David Murphy

Excited and humbled to have my latest article on Minecraft's development included in the pages of New Media and Society journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/14…

@ByRyanWood Bills put up 31 against them and they looked pretty bad that game.

Cowboys were NFL's 5th-ranked scoring D during regular season. They had 2 bad games: that 42-10 blowout loss against the 49ers in San Francisco, and a 41-35 home win vs. Seahawks. Didn't give up 30 points in any other game this season. #Packers have dropped 41 in 3 quarters.

UK users of illicit streaming services warned of risk of fraud or police visit theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

Mad Magazine's 1985 spoof "Computer Company President of the Year”, chose as target not Steve Jobs or Bill Gates, but Commodore's Jack Tramiel. The Commodore 64 was a big deal, sometimes criticized for being a "game machine".

@Sierra_OffLine Sony built its international business on a corporately constructed, internationally marketed notion of portable/pocket/mobile Japanese design, or Japaneseness, which peaked with the massive success of the walkman, which they have been trying to unsuccessfully recreate ever since.

Join us @StaffsUni for a symposium connecting conversations surrounding the metaverse to different industries, research networks, and creative practices. Hosted by Head of Games Development @ChrisHeadleand 📍 @StaffsUni 📅 1 June 2023 🔗 bit.ly/3oqOzH0

SIGCIS is an international organisation & we really want our conference to reflect this. Please help us get the word out to encourage computer historians to submit, esp those outside North America & Europe. It's online only so doesn't require any travel: meetings.sigcis.org/call-for-parti…

Please consider submitting a paper and joining us for the latest iteration of the Born Digital Cultural Heritage conference series, run by the Archiving Australian Media Arts consortium: @SwinHASS @RMITGames @ACMI @SLSA @ArtGalleryofNSW @GUArtMuseum @experimenta_ @__ANAT #BDCH23

@kait_zilla Ordered a copy for my class on narrative design. Congrats!

@MyOwnVelouria BMV Books, Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, Hot Docs Cinema. 401 Richmond.

It's a month of work trips! I was in St Louis last week and I'm headed to Toronto next week. Any suggestions for favorite cultural things to do in the Toronto area? I'll be staying near UoT.

@ChrisHeadleand @davewjames @StaffsUni @StaffsGamesDev You have other fine qualities

@lostarcade @davewjames @StaffsUni @StaffsGamesDev I am going to pretend I didn’t read that…

Incredibly humbled to be appointed to Course Director of Games Design at @StaffsUni @StaffsGamesDev . An unbelievable end to an emotional couple of months. Anyone who knows me will know what this means to me. Excited for what comes next.

@PlaySushiUK @ChrisHeadleand @2_Old_4_Gaming A chat would be lovely. Sony's approach to designing platforms (and overall position in the industry) is a topic that continues to fascinate me and not enough has been said about it from a historical perspective.

@ChrisHeadleand @lostarcade @2_Old_4_Gaming I have moved on from that now Chris. This is my current project in the image below which I’m designing for author @2_Old_4_Gaming, but I’m sure @lostarcade would be someone great for us to chat to in the future :)

David Murphy (@lostarcade ) talking about the PlayStation Homebrew scene. Super interesting for anyone interested in hacking culture in the video games industry youtu.be/maGHrvPgeg0

@ChrisHeadleand Registration is closed for some reason. I will crash regardless.

@lostarcade Make sure you register on Eventbrite. I think they are serving curry for the evening meal.

Is anyone coming to my talk tomorrow? staffs.ac.uk/events/2022/12…

@ChrisHeadleand Cartridges 4 Ever!!!!!

Anyone saw today #GoogleDoodle celebrating the amazing video games pioneer Jerry Lawson! google.com/doodles/gerald… One of the real heroes of games development, great to see them remembered with such a brilliant doodle.

Winners! 2022 Best Education Initiative at the @TIGAAwards, @staffsuni_dta @StaffsUni

@ChrisHeadleand @paulineridley The ideological tension seems to be between reliance on bottum up community vs top down surveillance state authority in times of crisis. I expect that it remains unresolved, for the most part.

@paulineridley 🤨 I thought I was reading too deeply into this...

Paw Patrol… effectively thunderbirds for toddlers. I have so many questions about this show. I am completely unable to suspend my disbelief, and it’s beginning to annoy Tristan (thread)