monday. Open to remote and international participants. There's even prizes! And did I mention the legendary Shuhei Yoshida is one of the judges? Join and make a game poem in 24 hours (or less): itch.io/jam/nfts-gam...

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NFTS Game Poems Jam

A game jam from 2026-09-07 to 2026-09-08 hosted by Games@NFTS. For the first time ever, the National Film & Television School (NFTS) is hosting a public Game Jam! Join us in celebrating Videogame Poem...

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Carolyn Petit @carolynmichelle.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Perfect Tides: Station to Station.

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🎮📜 A new issue of ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is here! 📜🎮 This summer we're traveling from 1980s China to the 1990s cable wars, with stops in Switzerland and the UK along the way! 🕹️📖 www.romchip.org 🌟 Get cozy. Get reading. SUBSCRIBE: eepurl.com/crCul1 DONATE: bit.ly/4wmQqKC 🧵⬇️

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ROMchip

ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories is a platform designed for the advancement of critical historical studies of games.

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CTHUEL HURAMCHEK @greaterrealityarea.net · 08/07/2026

I love when there’s a “copy link” option under the share button. it makes me feel like a midboss of the water temple

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Expansions are kinda weird, right? I spoke with ten game designers and a historian about one of the most unusual elements of modern board games. www.youtube.com/watch?v=v08K...

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Expanding Board Games

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Betrayal at Club Low is for dice sickos (complimentary) and people who like when RPGs surprise them, which this one does constantly. Also you can beat it in 2-4 hours, which is nice. store.steampowered.com/app/1885750/...

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Save 30% on Betrayal At Club Low on Steam

Tonight you're on a rescue mission, infiltrating a nightclub that was once a coffin factory. Will you succeed? Will you fail? Or will your night take an unexpected detour? Roll the Pizza Dice and find...

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Rolling Deep is a riff on Balatro, but one that not only matches the ambition of its source material, but exceeds it, offering a fresh and pleasurable approach to roguelikes that's full of combos, problems and solutions, and the best dice I've handled. My preview: spacebiff.com/2026/06/22/r...

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Biffing Balatro

Ready for a confession? I didn’t love Balatro, the roguelike poker deck-building game from a couple years back. Don’t get me wrong, the number-go-up part of my brain adored Balatro. But…

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

A presentation schedule for Save the Games is now available from the list of presenters and abstracts! I am working on getting the website updated, but check it out, and get your tickets now! www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...

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Andrew Borman @borman.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Save the Games tickets are still available! Join me and the over 100 people already registered for two days of learning about what is being done to preserve the field that we all care so much about! www.museumofplay.org/save-the-gam...

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Save the Games: A Digital Preservation Symposium - The Strong National Museum of Play

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

For the late crowd: YOU are invited to attend our free, 100% online conference Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN" on July 15-16. Keynotes from Alenda Chang (Playing Nature) and Matteo Menapace (Daybreak), as well as dozens of high-quality talks. Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/generation...

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Generation Analog 2026 "GREEN"

Generation Analog is an annual online tabletop games and education conference.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

ANNOUNCING: Swords Against Beginner's Box Replica Edition Coming in June, this is a reproduction of a specific, incomplete, unplayable copy of this 1979 game found at an estate sale in 2016, including replicas of personal effects of the former owner.

The reverse of the original box was blank, so I hope you don't mind me filling up the space with some context. In 2016, a few days after we had started Hollandspiele, Mary and I went to an estate sale and came across this box. I had never heard of it before, but I assumed based on the title it might have something to do with the Lankhmar books, or that, based on the repurposed J.R. Skelton illustration, it might have something to do with Beowulf. Both of these were things I was fairly obsessed with at this time, and the box felt fairly heavy, so I gave ten dollars to the daughter of the deceased.
The box had been sealed with heavy strapping tape. When I cut it open, I found most of the box's heft came from the previous owner's personal effects. The core rulebook was missing, as was the "Dictionary of Devils". The only piece of the original game left in the box was the adventure module – but not its dungeon map, or the answer key for its many obtuse puzzles. The game was unplayable.
I went online to try to find PDFs of the missing material, but there were none. No downloads on DriveThruRPG, no entries in databases, no forums, no remembrances on groggy blogs. It was almost like it never existed at all.
But the box was proof it did. And in those personal effects there were a few clues that enabled me to piece together the story of an RPG publisher that existed for a few months in 1979, and the novelist who wrote an adventure module that in all likelihood was played by maybe a dozen people. More than that, I learned about the person who had owned my copy, and had annotated the module book with a puzzle of their own. The box was proof they existed, too.
It occurred to me that all of this was worth preserving, and a few years ago I set about securing the necessary permissions to publish this replica edition. The original publisher, Michael Lord, was still alive – he passed only very recently – and even sent me a copy of the missing materials. I went back and forth on whet…

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Mike Vazquez-DeAnda, PhD @playfulmike.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

pre-launch of TTRPGrimoire! I’d appreciate if you would signup to be notified about the launch this collection. You don’t have to buy anything right now, prelaunch numbers are SUPER helpful for crowdfunding. tinyurl.com/TTRPGrim #ttrpg #indiegamedev #myth #gamedev #mythology #storytelling More⬇️

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Get Ready for TTRPGrimoire

From Alice D Games - Get Ready for TTRPGrimoire

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 26/04/2026

Perfect Tides: Station to Station is coming to Switch on May 14th! Experience the award-winning coming-of-age adventure on console with enhanced controller support! youtu.be/F13pXUFS9U8?...

