farawaytimes.blogspot.com
Far Away Times: #welovegamedevs
http://farawaytimes.blogspot.com/2014/08/welovegamedevs.html
Friday, August 22, 2014. There's a huge upswell of positivity on Twitter right now in #welovegamedevs. So I'm gonna take some time to name some of the developers (and a few of the critics) whose work and presence I'm especially thankful for. Before we start, note that t. His list is not exhaustive! There are many, many more amazing people fighting back against all of the horrible toxic evil bullshit in this culture and creating. Beautiful experiences. The. Thanks to anna anthropy. A Game Design Vocabulary.
ellaguro.blogspot.com
\\...........//: Embracing the New Flesh
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html
Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Embracing the New Flesh. This is a heavily revised version of a talk given in the "Influences" session at Indiecade 2014. spoiler alert for the plot of Videodrome. In the movie Videodrome. This is a very real and very intense battleground happening right now, in 2014, and i think it might be most easily illustrated by gamergate. Just compare the extreme violence of videodrome's BDSM porn to a hyper-violent FPS - the violence serves as particularly strong and powerful physical c...
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\\...........//: my GaymerX talk - "Why You Should Think Differently About Games"
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/07/my-gaymerx-talk-why-you-should-think.html
Monday, July 28, 2014. My GaymerX talk - "Why You Should Think Differently About Games". Was a great time - it was great to see a lot of friendly faces, and i was really proud of Toni Rocca. And co. for organizing a fan conference specifically catered towards making a safe space for LGBTQ gamers, a thing the industry normally gives next to no shits about. the video of my talk should be going online in the future. in the meantime, though, enjoy the text. Also if you like my work, support me on Patreon.
ellaguro.blogspot.com
\\...........//: December 2014
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014_12_01_archive.html
Tuesday, December 30, 2014. On Being A Marginalized Content Creator On The Internet. The house Notch just bought for seventy million dollars. That's not to forget that, of course, Patreon is a lovely thing that has allowed people like me to survive and be able to overcome issues like homelessness. That has been a major positive development of the past year. But sometimes it's hard to decipher whether someone is funding my Patreon. Act as if someone as popular as PewDiePie. Posted by Liz R. We need more c...
ellaguro.blogspot.com
\\...........//: July 2014
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014_07_01_archive.html
Monday, July 28, 2014. My GaymerX talk - "Why You Should Think Differently About Games". Was a great time - it was great to see a lot of friendly faces, and i was really proud of Toni Rocca. And co. for organizing a fan conference specifically catered towards making a safe space for LGBTQ gamers, a thing the industry normally gives next to no shits about. the video of my talk should be going online in the future. in the meantime, though, enjoy the text. Also if you like my work, support me on Patreon.
bravemule.com
Introduction — Bravemule
http://www.bravemule.com/matulremrit
City, State, Zip. Your Custom Text Here. The tale of a band of dregs who struggle to build their new home amidst strife, internal politics, and a scourge of elf attacks. The story starts here. What makes Matul Remrit the Dwarf Fortress diary. You should be reading? So many things. The bleak. And deeply weird tone of it that could not be more. True to the game. The glimmering quality of it.". Quintin Smith of Rock, Paper, Shotgun. WHAT IS A "LET'S PLAY" STORY? WHAT IS DWARF FORTRESS?
ellaguro.blogspot.com
\\...........//: On Being A Marginalized Content Creator On The Internet
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014/12/on-being-marginalized-content-creator.html
Tuesday, December 30, 2014. On Being A Marginalized Content Creator On The Internet. The house Notch just bought for seventy million dollars. That's not to forget that, of course, Patreon is a lovely thing that has allowed people like me to survive and be able to overcome issues like homelessness. That has been a major positive development of the past year. But sometimes it's hard to decipher whether someone is funding my Patreon. Act as if someone as popular as PewDiePie. Posted by Liz R.
ellaguro.blogspot.com
\\...........//: June 2014
http://ellaguro.blogspot.com/2014_06_01_archive.html
Friday, June 20, 2014. While sitting in a decommissioned airplane in the middle of the Mojave desert in his film A Pervert's Guide to Ideology,. Slavoj Zizek paraphrases German philosopher Walter Benjamin by saying that, as humans, we don't understand a culture when we're in the thick of it. only when we're made to see the waste, or the leftovers of a particular culture, do we get an intuition of what culture is about. Indie Game: The Movie. In the transition from profiling the scene as a whole to a few ...
