"Que mi nombre no se borre en la historia." -- Julia Conesa Conesa 🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
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🌹 poetic realist. 🎮 makes games. ✍️ writes about theory, ideology & history. 🛠 working on 13 Rosas @achtungautobahn.com ✊ proud member of ver.di @game-workers.de ✍️ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
Workers behind immensely popular Game Theorists YouTube channel will get their union, with or without MatPat's help aftermath.site/game-theorists...
Our campaign for a union at Rockstar continues! Today, we've filed for recognition with @rockstargames.com, asking Rockstar to meet with their workers to agree a deal for good working conditions, fairness and a say at work. We await Rockstar's response. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Grand Theft Auto workers seek union recognition after mass firings
Exclusive: Staff at Rockstar Games hope move can be completed before release of GTA VI scheduled for November
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✨ What a surprise! I wrote this short piece on the necessity to organize workers with the help of gaming and game communities together with Alex Petrus last year and it finally came out ❤️ Let me know what you think 💭 metanarratives.org/gamers-of-th...
Metanarratives: A splendid new magazine's first issue on ART & POLITICS in the AGE of POSTCAPITALISM (where postcaputalism, rather than the socialism we dreamed of, has turned out to be Rosa's BARBARISM). metanarratives.org
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#TalkAndPlay #56 is happening this Wednesday! Here's what's on the menu: A talk on "imposter syndrome" by @gatdesoia.es, @isaspitznagel.bsky.social, @yunikorn.bsky.social from the @femdevsmeetup.com community Announcements from @games-stiftung.bsky.social, @amazefest.bsky.social & more
Hi #TurnBasedThursday! I updated some of the store screenshots for Red Echoes: Berlin - my upcoming narrative-strategy game set during the German Revolution. 🚩Lead a revolution ⛓️Overthrow the state 📖Thrilling narrative Wishlist now on steam! #gamedev #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/4566010
Nos vemos en @guadalindie.bsky.social ! 🌊💧💙✨ Este año no doy charlita, pero si queréis detalles de lo que nos traemos entre manos en la cooperativa ( @achtungautobahn.com ) , dadme un toque 👀💖 Estaremos los dos días por allí 💗
Arbeit, Rente, Gesundheit: Merz & Co. planen den größten Angriff an unseren hart erkämpften Rechten seit der Agenda 2010. Wir sagen: #EsReicht! Komm am 1. Juni mit uns auf die Straße!
So happy I could contribute the text Historical Theory and Game Design to the amazing Writing Game Histories anthology by @enwright.bsky.social, Iain Donald, and @doktornick.bsky.social! ✍️🕹️📜 Hit me up if you want to chat about anything related to historical game development 😺 Link in the comment!
It's publication day for Writing Game Histories!! 🥳🎉 Please do recommend it for your library, but it's also out in paperback so not as hideously expensive as academic books can be: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g... @doktornick.bsky.social @doni.bsky.social @historygamesnet.bsky.social
I added an anti-AI badge to the Game UI Database! Every one of the 72,684 (and counting!) screenshots on the site has been painstakingly tagged BY HAND with no AI assistance. If you're a creative, consider adding a similar disclaimer to your work to get the credit you deserve. www.gameuidatabase.com
Red Echoes: Berlin is turn-based narrative strategy game set during the German Revolution of 1918-1919. 🔥Lead the revolution 🚩Overthrow the state ⛓️Achieve a better tomorrow Wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4566010 #TurnBasedThursday #gamedev #IndieGames
Happening at #AMaze2026 at 11:30 Our talk about bosses fighting #unionization in the #gamesindustry with members of @stjv.fr @gameworkers.co.uk and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social Join us! amazeberlin2026.sched.com/event/2LvHW/...
A MAZE. / Berlin 2026: The Empires Strike Back: Union busting a...
View more about this event at A MAZE. / Berlin 2026
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Ich hatte das Privileg für das 10-jährige Jubiläum des @akgwds.bsky.social zusammen mit @linse.bsky.social einen Beitrag zum Zusammenspiel von Spieleentwicklung und Geschichtswissenschaft zu schreiben. #history #historicalgames #gamestudies #geschichte #gamedevelopment #gamesresearch
Arbeit und Forschung am Spiel: Perspektiven auf die Entwicklung und Erforschung digitaler Spiele und die Beziehung zwischen ihnen
Dieser Text ist ein Beitrag zum Sammelband „Geisteswissenschaften und Digitale Spiele: Debatten, Data & Desiderata“, der anlässlich des zehnjährigen Jubiläums des Arbeitskreises herausgegeben wird. Ei...
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Brain: You've been reading and writing for 9 hours. You should call it a day. Relax. Me: Ok, you are right. Brain: Oh hey, what's that there? That looks interesting... Me: ¡Coño!
Bon dia! ¡Buenos días! 🎨 Karen Lamassonne. Baño Azul, 1979
dos lecturas para sant jordi 🌹 benditas bibliotecas y que vivan las bibliotecarias de todos los países 📚❤️
Rechtswidrig, fehlgeleitet, gefährlich: Anlasslose #Vorratsdatenspeicherung für Strafverfolger und „andere berechtigte Stellen“ beschlossen netzpolitik.org/2026/dritter...
Dritter Versuch: Bundesregierung beschließt anlasslose Vorratsdatenspeicherung
Die Bundesregierung nimmt einen dritten Anlauf zur Vorratsdatenspeicherung. Internet-Zugangs-Anbieter sollen IP-Adressen aller Nutzer speichern - anlasslos und massenhaft. Internet-Dienste wie…
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Berlin: Start of the Demo: 📍 Strausberger Platz 🕚 11:00 📅 01.05.2026 maps.app.goo.gl/FeA8hxugvH7p... End: 📍 Rotes Rathaus 🕛 12:00 maps.app.goo.gl/MhvFbSmKYB5M...
Everyone is invited, no need to be a union member! Bring signs! And if you are interested in joining a crafting session, just send us a dm 🙂
Frankfurt: Start of the Demo: 📍 Hauptwache 🕥 10:30 📅 01.05.2026 maps.app.goo.gl/mvy4oWd7joFX... End: 📍 Römer 🕛 12:00 maps.app.goo.gl/piDPCnENJvKE...
We are getting ready for May 1st! ✊ You can join us in Berlin and Frankfurt! We will join the big demo organized by the DGB (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) and we will march alongside the ver.di block in Berlin and ver.di Jugend in Frankfurt. 🧵