Dr. PB Berge 💖
@persephone.blue
🔥 ludoarsonist
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. Dir. @ https://darcmode.org
🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue
🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io
🕹️ media scholar
🎮 game breaker
Assistant Professor of Experimental Game Design @UAlberta. Dir. @ https://darcmode.org
🔍 trans play 🏳️⚧️ TRPGs 🎲 extremism 💀 & the ✨unplayable✨
🌐 https://persephone.blue
🎲 https://gravesnail.itch.io
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Dr. PB Berge 💖
@persephone.blue
· Nov 11
Welcome new followers! 👋
To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴
To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴
Y'all, I'm so trash at rhythm games but I'm over the moon this is out in the world. Congrats @gensuta.itch.io!! 🔥🛼🎉
Skate & Date - lesbian roller derby, rhythm game is out now! Come get your yuri on wheels!!
https://f.mtr.cool/scjlbborbl
https://f.mtr.cool/ugehecznam
(I've linked steam codes to itch.io so you can easily get it for both and have Valve take less money from me <3)
https://f.mtr.cool/scjlbborbl
https://f.mtr.cool/ugehecznam
(I've linked steam codes to itch.io so you can easily get it for both and have Valve take less money from me <3)
October 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Y'all, I'm so trash at rhythm games but I'm over the moon this is out in the world. Congrats @gensuta.itch.io!! 🔥🛼🎉
🦋 Hey! Listen!
@madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!
Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???"
📄🔗⬇️
@madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!
Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???"
📄🔗⬇️
a pixel art of a blue object with a speech bubble saying listen
Alt: Pixel art of the fairy Navi from Ocarina of Time hovering and shouting Hey! Hello! Listen!
media.tenor.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:05 PM
🦋 Hey! Listen!
@madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!
Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???"
📄🔗⬇️
@madzbrutal.bsky.social and my article on Ocarina of Time, trans movement, tool-assisted speedruns, and code injections is out today at @jcmsjournal.bsky.social!
Link finally gets the Triforce and we can finally resolve the age-old question of "is speedrunning queer???"
📄🔗⬇️
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
Showing Skate & Date and on an anti-panel about trans games with other folks at 4:30pm EST @qgcon.bsky.social
So excited to be here!!!
So excited to be here!!!
September 27, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Showing Skate & Date and on an anti-panel about trans games with other folks at 4:30pm EST @qgcon.bsky.social
So excited to be here!!!
So excited to be here!!!
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
Our 2025 series is out now!
The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers.
The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here:
itch.io/b/3301/brief...
You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!
The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers.
The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here:
itch.io/b/3301/brief...
You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!
September 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Our 2025 series is out now!
The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers.
The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here:
itch.io/b/3301/brief...
You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!
The CHEESE is here with three games by talented developers.
The cheesy, the cheesying, the cheese-able all playable for free here:
itch.io/b/3301/brief...
You wanted shorter artsier games? You'd better pick the bundle up!
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...
So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨
July 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
AMAZING presentation by @persephone.blue and @percivalhornak.bsky.social, I was spellbound right to the end! Go read their full paper, it is so good: analoggamestudies.org/2025/07/lich...
So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨
July 17, 2025 at 6:53 PM
So hyped to be talking about liches, trans play, lyric games, and parasitic eels with the fantabulous @percivalhornak.bsky.social in ~10 minutes at Generation Analog! @analoggamestudies.bsky.social 🌔🎲💀✨
‼️I have a new article out this week! 🎉
From anti-game jams to fantasy console communities, I explored how ✨ speculative game design ✨ practices are a vital response to growing precarity in tech industries.
Also, it's open access! Also, it won best paper at #FDG25! 🏆
From anti-game jams to fantasy console communities, I explored how ✨ speculative game design ✨ practices are a vital response to growing precarity in tech industries.
Also, it's open access! Also, it won best paper at #FDG25! 🏆
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
‼️I have a new article out this week! 🎉
From anti-game jams to fantasy console communities, I explored how ✨ speculative game design ✨ practices are a vital response to growing precarity in tech industries.
Also, it's open access! Also, it won best paper at #FDG25! 🏆
From anti-game jams to fantasy console communities, I explored how ✨ speculative game design ✨ practices are a vital response to growing precarity in tech industries.
Also, it's open access! Also, it won best paper at #FDG25! 🏆
I'm crushed to not be at SCMS in meatspace this year, but grateful to @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social for coordinating a panel on games & political economy to kick off the conference! Should be a great conversation, and I hope the early birds enjoy my little video on fantasy consoles & anti-games 🎮🔥✨
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
I'm crushed to not be at SCMS in meatspace this year, but grateful to @guyintheblackhat.bsky.social for coordinating a panel on games & political economy to kick off the conference! Should be a great conversation, and I hope the early birds enjoy my little video on fantasy consoles & anti-games 🎮🔥✨
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
In our continuing Zine Month coverage, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social curated a list of crowdfunding projects by trans game designers
Zine Month 2025: TransQuest
Paranormal body horror, cozy cat sims, and the realities of motherhood
www.rascal.news
February 14, 2025 at 7:26 PM
In our continuing Zine Month coverage, @rowanzeoli.bsky.social curated a list of crowdfunding projects by trans game designers
Started some new ink!!! Featuring my beloved Mxtress 💜✨Chaos✨💜, whose boons I'm taking into this high-heat run of 2025.
