#SCMS2024
Hitting the live-streaming roundtable - authors from Real Life in Real Time. OA! From MIT press. Packed room - kind of wish they were live streaming this! #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 14, 2024 at 9:20 PM
Want a sneak peek at our #SCMS24 booth? We’re featuring recent books by our amazing Ideas on Fire authors on Latinx hacking cultures, Indigenous film history, queer sexual technologies, Chicanx film history, Black online activism, and more. #SCMS2024 #IoFAuthors
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March 12, 2024 at 4:02 PM
Playing (with) Sexy Beasts this am. Wish all the games sessions were in rooms that can hold everyone who wants to be in the audience (like this one).#scms24 #scms2024
March 16, 2024 at 1:06 PM
(Also my first attempt to live-skeet a conference session...). Laiola says that 'the multimedia essay is the standard option, but there's also a creative option...' (we have come. so. far.)
#SCMS2024
March 14, 2024 at 7:21 PM
Jean Ketterling looks at the intersection of carceral logic and how the Witcher (particularly the episode whose character turns out to be cursed due to raping a priestess) connects to the #MeToo movement. #scms24 #scms2024
March 16, 2024 at 1:49 PM
Keever's use of Althusser, Weber, and Soderman in this war/horror game reminds me of Mark Sample's work on the use of torture in videogames. Also invokes the ending as an "FU" to the player; maybe linked to abusive game design approaches? #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 15, 2024 at 2:06 PM
SCMS folks, if you are traveling via the airport there is an easy public transit option: Logan Express-Back Bay line goes directly from the airport to a block from conference & from my current data it is FREE in that direction #SCMS24 #SCMS #SCMS2024
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March 13, 2024 at 6:56 PM
Murray shows us how AI can program P5.js. So instead of programming we learn how to best explain to the LLM what we want. Also can generate animation, images, video... #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 14, 2024 at 7:47 PM
Percival Hornak provides a personal trans reading of Lichcraft, alongside a kind of LARP of the game with a team of players (maybe?) Bit.ly/hornak-wtf #scms24 #scms2024
March 16, 2024 at 1:12 PM
Sheraton Meeting wi-fi appears broken (looks like their network cert expired, so Chrome won't load anything). #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 15, 2024 at 1:53 PM
So excited to be co-authoring a paper on indie game Scarlet Maiden with the one and only Izzy Williams! Saturday morning at 9 AM, come on over while we discuss flesh capital, bodies, & sin 👿😝 #SCMS2024
March 13, 2024 at 5:24 PM
Daniel Cox from UCF shows how AI actually doesn't do some kinds of program (in Unity) well after all. The promise of using AI for game dev falls short - can help create assets but not larger structures. Notes the expense(s) associate with AI #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 14, 2024 at 7:53 PM
Keever looks at the visual attention in games and 'targeting' which fixes he other as an object, over which you (the player) are subject. Where is the gaze focused? What about the things we can't see (maybe only hear or are referenced?) #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 15, 2024 at 2:00 PM
Murray asks GPT to create prompts for a Twine IF, but notes that it starts to (literally) lose the plot after six to ten passages (ex. you orc barbarian is suddenly in Kansas, farming!) #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 14, 2024 at 7:33 PM
It's happening!!! Hollywood Remaking, my new book from University of California Press @ucpress.bsky.social, will be out this month! So excited to actually see it at #scms2024 in Boston next week.
Go to ucpress.edu/9780520375772 to pre-order your copy and use code UCPSAVE30 at checkout for 30% off.
March 6, 2024 at 2:55 PM
A sweet find at #scms2024.
March 17, 2024 at 9:29 PM
Sadly, have to duck out to teach my web design class (online today) so won't have additional updates (I'm sure that's a relief to some!) #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 14, 2024 at 7:54 PM
Possibly the second-most depressing conference talk I've ever seen. (Doesn't mean it wasn't good tho!) #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 15, 2024 at 2:08 PM
Maggie MacDonald (who sits on the board of Pornhub's parent company) looks at Pornhub's protocols for non-human animated content - looking at governance and content moderation (warns us that the presentation is 'not theoretically dense' - but I think not everything needs to be!) #scms24 #scms2024
March 16, 2024 at 1:58 PM
Heading back to Boston after a few exhilarating days with Amelie Hastie and her brilliant students at #AmherstCollege - such an honour to be invited! Now, bring on #SCMS2024!
March 13, 2024 at 9:36 PM
Made it to E17 New Topics in Video Game Studies 2 minutes late, but with coffee (required!). 1st up an approach to city-building games via auge (non-place), relying heavily on de Certeau. Watching clips of Cities:Skylines and Civ VI. #SCMS24 #SCMS2024
March 15, 2024 at 1:11 PM
#scms2024 was great. I was so happy with the panel I was on. My most recent book was out, as was a new title in the series I edit. I saw a lot of people I really love to see each year. But, my childhood best friend died in the middle of reviewing submissions for the conference.
March 17, 2024 at 12:46 PM
#SCMS2024 was really great. I only hit about 6 panels, but caught up w/met so many great people, had a wonderful time professionally, and finally sang karaoke (albeit, near the end to 10)! Also, love being reminded how much I’ve always dug Boston!
March 17, 2024 at 9:47 PM
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March 15, 2024 at 1:30 PM
@laurenebridges.bsky.social spotted Digital Energetics at #SCMS2024!
March 15, 2024 at 4:07 PM