It's finally here! Last winter I wrote a chapter to this cool book about climate and games industry. It's an honor to be featured together with so many experienced writers and game developers!
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I'm a bit bewildered by the immense number of cozy island restoration games that have come out in the past five years. They are all exactly the same: you arrive on a small island of quirky but nice (possibly animal) inhabitants that need help with gardening/crafting/cooking/mining, and you must travel to 3-5 other islands to solve mini-quests, repair bridges and collect trash to keep everyone happy. How did that formula get established so quickly?
My cover art for Ecogames studies book titled "Playful perspectives on the climate crisis".
Link to the chapters on open access: https://www.jstor.org/stable/jj.10819591
I highly recommend "dark flow of play in oil-themed games" and Petroduration.
#ecology #ecogames #solarpunk #ecopunk #MastoArt #DigitalArt
Wasted Space game update: we're currently squashing bugs and minimizing token counts (code limits for how big the game can be). If we can get our current token count low enough, we'll be adding some fun eco-features in the near future. 🚀🌎
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Another exciting #GameStudies book around the corner!
"#Ecogames" brings together chapters by a diverse group of authors to explore the shape, impact, and cultural context of ecocritical engagement in and through #VideoGames. 🌱🌎🎮
👉 https://thevideogamelibrary.org/book/ecogames-playful-perspectives-on-the-climate-crisis
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Laura op de Beke, Joost Raessens, Stefan Werning, Gerald Farca With the climate crisis and its repercussions becoming more and more tangible, games are increasingly participating in the production, circulation, and interrogation of environmental assumptions, using both explicit and implicitly ways of framing the crisis. Whether they are providing new spaces to imagine and practice alternative forms of living, or reproducing ecomodernist fantasies, games as well as player cultures are increasingl
Kristofer "Kritzlof" Vaske
RPGStoryTellers
Miron Schmidt
Honora Niwlcraft
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The Video Game Library 📚
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