Dom Ford
@domford.bsky.social
Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, studying NPCs with AI-generated dialogue.
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Dom Ford
@domford.bsky.social
· Apr 22
Mytholudics
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...
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📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
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4 years ago, ads starring ✨Kathy Bates✨ tricked me into downloading Merge Mansion. I realized immediately the ads had deceived me, but kept playing anyway.
Find out whether this was worth it in "Fake Games", out now in #Eludamos:
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
Find out whether this was worth it in "Fake Games", out now in #Eludamos:
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
December 19, 2025 at 10:54 AM
4 years ago, ads starring ✨Kathy Bates✨ tricked me into downloading Merge Mansion. I realized immediately the ads had deceived me, but kept playing anyway.
Find out whether this was worth it in "Fake Games", out now in #Eludamos:
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
Find out whether this was worth it in "Fake Games", out now in #Eludamos:
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
We just dropped our latest regular issue of Eludamos! With an editorial, 12(!) articles, 4(!) book reviews and a commentary, it's a big boi, and I'm really pleased to see all this excellent work out in the wild.
December 19, 2025 at 9:51 AM
We just dropped our latest regular issue of Eludamos! With an editorial, 12(!) articles, 4(!) book reviews and a commentary, it's a big boi, and I'm really pleased to see all this excellent work out in the wild.
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The new yearly Eludamos issue has just dropped! It's massive: one editorial, 12 articles, 4 book reviews, and one commentary. It's well over 350 pages. Please find it here:
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
December 19, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The new yearly Eludamos issue has just dropped! It's massive: one editorial, 12 articles, 4 book reviews, and one commentary. It's well over 350 pages. Please find it here:
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
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🚨 My new article 'Antagonistic Game Design: the Author as a Player' is out on #Eludamos (Journal for Computer Game Culture)! 🚨
>> septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el... <<
WARNING: might contains traces of @cloobot.bsky.social @doougle.net @jzagal.bsky.social @foddy.net and @add-hawk.bsky.social XD
>> septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el... <<
WARNING: might contains traces of @cloobot.bsky.social @doougle.net @jzagal.bsky.social @foddy.net and @add-hawk.bsky.social XD
December 19, 2025 at 9:36 AM
🚨 My new article 'Antagonistic Game Design: the Author as a Player' is out on #Eludamos (Journal for Computer Game Culture)! 🚨
>> septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el... <<
WARNING: might contains traces of @cloobot.bsky.social @doougle.net @jzagal.bsky.social @foddy.net and @add-hawk.bsky.social XD
>> septentrio.uit.no/index.php/el... <<
WARNING: might contains traces of @cloobot.bsky.social @doougle.net @jzagal.bsky.social @foddy.net and @add-hawk.bsky.social XD
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My paper "'Was Barbarossa Not German?!' Nation, History, and Identity in Civilization Players’ Online Discussions" has just been published in the new issue of Eludamos! Very happy to see this out in the world
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
“Was Barbarossa not German?!” : Nation, history, and identity in Civilization players’ online discussions
| Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
eludamos.org
December 19, 2025 at 9:43 AM
My paper "'Was Barbarossa Not German?!' Nation, History, and Identity in Civilization Players’ Online Discussions" has just been published in the new issue of Eludamos! Very happy to see this out in the world
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
eludamos.org/index.php/el...
Very much looking forward to talking about my book with old and hopefully new friends at ITU! Do come along if you can.
Friends! On November 26th at 16:00, in Auditorium 3 at the ITU, we are hosting a talk by Dom Ford. The talk is titled Mytholudics. You can read about it here: digitalplay.itu.dk/event/dom-fo...
Mytholudics - A talk by Dom Ford | Center for Digital Play
Mytholudics - A talk by Dom Ford
digitalplay.itu.dk
November 20, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Very much looking forward to talking about my book with old and hopefully new friends at ITU! Do come along if you can.
📑 New publication! 📑
I was asked to write a 'viewpoint' article in a special issue on 'Ludomythologies'. I happily obliged with just a few thousand words on how we should think of myths less like stories and more like models, and how that makes them remarkably similar to games.
I was asked to write a 'viewpoint' article in a special issue on 'Ludomythologies'. I happily obliged with just a few thousand words on how we should think of myths less like stories and more like models, and how that makes them remarkably similar to games.
November 14, 2025 at 12:23 PM
📑 New publication! 📑
I was asked to write a 'viewpoint' article in a special issue on 'Ludomythologies'. I happily obliged with just a few thousand words on how we should think of myths less like stories and more like models, and how that makes them remarkably similar to games.
