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I påskas var jag på konvent för första gången sedan jag vet inte när. Det var underhållande att återvända, men också väldigt ögonöppnande. En bekant till mig kom förbi och nämnde ”demokratiseringsprocessen” runt rollspel. Det vi diskuterade var att tack vare print on demand och crowdfunding så har ”alla” tillgång till de verktyg de behöver... Continue Reading →
CW: Harassment, sexism, sexual harassment In 2000 I wrote my thesis at a mobile games company. It was titled User Interfaces for Role-playing on a Mobile Platform. I still have it somewhere. It’s 150 pages long and is probably quite useless by now, considering that mobile interfaces have changed quite a bit since I wrote... Continue Reading →
CW: Harassment, exclusion. This is a difficult set of posts for me to write, because they admit to my own complicity in a culture I desperately want to change. To understand gaming, the games industry and the gaming culture it’s necessary to understand some of the backstory of the nerd culture. We’ve been considered underdogs... Continue Reading →
The title for this post was something Lt. General Dave Morrison of the Australian army said in a speech to the Australian troops after allegations of sexual misconduct among the Australian troops. It’s oddly fitting for what I am about to write about. This post has been sitting around in my notebook for quite some... Continue Reading →
When I told colleagues that I was going to do some writing about problematic enemies in games, one of the enemies that came up was the Desire Demon in Dragon Age: Origins and Dragon Age II. While I don't disagree - the Desire Demon is a pretty blatant example of 1. the expectation that all... Continue Reading →
This is one of those blog posts where I don't have a scientific study to support my hypothesis, so please take this post with a grain of salt. It's an opinion and because of that, it's not scientifically proven. Nor should it have to be. I've been reading "A Very Stable Genius" about Trump and... Continue Reading →
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