Noah Wardrip-Fruin

It's publication day! My new book — How Pac-Man Eats — takes on two big questions: What are games really doing when we play them? & How can games be *about* something? mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-pac-… #videogames #gamedesign #gamestudies

@GPrideCrossing It appears Xitter has broken DMs, but I'd like to ask if I could include an image from your event in an academic book I'm writing about Animal Crossing. It would fit perfectly with my discussion of activist and community-affirming crafts

@CelesMeh apparently DMs have been broken by Xitter, but I'd like to ask your permission to include an image of yours in an academic book I'm writing. Is there a good way to contact you? Or could you drop me a line? campusdirectory.ucsc.edu/cd_detail?uid=…

These monsters. They need you. Center for Monster Studies crowdfund.ucsc.edu/project/37093?… #FundingUCSCMonsters

Bloomsbury's Material Game Studies anthology is now out, which includes my chapter on 'The Logic of Analogue Adaptation.' It's one of those spendy academic books, so if you can, please request it at your local library. bloomsbury.com/us/material-ga…

#Scholarween Day 31: SAVE THE DATE! Friday the 13th will be extra spooky next October when the Center for #MonsterStudies at UCSC holds its monstrous festival, tentatively titled “It’s Alive! Women Who Make Monsters” (10/13-10/15/23.) BOLO for a Call for Papers in January! 🎃

Best Artifact Award at #AIIDE22 awarded to Loose Ends: A Mixed-Initiative Creative Interface for Playful Storytelling (@maxkreminski, @meldckn, @noahwf & @mmateas) ojs.aaai.org/index.php/AIID…

In creativity theory, there is a parable from Art and Fear about the importance of quantity over quality for learning. Did it really happen? Probably not. Did I spend the summer testing it by learning the pottery wheel myself? Reader, I made 59 pots for SCIENCE!!!! (🏺thread)

I hope you're as hyped as we are for #EXAG2022 next week. The laptop stickers arrived today, and they are *chef's kiss* 👨🏾‍🍳.

5 UC Santa Cruz faculty jobs, November deadlines Games capstones (Nov 7): recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01371 Justice/climate & HCI (Nov 7): recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01370 Software design x2 (Nov 14): recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01377 Anti-racist, feminist, & LGBTQ games (Nov 21): recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01385

UC Santa Cruz Computational Media Department is now accepting applications for its MS and PhD programs starting in Fall 2023! Applications due January 11, 2023. Learn more at grad.soe.ucsc.edu/computational-…

#Scholarween Day 13: #MonsterStudies intersects with DnD in “The Fiend Folio’s Female Fiends: Kelpies, Vampires, and Demon Queens” by @sarah_stang, part of @AnalogGameJrnl’s 2021 issue on The Fiend Folio. The article explores the way powerful women are positioned as predatory.

Game peeps, I'd like to do a check in on a decades old debate, 2022 edition. The C++ programming language for game developers is:

I condensed part of my PhD dissertation down to something more article-length. If you're struggling with scope on a dynamic narrative project, try this Authorial Leverage Framework to help figure out how to course correct or prevent future woes: logodaedalus.github.io/Authorial-Leve…

#Scholarween Day 6: What do monsters in performance mean to those who witness them? Michael Chemers explores this in his book, The Monster in Theatre History. The book looks at cultural genealogies of monsters in recorded history of Western theatre. #MonsterStudies #Halloween

#Scholarween Day 5: #MonsterStudies are in The Global Fantastic (Oct. 7-9), an online conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts (@IAFA_TW). Author @TananariveDue is guest of honor. More: iaftfita.wildapricot.org #IAFAGlobalFantastic

There are 5 faculty jobs at UC Santa Cruz this cycle that might interest folks... Games capstones: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01371 Justice/climate & HCI: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01370 Anti-racist, feminist, & LGBTQ games: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01385 Software design x2: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01377

#Scholarween Day 1: Monster Studies came into its own in 1996 with Jeffrey Jerome Cohen’s Monster Theory: Reading Culture. This seminal book of essays pubbed by @UMinnPress brought together various disciplines to look at the monstrous in a fresh way. #MonsterStudies #Halloween

CM @BaskinEng is hiring up to tenured associate professor in HCI at our Silicon Valley Campus (great for more experienced assistant professor). The Bay Area has many problems but many promises; join us in exploring what we can do! Feel free to contact me recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01370

Hello, academic and industry friends, if you'd like to teach game design in an excellent department with excellent people (including yours truly), we are recruiting for an Associate or Assistant Teaching Professor for Capstone and Experiential Learning: recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01371

We just had a day-long faculty retreat in my department at UC Santa Cruz. I felt exhausted afterward, as with any long meeting, but also really happy. Our group is so supportive & smart & embraces so many types of knowledge. You might like to join us... recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF01371