I was asked to write a 'viewpoint' article in a special issue on 'Ludomythologies'. I happily obliged with just a few thousand words on how we should think of myths less like stories and more like models, and how that makes them remarkably similar to games.
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Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
3 Postdoctoral Researchers (cultural game studies) / 3 tutkijatohtoria (kulttuurinen pelitutkimus)
tuni.rekrytointi.com
September 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Come work with us! We are hiring 3 postdoctoral researchers working in cultural game studies from the beginning of 2026 until the end of 2027. Read more and apply by 31.10.2025 (at 23.59.00 EET / UTC+2):
Creating AI avatars of dead people needs to become an absolute societal taboo.
When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be? | Gaby Hinsliff
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire with a high-powered rifle…
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire with a high-powered rifle…
When a journalist uses AI to interview a dead child, isn’t it time to ask what the boundaries should be? | Gaby Hinsliff
Joaquin Oliver was 17 years old when he was shot in the hallway of his high school. An older teenager, expelled some months previously, had opened fire with a high-powered rifle on Valentine’s Day in what became America’s deadliest high school shooting. Seven years on, Joaquin says he thinks it’s important to talk about what happened on that day in Parkland, Florida, “so that we can create a safer future for everyone”. But sadly, what happened to Joaquin that day is that he died. The oddly metallic voice speaking to the ex-CNN journalist Jim Acosta…
n24usa.com
August 11, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Creating AI avatars of dead people needs to become an absolute societal taboo.
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📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
No. #22 (2025): Special Issue "Peripheral Religions"
| gamevironments
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August 7, 2025 at 9:19 AM
📯PUBLICATION NEWS📯
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
@amayer.bsky.social, Knut Wormstädt and I are happy to announce that our @gamevironments.bsky.social special issue Peripheral Religions and Games is officially out now! Here's the link, but we want to talk about every article and report for a minute: tinyurl.com/2txajt3m
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Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
August 7, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Smart and delightful book, equally enjoyable @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social interview. @domford.bsky.social Mytholudics: Games and Myth @degruyterbrill.bsky.social
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
#GameTheory#Folklore #Myth #PopularCulture
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
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My first paper, "Fictional Videogames as Framing Devices: Suicide Communication in MMOs," is out now on Eludamos.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
Fictional videogames as framing devices: Suicide communication in MMOs
| Eludamos: Journal for Computer Game Culture
eludamos.org
June 26, 2025 at 7:53 PM
My first paper, "Fictional Videogames as Framing Devices: Suicide Communication in MMOs," is out now on Eludamos.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
In the paper, I argue that the use of fictional MMOs as framing devices serves as a reflexive narrative tool that suggests MMOs as spaces with their own internal rules of communication.
Recently, I was interviewed about my book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @janalena.bsky.social! If you want to hear me talk about games and myth for about an hour, please check it out.
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
Dom Ford, "Mytholudics: Games and Myth" (de Gruyter, 2025) - New Books Network
newbooksnetwork.com
August 6, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Recently, I was interviewed about my book for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social by @janalena.bsky.social! If you want to hear me talk about games and myth for about an hour, please check it out.
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
newbooksnetwork.com/mytholudics
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The future dystopian Rome of Lucio Fulci's Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984). My paper on the film's use of the gladiatorial combat trope has just been published in @gua-le-ni.com @domford.bsky.social and Riccardo Fassone's special issue of Eludamos on fictional games. eludamos.org/index.php/el...
July 16, 2025 at 9:11 AM
The future dystopian Rome of Lucio Fulci's Warriors of the Year 2072 (1984). My paper on the film's use of the gladiatorial combat trope has just been published in @gua-le-ni.com @domford.bsky.social and Riccardo Fassone's special issue of Eludamos on fictional games. eludamos.org/index.php/el...
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Very happy to announce that next week, I'll be joining the University of Zürich as part of the URPP Digital Religion(s), working on the project "Synthetic Realities. Generative AI and Digital Visual Literacy" alongside @bildoperationen.bsky.social. Exciting!!
July 11, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Very happy to announce that next week, I'll be joining the University of Zürich as part of the URPP Digital Religion(s), working on the project "Synthetic Realities. Generative AI and Digital Visual Literacy" alongside @bildoperationen.bsky.social. Exciting!!
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Are you a man, at least 15 years old and either Finnish or living in Finland?
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
June 10, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Are you a man, at least 15 years old and either Finnish or living in Finland?
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
Do you participate in game culture by e.g. playing video games, RPGs or miniature games, watching videos or through activities like cosplay?
