Rü
@rbrandis.eu
🌹 poetic realist.
🎮 makes games.
✍️ writes about theory, ideology & history.
🛠 producer @playinghistory.bsky.social
✊ member of @achtungautobahn.com
✍️ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
🎮 makes games.
✍️ writes about theory, ideology & history.
🛠 producer @playinghistory.bsky.social
✊ member of @achtungautobahn.com
✍️ researching history & games @uni-goettingen.de
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This is bullshit.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
This is bullshit.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
"absolutely no genAI in games" is the middle ground.
"how many years in jail should Sam Altman get for knowingly stealing all data ever" is the somewhat more extreme stance I personally adopt.
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Meeting more militant people from video game unions or even from the STJV but from other cities is as exhausting as other social activities but I love them so much, they're all so awesome people 🥰
November 16, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Meeting more militant people from video game unions or even from the STJV but from other cities is as exhausting as other social activities but I love them so much, they're all so awesome people 🥰
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220 employees at Rockstar North have signed a letter condemning the dismissal of 31 workers amid union busting accusations
www.gamesindustry.biz/over-200-roc...
www.gamesindustry.biz/over-200-roc...
Over 200 Rockstar North staff sign letter demanding "immediate reinstatement" of fired colleagues
Independent Workers' Union of Great Britain says letter has been handed to senior management at developer
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 14, 2025 at 10:21 AM
220 employees at Rockstar North have signed a letter condemning the dismissal of 31 workers amid union busting accusations
www.gamesindustry.biz/over-200-roc...
www.gamesindustry.biz/over-200-roc...
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This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
November 14, 2025 at 6:56 PM
This afternoon, IWGB Game Workers joined together with unions from all over Europe, including @stjv.fr and @csvi-cgt.bsky.social to protest against Rockstar's union busting in Paris - on est là!
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We were also joined by trade unionists from the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Germany!
November 14, 2025 at 6:59 PM
We were also joined by trade unionists from the Republic of Ireland, Spain, Italy, and Germany!
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Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Protests continued today outside Take Two's offices in London, but also in Paris, where Le Syndicat des Travailleureuses du Jeu Vidéo (@stjv.fr) came out to show their international solidarity with the fired Rockstar workers.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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a friend of mine is making a beautiful story-driven space combat game and he just got the steampage up and ready!
✨️🚀🌍🛸⭐️🪐
take a look and wishlist it! 💗
#indiegame #solodev
store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...
✨️🚀🌍🛸⭐️🪐
take a look and wishlist it! 💗
#indiegame #solodev
store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...
Shrouded Suns on Steam
In the midst of a seemingly hopeless war among the stars, take control of highly customizable spacefighters to experience classic space combat action throughout a story-driven campaign.
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 10:17 AM
a friend of mine is making a beautiful story-driven space combat game and he just got the steampage up and ready!
✨️🚀🌍🛸⭐️🪐
take a look and wishlist it! 💗
#indiegame #solodev
store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...
✨️🚀🌍🛸⭐️🪐
take a look and wishlist it! 💗
#indiegame #solodev
store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...
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no m'ho puc creure 😭💖✨️ publicarem més cosetes aviat! literal que m'he fet rosetes per a cel.lebrar-ho només arribar a casa 🍿✨️
--
thank you so much for your support, people 💗 we can't wait to show you more!
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 @achtungautobahn.com
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thank you so much for your support, people 💗 we can't wait to show you more!
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 @achtungautobahn.com
November 2, 2025 at 6:15 PM
no m'ho puc creure 😭💖✨️ publicarem més cosetes aviat! literal que m'he fet rosetes per a cel.lebrar-ho només arribar a casa 🍿✨️
--
thank you so much for your support, people 💗 we can't wait to show you more!
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 @achtungautobahn.com
--
thank you so much for your support, people 💗 we can't wait to show you more!
🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 @achtungautobahn.com
After Utopian fiction on to Argentinian experimental literature of the 1950s.
Cortázar's Hopscotch can be read in multiple ways, from front to back or by following several predefined different paths.
An existentialist stream of consciousness indulging in the deconstruction of its own form.
Cortázar's Hopscotch can be read in multiple ways, from front to back or by following several predefined different paths.
An existentialist stream of consciousness indulging in the deconstruction of its own form.
November 2, 2025 at 1:05 PM
After Utopian fiction on to Argentinian experimental literature of the 1950s.
Cortázar's Hopscotch can be read in multiple ways, from front to back or by following several predefined different paths.
An existentialist stream of consciousness indulging in the deconstruction of its own form.
