This portrait is about Arno Görgen:
Member of: https://www.hkb.bfh.ch
Mastodon: @pachuki Role: Co-Lead @chludens

Arno grew up in the Eifel region where he used to play submarine in empty water tanks - a very risky and by now highly forbidden hobby! After he survived those playtimes he studied European Cultural History in Augsburg, Germany, and is now part of the #ch_ludens project. His research interests are - amongst others - system theory, medicalisation, illness in games, political history of ideas and the politics of pop culture.

His goal for the project is to get a better grip on how content and historical context are interconnected in games. He’s currently playing ‘Mundaun’ and ‘Ball Raider’ and is looking forward to play ‘Atomic Heart’, as he’s curious for its political contents (and to see, what all the buzz was about). For Swiss Games, he looks forward to ‘Antares’, a Sci-Fi-RPG from 1990!

#SwissVideoGames #VideoGameStudies

Remember the enormous list of older video games from the German-speaking countries (https://hcommons.social/@chludens/110139174847029433)? I'm now in the process of importing the parts which are relevant for @chludens into Wikidata, supported by @JeanFred. Our research assistant @lauralethia will help me expand the entries, especially in adding sources and actors in the coming weeks.

After collecting and double-checking the video games in a shared sheet, I was able to extract the entries relevant for Switzerland. I then imported those to OpenRefine, which allowed me to reconcile and sync our collection with data already in Wikidata, as well as build up a schema to export our data to Wikidata.

Follow https://w.wiki/6UEP to query for all Swiss video games on Wikidata 👾 💖

#ch_ludens #opendata #videogames

As part of the research project I'm part of, I helped to research video games from the German-speaking countries. There are plenty of gems to be found in the initial list we compiled in the last few months 😍 🎮

Details here https://hcommons.social/@chludens/110139174847029433

#ch_ludens #GameStudies

Je ne partage rien ici ces temps mais le projet d'étude du jeu vidéo en Suisse Confederatio Ludens #CH_Ludens a débuté la semaine passée. Nous avons fait une réunion à Berne avec 20 personnes et une nouvelle réunion cette fois juste pour Lausanne avec 6-10 personnes (sur la journée). C'est parti pour 4 ans et… c'est parti très fort !

Le compte Mastodon arrive bientôt 🐘

Merci @pyhurel @SoBemel @GuenatGuillaume et @SVGA_ch
#GameStudies #PlayStudies #DigitalPreservation #SwissGames

Je me permets de mettre le toot ci-dessous en lien car @pyhurel va rejoindre l'Université de Lausanne dès le 1er février !

Nous travaillerons ensemble sur le projet #CH_Ludens, où nous nous pencherons sur les pratiques liées aux jeux vidéo en Suisse au siècle passé (création, apprentissage de la programmation, jouer, etc.).

4 ans que nous collaborons activement à distance. Place maintenant aux pauses-café IRL !

#UNIL #LettresUNIL #GameLabUNILEPFL #SciencesDuJeu

https://mastodon.gamedevalliance.fr/@pyhurel/109666493037719532

Hello! #Introduction

I am an assistant professor in #GameStudies at the Faculty of Arts #LettresUNIL of University of Lausanne #UNIL, Switzerland.

A mathematician interested in #DigitalHumanities and History, my research topics are:
- Video game preservation
- Platform studies
- Video game historiography
- Research creation

With colleagues from HKB, ZHdK and UNIBE, we start in February 2023 a big project on Swiss video games in the 20th Century #SNSF #CH_Ludens

🖥️ https://yro.ch