Hello!
My name is Alex Doppelgänger and I'm passionate about #science, #culture, #history and #boardgames.
In my spare time I write on my personal website and on Substack (in Romanian) about board games and their role in the development of culture, history and society.
Pleased to meet you!
"Immer wieder führt dieses Versinken der Einzelschicksale im Sand der Zeit zu einem Unbehagen, dass mich bei manchen Spielen packt."
Arno Görgen teilt in ➡ Spiel - Kultur - Wissenschaft Gedanken zur Ethik historisierender Spiele:
https://spielkult.hypotheses.org/5159
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📷 Aus dem Presskit von 11:11 Memories Retold
von Arno Görgen Der nachfolgende Text erschien ursprünglich im Gain-Magazin #8 (2018) Lasst uns über Opfer nachdenken. Opfer, damit sind hier nicht die von Bullies gejagten Verlierer der Schulhöfe gemeint, sondern die zigmillionenfachen Toten und Verletzten der menschlichen Geschichte. Opfer, das sind hier diejenigen, die am unteren Ende der menschlichen Hackordnung auf den Schlachtfeldern ihre … Die Geister die ich spiel‘. Gedanken zur Ethik historisierender Spiele. weiterlesen →
The Video Game History Foundation and the Software Preservation Network conducted the first ever study on the commercial availability of classic video games, and the results are bleak.
More than half (87%) of classic video games released in the United States are critically endangered -- unfindable and unplayable.
"Just 13% of video game history is being represented in the current marketplace. In fact, no period of video game history defined in this study even cracked 20% representation."
This is pretty messed up. The study just backs up what advocates of physical media have been saying for years.
https://gamehistory.org/87percent
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Compiling papers from the #YoungAcademicsWorkshop at the 2017/2018 #ClashOfRealities conferences, "Violence, Perception, Video Games" explores the misleading claims that link #VideoGames and violence through a range of fresh perspectives.
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Curtis L. Maughan, Federico Alvarez Igarzábal, Michael S. Debus This volume compiles papers from the Young Academics Workshop at the Clash of Realities conferences of 2017 and 2018. The 2017 workshop – Perceiving Video Games – explored the video game medium by focusing on perception and meaning-making processes. The 2018 workshop – Reframing the Violence and Video Games Debate – transcended misleading claims that link video games and violent behavior by offering a range of fresh topical perspect
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