Jack Orchard
@jarona7.bsky.social
Content Editor @ Electronic Enlightenment
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
- Game Studies Events @ Centre for Digital Scholarship, Bodleian Libraries
- Researching Video Games and Historical Emotions
- PhD on Reading in C18th Women's Letters @ Swansea
- Editorial Board @ Multiplay
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Jack Orchard
@jarona7.bsky.social
· Jan 24
Just pinching some points from an old presentation on 18th century videogames which I made a couple years ago and found this collage - how many c18th games can you name? :)
#historicalgames #c18th #videogames
#historicalgames #c18th #videogames
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Hey this is on Monday and I think you should sign up and watch online. I'm going to talk about RuneScape for a while.
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Hey this is on Monday and I think you should sign up and watch online. I'm going to talk about RuneScape for a while.
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Just a reminder this Oxford-based roundtable on games preservation, archiving & exhibition is next week, and also is a hybrid event 🎮🌏👇
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
November 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Just a reminder this Oxford-based roundtable on games preservation, archiving & exhibition is next week, and also is a hybrid event 🎮🌏👇
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Trash Goblin won TIGA's Diversity In Games award last night!
For "Shining a light on inclusion, creativity, and community"!
Woo!
For "Shining a light on inclusion, creativity, and community"!
Woo!
November 5, 2025 at 11:39 AM
Trash Goblin won TIGA's Diversity In Games award last night!
For "Shining a light on inclusion, creativity, and community"!
Woo!
For "Shining a light on inclusion, creativity, and community"!
Woo!
Finally got a phone with some decent memory, and responding in a perfectly restrained way 🤣
November 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Finally got a phone with some decent memory, and responding in a perfectly restrained way 🤣
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The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 11th November – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
Bodleian Student Editions
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 31, 2025 at 9:41 AM
The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 11th November – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
Just rewatching an old GMTK video about genre mash-ups, what is the strangest genre mash-up y'all are aware of? And are there any genres that are fundamentally irreconcilable? Curious to hear your thoughts #gamestudies
October 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Just rewatching an old GMTK video about genre mash-ups, what is the strangest genre mash-up y'all are aware of? And are there any genres that are fundamentally irreconcilable? Curious to hear your thoughts #gamestudies
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This is in a couple of weeks and I'm still building my talk for it, are there any specific topics or issues people are interested in - Specifically in and around videogames in museums and videogame preservation? 🤔🎮
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 25, 2025 at 9:18 AM
This is in a couple of weeks and I'm still building my talk for it, are there any specific topics or issues people are interested in - Specifically in and around videogames in museums and videogame preservation? 🤔🎮
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You may know Eizin Suzuki for being one of the big City Pop illustrators. If you've never seen his work directly, you have seen it referenced in anime. Cars and surf boards, lush love letters to a surreal, hyper saturated America..
October 22, 2025 at 3:38 PM
You may know Eizin Suzuki for being one of the big City Pop illustrators. If you've never seen his work directly, you have seen it referenced in anime. Cars and surf boards, lush love letters to a surreal, hyper saturated America..
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The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
October 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The first LaserDisc upload today: a video art City Pop love letter to the American Southwest. A collaboration between two Japanese pop artists in the 1980s.
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
Tatsuro Yamashita & Eizin Suzuki: Southward Bound, translated and captured on a Domesday Duplicator.
archive.org/details/tats...
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Where do game developers get their ideas? Like any good answer to a complicated question, it depends!
@victoriatran.bsky.social asks eight indie devs (and herself, twice) about where the idea for their games came from -- featuring Inscryption, 1000xRESIST, Venba, Mars First Logistics, and more!
@victoriatran.bsky.social asks eight indie devs (and herself, twice) about where the idea for their games came from -- featuring Inscryption, 1000xRESIST, Venba, Mars First Logistics, and more!
Where Do Game Developers Get Their Ideas?
Where do game ideas actually come from? Brainstorming sessions? Divine inspiration? We get the stories behind 10 beloved indie games.
thisweekinvideogames.com
October 20, 2025 at 7:00 AM
Where do game developers get their ideas? Like any good answer to a complicated question, it depends!
@victoriatran.bsky.social asks eight indie devs (and herself, twice) about where the idea for their games came from -- featuring Inscryption, 1000xRESIST, Venba, Mars First Logistics, and more!
@victoriatran.bsky.social asks eight indie devs (and herself, twice) about where the idea for their games came from -- featuring Inscryption, 1000xRESIST, Venba, Mars First Logistics, and more!
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Really looking forward to this!
We're back on Monday! Join us for a discussion of 'play' with papers from Fiona Maxwell, Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social & Caitlin Hendrie. 20 October 11am at Magdalen College Sophia Sheppard Room or online via Teams. More info including how to join us online ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events - Oxford Talks
talks.ox.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Really looking forward to this!
