Mauricio Castro Valdez
@perulainen.bsky.social
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I wanted to know who designed an old board game I loved. I found out he made over fifty games he was never credited for, in a career spanning more than three decades.
youtu.be/dTepZ7qM24Q
youtu.be/dTepZ7qM24Q
GRAVITY IS FREE: the games of René Soriano
YouTube video by Hollandspiele
youtu.be
January 23, 2026 at 6:51 PM
I wanted to know who designed an old board game I loved. I found out he made over fifty games he was never credited for, in a career spanning more than three decades.
youtu.be/dTepZ7qM24Q
youtu.be/dTepZ7qM24Q
Dear diary: today I slopped like crazy.
January 24, 2026 at 11:43 PM
Dear diary: today I slopped like crazy.
Finland's the closest I've been to the 1990's internet experience IRL
January 20, 2026 at 2:39 PM
Finland's the closest I've been to the 1990's internet experience IRL
IGDA Tampere with my Finnish crew. Beers. For the first time, no games, only stories about the past 4 years. A well played game.
January 6, 2026 at 8:13 PM
IGDA Tampere with my Finnish crew. Beers. For the first time, no games, only stories about the past 4 years. A well played game.
After 7 months... I'm officially a Peruvian Master in Game Studies (Estudios de Juegos). Might be the first Peruvian to achieve this (?)
December 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
After 7 months... I'm officially a Peruvian Master in Game Studies (Estudios de Juegos). Might be the first Peruvian to achieve this (?)
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It's been a year, but I'm teaching ethics in videogames again. Every semester we play 3 games that (I believe) are ethically/morally interesting. For this semester I picked the following.... (1/4)
December 29, 2025 at 11:39 PM
It's been a year, but I'm teaching ethics in videogames again. Every semester we play 3 games that (I believe) are ethically/morally interesting. For this semester I picked the following.... (1/4)
Reposted by Mauricio Castro Valdez
Ludocene v1.2 is out in time to find your perfect Christmas gift.
🧭 Improved flow
🕹️Game pages
🔤Hot-keys
💌Monthly Recommendations
BUT! To survive, we need buzz. Now is the time to try it, share it, and maybe even subscribe. Let's not be the best-kept secret.
www.ludocene.com
🧭 Improved flow
🕹️Game pages
🔤Hot-keys
💌Monthly Recommendations
BUT! To survive, we need buzz. Now is the time to try it, share it, and maybe even subscribe. Let's not be the best-kept secret.
www.ludocene.com
Home - Ludocene Game Discovery
Game discovery from people you trust. Ludocene is a free game finder that uses human-researched data to match you with games you'll love.
www.ludocene.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Ludocene v1.2 is out in time to find your perfect Christmas gift.
🧭 Improved flow
🕹️Game pages
🔤Hot-keys
💌Monthly Recommendations
BUT! To survive, we need buzz. Now is the time to try it, share it, and maybe even subscribe. Let's not be the best-kept secret.
www.ludocene.com
🧭 Improved flow
🕹️Game pages
🔤Hot-keys
💌Monthly Recommendations
BUT! To survive, we need buzz. Now is the time to try it, share it, and maybe even subscribe. Let's not be the best-kept secret.
www.ludocene.com
Played Shining Path: The Struggle for Peru on 2025-11-25 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7337 #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com
Shining Path: The Struggle for Peru
Shining Path is a game simulating the conflict between the Sendero Luminoso or "Shining Path" Maoist guerrillas and the Government of Peru. This guerrilla war started in 1980 and continues ...
boardgamegeek.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Played Shining Path: The Struggle for Peru on 2025-11-25 boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/7337 #bggplay via @boardgamegeek.com
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For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book.
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
November 3, 2025 at 4:31 PM
For the past decade, I've been slowly cooking a small and humble book.
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
Part (alternative) history, part analysis, and part social critique, this is a look at what games also are and have always been.
ZEN AND SLOW GAMES
Out 20/1/2026 by MIT Press
mitpress.mit.edu/978026255356...
20 hour commute ahead.
Goals:
- finish Devil Survivor 2.
Goals:
- finish Devil Survivor 2.
October 24, 2025 at 3:42 PM
20 hour commute ahead.
Goals:
- finish Devil Survivor 2.
Goals:
- finish Devil Survivor 2.
Reposted by Mauricio Castro Valdez
New #openaccess article in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social
"Sidetalking: Domesticating Nokia's playful designed identity"
On the Nokia mobile gaming platform: the Nokia NGage, released 2003.
A THREAD.
Download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#gamestudies #platformstudies
"Sidetalking: Domesticating Nokia's playful designed identity"
On the Nokia mobile gaming platform: the Nokia NGage, released 2003.
A THREAD.
Download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#gamestudies #platformstudies
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
New #openaccess article in @mobilemediacomm.bsky.social
"Sidetalking: Domesticating Nokia's playful designed identity"
On the Nokia mobile gaming platform: the Nokia NGage, released 2003.