Cortázar's Hopscotch can be read in multiple ways, from front to back or by following several predefined different paths.
An existentialist stream of consciousness indulging in the deconstruction of its own form.
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Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻
October 31, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Scare your boss this Halloween by talking to your coworkers (on your personal devices outside of company time, ideally on an encrypted app like Signal) about organizing your workplace 👻
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We're cooking something #indiegame #horrorgames
October 31, 2025 at 10:42 AM
We're cooking something #indiegame #horrorgames
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Mi crónica del BCN Game Fest se ha alargado más de lo esperado y por eso sale un poco tarde pero ya está aquí:
@bcngamefest.bsky.social @indiedevday.bsky.social
aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/u...
@bcngamefest.bsky.social @indiedevday.bsky.social
aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/u...
Una crónica muy larga sobre el BCN Game Fest 2025
Hace dos años asistí a mi primer evento de videojuegos acreditado como prensa en lo que fue la edición 2023 del IndieDevDay, que cubrí para la web ErreKGamer. La experiencia fue intensa pero muy sa…
aventurasrojo.wordpress.com
October 15, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Mi crónica del BCN Game Fest se ha alargado más de lo esperado y por eso sale un poco tarde pero ya está aquí:
@bcngamefest.bsky.social @indiedevday.bsky.social
aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/u...
@bcngamefest.bsky.social @indiedevday.bsky.social
aventurasrojo.wordpress.com/2025/10/15/u...
New thing I'm trying:
Posting all the harmless books I'm reading to relax...
Let's start with Le Guin's The Dispossed.
What utopian fiction have you been reading lately?
Posting all the harmless books I'm reading to relax...
Let's start with Le Guin's The Dispossed.
What utopian fiction have you been reading lately?
October 12, 2025 at 7:46 PM
New thing I'm trying:
Posting all the harmless books I'm reading to relax...
Let's start with Le Guin's The Dispossed.
What utopian fiction have you been reading lately?
Posting all the harmless books I'm reading to relax...
Let's start with Le Guin's The Dispossed.
What utopian fiction have you been reading lately?
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Last speaker before the last break is @rbrandis.eu talking about specters of the past and the practice of historiography in Kentucky Route Zero!
October 10, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Last speaker before the last break is @rbrandis.eu talking about specters of the past and the practice of historiography in Kentucky Route Zero!
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And to conclude the first session of #TIPC4 @gatdesoia.es will be talking about what industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage!
October 9, 2025 at 8:36 AM
And to conclude the first session of #TIPC4 @gatdesoia.es will be talking about what industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage!
Spooky season is upon us, so I'm giving a talk about ghosts
@valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾
👻Spectres of the Past. The Practice of Historiography in Kentucky Route Zero ❤️📜
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in, 10/10 at 3pm!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
#gamestudies #historicalgames
@valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾
👻Spectres of the Past. The Practice of Historiography in Kentucky Route Zero ❤️📜
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in, 10/10 at 3pm!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
#gamestudies #historicalgames
September 26, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Spooky season is upon us, so I'm giving a talk about ghosts
@valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾
👻Spectres of the Past. The Practice of Historiography in Kentucky Route Zero ❤️📜
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in, 10/10 at 3pm!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
#gamestudies #historicalgames
@valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾
👻Spectres of the Past. The Practice of Historiography in Kentucky Route Zero ❤️📜
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in, 10/10 at 3pm!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
#gamestudies #historicalgames
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I'm giving a talk at @bcngamefest.bsky.social 🎮🔻
There's No Need to Rig That Thing: Animation for Video Games.
🌊💗🐬✨
Come for an hour on animation styles, methods and pipelines!
ℹ️ bcngamefest.com
📅 Saturday 11/10 at 14:00h at the Main Stage.
🥪 Don't forget your sandwich!
#gamedev #animation
There's No Need to Rig That Thing: Animation for Video Games.
🌊💗🐬✨
Come for an hour on animation styles, methods and pipelines!
ℹ️ bcngamefest.com
📅 Saturday 11/10 at 14:00h at the Main Stage.
🥪 Don't forget your sandwich!
#gamedev #animation
September 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I'm giving a talk at @bcngamefest.bsky.social 🎮🔻
There's No Need to Rig That Thing: Animation for Video Games.
🌊💗🐬✨
Come for an hour on animation styles, methods and pipelines!
ℹ️ bcngamefest.com
📅 Saturday 11/10 at 14:00h at the Main Stage.
🥪 Don't forget your sandwich!
