Andrea Andiloro, PhD
@aandiloro.bsky.social
Lecturer - Games and Interactivity @Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne
The Scholar’s Codex is available for pre-purchase, published by @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social ! I’m so amazed to be part of such a well-crafted collection (the illustrations are gorgeous) edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social.
January 30, 2026 at 10:18 PM
The Scholar’s Codex is available for pre-purchase, published by @tuneandfairweather.bsky.social ! I’m so amazed to be part of such a well-crafted collection (the illustrations are gorgeous) edited by @domford.bsky.social, @gua-le-ni.com, @nelevdm.bsky.social and @danielvella.bsky.social.
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With contributions by:
Editors
Dom Ford (@domford.bsky.social)
Stefano Gualeni (@gua-le-ni.com)
Nele Van de Mosselaer (@nelevdm.bsky.social)
Daniel Vella (@danielvella.bsky.social)
Authors
Andrea Andiloro (@aandiloro.bsky.social)
Angelo M. Andriano
Marco Caracciolo
Stefano Caselli
Editors
Dom Ford (@domford.bsky.social)
Stefano Gualeni (@gua-le-ni.com)
Nele Van de Mosselaer (@nelevdm.bsky.social)
Daniel Vella (@danielvella.bsky.social)
Authors
Andrea Andiloro (@aandiloro.bsky.social)
Angelo M. Andriano
Marco Caracciolo
Stefano Caselli
January 28, 2026 at 3:06 PM
With contributions by:
Editors
Dom Ford (@domford.bsky.social)
Stefano Gualeni (@gua-le-ni.com)
Nele Van de Mosselaer (@nelevdm.bsky.social)
Daniel Vella (@danielvella.bsky.social)
Authors
Andrea Andiloro (@aandiloro.bsky.social)
Angelo M. Andriano
Marco Caracciolo
Stefano Caselli
Editors
Dom Ford (@domford.bsky.social)
Stefano Gualeni (@gua-le-ni.com)
Nele Van de Mosselaer (@nelevdm.bsky.social)
Daniel Vella (@danielvella.bsky.social)
Authors
Andrea Andiloro (@aandiloro.bsky.social)
Angelo M. Andriano
Marco Caracciolo
Stefano Caselli
I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
December 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
I’m very excited to share my latest article, “Premiers to Pixels: The Discourse of Cinema Envy in 1990s Videogame Magazines”, now published in the Hollywood and Games special issue of Convergence, edited by Helen Stuckey and Angela Ndalianis. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
I’m so incredibly proud of my students who showcased their games to tens of thousands of people at PAX Australia. They worked so hard, and visitors loved it!!!
October 12, 2025 at 10:08 AM
I’m so incredibly proud of my students who showcased their games to tens of thousands of people at PAX Australia. They worked so hard, and visitors loved it!!!
It's Melbourne International Games Week! Swinburne University of Technology's Games & Interactivity students are going to be showcasing their capstone projects at PAX Australia over the course of the next three days.
October 9, 2025 at 1:47 AM
It's Melbourne International Games Week! Swinburne University of Technology's Games & Interactivity students are going to be showcasing their capstone projects at PAX Australia over the course of the next three days.
I'm very proud to announce that our Games and Interactivity team was awarded the Swinburne University 2025 School Teaching Excellence Awards. A well-deserved recognition for a (dare I say) excellent team of educators
August 18, 2025 at 4:43 AM
I'm very proud to announce that our Games and Interactivity team was awarded the Swinburne University 2025 School Teaching Excellence Awards. A well-deserved recognition for a (dare I say) excellent team of educators
Very proud of our students showcasing their games at Swinburne University’s Open Day!
July 27, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Very proud of our students showcasing their games at Swinburne University’s Open Day!
Had a fantastic time at DiGRA 2025 in Malta. It’s been great catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and putting names on faces. The ANZ contingent performed excellently, contributing to the global academic discourse on games and play.
July 8, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Had a fantastic time at DiGRA 2025 in Malta. It’s been great catching up with old friends, meeting new ones, and putting names on faces. The ANZ contingent performed excellently, contributing to the global academic discourse on games and play.
I am beyond stoked to share my latest publication on Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, for the special issue on 'Grief in the Digital Age' edited by Marilyn Stendera and Regina Fabry.
June 15, 2025 at 11:56 PM
I am beyond stoked to share my latest publication on Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, for the special issue on 'Grief in the Digital Age' edited by Marilyn Stendera and Regina Fabry.
For those interested in media and immersion, I have a newly published chapter titled "Video Game Immersion as Bodily Atmospheric Attunement" in the edited collection "States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices" for the Amsterdam University Press. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
States of Immersion Across Media
Immersion across media opens our perception to altered states of consciousness. Far from disconnecting us from our surroundings, these experiences reframe how we connect to the world and to others.
In...
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May 8, 2025 at 2:02 AM
For those interested in media and immersion, I have a newly published chapter titled "Video Game Immersion as Bodily Atmospheric Attunement" in the edited collection "States of Immersion Across Media: Bodies, Techniques, Practices" for the Amsterdam University Press. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
I'm very proud to announce that my PhD dissertation 'Something in the Air: A Phenomenology of Videogame Atmosphere' won the 2024 Digital Games Research Association of Australia (DiGRAA)'s Best Thesis Award.
