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I’m thrilled to announce my new book: Designing a Feel for the Game: A Guide to Making Play Meaningful ($34.99USD). After a decade teaching critical game design to aspiring game designers I’ve collected those lessons into this applied, accessible book. Link & discount code below!

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“Designing A Feel for the Game…offers a way to engage affective and emotional labor in a way that propels gaming forward. Wilcox does an excellent job showing how exploring feeling in games can help make design better, play more engaging, & mechanics more ethically sound.” --Kishonna L Gray

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“Erudite, witty, passionately ethical, and deeply practical in all the best ways… immediately useful as a teaching resource and as a book that will likely appeal to amateur, aspiring, and professional game developers alike” --Publisher clearance report from blind peer reviewer

Designing a Feel for the Game

You can order Designing a Feel for the Game from the publisher’s website (you might also have access through your library!). Use the code PALAUT for an additional 20% off. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

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This book features practical lessons illustrated with various examples from digital, analog, and live action games

Across 8 chapters & various topics—including anthropology, embodied cognition, social psychology, moral philosophy, affective & persuasive design—readers will learn how to shape the interpretations, actions, & choices that make sense to players & thus how their games feel to play.

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The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

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Some quotes from the first peer review for my upcoming book—Designing a Feel for the Game: A Guide to Making Play Meaningful: “Erudite, witty, passionately ethical, & deeply practical in all the best ways.” “A critical intervention into how we think, talk, & feel about games in society.”

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Designing a Feel for the Game is a textbook for teaching meaningful, memorable game design coming out later this year via Palgrave Macmillan. Preorder info coming soon. But yeah, right now I'm just unbelievably grateful to this anonymous peer reviewer for being so thoughtful & supportive! 🙏

“Especially valuable for designers working on critical-art games, educational games, values-driven games, and other genres for which shaping the feel of the game is more important than optimizing engagement metrics.” “It's great… an outstanding work… I highly recommend publication.”

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“An impressive and timely book that is immediately useful as a teaching resource and as a book that will likely appeal to amateur, aspiring, and professional game developers alike.”

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 31/01/2026

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Oh. My. God. Chomsky talking about the 'hysteria' that has developed about the abuse of women and giving Epstein advice on how to handle the media. In 2019. The Media studies discipline and much of the left should reflect on the power given to this one flawed man to shape generations of thought.

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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Name them shame them

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Canadian Paintings @canadianpaintings.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

Untitled - Saskatchewan Winter Robert Newton Hurley 1969

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Stevoisiak @stevoisiak.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

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Gabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 05/02/2026

Hollywood producer Barry Josephson to Jeffrey Epstein: “I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"

This convo between Epstein and Hollywood producer Barry Josephson is particularly disturbing. On top of the creepy messages about a minor, there's this: "I've been thinking a lot about that question that you asked bill gates 'how do we get rid of poor people as a whole'"

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 05/02/2026

Vibe coding is working as expected: it'll kill the open-source, secure, and ideologically maintained alternatives to make sure you have to pay the oligarchs to do anything at all, and they can control what you're allowed to make. www.404media.co/vibe-coding-...

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Vibe Coding Is Killing Open Source Software, Researchers Argue

‘If the maintainers of small projects give up, who will produce the next Linux?’

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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This talk came about through a recent article of mine "Hello, Worlds: A Ludic Theory of Cognition" which is online and open-access if you're curious: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

The fine folks at Berkeley's Embodied Design Research Lab invited me to talk about my research on ludic cognition. It was a fun, lively discussion and you can watch here ✌️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE_w...

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Embodied Underground with Steve Wilcox

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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Thanks for sharing Christophe! 🙏

Christophe Veltsos @drinfosec.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

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Very interesting🧵by @stevewilcox.bsky.social on the benefit that gamification can bring to help people better understand diseases and the need to adapt their behaviors when risks are high. 🎯👇 threadreaderapp.com/thread/18925...

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Thread by @stevemwilcox on Thread Reader App

@stevemwilcox: I was just describing this phenomenon to a journalist yesterday. For me, we've focused too much on trying to get ppl information abt COVID when it's clear that many struggle w how to ma...