A THREAD.
Download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#gamestudies #platformstudies
"Sidetalking: Domesticating Nokia's playful designed identity"
On the Nokia mobile gaming platform: the Nokia NGage, released 2003.
A THREAD.
Download: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
#gamestudies #platformstudies
Ahora, en @digraspain.bsky.social inmersión como presencia cognitiva simulada. ¿Cómo diseñar juegos de mundo abierto que estimulen estas experiencias cognitivas simuladas en vez de limitarlas?
October 24, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Ahora, en @digraspain.bsky.social inmersión como presencia cognitiva simulada. ¿Cómo diseñar juegos de mundo abierto que estimulen estas experiencias cognitivas simuladas en vez de limitarlas?
Reinterpretaciones de los tropos del noir clásicos como mecánicas de juego. Cosa seria. @digraspain.bsky.social
October 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Reinterpretaciones de los tropos del noir clásicos como mecánicas de juego. Cosa seria. @digraspain.bsky.social
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📣 ¡Comienza oficialmente #DigraES25! Tenéis acceso al directo aquí: tv.uvigo.es/directo2
UVigoTV - Canle Directo 2
tv.uvigo.es
October 22, 2025 at 7:24 AM
📣 ¡Comienza oficialmente #DigraES25! Tenéis acceso al directo aquí: tv.uvigo.es/directo2
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ICYMI: Here's my exploration of Amsterdam's history through board games
Amsterdam in History and Board Games
One of the great cities of Europe celebrates its 750th birthday this year – Amsterdam, capital of the Netherlands, famous for tolerance, trade, and tulips. While the earliest settlements in the reg…
cliosboardgames.wordpress.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:40 PM
ICYMI: Here's my exploration of Amsterdam's history through board games
1 year #vibecoding and working with #agentic entities (sic). Some side effects:
- complete alienation from coding as "carpentry".
- tiredness, irritability, feeling of being hungover after creating massive artifacts in a short span (ex. a full app in 1 day).
- complete alienation from coding as "carpentry".
- tiredness, irritability, feeling of being hungover after creating massive artifacts in a short span (ex. a full app in 1 day).
October 6, 2025 at 6:56 PM
1 year #vibecoding and working with #agentic entities (sic). Some side effects:
- complete alienation from coding as "carpentry".
- tiredness, irritability, feeling of being hungover after creating massive artifacts in a short span (ex. a full app in 1 day).
- complete alienation from coding as "carpentry".
- tiredness, irritability, feeling of being hungover after creating massive artifacts in a short span (ex. a full app in 1 day).
I'm cooking all the Peruvian stews I know using gochujang paste instead of panka chili paste. So far, so good.
October 6, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I'm cooking all the Peruvian stews I know using gochujang paste instead of panka chili paste. So far, so good.
This was my first experience with Sonic, a weird Peruvian ROM created by TEG. Weird SFX and Mario in a cage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqF9...
Let's Play SNES ROM Hacks | Sonic The Hedgehog 4 | SNES Mini
YouTube video by ADH Gaming
www.youtube.com
September 17, 2025 at 7:49 AM
This was my first experience with Sonic, a weird Peruvian ROM created by TEG. Weird SFX and Mario in a cage. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqF9...
Reposted by Mauricio Castro Valdez
Been thinking about idle games a lot and had this phenomenal progression in the shower
August 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Been thinking about idle games a lot and had this phenomenal progression in the shower
Reposted by Mauricio Castro Valdez
Over the last five months on my blog, I've written about the 19 different computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1984. I've made a post about the history of each one.
Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!
Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!
August 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Over the last five months on my blog, I've written about the 19 different computer games to reach #1 in UK sales charts during 1984. I've made a post about the history of each one.
Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!
Here is a thread with links to those posts, plus one thing I learned about each of them!
Reposted by Mauricio Castro Valdez
Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢
Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue!
More details below in this thread👇
#CallForPapers #GameStudies
Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue!
More details below in this thread👇
#CallForPapers #GameStudies
August 12, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Open Call for Papers 2025🥰📢
Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue!
More details below in this thread👇
#CallForPapers #GameStudies
Press Start is currently seeking full-length game studies papers from current grad students/recent grads. Submit by November 10, 2025, for a potential spot in our 2026 issue!
More details below in this thread👇
#CallForPapers #GameStudies
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
July 29, 2025 at 3:36 PM
🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!
Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
👉 futurenothanks.com
Big me - Foo Fighters
Best karaoke song. Get out now.
Best karaoke song. Get out now.
July 26, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Big me - Foo Fighters
Best karaoke song. Get out now.
Best karaoke song. Get out now.
Cooking Carapulcra today. I'll try not to eat the whole pot.
July 25, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Cooking Carapulcra today. I'll try not to eat the whole pot.