The dissertation is available at: figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/the...
The dissertation is available at: figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/the...
Something in the Air: A Phenomenology of Videogame Atmosphere
This dissertation presents a theorisation of videogame atmosphere from a phenomenological perspective. Atmosphere and atmospheric attunements are taken to be fundamental phenomena which come before an...
figshare.swinburne.edu.au
March 13, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I'm very proud to announce that my PhD dissertation 'Something in the Air: A Phenomenology of Videogame Atmosphere' won the 2024 Digital Games Research Association of Australia (DiGRAA)'s Best Thesis Award.
The dissertation is available at: figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/the...
The dissertation is available at: figshare.swinburne.edu.au/articles/the...
If anyone is into Metal Gear Solid, there's a new edited collection out for which I've written a chapter - the foreword is by Solid Snake himself!: www.bloomsbury.com/au/metal-gea.... My chapter is titled "Metal Gaze Suture: Analyzing Metal Gear Solid through Psychoanalytic Film Theory"
The Metal Gear Solid Series
This collection, arriving in the wake of the 25th anniversary of 1998's Metal Gear Solid, provides scholars and fans alike with a wide-ranging selection of crit…
www.bloomsbury.com
March 6, 2025 at 4:21 AM
If anyone is into Metal Gear Solid, there's a new edited collection out for which I've written a chapter - the foreword is by Solid Snake himself!: www.bloomsbury.com/au/metal-gea.... My chapter is titled "Metal Gaze Suture: Analyzing Metal Gear Solid through Psychoanalytic Film Theory"
Very proud of this one - an article for the Journal of Posthumanism's special issue 'Posthumanism and Media Studies', edited by the excellent @poppywilde.bsky.social and JJ Sylvia IV. In it, I address some common criticism of #posthumanism in #gamestudies, namely that it does not really
December 20, 2024 at 2:17 PM
Very proud of this one - an article for the Journal of Posthumanism's special issue 'Posthumanism and Media Studies', edited by the excellent @poppywilde.bsky.social and JJ Sylvia IV. In it, I address some common criticism of #posthumanism in #gamestudies, namely that it does not really
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Nice work by @poppywilde.bsky.social and @larrymay.me on 'posts' #gamestudies #anthropocene #apocalyspe
Very excited to share the 𝗣𝗹𝗮𝘆𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 special issue of the 𝘑𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘰𝘧 𝘎𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘳𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘴𝘮, edited by me and @poppywilde.bsky.social
The issue considers the relationship between videogames and the post-Anthropocene, posthumanism and the post-apocalypse: gamescriticism.org/issue-6-a/
#gamestudies
The issue considers the relationship between videogames and the post-Anthropocene, posthumanism and the post-apocalypse: gamescriticism.org/issue-6-a/
#gamestudies
VOLUME 6, BONUS ISSUE A: PLAYING THE POSTS: POST-ANTHROPOCENE, POSTHUMAN, POST-APOCALYPSE
(December, 2024) Introduction Bonus issue editors: Lawrence May and Poppy Wilde Beyond Barren Wastelands: The Greening of the Post-apocalypse in Video Games by M. Bianchi Uniting scholarship about …
gamescriticism.org
December 20, 2024 at 7:44 AM
Nice work by @poppywilde.bsky.social and @larrymay.me on 'posts' #gamestudies #anthropocene #apocalyspe
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Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
November 30, 2024 at 4:09 PM
Heart shattering to learn an Israeli drone has targeted and assassinated Mahmoud Almadhoun, one of the founders and chefs behind the Gaza Soup Kitchen.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
What started as four pots and essential ingredients in Bait Lahia had grown into a remarkable effort to feed 3,000 people daily.
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every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going
November 13, 2024 at 10:11 AM
every academic you meet is fighting their own battle. Make it worse by asking them how the writing is going
Kind of topical - sharing here too a recent publication, co-authored with Steven Conway for the European Journal of American Culture's special issue on "Games, American Culture and the Trump Presidency". The article is titled "MAGA (Metamodernism as Game Aesthetic)". Trump has often been described..
November 13, 2024 at 9:56 PM
Kind of topical - sharing here too a recent publication, co-authored with Steven Conway for the European Journal of American Culture's special issue on "Games, American Culture and the Trump Presidency". The article is titled "MAGA (Metamodernism as Game Aesthetic)". Trump has often been described..
nightmare blunt rotation
November 13, 2024 at 3:07 AM
nightmare blunt rotation
My article for Replay just got published. I take a critical look at #cozy games, drawing connection between game design and Danish #hygge aesthetics. The article is part of a special issue on coziness in game, so go check it out! czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Replay/article…
June 3, 2024 at 9:29 AM
My article for Replay just got published. I take a critical look at #cozy games, drawing connection between game design and Danish #hygge aesthetics. The article is part of a special issue on coziness in game, so go check it out! czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/Replay/article…
I attended the Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA) conference this week, presenting part of my research on videogame ontology through an analysis of myth-hunting in #GrandTheftAuto. I had great discussions and exchange of ideas with some brilliant games researchers and learned….
February 17, 2024 at 12:43 AM
I attended the Digital Games Research Association Australia (DiGRAA) conference this week, presenting part of my research on videogame ontology through an analysis of myth-hunting in #GrandTheftAuto. I had great discussions and exchange of ideas with some brilliant games researchers and learned….