Month: August 2016

  • what would ripley do? #AlienMovieProject

  • I’ve been recruited to be@part@of the #AlienMovieProject street team. The truth is out there!

  • From 2007 as I attempted to understand an explain

  • Today’s pigment print, Aracataca concept art for a game work in progress. (at Bindery on Blake)

  • Artists ‘have structurally different brains’ – BBC News

    Artists ‘have structurally different brains’ – BBC News observations on the article: study defines art as drawing; first paragraph claims study can spot innate creativity, but the scientists admit they cannot because they studied art students and non-art-students; study makes cheeky reference to “drawing on the right side of the brain” mythos while an outside observer…

  • Constricting knowledge: ‘More rigour’, tone policing and white feminism in game studies

    mahlibombing: I presented three papers at the most recent DiGRA conference in Dundee. I’m an honours student (in Australia it’s an additional year on top of an undergraduate degree, which can work in lieu of a Masters so as to go straight into a PhD program) and this was my first international conference. Before DiGRA,…

  • Cyberpunk Dreamers: This World Needs You — HACK GROW LOVE

    Cyberpunk Dreamers: This World Needs You — HACK GROW LOVE “What scares me is that we stopped dreaming about how technology can change us, how it can subvert systems which abuse power, and how it can shape our future. In short, we don’t have enough Cyberpunk Dreamers.”

  • Back spasm since Friday noon. Ice, ibuprofen, and icy hot. Sigh.

  • Killing Me Softly

    Killing Me Softly on my to-play list, grateful this game exists

  • teachers are laborers, not merchants

    teachers are laborers, not merchants I’ve said this before: if education was really about access to information, then anyone with a library card could have skipped college well before the internet. The idea that the internet suddenly made education obsolete because it freed information from being hidden away presumes that information was kept under lock and key.…