And with the book on the way, I hope to be able to do more public scholarship like this in the future!
With classes looming on the horizon, I’ll have to dip back into traditional scholarship soon, but these summer projects have been a fun way to keep the fun and ideas flowing. Perhaps I’ll start playing more on Twitch soon… Check out the archived stream on YouTube: They’ve had a lot of cool guests lately, including Bo Ruberg and Ed Chang, and it has me increasingly excited about academic streaming. Last but not least, I was invited back to Looking for Good and had a great chat about masculinity, queerness, and dicks in video games while playing (what else?) Mount Your Friends with the LFG crew. Check that podcast out here or on your favorite podcast app:
pleasure, what kind of games give us the most intellectual inspiration, and the struggle to build meaningful coalition and collaboration in a field with so many scholars converging around the comparatively few (but very much growing) field of games that “do” race, gender, and so on. We had some good discussions on playing for work vs. Samantha Blackmon and Alisha Karabinus of Not Your Mama’s Gamer had Trea, Angela, and myself on their podcast to talk about #30games90days and other gaming topics. Thus far I am failing miserably at hitting completion, but it’s been fun to challenge myself to play something other than the Binding of Isaac: Afterbirth+ (though I did finally complete all achievements and surpass 800 hours in the game this summer). I’ll paste my list at the end of this post. I made a mix of games to play for work and for pleasure, with goals ranging from completion to a few hours to get a feel for them. #30games90days has given me an opportunity to make a list of things to play this summer. As Bo Ruberg recently mentioned on twitter, game studies folks often get so caught up in the reading/writing/teaching aspects of our jobs that “playing games” gets left behind.
I’ve been participating in the #30games90days challenge started by TreaAndrea Russworm and Angela Rain Kim with a number of other game studies folks, which has prodded me into spending more time tackling my backlog than I ordinarily would.
With Gamer Trouble headed into production this summer (!!), I’ve been working on some of the more fun stuff of game studies research: playing games, trying my hand at streaming, and doing podcasts!
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