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Perfect Tides: Station to Station - Nintendo Switch Release Trailer

YouTube video by Meredith Gran

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Historical Games Network @historygamesnet.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

The first post for our Analogue theme is up! @malcolmcraig.bsky.social explores depictions of armed American masculinity in a Cold War context across Tabletop Role-Playing Games like Delta Force: America strikes back!, Twilight: 2000, & The Price of Freedom: www.historicalgames.net/manly-men-wi...

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Manly Men With Uzis: Tabletop Role-Playing Games and American Cold War Masculinity | Historical Games Network

In 1980s American popular culture, men with Uzis were everywhere. In The Terminator (1984), the titular killer cyborg played by Arnold Schwarzenegger demanded an “Uzi 9mm” from a gun store owner prior...

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 02/03/2026

It's been 4 years since the release of the original Perfect Tides. I wrote down some feelings about it on my blog: meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

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Perfect Tides at Four - Meredith Gran

Perfect Tides was released 4 years ago last week on February 22nd, 2022. I didn’t quite get it together to write this post at the time, but it was

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ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

We’re $2K short of our Tier 1 goal w/ 3 hours left. Final boss energy activated. ROMchip is 100% reader-funded. No paywalls. No ads. If we hit this goal, we fund the journal for another year. JOIN US: www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal If 100 folks give $20 we’re there. If you can’t give, BOOST.

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Nicole Carpenter @nicolecarpenter.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

i wrote about perfect tides: station to station and interviewed @meredithgran.com for @mothership.blog. one of the best games i've played in a while! www.mothership.blog/perfect-tide...

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Perfect Tides: Station to Station is you, me, and Meredith Gran at 18

How can a narrative point-and-click make my heart beat so fast?

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Laine Nooney @ 🔥🗑️🔥 @lainenooney.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

📡 Signal blasting for new followers: I wanna do a lil intro abt ROMchip: A Journal of Game Histories @romchip.bsky.social b/c we got an important fundraiser coming up in a few weeks. It's a free, open-access journal dedicated to game history, and if you love games, here's why you should care 🕹️🎲🀄🎯

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Jordan Magnuson @jordanmagnuson.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01 A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format. Thanks for playing and sharing!

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Game Poems #1

An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

March 1st is the upcoming submission date for our summer 2026 Generation Analog Conference. This year's topic is "Green." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

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Generation Analog 2026 “GREEN” CFP | Analog Game Studies

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

"...part of the dynamism of Alexander as an interlocuter is the extent to which her personal biography is braided into the trajectory of gaming’s twisting twenty-first-century form." THANK YOU @lainenooney.bsky.social for this interview. romchip.org/index.php/ro...

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Actor, Writer, Technology Spirit | ROMchip

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Eteo Games @eteogames.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Though sad and uncomfortable, winter - and death - are often necessary to prevent game worlds from feeling stagnant. In our first article on Seasons, @hollynielsen.bsky.social explores how winter provides vital friction in the Harvest Moon series: vist.ly/4kb34

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Winter and Death in Harvest Moon

While letting go of a beloved pet is hard, death plays an essential role in preventing farming sims from feeling stagnant.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

I work in board games, and what makes my work in the form good is my genuine interest in books, in film, in music, in dance, in cooking, in woodworking. Cultivating curiosity & a voracious appetite for different works in different forms is so incredibly important.

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Max Kreminski @maxkreminski.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...

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Malcolm Craig @malcolmcraig.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

Hurrah! My article on the Twilight 2000 RPG in the Journal of American Studies is now open access (OA), so anyone who wants to can have a read. OA is important to me, as I want my work on RPG history to go beyond the academy and reach the gaming public. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces | Journal of American Studie...

When You Say, “Thermonuclear War,” I Think You Mean “the Call to Adventure”! The Twilight: 2000 Tabletop Role-Playing Game and the Postapocalyptic World’s Imaginary Spaces

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Christine Tomlinson, PhD @socstudygames.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

I wrote a book and it has a cover now! (Pre-order up, available Feb 5, 2026) www.bloomsbury.com/us/fractured...

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Dr. Jack Murray @jackademia.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Is this the new Borderlands game everyone is excited about?

