Aphrodite Andreou
@aphrodite-a.bsky.social
Coordinator of EU Projects & Cultural Assets at Heritage Malta - Technology and Experience Development Unit visual artist / designing playful experiences for museums / researching interspecies interactions / ACI / (and some other stuff)
Hi, we're a new video game oral histories site. Want to read the story of Shadow of the Colossus, as told by 11 people who worked on it? Or hear what Will Wright has to say about Spore in retrospect? Or see previously unreleased footage of Nintendo's Sound Fantasy? Check us out at designroom.site
The Employment Collection is a compilation of games focused around work, capitalism, and the job market. The newest update also adds a solo ttrpg I worked on!
The Employment Collection by Mangotronics, Hyphinett, Em, notsleeping, Michael Klamerus, Goose
Corporate horror curated game anthology inspired by the modern careers and job searching
mangotronics.itch.io
SOLAR RITUALS a solo exhibition by @solarserver.gamesopen for visits on WED+THU until July 9th, which then will be the finissage. Details: https://a-maze.net/news/solo-exhibition-at-a-maze-shop-gallery-by-kara-stone/ - Make sure you get her pins and the tape with all games. #arthousegames #AMaze2026
‘Me at the Zoo’ – For Giovanni Aloi, the very first YouTube video captures the contemporary mode of looking as a form of consumerist browsing Only in the June Art Monthly Quarterly subs from £13. www.artmonthly.co.uk [image: Jawed Karim, ‘Me at the zoo’, 2005] #art
Art Monthly : Home : The UK's leading contemporary art magazine
Art Monthly is the UK's leading contemporary art magazine.
artmonthly.co.uk
“If the first YouTube post, ‘Me at the zoo’, has become worthy of the V&A Museum collection, it is because it condenses with ruthless intensity the conditions of attention, representation and consumption that have come to shape art and communication in the first quarter of the millennium.”
“...an obsessive academic sends an unusual artifact to a friend: an unfolding carousel containing a collection of objects and ephemera from the City of First Light” Sign up below to hear about the musical project between @friends-table.bsky.social x @LostInCult.co.uk dropping on June 25th... 🔗⤵️
Booklets collected for our @mangamecentre.bsky.social annual conference tomorrow! They look fantastic. If you can’t make it to Manchester in person, you can join online - see the schedule on our website manchestergamecentre.org/events/2026/...
My thesis “Archaeological Game Design: Video Game Archaeology as Interpretive Play and Play Preservation” is now online and open access! You can access the official version here, however this has some figures redacted: qmro.qmul.ac.uk/xmlui/handle...
Saturday 13 June! 'Antiquity in Simulation: Global Receptions of the Classical World in Video Games'. A conference on Eastern and Western approaches to the reception of the classical world in video games. For the zoom link to join online & programme, please go to: www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/events/2026/...
www.instagram.com/p/DXstO5Lgu9i/ Post by: themegandaily www.instagram.com/themegandaily/ Exhibition: The Occupied City New York and the American Revolution www.mcny.org/exhibition/o...
Hey everyone! Just a reminder that me and @thechristinet.bsky.social are running a games panel about refusing & resisting reactionary technopolitics!! Only two days left to send in your abstracts. Feel free to share with your games academic pals!
Join us for Building Benches for the Web, a class where students will learn to code digital third spaces using presence and participation as our core building materials. ▬ W/ @spencer.place & Munus Shih Apply by 04/27: sfpc.study/sessions/sum...
“Preserving natural history, whether that be creatures that once walked the same land we do, or ones that come up on our computer screens when our laptops fail to connect to a coffee shop’s Wi-Fi network, are equally important to chronicle and display as a part of our story." yis 🦖
Google Chrome Dinosaur Skeleton Displayed in Natural History Museum - Palette Swap
The Field Museum of Natural History is hosting an exhibit displaying the skeletal structure of the Google Chrome dinosaur.