(💉 Pokery & portrait of the primordial progenitor by the unrivaled Julia McKay!)
(💉 Pokery & portrait of the primordial progenitor by the unrivaled Julia McKay!)
January 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Started some new ink!!! Featuring my beloved Mxtress 💜✨Chaos✨💜, whose boons I'm taking into this high-heat run of 2025.
(💉 Pokery & portrait of the primordial progenitor by the unrivaled Julia McKay!)
(💉 Pokery & portrait of the primordial progenitor by the unrivaled Julia McKay!)
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
CFP: #QueerAnalogGameStudies Special Issue! Analog games are here…but are they queer? What’s queer about analog games? What does it mean to queer tabletop, board games, or LARP? How might analog games be queered?
**Essays due April 7, 2025**
analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...
**Essays due April 7, 2025**
analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...
CFP: Queer Analog Game Studies | Analog Game Studies
analoggamestudies.org
December 30, 2024 at 12:20 AM
CFP: #QueerAnalogGameStudies Special Issue! Analog games are here…but are they queer? What’s queer about analog games? What does it mean to queer tabletop, board games, or LARP? How might analog games be queered?
**Essays due April 7, 2025**
analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...
**Essays due April 7, 2025**
analoggamestudies.org/cfp/cfp-quee...
So grateful to the one and only @michaeliantorno.com who wow'd @kenzitronic.bsky.social and my students with tales of hacked consoles, sun-powered handhelds, and emerging interventions in game labor!
Up now as part of our Playful Horizons Speaker Series!! ✨🔥🕹️
Up now as part of our Playful Horizons Speaker Series!! ✨🔥🕹️
Now online: my interview for the Playful Horizons featured speaker series at the University of Alberta!
💾Game hacking + preservation!
✊Industry labour!
🎮Creative modding in the university!
Thanks to @persephone.blue and @kenzitronic.bsky.social for having me in to talk about my research.✨
💾Game hacking + preservation!
✊Industry labour!
🎮Creative modding in the university!
Thanks to @persephone.blue and @kenzitronic.bsky.social for having me in to talk about my research.✨
💾 Meet Michael Iantorno! 💾 (Playful Horizons Speaker Series)
YouTube video by UAlbertaArts
youtu.be
November 21, 2024 at 5:28 PM
So grateful to the one and only @michaeliantorno.com who wow'd @kenzitronic.bsky.social and my students with tales of hacked consoles, sun-powered handhelds, and emerging interventions in game labor!
Up now as part of our Playful Horizons Speaker Series!! ✨🔥🕹️
Up now as part of our Playful Horizons Speaker Series!! ✨🔥🕹️
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal!
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
QGCon 2025: september 26-28, 2025 — QGCon
The Queerness and Games Conference is back! QGCon 2025 will be held on September 26-28 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada . If you are interested in presenting your work at QGCon, we w...
www.qgcon.org
November 14, 2024 at 7:31 PM
🌈Thrilling news! QGCon 2025 will take place on September 26-28 in Montreal!
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
If you are a gamemaker, researcher, or activist at the intersection of queerness and games, we want you there!✨
🦄We value accessibility! QGCon 2025 is a COVID-cautious event.
www.qgcon.org/blog/announc...
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH
November 14, 2024 at 2:39 PM
Hey, I started a Trans Studies starter pack, but it needs more names. I can add them, I think. Here it is, so far: go.bsky.app/UAtsVTH
Yayyy the first talk in the ~Playful Horizons 🕹️🎲🌌~ speaker series is out in the world! (Hosted by @kenzitronic.bsky.social + me!)
Starring the unrivaled & inimitable @thechristinet.bsky.social!! ✨📽️✨
Listen to Christine expound on livestreaming, game culture, AI, glitch, and pet interruptions! 🐕
Starring the unrivaled & inimitable @thechristinet.bsky.social!! ✨📽️✨
Listen to Christine expound on livestreaming, game culture, AI, glitch, and pet interruptions! 🐕
Now Live™️ (and asynchronous)! My interview with UAlbertaArts’s Playful Horizons featured speaker series about the past, future & artificial present of ✨🔮 livestreaming✨
🔮 youtu.be/gB7lhBAzE6M?...
🔮 youtu.be/gB7lhBAzE6M?...
