My book—Designing a Feel for the Game: A Guide to Making Play Meaningful—is just $14USD for the ebook right now 🎉: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Just got a very nice email from a game design instructor who heard about my book after their colleagues 'raved' about it. So heartening to hear that Designing a Feel for the Game is resonating with people! 😊

I was SO excited to find Designing a Feel for the Game: A Guide to Making Play Meaningful by @stevewilcox.bsky.social in my mailbox today!!! This book is going to come in SO handy while I design my new course for the Fall! If you teach game design please check it out! Congratulations Steve!!! ✨✨✨

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!

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!

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...

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.”

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.”

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.

Emily Gorcenski@emily.gorcen.ski · 8mo ago

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

Name them shame them

Untitled - Saskatchewan Winter Robert Newton Hurley 1969

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...

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'"

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-...

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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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 · 8mo ago

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...

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...

Embodied Underground with Steve Wilcox

YouTube video by EDRL at UC Berkeley

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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...

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).

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.

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...

Adam Harris@adamhsays.com · 2y ago

An HBCU conference at Rutgers was cancelled following Trump's EO: “Unfortunately, due to President Trump’s Executive Orders … we have been asked to cease all work under the auspices of the DEIA HUB at Jobs for the Future, which the U.S. Dept. of Labor funds” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t...

This is a splendid piece of writing by @edwinet.bsky.social. He really is one of the best at this. www.rockpapershotgun.com/the-gamergat...

The Gamergator rhetoric of historical accuracy has come back to bite Kingdom Come on the arse

Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 isn't out until next month, but some would-be players are already mad about its apparent representation of history.

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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.

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

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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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!

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

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/

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...