My second paper on The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind 😮😮 the fruit of my participation at the 2024 FROG (Future and Reality of Gaming) conference by @unikrems.bsky.social 🥳🥳 This one discusses the game's potential as a tool for learning about "wicked issues" in general. 1/3

My End of Year video is on the "Golden Age of Indie RPGs," from roughly 2010 to 2025. I start with Apocalypse World's release, work through the Google+ Era, and follow design lineages and historical events that have impacted the hobby up through 2025.

The Golden Age of Indie RPGs: 2010-2025

YouTube video by A.A. Voigt

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New edited volume alert: "Engineering Educational Games for a Sustainable Society: Play, Learn and Transform," published by Springer. It offers thirteen cross-disciplinary chapters on game-based learning, sustainable game design, and game (co)design for sustainability. (1/3)

Crazy impressive :o

Damiano Gerli@damiano.bsky.social · 11mo ago

According to the dev lead, the project was halted by Nintendo because they "wanted the Game Boy Advance to be used in a standard way and did not like 3D games due to a less than excellent frame rate". Here is a trailer. To this day I haven't been able to get them to release the demo rom.

Sharoron the unicorn is the mascot for the Tokyo Social Insurance and Labor Consultant Association. The horn on Sharon’s head has the power to gather and send out useful information.

Japan’s human rights mascots are Jin-KEN-Mamoru-kun and Jin-KEN-Ayumi-chan.

My new paper describes my ongoing doctoral study on the "Ludonarrative Universe" model for (co)designing ludonarrative systems for Big-G game-based learning, which facilitates learning through gaming and its surrounding activities, such as pre- and post-game discussions. 1/3

Bloody hell, Poland, how did you come up with this vase-like chara? 🤣🤣 Since when has Poland been a top-tier player in the chara/mascot game?? 🤣🤣 #Expo2025Osaka @debraocchi.bsky.social @mondomascots.bsky.social

oh Japan 😆😆

Mondo Mascots@mondomascots.bsky.social · last yr.

Kyun-chan, a shy Japanese pika disguised as a deer, is the tourism mascot for Hokkaido.

We need more research like this to support the use of yuru/gotouchi chara (local mascots) in Indonesia 😇😇

lerch-san.net the website's design is so good... and reminds me of the old Skifree game on Windows 3.x 🤣 luckily, there's no Yeti jumping out to eat Lerch 🤣 @debraocchi.bsky.social @mondomascots.bsky.social

日本元祖スキー漢（おとこ）レルヒさん®

新潟発・日本スキー発祥の地の公式キャラクター「レルヒさん」。これまでの軌跡と、まもなく始まる新たな歩みをひと足早く公開中。活動情報や最新ニュースもお届けします。

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Man, Japanese "gotouchi kyara" (local mascots) have such a strong presence on X/Twitter that following them there has kept my "for you" feed almost free of political nonsenses and AGI hype garbage 🤣🤣

ARDIN (Association for Research in Digital Interactive Narratives), in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University Press, proudly presents the first edition of "An Educator’s Guide to Interactive Digital Narrative: Syllabi and Resources from Around the World" 1/3