Blog Posts
- MAR-08-2019: Flappy Bird Will Have Its Revenge On Indie Games - More on IP, ownership, and who can make "creative" videogames.
- FEB-28-2019: The Writing Jam Rolls On! What we found in the Lost Histories jam - another writing jam roundup!
- FEB-17-2019: Anything a Maze - Essay for #LostHistoriesJam
- JAN-15-2019: 2018 in Videogame Blogging - A roundup of my favorite posts from 2018, in defense of blogging.
- JAN-02-2019: Three Modernisms! - A Three-Part Essay on the phrase "Modern Videogames"
- DEC-29-2018: Review: Videogames: Design, Play, Disrupt (V&A, 2018)
- OCT-26-2018: 9/10 Best New Latest Example - On RDR2 controversies, videogame industry labor issues, and how writers approach these topics.
Published Elsewhere (2014-2018)
- In The Arcade Review: "Into the Dive" on RPGMaker and Indie Horror
- In The Arcade Review: "Gingiva" game review
- In The Arcade Review: "Eidolon" game review
- In The Arcade Review: "A Personal Archaeology of 'Girls' Games': On Rhizome's Theresa Duncan Conservation Efforts"
- In The Arcade Review: "Homesickened" game review
- For Storycade: "Hatoful Boyfriend" game review
- In Critical Hits: An Indie Anthology: "Mouse Power!"
- In The Blank Arcade 2016 catalog: "The Sensuous Possibilites of Play" [PDF]
- For Critical Distance: "Visual Essay Jam Roundup 2017"
- For In Media Res: "Transgressive Games: SimCopter"
- For Rock, Paper, Shotgun: "90s CD-ROM Games Still Have a Lot to Teach Us"
- In ToDIGRA: "Exhibition Strategies for Videogames in Art Institutions: Blank Arcade 2016"
- In Now Play This! 2018 catalog: "Looms Will Be Around Long After We Are Dead: On Pattern in Videogames"
- For The British Council: Games Storytelling Project
Blog Re-posts (UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
These are all pieces migrated from my old medium and wordpress blogs. Blogs will be added in reverse order as I take them down.
- SEP-10-2018: SPEAKING MY TRUTH [real] [NOT clickbait]
- JUL-26-2018: Against Playability
- JUN-07-2018: How to Desire Videogames
- APR-30-2018: The Dream and Promise of Multimedia, Regained...
- APR-02-2018: Notes in the Absence of Camp
- FEB-18-2018: No Winners, No Ends: Why have a Writing Jam?
- NOV-05-2017: Bad Images
- OCT-31-2017: Halloween Special: Close-Reading the Godzilla NES Creepypasta
- OCT-18-2017: Only You
- SEP-01-2017: walk in soda cave story
- JUN-27-2017: About "Real UFO Stories" and more broadly, typologies
- MAY-15-2017: A MAZE. 2017
- APR-17-2017: Now Play This 2017
- APR-05-2017: Attention Please:
- APR-01-2017: History is the Golden Ticket
- MAR-20-2017: If you meet prince charming on the road, kill him
- MAR-10-2017: Cosmology of Perpetual Snake Machine
- FEB-08-2017: Looking at Girls
- FEB-06-2017: Ear Canal Simulator 3000 postmortem
- JAN-28-2017: Catching frogs
- JAN-18-2017: Consumer History/Language of Advertising
- JAN-15-2017: On fanwork and what is "outsider"
- JAN-08-2017: Depicting Vulgar Profligacy
- NOV-18-2016: On Decay
- SEP-26-2016: Ms. Game History?
- JUN-18-2016: From Showcase to Scriptorium: Two Encounters with ZX Spectrum Games
- JAN-18-2016: On Going Fast
- NOV-17-2015: Everything Digit-al: Touching New Media at NEoN 2015
- OCT-31-2015: What do we mean by "accessibiliy?"
- OCT-14-2015: Don't play to win
- JUN-12-2015: Art, Game, Both, Neither
- MAY-15-2015: Art and Purpose Objects
- MAR-22-2015: Curation and Games- Forking Paths
- MAR-10-2015: Post-Cutscene and other "post-s"
- FEB-13-2015: Life after Permadeath
- FEB-06-2015: Some cutting room floor thoughts on collage
- DEC-10-2014: Needing room to breathe: moving forward with game exhibitions
- OCT-11-2014: It never fails
- JUL-26-2014: Emulation Generation
- JUL-15-2014: Nuts and Bolts, Variables and Functions - Formalism in a Digital Context
- MAY-28-2014: A Girl and Her Chopper
- APR-20-2014: I've been published!
- APR-10-2014: Gender and UI
- MAR-02-2014: Art Worlds in Game Worlds
- FEB-19-2014: Who's Afraid of a Little Twine?