✨ Meet Christine H. Tran! ✨ (Playful Horizons Speaker Series)
YouTube video by UAlbertaArts
youtu.be
November 11, 2024 at 2:34 PM
Yayyy the first talk in the ~Playful Horizons 🕹️🎲🌌~ speaker series is out in the world! (Hosted by @kenzitronic.bsky.social + me!)
Starring the unrivaled & inimitable @thechristinet.bsky.social!! ✨📽️✨
Listen to Christine expound on livestreaming, game culture, AI, glitch, and pet interruptions! 🐕
Starring the unrivaled & inimitable @thechristinet.bsky.social!! ✨📽️✨
Listen to Christine expound on livestreaming, game culture, AI, glitch, and pet interruptions! 🐕
Welcome new followers! 👋
To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴
To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴
November 11, 2024 at 4:01 AM
Welcome new followers! 👋
To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴
To occupy you while you're here, have some glamor shots of a bioactive, Legend of Zelda themed vivarium I built for my geckos out of an IKEA cabinet over the summer!! 🦎✨🪴
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
Do you want shorter artsy games by well paid developers?
Briefs, a microfund I curate, has just dropped four games united by one theme DEATH!
You can play them all. All donations go directly to developers.
You can tell everyone too. YOU MUST.
#gamedev #indiegame #art
itch.io/b/2656/brief...
Briefs, a microfund I curate, has just dropped four games united by one theme DEATH!
You can play them all. All donations go directly to developers.
You can tell everyone too. YOU MUST.
#gamedev #indiegame #art
itch.io/b/2656/brief...
September 12, 2024 at 5:02 PM
Do you want shorter artsy games by well paid developers?
Briefs, a microfund I curate, has just dropped four games united by one theme DEATH!
You can play them all. All donations go directly to developers.
You can tell everyone too. YOU MUST.
#gamedev #indiegame #art
itch.io/b/2656/brief...
Briefs, a microfund I curate, has just dropped four games united by one theme DEATH!
You can play them all. All donations go directly to developers.
You can tell everyone too. YOU MUST.
#gamedev #indiegame #art
itch.io/b/2656/brief...
Truly the #TransStudies2024 dream team: immensely grateful to my rockstar friends @hibby.bsky.social, @wells.bsky.social, @wendiyu.bsky.social, and @madzbrutal.bsky.social for bringing this fiery panel on "B{Ending} Trans Media Studies" to (un)life. 🔥❤️🔥💖
September 6, 2024 at 8:28 PM
Truly the #TransStudies2024 dream team: immensely grateful to my rockstar friends @hibby.bsky.social, @wells.bsky.social, @wendiyu.bsky.social, and @madzbrutal.bsky.social for bringing this fiery panel on "B{Ending} Trans Media Studies" to (un)life. 🔥❤️🔥💖
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
TTRPGs for Palestine via itch charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians!
Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...
There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians!
Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...
June 1, 2024 at 2:31 PM
TTRPGs for Palestine via itch charity bundle has officially LAUNCHED!
There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians!
Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...
There are 640+ TTRPGs for you to discover for a $10+ donation to Medical Aid for Palestinians!
Donate here: itch.io/b/2295/ttrpg...
So... I have some news.
🎉🎉🎉
🎉🎉🎉
March 22, 2024 at 3:44 PM
So... I have some news.
🎉🎉🎉
🎉🎉🎉
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
The 🦇 D/ARC 🦇 server reached a huge milestone this week: 700 members! 🥳 So proud of this kind and wonderfully supportive community, and thrilled it continues to be found by those who need it! 🥹 Huge thanks to Dan and @iceberge.bsky.social for being the best Mod team a gal could ask for. 💯✨
February 17, 2024 at 3:08 AM
The 🦇 D/ARC 🦇 server reached a huge milestone this week: 700 members! 🥳 So proud of this kind and wonderfully supportive community, and thrilled it continues to be found by those who need it! 🥹 Huge thanks to Dan and @iceberge.bsky.social for being the best Mod team a gal could ask for. 💯✨
Reposted by Dr. PB Berge 💖
The call for ELO 2024 is up! Submit by Feb 15 for this totally online conference. #eliterature
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
January 4, 2024 at 3:33 PM
The call for ELO 2024 is up! Submit by Feb 15 for this totally online conference. #eliterature
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
stars.library.ucf.edu/elo2024/
GAMES FOR GAZA bundle is up now-- 100% of proceeds go to Palestinian medical aid.
$10 for over 250 games from incredible designers (and also me). Support if you can. 💜
itch.io/b/2120/games...
$10 for over 250 games from incredible designers (and also me). Support if you can. 💜
itch.io/b/2120/games...
October 27, 2023 at 5:58 PM
GAMES FOR GAZA bundle is up now-- 100% of proceeds go to Palestinian medical aid.
$10 for over 250 games from incredible designers (and also me). Support if you can. 💜
itch.io/b/2120/games...
$10 for over 250 games from incredible designers (and also me). Support if you can. 💜
itch.io/b/2120/games...