paletteswap.site
This Saturday: “Scientific Speciesism: The Myth of Human Exceptionalism” with @christinewebb.bsky.social How does hidden human bias shape science and our view of other animals? 📅 25 April 🕓 4 PM GMT | 12 PM EST | 9 AM PST 📍 Online (Zoom) 🔗 Register: shorturl.at/ywwEd
My favourite work from Florence’s PhD is still the paper they did charting the history of a player-dug tunnel in Wurm Online, which involves incredibly moving quotes from the curator of an in-game museum: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
How To Save A World: The Go-Along Interview as Game Preservation Methodology in Wurm Online | Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games
dl.acm.org
youtu.be/-qDNnwjLXkY An interesting attempt to present mediation theory. #indiegame #gamereview #Godot #action #shooter #philosophy
Good Games 423 - HAMM-3R
YouTube video by Fort Kenmei
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one of the coolest jams on itch is happening again, and the theme is more important now than ever… 🔥 Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026 🔥 “We're living in shitty times, but there's room for optimism. Capitalism is collapsing; that much is obvious.” itch.io/jam/fuck-cap... let’s go! 👆
🔊 Throwback: "Can Different Species Understand Each Other's Emotions?” with Dr. Elodie Briefer. Discover how animals communicate emotions, and how machine learning reveals insights into the evolution of cross-species understanding! 📺 Watch the lecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TggoBGM1L4
Our new game, HAMM-3R, can be played over @itch.io: amidos2006.itch.io/hamm-3r @newgrounds.com: newgrounds.com/portal/view/... An experimental short philosophical game (5-10 mins) #indiegames #IndieGameDev #experimental #indiedev #indie #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #fps #Philosophy
Play HAMM-3R! 🚀 FREE + SHORT (5-10 mins.) >> hammer.gua-le-ni.com << An experimental game about tools and technologies made with @amidos2006.bsky.social, @demigiant.com and other friends at the @indigitalgames.bsky.social! 🔨
HAMM-3R
HAMM-3R is a SHORT and FREE experimental videogame about how our equipment influences the ways we understand the world and act within it.
hammer.gua-le-ni.com
The Video Game History Foundation's newly digitized GDC 1989 tapes are rad. Talks with Dani Bunten! Trip Hawkins blasting Nintendo's licensing policies! A *retrospective* panel for gaming in 1980! Absolute gold that this stuff survived and is accessible for everyone now.
Live from GDC... 1989! 21 hours of vintage talks from early gaming luminaries | Video Game History Foundation
We've digitized the recordings from one of the earliest GDC conferences, available for the first time in 37 years.
gamehistory.org
I launched a Kickstarter for Shutter Story but it went under the radar! It's a horror game about revealing and categorizing signs of the paranormal in a family's photographs 📸 Kickstarter link below. RTs, support appreciated 🖤 #indiegame
A guerrilla art installation featuring the names and visages of twenty public figures who’ve been linked to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appeared in a public park close to the White House in Washington, DC earlier this month. www.artforum.com/news/guerril...
“Jeffrey Epstein Walk of Shame” Appears in Washington, DC Public Park
A guerrilla sidewalk installation in DC names Epstein links with stars featuring prominent figures like Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor and Bill Clinton.
artforum.com
Great news for anyone planning to submit to History of Games 2026: the deadline has been extended to 10th March 2026!
History of Games Conference@historyofgames.bsky.social · 6mo agoAnd our CfP is out! History of Games 2026: The Ages of Games. Epochs and Periodisations 25-27th June, City University of Hong Kong, School of Creative www.history-of-games.com/2026-hong-ko... Please share and hope to see you there!
A while ago we shared that there were an amazing 🌴435 entries from🌴 78 different countries! You can find all the amazing submissions here🦩: https://f.mtr.cool/tvcmighcjp #AMaze2026 #mbbfunded #arthousegames #indiegames #playfulmedia #immersivetheatre #indiedev #AMazeAwards
New #JWST 🔭 data release for target names: GOODS-N_new_14, GOODS-N_new_25, UNKNOWN. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI. Take a look at news_by_date.html
Hottest game on BoardGameGeek right now and live on Kickstarter 😍🔥 Come join 1000+ backers on the campaign page and get your free gift 🥳 👇https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mightyboards/for-the-gods
