Most of the footage of the famous 2000 "Super Mario 128" tech demo was recorded with handheld cameras by the audience, with the presenter drowning out the game sound. Only 10 seconds of direct feed footage exist, which reveal that the sound was a cacophony of Marios screaming.
Did you know the Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 5 now has a blog?
As we we hit milestones, we will be doing short posts to update what is happening and our next goals.
February 2026 Update: eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/bl...
Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application
The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production)
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115
Graphic advertising an TT Asistant Professor position in Emergent Media at UT Dallas. Depicts a woman wearing a VR headset with a fantasy Background. A QR Code links to the application
The Games and Animation Department at UT Dallas is hiring! A Tenure Track position in Emerging Media (Broadly defined as AR/VR/XR and/or Virtual Production)
jobs.utdallas.edu/postings/31115
Do I know artists who work in an 18th century style of illustration who might take on a modest proposal (so to speak)?
(would love to see portfolios)
The Quiet Year is now back in stock no matter where you live!
The Quiet Year is an award-winning map-making game about building community after the collapse. It comes in a little box with everything you need to play. And it's back in stock in the US!
store.buriedwithoutceremony.com/products/the...
Me: So the Drukhari are the evil elves that need pain and suffering to nourish their souls.
Friend: So it’s like Monsters Inc.
Me:
Today is my birthday and all I’m asking for is for you to support and/or talk about your favorite Ranged Touch show or project!
Patreon.com/rangedtouch
Designing my first 50+ student class for next fall so I will definitely be referencing this!
GOING BOX MODE 📦 Pleased to share the intro to our CSMC Special Issue on games + Sofia's theory of "container technologies."
From solar gaming & trucking sims to hot tub streams & apocalypse bunkers, 13 articles square up for an expanded definition of gaming cultures:
doi.org/10.1080/1529...
Your mom dunking on you in the family group chat again?
Wolves good.
Not a movie or show, just, like, the animal. Wolves.
They're pretty cool.
With a knock on your door, a kindly wizard invites you to join us on Shelved By Genre's LORD OF THE YEAR, in which we will consider the popular but contested works of JRR Tolkien, kicking things off with a long rumination upon the first four chapters of THE HOBBIT: rangedtouch.com/2026/01/02/t...
The list of what we've previously covered on Shelved by Genre is:
Book of the New Sun
The Earthsea Cycle
A Unit on Junji Ito
The Herald Mage Trilogy
Burning Chrome + The Sprawl Trilogy
A Canticle for Leibowitz
Dr. Bloodmoney
Brown Girl in the Ring
A Unit on Alan Moore
An array of Hallmark movies
Hey, if you’re in the game industry and have a literature degree, would you please comment?
We got a family friend over here who insists my having a career in games while holding a literature degree is a one-off aberration and per usual, I’m not letting it go.
When I got into game design nobody told me I'd need *math*
Game Pitch:
- Get lost in Weird Environment
- Talk to Weird Little Dudes
This is fascinating. I almost wish it didn't have any combat mechanics.
ELO 26: (un)supervised - graphic by PD Edgar
The submissions portal for our next @eliterature.bsky.social conference, which will be fully online including performances and a hypertext electronic literature exhibition, is now open at stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2026/ - please submit an abstract by January 15th to join us!
The deadline for Electronic Literature Collection 5 has been extended from 6 January 2026 to 31 January 2026!
eliterature.github.io/elc5-info/
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
The U Cant See Me branded socks, I'm dying
The Perfect Video Game
Not speaking about anyone in particular here.
Generalizing.
But:
IM SO FUCKING TIRED OF HEARING “HOW TO FIX EDUCATION” FROM PEOPLE WHO HAVE NO IDEA WHAT GOES ON IN A CLASSROOM.
Out now: WHALE ROADS
The chronicle of a year-long, 30+ player West Marches campaign of Wolves Upon the Coast by @lukegearing.bsky.social
A 250-page "zine" filled with play summaries, original art, and Referee commentary.
Available now, and it's 100% completely free.
sulcata.itch.io/whale-roads
With Harada leaving Tekken and releasing this 30 Minute 30 year tekken retrospective DJ set, I feel like I should get back to this thread.
soundcloud.com/katsuhiro-ha...
The call for proposals is posted for the Electronic Literature Organization 2026 conference. It will be hosted fully online July 15-18, 2026 by a team based at the University of Central Florida with collaborators around the world.
(Submissions will open soon!)
projects.cah.ucf.edu/elo2026/cfp....
shelved by genre is a good podcast
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Time to pull off an Oceans 12 style heist