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We're back on Monday! Join us for a discussion of 'play' with papers from Fiona Maxwell, Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social & Caitlin Hendrie. 20 October 11am at Magdalen College Sophia Sheppard Room or online via Teams. More info including how to join us online ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
Centre for the History of Childhood Seminars and Events - Oxford Talks
talks.ox.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 9:25 AM
We're back on Monday! Join us for a discussion of 'play' with papers from Fiona Maxwell, Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social & Caitlin Hendrie. 20 October 11am at Magdalen College Sophia Sheppard Room or online via Teams. More info including how to join us online ⬇️ talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/series...
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
Video Game Preservation: Practices and Approaches
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Very excited to share that on November 10 @discoxford.bsky.social are hosting a hybrid roundtable on Videogame preservation practices with @carrythezero.bsky.social, Alex Habgood, digital archivist at Rebellion studios, and @emarlow.bsky.social:
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/video-...
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The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 23rd October – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
Bodleian Student Editions
Would you like to contribute to the discovery of new research materials in the Bodleian’s manuscript collections? And to learn something about editing early modern letters and approaches to digital…
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 15, 2025 at 8:30 AM
The next Bodleian Student Editions session will run on 23rd October – it’s a great opportunity for students to learn about editing and transcribing early modern letters. Spaces are still available - find out more & sign up: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/bodlei...
Managed to get to the cinema to watch the 4K restoration of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, for the first time in about 10 years - I don't know if I've just got more pretentious in the last decade, but I'm really interested in whether there's a Baudrillardian reading of the film out there?
a woman in a pink dress is flying through the air
ALT: a woman in a pink dress is flying through the air
media.tenor.com
October 15, 2025 at 4:59 PM
Managed to get to the cinema to watch the 4K restoration of Satoshi Kon's Perfect Blue, for the first time in about 10 years - I don't know if I've just got more pretentious in the last decade, but I'm really interested in whether there's a Baudrillardian reading of the film out there?
I'll be taking my nonsense to #BSECS again :) delighted that my paper on 'Big Feelings: Small Stories, Archival Encounters in the Ludic Eighteenth-Century' has been accepted - expect queer historiography, critical fabulation, autoethnography, and Ambition: A Minuet in Power 🇫🇷🪓👑
October 15, 2025 at 9:58 AM
I'll be taking my nonsense to #BSECS again :) delighted that my paper on 'Big Feelings: Small Stories, Archival Encounters in the Ludic Eighteenth-Century' has been accepted - expect queer historiography, critical fabulation, autoethnography, and Ambition: A Minuet in Power 🇫🇷🪓👑
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Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning will be on Tues 21st October: Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social will talk about games & historical emotional states, Gothic literature & horror games, & French Revolutionary paranoia in games. Find out more: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
Digital Scholarship coffee morning - 21st October
digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk
October 14, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Our next Digital Scholarship coffee morning will be on Tues 21st October: Jack Orchard @jarona7.bsky.social will talk about games & historical emotional states, Gothic literature & horror games, & French Revolutionary paranoia in games. Find out more: digitalscholarship.web.ox.ac.uk/event/digita...
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Second session of the day begins with Jakub Sindelár talking about the polyvalence of historical empathy!
October 10, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Second session of the day begins with Jakub Sindelár talking about the polyvalence of historical empathy!
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Hey! Did you get an NES Classic mini console but you don't care about the manual/poster it came with? Put it to use supporting @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social! I'm seeking these out for fundraiser autograph opportunities, but need them ASAP. Let me know! Can pay!
October 9, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Hey! Did you get an NES Classic mini console but you don't care about the manual/poster it came with? Put it to use supporting @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social! I'm seeking these out for fundraiser autograph opportunities, but need them ASAP. Let me know! Can pay!
Still, there's something inherently violent even about dice rolls. It's like every time you cast a die, something disappears. Some alternative ending, or an entirely different world...
October 7, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
October 3, 2025 at 11:29 AM
The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
Just defeated the Cogwork Dancers in Hollow Knight: Silksong
a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
September 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Just defeated the Cogwork Dancers in Hollow Knight: Silksong
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just learned about the content warning that open Silent Hill f and this feels like it comes from a parallel world where AAA games took on a whole different meaning for "mature"
damn. more of this approach please
damn. more of this approach please
September 23, 2025 at 9:36 PM
just learned about the content warning that open Silent Hill f and this feels like it comes from a parallel world where AAA games took on a whole different meaning for "mature"
damn. more of this approach please
damn. more of this approach please
Brainfart moment I need Bsky's help with here is a word, starting with s, which describes the emphasis on the horror of having a body, emphasis on corpses, skeletons, that sort of thing - the stuff in the basement in Lewis's Monk is an example of this, what word am I thinking of?
#Gothic #Theory
#Gothic #Theory
September 22, 2025 at 7:25 PM