A long read from me today, about the delicate task of designing respectful historical board games. Massive thanks to @amabel.bsky.social and @colewehrle.bsky.social for talking to me about their design approaches. www.wargamer.com/board-games/...
#GenerationAnalog2026 "GREEN" CFP EXTENSION to Sunday, March 8, 2026, by end of day! analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies
Last day (though tomorrow sometime is fine, too) to submit an abstract for #GenerationAnalog2026! This year's theme is "GREEN." analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #gameinlab #analoggamestudies #analoggames #greengames
#gaming the past
And Part I is here. If you're interested in the mechanics of historical games and how they represent different different levels, meta-levels, and models of history, I suspect you'll find our dialogoge quite interesting. @vinicius-marino.bsky.social plays 3D chess on these topics!
We want to hear from YOU!
What's GREEN in analog games?
Submit your pitch for #GenerationAnalog 2026 by March 1st!
We want to hear from YOU!
What's GREEN in analog games?
Submit your pitch for #GenerationAnalog 2026 by March 1st!
March 1st is the upcoming submission date for our summer 2026 Generation Analog Conference. This year's topic is "Green."
analoggamestudies.org/generation-a...
First newsletter of the year is a revised version of a keynote I gave for Generation Analog (run by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ): Thinking of a Master Plan: Hip Hop, TTRPGs, and the Power of Imaginative Defiance: thoughtcrimegames.beehiiv.com/p/thinking-o...
Our December issue is now available!
Postcards from the 2025 BIPOC Game Studies Conference
Getting in Good Troubles with Mancala — Rebecca Y. Bayeck, Joseph M. Bayeck, and Olu Randle
Defining the Miniatures Wargame: Five Pillars — Ian Williams
Check it out:
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A December reminder to submit to #GenerationAnalog 2026! Deadline is (only) three-ish months away on March 1: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... :) @analoggamestudies.bsky.social #GameInLab
This weekend, put on some amazing talks from the summer as you figure out that "work-life balance" thing.
#GenerationAnalog
#StayAnalog
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@analoggamestudies.bsky.social 12.3 is out: analoggamestudies.org feature essays about transmediation and Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Tabletop Simulations as Museums, Leveraging Contingency in Taskmaster and in Mental Health, and a review of Around the World in Eighty Games #analoggamestudies
Roll with Advantage: Creative, Collaborative, and Critical Responses to Dungeons & Dragons (Play Story Press 2025) edited by Suzanne Richardson & Edmond Y. Chang: playstorypress.org/books/roll-w... - in print or open access PDF! #analoggamestudies #creativewriting #dungeonsanddragons #dnd
Our latest issue of Analog Game Studies is now available!
Daniel Lawson on transmediation and the Marvel Super Heroes RPG, Hugh O’Donnell on tabletop simulations, Brian Jason Thomas on Taskmaster & mental health, and Keith Jones on Around the World in 80 Games.
#StayAnalog
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Analog Game Studies had a strong showing at The Strong -- We held a roundtable about our origins and what an open-access, curated, BIPOC-centered academic games journal looks like.
There are MANY journals in analog game studies, & journals that publish on AP!
And you're in luck: @analoggamestudies.bsky.social virtual conference Generation Analog are on YouTube, where designers and academics and more share their insights and hang out together:
www.youtube.com/@analoggames...
The website is restored and up!
Go read your fave article and maybe a new one?
analoggamestudies.org
It's grant-writing & course prep season for many of us in the analog games community, which of course means that AGS would be taken offline by a substantial cyberattack, depriving us all of crucial scholarship for our proposals and syllabi. We are working to restore the site as quickly as possible.
@analoggamestudies.bsky.social has its own Wikipedia entry now! Woo! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_...
#GameStudies #BoardGames #NerdyAcademics
Photo of the book "Breakdancing: Mr Fresh and the Supreme Rockers show you how to do it!" Purple cover with two breakdancers in blue jumpers on the cover.
I referenced a "purple breakdancing book" in my keynote for the conference run by @analoggamestudies.bsky.social ... Edmond found the book and sent it to me.
Overflowing with gratitude and emotion to have this piece of my childhood.
Thank you!!!!
My article "The Separation of Analog and Digital Game Studies" has now been published as part of this mammoth 781-page edited volume Historiographies of Game Studies.
Congrats to the editors and fellow authors for getting this into the world!
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Fresh off of @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's #GenerationAnalog2025, I wonder what'll be on the docket for @MoPOP's "Your Turn! Roll the Dice. Build the World. Make Your Move." www.mopop.org/events/table...
Come watch the videos of this year's Generation Analog, and stay to watch those of the previous 4 years!
It's great podcast listening for those interested in games scholarship.
#GenerationAnalog2025
#StayAnalog
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Just so happens that @analoggamestudies.bsky.social's #GenerationAnalog2025 was all about #punk #hope #community: analoggamestudies.org/generation-a... The synergy is real... Superman Soars, Brimming with Hope and Punk Rock mycomicrelief.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/s... #supermanispunk #kindnessispunk
Missed Generation Analog 2025?
Want to revisit a panel or lecture?
Conference videos are now live! Peruse the "PUNK" playlist now: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...
This was really fun. Thanks for having me!
Really loving the community around this conference and the other talks and panels that are happening. Y'all should definitely join.
A title slide showing an eel with the words "Liches, Lampreys, and the Moon: An incantation for trans life & lyrical play" as the title.
So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨
Generation Analog was very good and I am deeply ashamed that I forgot to promote it in my newsletter.
Generation Analog 2025 bingo card
Generation Analog 2025 was amazing, as it was last year! This year I contended myself to be just a spectator, but I will hopefully be back speaking there again in the future! Thank you @analoggamestudies.bsky.social for this gift of a conference.
STAY ANALOG, GAMERS! GET EXCITED, NERDS!