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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Juno turned 13 this past week and despite all that time she still sees me off every day with the saddest look imaginable 😅 (bonus Pixel content here; he comes out for scritches whenever I sit down to put my boots on).

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

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Auschwitz was at the end of a long process. It did not start from gas chambers. This hatred was gradually developed by humans. From ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

For the past decade we were told canceling events at colleges over private protests was the harbinger of totalitarianism but now a right wing government is doing it so it’s fine bsky.app/profile/adam...

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âpihtawikosisân @apihtawikosisan.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is also why we have been fighting against the notion that STEM is rational, objective, and truth-based. Technology exists within the same constellation of structural forces as everything else. It has and can be wielded to oppress and destroy.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Krugman says the editors at the Times editorial page were increasingly trying to water down his columns and arguments www.cjr.org/analysis/pau...

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Paul Krugman on Leaving the New York Times

The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.

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Jane Waters 🏳️‍⚧️🐜🇵🇸 @lovetheants.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Collaborating with @rin-krichilsky.bsky.social and Kanako Shimizu, we put together what's basically a top-ten list of ways to help foster trans inclusivity and awareness within our scientific and academic communities and would love if you could help share the guide!

How to Support Trans Colleagues

Create a Gender-Inclusive Environment

Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policies that recognize and support gender transition.

Support training and advocacy for colleagues’ personal/professional safety (ex. in fieldwork, lab work, conferences, institution visits, affinity groups).

Establish and/or identify gender-neutral bathrooms throughout your building. Implement trans-inclusive recruitment and hiring procedures.

Acknowledge intersectionality and the unique needs and barriers that someone with multiple marginalized identities may face.

Consider the importance of representation in your field.

Advocate for Name Changes

Research institutional, governmental, local, and other bureaucratic procedures and policy to recognize and support an individual’s name change.

Identify journals in your field that allow authors to change their names post- publication.

Improve Information Accessibility

Publicly share information on inclusive practices throughout your departments and institution. (Ensure the content centers and is created by trans people.)

Consider Daily Language & Use

Decrease use of gendered terms to avoid exclusionary language.

Ask for personal pronouns.

List on all public-facing directories, and consider including them in email signatures and on professional websites.

Practice discretion. Don’t out your colleagues without their consent.

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vlada 👁 ➤ UVW-CWA @vladadraws.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Hey! #PortfolioDay I'm a freelance artist working in video games and tabletop! I'd love to illustrate your characters, creatures, or items, and make bespoke iconography for your game. My commission queue is clearing up soon! 💌v.monakhova@gmail.com #uiart #ui #gamedev #illustration #gameart #ttrpg

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Anna Holmes @annabookwriter.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Something disability justice activists have been screaming about for the last five years and some of you may just now be realizing: eugenicists believe disease is good. They believe themselves part of the “superior” race and that disease clears out the poor and unworthy. 1/

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Moudhy Al-Rashid (she/her) @moudhy.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

May as well dive right in. Did you know that dogs in ancient Mesopotamia also refused to drop the ball? According to a Sumerian proverb, “The dog understands ‘Take it!’ It does not understand ‘Put it down!’” Source: cdli.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/artifacts/34...

A round, light brown tablet made of clay with three lines of cuneiform scripts. Two rulings, or traced straight lines, enclose the writing. The photo also shows the sides of the tablet, including a few damaged parts.

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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Do you know how awesome it would be to take this course with Dr. Tilley?! In my undergrad, these were the kinds of courses that truly broadened my experience of art/life/society. To me, they're the lifeblood of higher ed and they're absolutely worth fighting for.

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Nathan Schneider @ntnsndr.in · 22/01/2025

My department is hiring TWO assistant teaching professors of media studies! This is a great opportunity for people who are passionate teachers eager to explore new approaches to cultivating media literacy among diverse students. Learn more & apply here: jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

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Steve Wilcox @stevewilcox.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"[Musk's grandfather] was all about dog-whistle politics. He wouldn’t say ‘Jew,’ but he’d say everything short of it. He knew what he was saying, and his base knew what he was saying" - Janine Stingel, a historian of anti-Semitism in Canada. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

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Elon Musk’s Anti-Semitic, Apartheid-Loving Grandfather

The billionaire has described his grandfather as a risk-taking adventurer. A closer read of history reveals something much darker.