#gamedev #animation
There's No Need to Rig That Thing: Animation for Video Games.
🌊💗🐬✨
Come for an hour on animation styles, methods and pipelines!
ℹ️ bcngamefest.com
📅 Saturday 11/10 at 14:00h at the Main Stage.
🥪 Don't forget your sandwich!
#gamedev #animation
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I'm giving a talk at @valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾
When Games Met the Library - What industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage.
🤍📚✂️🧭🐇🏛️📷✨
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in to watch it live on Thursday 09/10 at 10:00h!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
When Games Met the Library - What industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage.
🤍📚✂️🧭🐇🏛️📷✨
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in to watch it live on Thursday 09/10 at 10:00h!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
September 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
I'm giving a talk at @valuefnd.bsky.social's #TIPC4 💾
When Games Met the Library - What industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage.
🤍📚✂️🧭🐇🏛️📷✨
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in to watch it live on Thursday 09/10 at 10:00h!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
When Games Met the Library - What industry expertise can do for the digitization of kinetic cultural heritage.
🤍📚✂️🧭🐇🏛️📷✨
📄 interactivepasts.com/the-interact...
Tune in to watch it live on Thursday 09/10 at 10:00h!
📺 www.twitch.tv/streamingthe...
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Allein letztes Jahr wurden täglich 12 Menschen Opfer rechter Gewalt. Laut dem Verfassungsschutzbericht übersteigen die rechtsextremistischen Straftaten die linksextremen um knapp das Sechsfache.
📽️ + ✍️ Martin Seng
👉 taz.de//!6107457/
📽️ + ✍️ Martin Seng
👉 taz.de//!6107457/
September 6, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Allein letztes Jahr wurden täglich 12 Menschen Opfer rechter Gewalt. Laut dem Verfassungsschutzbericht übersteigen die rechtsextremistischen Straftaten die linksextremen um knapp das Sechsfache.
📽️ + ✍️ Martin Seng
👉 taz.de//!6107457/
📽️ + ✍️ Martin Seng
👉 taz.de//!6107457/
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BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry.
Hail to you, union champions 💪
Hail to you, union champions 💪
Hundreds of Diablo Game Developers Join Communications Workers of America
Today, over 450 game developers behind the popular video game series Diablo have voted strongly in favor of union representation with CWA.
cwa-union.org
August 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
BREAKING: Over 450 game developers behind hit video-game series Diablo have joined CWA, joining the historic fight for a better video game industry.
Hail to you, union champions 💪
Hail to you, union champions 💪
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Die #Gamescom lockt ab heute wieder mit Superlativen nach Köln. Mit 335.000 Besucher*innen wird gerechnet. Spiele werden von der Branche zunehmend als Kulturgut dargestellt.
Zehn Games-Betriebsräte seit der letzten Gamescom gegründet
Die Gamescom vom 20. bis 24. August lockt wieder mit Superlativen nach Köln. Mit 335 000 Besucher*innen wird gerechnet. Spiele werden von der Branche zunehmend als Kulturgut dargestellt.
buff.ly
August 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
Die #Gamescom lockt ab heute wieder mit Superlativen nach Köln. Mit 335.000 Besucher*innen wird gerechnet. Spiele werden von der Branche zunehmend als Kulturgut dargestellt.
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Die Bedingungen in der Gaming-Branche sind unterirdisch, lange gab es kaum Widerstand. Nun vernetzt sich eine neue Generation von Spieleentwickler:innen.
So prekär sind die Arbeitsbedingungen in der Gaming-Branche
Die Bedingungen in der Gaming-Branche sind unterirdisch, lange gab es kaum Widerstand. Nun vernetzt sich eine neue Generation von Spieleentwickler:innen.
taz.de
August 17, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Die Bedingungen in der Gaming-Branche sind unterirdisch, lange gab es kaum Widerstand. Nun vernetzt sich eine neue Generation von Spieleentwickler:innen.
I'll be hanging around @ devcom & gamescom next week.
If you want to talk about 🎲game design, 🎛️production, 📜history, 🪧politics or ✊workers’ rights, hit me up ❤️✨
I’ll also be part of a panel on unions and works councils in the games industry on Monday. Be sure, to not miss that 😊
#devcom #gamescom
If you want to talk about 🎲game design, 🎛️production, 📜history, 🪧politics or ✊workers’ rights, hit me up ❤️✨
I’ll also be part of a panel on unions and works councils in the games industry on Monday. Be sure, to not miss that 😊
#devcom #gamescom
August 14, 2025 at 2:14 PM