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Mike Vazquez-DeAnda, PhD @playfulmike.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

Today, I had students make paper snowflakes to get them to ponder ritual, liminality, play, and making. Reflections: -liminal space constitutes the stable space/structure -rituals can be small and seemingly mundane -playful making as exploration of uncertain but exciting anticipated outcome

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Elizabeth Hargrave @elizhargrave.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Update to this chart that I share a lot. Not breaking news: Game design teams are still OVERWHELMINGLY all men. About 7% of the top 500 games have a woman or non-binary person credited as a designer. A 🧵of related charts: (1/6) 🎲✂️

Gender of Game Designers: Board Game Geek Top 500, January 2025

A pie chart:
92% of the pie is Designed only by men. They made 461 of the top 500 games.
6% of the pie is Designed by a mixed-gender group. They made 28 of the top 500 games.
1% of the pie is Designed only by women or non-binary people. They made 5 of the top 500 games.

Data are for January 1, 2025, using the names in the Designer field on BGG. Not shown are 6 games in the top 500 that have uncredited designers.

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

BOOK ANNOUNCEMENT! @mahliann.bsky.social, @marcuscarter.com, and myself have combined our collective brains and written a wide-reaching introduction to the complex and interdisciplinary field of Game Studies in this forthcoming book for Polity. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Reminder that the best conference for understanding generative systems, and how people play them, is full of kind people, online and you can go to it.

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11/08/2025

OH WHOOPS. ONE MORE. (A few weeks ago I was very busy)

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Jaakko Stenros @jaakkostenros.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

One of our goals is to write as if game studies was actually "game studies" and not "digital game studies with some nods towards non-digital games". This is why our examples span from Chess to Formula 1 and from Nomic to Call of Duty.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 01/08/2025

Not every board game treats its setting as a condiment. Some are designed to engage on historical, social, or polemical grounds. To evaluate such a game principally as a jumble of mechanisms would fail to engage with it as created, presented, intended, and, yes, as it plays.

a comment from r/boardgames discussing my review of Pax Hispanica, in which the commenter notes:

"He's a good writer, no doubt, but I've read a few of his pieces lately which seem to focus more on what it's like to inhabit the thematic space of the game rather than on what it's like to interact with the game system.

Theme is a condiment, a game shouldn't need theme to work (though theme can certainly make a game more enjoyable) because fundamentally, a game is a collection of interlocking mechanisms that serve to provide the space for making interesting decisions, and the game is only as good as the decision space it offers.

It is this angle that I sometimes miss in reviews. And also in some games :-)"

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

In the article, I address very bluntly why the digital has been privileged over the analog in Game Studies, a move that has had detrimental effects on many designers, scholars, businesses, and communities. The AI Grift could happen because we first fell for the Glowing Screen Grift.

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Evan Torner @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies. Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world! punctumbooks.com/titles/histo...

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Historiographies of Game Studies: What It Has Been, What It Could Be – punctum books

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Robert / Zeboyd @zeboydgames.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

Consume Me just got delisted in a wave of delistings on itchio. It's a semi-autographical game about disordered eating. It won the grand prize at the most recent IGF awards. When storefronts start mass bannings, everything is threatened.

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Esther Wright @enwright.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

The HGN’s next panel discussion on gender, history and games is coming up in 2 weeks! Sign up via the post below, and read more about the theme (and our brilliant speakers) here: www.historicalgames.net/gender/

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Gender | Historical Games Network

Event details Date 29 July 2025 Time 16:00-17:30 UK time Location Virtual (Teams) | Speakers Kate Cook, Andreas Kjeldsen and TBC [Chair: Tess Watterson] Register for the event via TicketTailor. Call f...

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Analog Game Studies @analoggamestudies.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Find your way to our excellent Generation Analog 2025 online conference with the topic of PUNK, next Thursday July 17th *all day*. FREE to all! Program and registration here: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...

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Kate Compton @galaxykate.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

Last year's hit GDC Spreadsheet panel is looking for a whole new row of spreadsheet enthusiasts!

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Marielle Hellraiser 💀 @mags.colvett.online · 01/07/2025

What is Zohran’s plan for the humidity

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Rebecca Spang @rlspang.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

So, here it is. Thanks to a new state law that was NEVER DEBATED, Indiana University has committed itself to abolishing majors in African-American/African Diaspora Studies: American Studies; Art History; French; Italian; Religious Studies etc. DOZENS of majors. www.ipm.org/news-section...

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Indiana public colleges cut almost 20% of degrees

Public Indiana colleges and universities have eliminated 19 percent of their degree programs to meet requirements added to the state’s budget, according to the Commission for Higher Education.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17/06/2025

MASSIVE good news for trans people in the United States. A federal judge has just granted class action status to transgender people looking to update their passports. This means that very shorty, the window will open to update your passports with the correct gender marker.

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