Take the questionnaire in Finnish or English at bit.ly/pelikulttuuri
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Hey, thanks for using this legal e-reader to access an academic book through your uni library instead of just grabbing the pdf on libgen. Here's a sloppy AI summary of the book. We've defaulted your view to an epub without page numbers but feel free to reload the whole page if you want to change it.
June 4, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Hey, thanks for using this legal e-reader to access an academic book through your uni library instead of just grabbing the pdf on libgen. Here's a sloppy AI summary of the book. We've defaulted your view to an epub without page numbers but feel free to reload the whole page if you want to change it.
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👩🍳 𝐂𝐅𝐏: 𝐂𝐇Æ𝐅 - 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
May 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
👩🍳 𝐂𝐅𝐏: 𝐂𝐇Æ𝐅 - 𝐂𝐮𝐥𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐚𝐥 𝐇𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐚𝐠𝐞 & 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐀𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐬 𝐨𝐟 𝐅𝐨𝐨𝐝
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
Want to talk about your favourite dish or latest culinary faux pas? 🍕🍍 Or reflect on how food is represented in art? 🍰
Submit an idea by 6 June and join us in Tilburg in August!
👉More info: nelevandemosselaer.wordpress.com/chaef-cultur...
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Neuer Lesestoff für derzeit zu kalt Abende. @johannesfranzen.bsky.social @domford.bsky.social
May 6, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Neuer Lesestoff für derzeit zu kalt Abende. @johannesfranzen.bsky.social @domford.bsky.social
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Submit now: CfP for our next Special Issue "BEYOND PLAY: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF DIGITAL GAMING IN A DEEPLY MEDIATIZED SOCIETY" is out now! Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2025 journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga... #gamevironments #gaming #academics #cfp
Calls for Papers
| gamevironments
https://journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/gamevironments/openquests…📩📷
April 24, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Submit now: CfP for our next Special Issue "BEYOND PLAY: THE TRANSFORMATIVE POWER OF DIGITAL GAMING IN A DEEPLY MEDIATIZED SOCIETY" is out now! Abstract submission deadline: 31.05.2025 journals.suub.uni-bremen.de/index.php/ga... #gamevironments #gaming #academics #cfp
Having taken a quick look at the demo document, this seems much more like a Notion alternative than a Google Docs alternative. No font selection, set formatting, etc. etc. That's cool - I'm looking for a Notion alternative - but I'm desperate for Google Docs to die too.
The days of Google Docs are ending; we enter the age of Docs, made by France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs and Germany's Center for Digital Sovereignty of Public Administration.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
We need more governments to collaborate on public software projects to achieve digital sovereignty.
France and Germany unveil Docs, a homegrown alternative to Google Docs
The Trump administration has set out to drastically reshape the relationship between the US and Europe. In response, Brussels is scrambling to adapt to this new reality,...
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April 24, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Having taken a quick look at the demo document, this seems much more like a Notion alternative than a Google Docs alternative. No font selection, set formatting, etc. etc. That's cool - I'm looking for a Notion alternative - but I'm desperate for Google Docs to die too.
If you want me to give a talk, do an interview, be on a podcast or anything like that to do with the book, please get in touch (:
📖My book is out!
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
My book Mytholudics: Games and Myth is now available.
In it, I propose a way of understanding and analysing games as and through myth.
@degruyterbrill.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1515/9783...
Mytholudics
Games create worlds made of many different elements, but also of rules, systems and structures for how we act in them. So how can we make sense of them? Mytholudics: Games and Myth lays out an approac...
doi.org
April 24, 2025 at 6:44 AM
If you want me to give a talk, do an interview, be on a podcast or anything like that to do with the book, please get in touch (:
I recently finished reading this and it's a straight banger. Plus, the book is beautiful and small - it fits in a large pocket, so it's perfect for taking on the bus. It even comes with its own bookmark!!!!!! But seriously, this is an excellent novel.
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
April 23, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I recently finished reading this and it's a straight banger. Plus, the book is beautiful and small - it fits in a large pocket, so it's perfect for taking on the bus. It even comes with its own bookmark!!!!!! But seriously, this is an excellent novel.
Reposted by Dom Ford
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
April 2, 2025 at 8:15 AM
'What We Owe the Dead' is the title of my new #scifi novel.
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)
In the aftermath of a climate catastrophe, the book follows strange detective case and deals with themes such as the notion of personhood and the social use of #games.
> www.setmargins.press/books/what-w... <
(photos by Annette Behrens)