“LongStory is an episodic dating/adventure game about surviving your teenage years. Track clues to solve a mystery and navigate the school’s social scenes. Available for iOS and Android, the game currently has three episodes available. There will be five more episodes released to complete the first and second seasons.” – Developer
“Feminism and queer representation have taken center stage in recent debates about the future of video games. However, gender, sexuality, and identity have long been important to how we experience games and to games themselves. In this course, students will learn about issues of gender and sexuality in video games, game communities, the games industry, and their own media-making practices…” – Syllabus
“A journal game about the six months of my life when I made the decision to begin hormone replacement therapy.” – Dys4ia
“The Oldest Game is a web-based newsgame that explores the complex issue of the legalization of the sex trade in Ontario and Quebec. Drawing inspiration from games such as Budget Hero, in which players learn the parameters of a complex system, and from role-playing games that provoke empathy and identification, “The Oldest Game” focuses on the motivations on the debate over legalized prostitution.” – The Oldest Game
Little Party is a short story video game about your daughter’s all-nighter party. In short, it has you playing the […]
“Mainichi (Japanese for “everyday”) conveys some of the social struggles the developer faces daily as a mixed transgender woman by recreating […]
“This chapter is an effort to build an ironic political myth faithful to feminism, socialism, and materialism. Perhaps more faithful […]
“I want to make sense of how players who fall outside the constructed norm of ‘hardcore,’ white, heterosexual, cisgendered male […]
#GameStudies101 selection: .@gamestudies101 Well, that and Cassell and @henryjenkins‘s From Barbie to Mortal Kombat… http://t.co/Dp9FtsDbpK — Casey O’Donnell (@caseyodonnell) […]