Category: discordia

Design Bias

a photograph of several books about game design

These last few months have made me think on a multitude of subjects that have to do with design. My own fragility and bias in the context of design is definitely one of them. The need to take a holistic view, an intersectional perspective if you so will, is another. To my mind, my perspective... Continue Reading →

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I don’t beat games

A purple bag with dice spilling out of it.

I've been reading a lot on Twitter lately about how games are "beaten". "I beat Animal Crossing". "I beat Final Fantasy 7". "I beat"... whatever it was that needed beating, I suppose. I don't beat games. I play them, experience them and finish them. Perhaps this is because I enjoy playing any of the games... Continue Reading →

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Dev needs Production

An image with a number of games lined up as well as passes for conferences

I think you're a good producer. Because you actively tried to understand the issues. Like basically listened to people in the team. A good producer tries to genuinely understand what different parties want and what are the main obstacles in the way. The problem is that skill is mostly about listening. And producers are usually... Continue Reading →

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The Silence

An image of a pier stretching out into the ocean. The ocean is entirely calm

Lately I've been working from home, just like a tom of other people across the world (and thank you EA, BioWare and the IT-department for making it so painless). What has struck me with this arrangement is not necessarily the loneliness of it, but the silence. When I don't have other people around, I don't... Continue Reading →

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As the apocalypse happens outside…

... I have more time to write and to fix discordia up. One of the things I'm planning on is making sure that the site works equally well in Swedish as in English, so expect some translation work soonish and hopefully an English/ Swedish switch somewhere. With over 900 posts on the blog, it might... Continue Reading →

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Enjoying Thinking

A clay figurine of an angry woman with bared teeth and arms raised.

I've been slowly finding my way back to the joy I feel when analysing and thinking about both games and design. One of my areas of interest right now is monsters, particularly monsters in game, and because I'm a woman, female monsters in games. I've been reading Haraway, Butler and Kristeva, in addition to a... Continue Reading →

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